Covid, Intubation Change USD Student's Mind on Vaccine

[TexasTowelie]

USD poli-sci student and aspiring lawyer Kian Olson from Mankato thought coronavirus was fake and refused to get vaccinated. When coronavirus put him in the hospital last week, he told his mom, before the nurses sedated him and shoved a tube down his throat to keep him alive, that he now wants to be vaccinated:

Kian Olson’s mother describes him as an intelligent, headstrong 19-year-old who had been set to begin his sophomore year of college Monday. But right now he’s lying in a hospital bed unconscious, with a tube down his throat, hooked up to a ventilator that is breathing for him.

He refused to accept that COVID-19 is a serious illness, said his mother, Nissa Sugden. He suggested the coronavirus did not exist or was a government conspiracy.

He has since told the nurses with Mayo Clinic Health System in Mankato who are working to save his life that he wants to be vaccinated as soon as possible [Jordan Smith, “Mankato Teen Struck with Covid-19 Goes on Ventilator,” Mankato Free Press, 2021.08.24].

Read more: https://dakotafreepress.com/2021/08/28/covid-intubation-change-usd-students-mind-on-vaccine/

[Botany]

1. Bet ya he listened to Fox, hate talk radio, and right wing social media platforms

n/t

[leftieNanner]

3. Maybe

But he's more likely to be in the demographic of FB and Instagram. Maybe TikTok. Fox and the radio seem more like grandpa's information sources.

I hope he recovers.

[Botany]

5. Your are probably right but he was most likely getting right wing and or Russian pushed propaganda..

... lies.

Play stupid games win stupid prizes. Funny he rejected medical science before but now he is
getting state of the art medical science treatments.

[Postal Grunt]

2. We keep hearing the SOSDD

Every day brings up another report of a person in ICU realizing that they made a mistake and want their vaccination NOW, if not sooner. It's as if it's on an endless repeat tape loop but the unvaxxed will never pay attention until they're the one looking at the ventilators being wheeled to their bedside. "Same Old Shit, Different Day" indeed.

[CurtEastPoint]

4. I'm no stick but this kid is obese. All the more reason to vax.

[TexasTowelie]

7. He may want to be a lawyer,

but it might help him to take a biology class or two along the way. I agree that he should have been more concerned about the virus considering that he is in a higher risk group. It does make me curious about what other things he chooses to deny or ignore.

[Effete Snob]

6. After consuming tens of thousands of dollars in medical resources

These people disgust me.

[NCjack]

8. Slow adopter is losing again.