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UpInArms

(51,280 posts)
Thu Jul 22, 2021, 10:14 PM Jul 2021

Georgia family mourns 'most loving, joyous' 5-year-old boy who died from Covid-19

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Source: CNN

A family in Georgia is mourning after a 5-year-old boy -- described as someone who had "nothing but pure love" -- died just days after being diagnosed with Covid-19.

Wyatt Gibson suffered a stroke and died on July 16 in a Chattanooga, Tennessee, hospital where he'd been intubated because he was having trouble breathing and his oxygen levels were low, his godmother Amanda Summey told CNN.

He was a healthy child, and his parents thought he had just had mild food poisoning or a stomach bug when first got sick, according to a statement written by the family.

The family said they noticed that Wyatt's tongue was white on July 12, and rushed him to their local emergency room where he was diagnosed with strep, staph and Covid-19.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/22/us/georgia-five-year-old-covid-death-trnd/index.html



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Georgia family mourns 'most loving, joyous' 5-year-old boy who died from Covid-19 (Original Post) UpInArms Jul 2021 OP
This terrifies me. So very heartbreaking.💔 dewsgirl Jul 2021 #1
So freakin sad. nt OAITW r.2.0 Jul 2021 #2
FUCK EVERY DAMNED PRO-COVID ASSHOLE. MAY THEEY RECEIVE EVERYTHING niyad Jul 2021 #3
I am right there with you niyad, right there with you. DENVERPOPS Jul 2021 #11
RIP Wyatt... abqtommy Jul 2021 #4
This tears at my heart. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Jul 2021 #5
That exact feeling you're talking about ... is why people instinctually made up 'heaven' Hugh_Lebowski Jul 2021 #9
Heartbreaking. herding cats Jul 2021 #6
Stupid ugly animal dalton99a Jul 2021 #7
Yes, that's a fair critique of her. herding cats Jul 2021 #8
What an excellent way DENVERPOPS Jul 2021 #12
She Is Ugly, Inside And Out. GB_RN Jul 2021 #10
Don't forget DENVERPOPS Jul 2021 #13
Sociopaths Are Ugly People... GB_RN Jul 2021 #15
Not Huckapig DENVERPOPS Jul 2021 #16
That Would Be Her Home State... GB_RN Jul 2021 #17
Don't forget DENVERPOPS Jul 2021 #14
tragic. i went on the mom's fb page and looked through some of her posts orleans Jul 2021 #18
*LOCKING* Spazito Jul 2021 #19

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)
1. This terrifies me. So very heartbreaking.💔
Thu Jul 22, 2021, 10:20 PM
Jul 2021

OAITW r.2.0

(24,440 posts)
2. So freakin sad. nt
Thu Jul 22, 2021, 10:21 PM
Jul 2021

niyad

(113,229 posts)
3. FUCK EVERY DAMNED PRO-COVID ASSHOLE. MAY THEEY RECEIVE EVERYTHING
Thu Jul 22, 2021, 10:28 PM
Jul 2021

THEY DESERVE.

And yes, I am screaming. Only because there is nobody handy to kick.

DENVERPOPS

(8,806 posts)
11. I am right there with you niyad, right there with you.
Fri Jul 23, 2021, 01:37 AM
Jul 2021

I am truly regretting that Florida and Texas figured out that un-vaccinated Republicans were almost exclusively the ones being hit with the Death Penalty for not getting vaccinated...................

We had a similar situation with friends kids, one ten and one fifteen. Each has left us with a huge hole, and their parents have been totally destroyed.

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
4. RIP Wyatt...
Thu Jul 22, 2021, 10:35 PM
Jul 2021

... Not everyone realizes that all persons 6 months of age and over can and should receive
the influenza vaccine. I do that every year and it does help some against covid too.

5. This tears at my heart.
Fri Jul 23, 2021, 12:12 AM
Jul 2021

I'm not particularly religious, but when I hear about such a tragedy, I truly hope there is a Heaven.

 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
9. That exact feeling you're talking about ... is why people instinctually made up 'heaven'
Fri Jul 23, 2021, 01:09 AM
Jul 2021

and various editions thereof.

Losing kids is VERY painful, and happened a LOT til fairly recently in human history (and still does in some places).

Plus, we're the product of 100's of millions of years of evolution among our animal ancestors, all of whom had a desire to LIVE. If they didn't have that we all wouldn't be here. Only logical and natural that once a creature evolved here that is capable of understanding death, and hence coming up with a 'mechanism' to avoid it being 'final' ... we would do so, and it would prove quite popular.

herding cats

(19,558 posts)
6. Heartbreaking.
Fri Jul 23, 2021, 12:31 AM
Jul 2021

This is in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s district.

She was asked:

"Do you feel any responsibility for keeping people in Georgia safe? You know, there are children, skinny people who have died of the coronavirus."


Her actual response was to laugh. This was after this little man had died. In her district.

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dalton99a

(81,432 posts)
7. Stupid ugly animal
Fri Jul 23, 2021, 12:37 AM
Jul 2021

herding cats

(19,558 posts)
8. Yes, that's a fair critique of her.
Fri Jul 23, 2021, 01:03 AM
Jul 2021

She is truly vile.

DENVERPOPS

(8,806 posts)
12. What an excellent way
Fri Jul 23, 2021, 01:43 AM
Jul 2021

to get rid of all the TrumpHumpers in the military so we don't have to worry about them. Mandate it for Police Departments too !!!!

GB_RN

(2,347 posts)
10. She Is Ugly, Inside And Out.
Fri Jul 23, 2021, 01:19 AM
Jul 2021

Just a vile, vile person.

DENVERPOPS

(8,806 posts)
13. Don't forget
Fri Jul 23, 2021, 01:46 AM
Jul 2021

Kelly Anne Conway and Sarah Huckapig Sanders along with Melania and a whole big bunch of other Republican women......

I could describe each, with much more "color", but it would lead to me being censored/banned by DU

GB_RN

(2,347 posts)
15. Sociopaths Are Ugly People...
Fri Jul 23, 2021, 01:57 AM
Jul 2021

And most of the GOPQ probably fall into that category of personality disorder.

If at all possible, I try to avoid thinking about and/or forget them, very, very, quickly, because they aren't worth wasting time on, usually. I had pushed aside the ones you mentioned, as they are, for the most part, out of the way, now...fortunately.

DENVERPOPS

(8,806 posts)
16. Not Huckapig
Fri Jul 23, 2021, 02:00 AM
Jul 2021

She is gearing up to run for governor in some state I thought I read somewhere

GB_RN

(2,347 posts)
17. That Would Be Her Home State...
Fri Jul 23, 2021, 02:21 AM
Jul 2021

Arkansas. Not that I'd like to see her in charge of anything other than tying her shoelaces, but I doubt that she could ruin anything there that the state legislature hasn't already.

DENVERPOPS

(8,806 posts)
14. Don't forget
Fri Jul 23, 2021, 01:47 AM
Jul 2021

Kelly Anne Conway and Sarah Huckapig Sanders along with Melania and a whole big bunch of other Republican women......

I could describe each, with much more "color", but it would lead to me being censored/banned by DU

orleans

(34,044 posts)
18. tragic. i went on the mom's fb page and looked through some of her posts
Fri Jul 23, 2021, 03:44 AM
Jul 2021

they were trumpers

so i assume they were not vaxxed

Spazito

(50,260 posts)
19. *LOCKING*
Fri Jul 23, 2021, 09:48 AM
Jul 2021

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