rant · moment 3 of 21
Covid Bragging vs. ALS, Cancer, and Leprosy
from #235 - Covid Kai | The Tim Dillon Show · #235
11 min
Tim goes on an extended riff about people who survived Covid acting like war heroes, contrasting their attitude with friends battling cancer, ALS, and reading out grim leprosy and ALS symptoms to make his point that Covid survivors need perspective and should stop being insufferable about it.
- Tim acknowledges Covid is real and can be devastating, but notes the government messaging that even negative-tested people probably have it.
- Two people hijacked a backyard hangout to brag about beating Covid, suggesting nobody in history has suffered like them.
- Tim describes getting severely sick in March with chest tightness, chills, and loss of taste for three and a half weeks, but doctors said he didn't actually have Covid.
- Someone's friend's mother fought pancreatic cancer for ten years while Covid survivors act like they defeated a Chinese bioweapon.
- Tim lists other serious diseases—AIDS, Ebola, leprosy—that survivors don't brag about endlessly like Covid sufferers do.
- Smoking appears to reduce hospitalization rates for Covid, which Tim finds wild as a potential cure.
- Tim questions whether one of the required symptoms of Covid is discussing it nonstop for seven months afterward.
- Leprosy symptoms—growths, ulcers, loss of eyebrows, numbing patches—are far worse than anything Covid produces.
- ALS symptoms include muscle cramps, difficulty swallowing, cognitive decline, and complete immobilization, dwarfing Covid's severity.
- People suffering from opioid addiction, job loss, and lack of healthcare shouldn't be told to shut up because someone had Covid.
- If you've had Covid, confide in close friends about the toughness, but otherwise stop bragging because other diseases are killing people daily.