Give this lady a Darwin award (posthumously, of course).
Originally Posted by : Unvaccinated Trump supporter who spread coronavirus conspiracy theories dies of COVID-19
On Tuesday, the Cape Cod Times reported that Linda Zuern, a former member of the Bourne, Massachusetts Board of Selectmen and a Trump-supporting figure in the local Republican Party, had died of COVID-19.
Zuern died at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston of severe complications caused by COVID-19, according to the report. She was 70 years old and had not been vaccinated.
"She was a strong woman who believed in speaking the truth and defending our freedoms in America," Republican State Committeewoman Deborah Dugan told the Cape Cod Times. Dugan was at Zuern's bedside when she died. "I would describe her to people as a little woman but a mighty warrior."
For months, Zuern, a member of the pro-Trump group the United Cape Patriots, had promoted conspiracy theories about the pandemic on Facebook. She has shared articles accusing the World Health Organization of a coverup of the "Wuhan Virus" and claiming COVID-19 is cover for "globalists" to usher in "U.N. Agenda 2030" — a sustainable development initiative right-wing conspiracy theorists assert is a plot to create a one world government.
Zuern also expressed support for the QAnon conspiracy theory, posting their creed of "WWG1WGA" (Where We Go One, We Go All).
Zuern promoted the use of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment of COVID-19 during a Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates meeting in December and questioned whether officials "had looked into preventative measures that people could use besides a vaccine to help build up their immune system," the Cape Cod Times reported.
Peter Meier, chair of the Board of Selectmen, said Zuern cared deeply about others. "She definitely left her mark on the community," he added.
According to the report, Zuern and her mother contracted COVID-19 while returning home from a trip to South Dakota — a state where Republican-motivated policies have let the virus propagate with little control.
Originally Posted by Lex Luthor:
The fact that virtually all (over 99%) of the people currently hospitalized are unvaccinated would seem to contradict the point you’re trying to make.
COVID has become the pandemic of the unvaccinated. That’s what’s sad. If more people would take the vaccine we would be very close to achieving herd immunity, but now it looks like that isn’t going to happen.
Meanwhile, the CPAC crowd cheers when they hear we will fall short of the 70% vaccination goal.
I feel dirty and am going to go take another shower agreeing with Lex.
Originally Posted by Pawnmower:
yep . its pretty clear. the people getting really sick and dying from this are unvaccinated. we are in for some interesting times as a community
More will start getting vaccinated. Late last week they said Mo was doing something like 5x the national average of vaccinations so I think at least some are starting to get it.
There are some that won't and never will and that's their choice.
The thing is in 10 years when everyone who got vaccinated has some new form of cancer or something they might be the ones saying "I told you so".
Originally Posted by HybridEd:
Lots of news about the subject this week locally.
Wife's Dr told here about a guy in his 40s that refused the vaccine in Branson West, then when he got covid, refused treatment and then died on a ventilator.
Guy doing the tire mounting on my truck today was bragging how his wife was a nurse and got covid as well as his kids. But she is standing fast along with a lot of the other nurses and will quit if forced to get the vaccine.
My dental hygenist who was cleaning my teeth, also in her early 40s said she had just recovered from it, but didn't the vaccine.
The utter ignorance on the subject here in SW Missouri is shocking to me.
The ignorance is everywhere fed by fake news and internet loon sites.
Originally Posted by KCChiefsFan88:
Are you equally outraged that Louis Farrakhan called the vaccine a “vial of death” that was created by white people to kill blacks?
Yes. Louis Farrakhan is and always has been a fucking moron.
