GoCubsGo wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 8:52 am
Further proof you can't fix stupid.
Yes, you can.
Texas GOP Official Mocked COVID Five Days Before He Died of Virus
A GOP official from Texas who regularly espoused anti-vaccine and anti-mask views online has died from COVID-19, five days after posting a meme on Facebook questioning the wisdom of getting inoculated against COVID.
Dickinson City Council member and State Republican Executive Committee member H. Scott Apley, 45, died in a local hospital around 3 a.m. Wednesday morning, according to a GoFundMe page set up to help Apley’s family with expenses. He was admitted to the facility in Galveston on Sunday with “pneumonia-like symptoms,” and was hooked up to a ventilator as his condition worsened. His wife was also infected, the family said.
“He leaves behind his wife, Melissa, who is COVID positive, as well as their infant son Reid,” according to the fundraiser, which has so far raised almost $15,000 of its $30,000 goal. “Your donations are greatly appreciated and will help the family as they get through this difficult period.”
If Melissa is also an anti-vaxxer RepuQ let her paddle her own canoe. Personal responsibility, right?
“My heart is beyond broken for his family,” Dickinson Mayor Sean Skipworth wrote in a Facebook post. “Scott was a new father and that makes this loss especially tragic.”
He was a bad bad father.
Texas Republican Party Chairman Matt Rinaldi said in a statement, “Please join me in lifting the Apley family up in prayer. We will miss Scott deeply but find comfort knowing he is at peace in the arms of our Savior.” The announcement did not mention the fact that Apley’s death was COVID-related.
Coward, typical RepuQ.
Apley is a staunch conservative and devout Christian. But based on his social media activity, Apley didn’t believe COVID was going to affect him or his family.
Your "Savior" sent you science, asshole.
In May, Apley posted an invitation for a “mask burning” being held at a bar in Cincinnati, commenting, “I wish I lived in the area!” A couple of weeks earlier, he posted a news article about giveaways and incentives meant to encourage people to get vaccinated, writing, “Disgusting.” Apley also railed against so-called vaccine passports, which restrict high-risk activities, such as indoor dining, to the fully vaccinated. Recently, he suggested that mask mandates in Germany were akin to Nazism....
... Apley’s untimely passing comes as COVID skeptics across the country have died or become extraordinarily sick after rejecting the constant calls by public health officials to get vaccinated and mask up. In Nashville, a right-wing radio host who repeatedly spread misinformation about the virus and mocked the vaccine,
is now hospitalized as he fights for his life. A Brooklyn woman who called COVID a “fraud”
died after rejecting the vaccine in favor of natural supplements like zinc and Vitamin D.
The family of a Florida woman who refused the COVID vaccine and died in June
still refuses to get the jab. A Florida track coach who had resisted calls by friends and colleagues to get vaccinated finally agreed to make an appointment for his shots. However, he contracted COVID a day or two before getting his first dose and
died in the hospital after slipping into a coma, leaving behind a wife and four children.
Vaccinations are increasing. Factors may include:
Can't deny the Delta crisis;
Private and public mandates;
People seeing friends and family sicken or die;
Some Repug leaders and right-wing media changing their tune.
I wonder if these stories of vicious karma - stupidity fixed
- are also having an impact.
, and there sure is a lot of it.
Idk if Lindsey's been an anti-vaxxer, but I'll bet that most anti-vaxxer pols, anchors and influencers have been vaccinated.
