Most of the deletions were not people sounding happy he was ill. They simply made what some people found to be inappropriate political comments about the news, or about Fred Thompson keeping it a secret.
The moderators decided the comments were inappropriate, and deleted them, but I don’t think such deletions should be seen as suggesting our fellow Freepers were happy. At least one who had posts deleted emphatically insists that was not the case, and I believe them.
Okay, I apologise for jumping to conclusions! I saw the deletes, but not what had been previously there before they were deleted, and assumed that they were gone for the same reason they’d have been gone from Little Green Footballs.