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For anyone who isn't aware, it's a subreddit that takes the posts of people who brag about COVID being harmless and their lack of precautions and how they're vo

by caslon 5y ago

For anyone who isn't aware, it's a subreddit that takes the posts of people who brag about COVID being harmless and their lack of precautions and how they're voting against safety measures, and puts them side by side with announcements of their deaths. A common format is: [Person makes a post about how they aren't wearing a mask or getting vaccinated because their immune system is great] [Person's relative makes a post about how person died] It's literally just a COVID-themed Darwin Award. There's nothing special or particularly horrific about it. It's just a vaguely boring place for people to vent their anger.

inglor_cz 5y ago
People seem to value their identity and sense of belonging to a group more than their own life. If it wasn't so, wars would be so much rarer in human history.
s1artibartfast 5y ago
I disagree that it is a COVID-themed Darwin award. Darwin awards aren't about venting anger, but humor. The point wasn't to celebrate that someone died.
- willcipriano 5y ago
  It's a like Darwin Award but they include a screenshot of the widows tearful goodbye on her Facebook page for some reason.
- yellowapple 5y ago
  > The point wasn't to celebrate that someone died. Nor is that the point of the HCA. Rather, it's to collect the ever-growing number of cautionary tales of people who stubbornly and arrogantly refused a $0 prevention of their very demise. Frankly, when that stubbornness and arrogance places them in hospital beds at the expense of everyone else - thus putting said everyone else at greater health risks regardless of their relation to COVID - rational people tend to have a harder time caring about whether harsh criticism of that stubbornness and arrogance might hurt someone's feelings.
- caslon 5y ago
  It doesn't matter what the underlying reason for pointing it out is, a Darwin Award is won, ultimately, by an idiot removing themselves from the gene pool, not necessarily by doing it in a funny way. And the HermanCainAward subreddit seems to find it really funny, so it counts under your criteria, too. https://darwinawards.com/rules/rules1.html https://darwinawards.com/rules/rules1.html

by caslon 5y ago

inglor_cz 5y ago

People seem to value their identity and sense of belonging to a group more than their own life. If it wasn't so, wars would be so much rarer in human history.

s1artibartfast 5y ago

I disagree that it is a COVID-themed Darwin award. Darwin awards aren't about venting anger, but humor. The point wasn't to celebrate that someone died.

willcipriano 5y ago
It's a like Darwin Award but they include a screenshot of the widows tearful goodbye on her Facebook page for some reason.
yellowapple 5y ago
> The point wasn't to celebrate that someone died. Nor is that the point of the HCA. Rather, it's to collect the ever-growing number of cautionary tales of people who stubbornly and arrogantly refused a $0 prevention of their very demise. Frankly, when that stubbornness and arrogance places them in hospital beds at the expense of everyone else - thus putting said everyone else at greater health risks regardless of their relation to COVID - rational people tend to have a harder time caring about whether harsh criticism of that stubbornness and arrogance might hurt someone's feelings.
caslon 5y ago
It doesn't matter what the underlying reason for pointing it out is, a Darwin Award is won, ultimately, by an idiot removing themselves from the gene pool, not necessarily by doing it in a funny way. And the HermanCainAward subreddit seems to find it really funny, so it counts under your criteria, too. https://darwinawards.com/rules/rules1.html https://darwinawards.com/rules/rules1.html