A Modest Proposal For A Post-GoFundMe World
Yet another ironic demise of a prominent Covid denier has me saying "Basta ya."
That’s Spanish for “enough already” if you didn’t know, and I am saying it because I’ve had it up to here with GoFundMes for the undeserving. If you court disaster, and encourage others to follow your lead, there should be all manner of consequences, including financial disaster.
Such is the case with the late H. Scott Apley of Dickinson. Apley, 45, a State Republican Executive Committee member and Dickinson City Councilman, spent much of his free time online over the last year of his life mocking and denying the realities of Covid-19.
Per the Daily Beast:
In May, Apley posted an invitation for a “mask burning” being held at a bar in Cincinnati, commenting, “I wish I lived in the area!” A couple of weeks earlier, he posted a news article about giveaways and incentives meant to encourage people to get vaccinated, writing, “Disgusting.” Apley also railed against so-called vaccine passports, which restrict high-risk activities, such as indoor dining, to the fully vaccinated.
Recently, he suggested that mask mandates in Germany were akin to Nazism. And when former Baltimore health commissioner Leana Wen celebrated good news this spring about the Pfizer vaccine’s efficacy, a seemingly outraged Apley called her “an absolute enemy of a free people.”
In one of numerous Facebook posts on the subject, Apley wrote, “Question: If businesses start allowing customers and employees go mask free only with VOLUNTARILY providing their vaccination record (presumably not a HIPPA [sic] violation), wouldn't that basically INVOLUNTARILY identify people who have chosen not to get vaccinated (Which might be indirectly creating a HIPPA [sic] violation)?”
God, these people with their “HIPPA” violations. They remind me of the “If he’s a cop he has to tell you” bunch and those people who posted that stupid copyright notice on their Facebook walls.
Anyway, Apley can’t debate what is and is not a HIPAA violation anymore, and it is not a HIPAA violation for me to tell all y’all he is dead. Of Covid-19, apparently.
And of course there’s a GoFundMe for his widow — also infected — and infant son. As of the posting of the Daily Beast article above, it had raised half of its $30000 goal. Since then, it has surged past that number and the goal has been raised to $45,000.
This for someone who not only failed to take personal responsibility for their own health but encouraged others to emulate his idiocy. This for someone who almost certainly railed against the evils of socialized medicine. Why should this person be rewarded for antisocial behavior and rank hypocrisy?
And these horrible GoFundMes pop up all too often.
Hence my proposal: a shadow Website called ComeBankruptThem.
The premise is simple: if the ComeBankruptThem site raises more money than the GoFundMe, then the GoFundMe is liable for the sum ComeBankruptThem raised.
Why would the GoFundMe bunch agree to this arrangement?
Greed. If the ComeBankruptThem falls short, then that money is added to the GoFundMe pot. Winner takes it all, aside, of course, from my 15 percent rake, um, I meant, “administrative fee,” on the CBT end.
These things have become depressingly familiar and routine. Let’s bring on some action.
If you truly believe your cause is just, you should have no fear that your charitable cause will win out. If you have some doubts about, say, funding the Covid-related hospital bills of a free healthcare market Covid denier, perhaps you will decide to withhold your donation, which might well end up in the pockets of some evil libtard, or worse yet, Planned Parenthood, Black Lives Matter, or the campaign to re-elect AOC.
So, game on.
In the immortal words of Blue Duck:
Covid misinformation is actually killing people so the less funds they have means less
truly senseless deaths. You have to hit them in the wallet because that is one strategy to change behavior. If we can pay them to get vaccinated, then the opposite is appropriate. In the Revolutionary War, George Washington ordered recruits to be vaccinated for smallpox. The time for celebrity endorsements is past. If you want to stop a deadly contagious virus and you already possess a very safe effective solution, there no rational reason why future deaths aren't considered homicides.
I sent this to our local daily, perhaps they will print it in this godawful r4ed state.
Wartime Behavior
Folks, the world is at war. We cannot see our enemy but we can see its carnage: over four million deaths globally, 625,000 in the U.S. in only 18 months.
We are fighting back, with vaccines.
Our enemy responded with a new variant, more dangerous than its progenitor. It can be spread by people who show no symptoms nor feel ill.
We are fighting a vicious, merciless adversary.
This is a delicate question but is a person who refuses vaccination aiding and abetting the enemy?