California man 'kills fellow Covid patient with oxygen tank'
12-24-20, 11:20 AM
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California man 'kills fellow Covid patient with oxygen tank'
As if getting hooked up to ventilator tubes isn't bad enough ...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55408492
I wonder if Jesse will plead justifiable homicide?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55408492
I wonder if Jesse will plead justifiable homicide?
12-24-20, 11:33 AM
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2021 will be worse. Catch covid then get beaten to death with an oxygen tank.
12-26-20, 12:15 AM
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They’re gonna have to put the tank down
12-26-20, 02:44 AM
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This is what happens when paranoiac propagandists convince gullible rubes that they're actually living in a "prison planet." The rubes behave like prisoners.
12-29-20, 10:48 AM
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It would be hard to imagine anything more horrifying happening to you. What a horror story.
I've done a couple of searches but cannot find anything substantial about the murderer. He was obviously mentally ill but... was there any kind of history of mental illness or violence? I can only think there had to have been. Not that knowing this is going to make any kind of difference, but I can only imagine what the family is going through trying to search for a reason why this guy was in the room and not possibly vetted for mental illness?
I've done a couple of searches but cannot find anything substantial about the murderer. He was obviously mentally ill but... was there any kind of history of mental illness or violence? I can only think there had to have been. Not that knowing this is going to make any kind of difference, but I can only imagine what the family is going through trying to search for a reason why this guy was in the room and not possibly vetted for mental illness?
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12-29-20, 10:52 AM
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I have no inside information, and I am absolutely not trying to excuse this behavior, but COVID itself induces in some cases lasting mental health effects, so I don't think it is impossible that this could have been part of the problem. (If he had the strength to do this, presumably he was on the mend at that point.)
12-29-20, 10:55 AM
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12-29-20, 11:12 AM
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People who study animal behavior, ethnologists I believe, have found that animals under stress can develop severe and dangerous behavior, such as over-aggression and even kill their young. This is true of human animals also.
12-29-20, 11:17 AM
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Originally Posted by wgscott
I have no inside information, and I am absolutely not trying to excuse this behavior, but COVID itself induces in some cases lasting mental health effects, so I don't think it is impossible that this could have been part of the problem. (If he had the strength to do this, presumably he was on the mend at that point.)
And on the lighter note - at least this patient didn't die a COVID death. This was an overdose - of oxygen.
