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.
He’s not doing good. It’s not looking in our favor, his lungs are stiff due to the fibrosis. They called and said they’ve run out of options for him and asked if I would consent to a do not resuscitate. And it would be up to us when to stop treatments.
My heart just can’t. I can’t imagine my life without him. Im sorry if I don’t respond to any calls or texts or messages, I am just broken up.
Originally Posted by baitism:
Fat guys with pre-existing conditions shouldn't be making news. Not to mention that libs are generally fat and unattractive. Speaking of misinformation kills, pretty much every other country is using Ivermectin effectively to treat COVID.
Guy looks like he’s in probably about as good a shape as any of the antivax keyboard warriors around here. You make it sound like he’s fat Albert.
r/hermancainaward has literally hundreds of these. I've posted some of them to my facebook as I'm literally trying to scare the sceptics who are my facebook friends into getting vaxxed (yes, scare tactics)
Caleb Wallace, Anti-Mask ‘Freedom Rally’ Organizer, Dies at 30 With COVID
Alex Noble
Sat, August 28, 2021, 7:57 PM
Caleb Wallace, a Texas man who helped organize the “Freedom Rally” and other prominent protests against pandemic restrictions, has died from COVID-19. He was 30.
His wife, Jessica Wallace, who is pregnant with the couple’s fourth child, announced his death on their family’s GoFundMe page Saturday.
“Caleb has peacefully passed on,” she wrote. “He will forever live in our hearts and minds.”
Wallace battled the virus for weeks in the ICU, according to the San Angelo Standard-Times. He had been “unconscious, ventilated and heavily sedated” since Aug. 8. His wife said that he initially began experiencing symptoms on July 26 and wrote on the GoFundMe page that he had been in the hospital since July 30.
Jessica told the Standard-Times that her husband initially refused to be tested for COVID and instead turned to unproven home remedies to fight the virus, including high doses of Vitamin C, zinc, aspirin and Ivermectin — a parasitic worm treatment intended for animals that is not FDA-approved.
The administration has urged people not to use it to treat COVID-19, writing that it is not an anti-viral medicine and that taking large doses “is dangerous and can cause serious harm.”
“He was so hard-headed,” Jessica Wallace told the Standard-Times. “He didn’t want to see a doctor, because he didn’t want to be part of the statistics with COVID tests.”
Caleb Wallace had been a vocal opponent to pandemic restrictions and mandates, appearing in interviews criticizing school closures and mask policies as well as organizing a July 4 “Freedom Rally” last year to protest government restrictions. He also founded “The San Angelo Freedom Defenders,” a group that hosted a separate rally last year to “end COVID tyranny.”
“Show me the science that masks work,” he wrote on the City of San Angelo’s official Facebook in December 2020. “Show me the evidence that school closures work. Show me the evidence that lock-downs work.”
For Jessica, whose views on masks differed from her husband’s, Caleb’s diagnosis led to the realization that the virus “does not discriminate.”
“I’m from the border town of Del Rio, and my views are less conservative,” she told the Standard-Times. “I’m not a liberal. I stand somewhere in the middle…Caleb would tell me, ‘You know masks aren’t going to save you,’ but he understood I wanted to wear them. It gives me comfort to know that maybe, just maybe, I’m either protecting someone or avoiding it myself.”
She also added that “whether he was a hardcore conservative or not, he was an amazing man.”
Originally Posted by banyon:
Guy looks like he’s in probably about as good a shape as any of the antivax keyboard warriors around here. You make it sound like he’s fat Albert.
Even if you think these young people are all fatties with high blood pressure, that's nearly half the country. They are still human beings with families and friends and children. The damage done to the people left behind will never heal.
These people did not have to die for being misguided souls who believed the things their friends posted on Facebook.
The fact that the standard trumper response is "lol fatties" is still another sad commentary on how far our culture has sank.
