Official who spoke against vaccines dies from Covid-19 and sparks big reaction

My sister was admitted to the hospital for cancer surgery. She is a veteran and works a job on Ft. Belvoir where she has to handle the public but was vaccinated. She spent from 9pm to 2am the next day in the hall on a gurney because the room she would have been assigned to was now lodging patients who were anti vaxxers but had caught COVID and needed care. If there concern is liberty and personal freedom fine. Let them be the ones in the hall on the gurney and not my sister or any patient who cared enough to protect themselves and others by being vaccinated.

If you don’t want to be ridiculed, don’t be ridiculous.

Not making note of their error and pretending it didn't happen, allows the problem to continue. While highlighting it allows people to become educated on the subject. We learn from other people's mistakes.

Here is a better analogy than the motorcycle helmet one: We don't celebrate school shooters after they are shot by police or cowardly kill themselves.

I feel so sorry for the Doctors, Nurses, and first responders.

She is not scorned/mocked because of her beliefs and choices - she is condemned for her disrespect, even contempt, for knowledge and truth.

Not taking the shots didn't have Anything to do with her death! It was simply her time to go!. We have people who took all their shots got it and passed!!

My sister is crazy against vaccines. You know the type. She got Covid during Christmas time and just HAD to call my mom to come bring her soup. My mom then got sick, was admitted to ICU on Christmas Eve, and 18 days later…passed away. My freaking mom. Now my sister keeps her mouth shut but I still get angry when I think about how simple it would’ve been to just not involve my mom just cuz she likes to cross boundaries and make ppl (like me) mad. When I’m like the type like if you’re sick stay the f home. If you’re sick, don’t invite ppl over. If your kid is sick, don’t send them to school or take them to the park. She does stuff like that on purpose cuz she knows ppl around her hate it and she likes the attention. Anyways, yeah these ppl don’t get it.

You can Ignore Reality, but not the consequences of reality.

She died doing what she loved. Being ignorant and spreading misinformation.

If I was a doctor or a nurse treating those professional anti-vaxers, I would treat each of them exactly the way I'd care for any other patient. I took an oath to do exactly that and no less. As a citizen observer, who is a retired public health professional, I reserve my sympathy for their over-worked caregivers and for the legion of fools who are dying because they listened to these liars. We are talking about mocking the corpses of murderers... I'm cool with that...jt

It was her choice.

I think people that step forward to advocate against the vaccine, have drawn attention to themselves. If they die its ripe for public discussion not a strictly private matter

My friend made fun of me for wearing a mask and my fear about covid. He got covid including his family. He got cured but His father died. His whole family under depression for months. Now they started again being ignorant. There is no cure for stupidity

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." —Douglas Adams

She was gardening, a blood clot took her life. She was not in the hospital suffering from COVID, Wagner said.

Speaking as a healthcare worker I treat all patients the same no matter if its a trauma or a drug overdose. Compassion and mercy.

I reserve my sympathy for ANYONE who is bumped from a hospital bed even though terminally ill, the folks who wait in vain for elective surgery that may save their lives, the folks who go to any hospital ER with life-threatening problems-stroke, heart attacks, and the like- and the overworked and understaffed medical workers who've had to put up with this mess, like the rest of us, for two years and running. The deaths of the unvaccinated were and are, for the most part, unnecessary and preventable. Thank you. 😊

It's not civil to kill people with misinformation, and it's not civil to say nothing when others kill people with misinformation. It is civil to save lives by speaking out against dangerous insanity.

she died in ICU, intubated ..why did she even bother to go to the hosp. if she didn't trust science enough to take the vaccine in the first place ? I see this as arrogant.. Routine surgeries and preventative tests such as diagnostic scopes are backlogged for months, even years in some cases, b/c the non vaxxers took up beds, which was totally preventable. How many other people and staff did she pass the virus, which causes an infectious disease, on to ? So many hosp. staff are off sick now b/c of the Covid they got from patients .. Hosp.care, esp. in ICU, is outrageously expensive, taxpayers pay for this as the nonvaxxers bankrupt the hospitals .. I see this as selfish, not mocking .