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Showing Original Post only (View all)"Misinformation Killed Her" -Friend Of 29 Year-Old Kentucky Bride To Never Be, Dead Due To Covid [View all]
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/16/2052502/--Misinformation-Killed-Her-Friend-Of-29-Year-Old-Kentucky-Bride-To-Never-Be-Dead-Due-To-Covid"Misinformation Killed Her" -Friend Of 29 Year-Old Kentucky Bride To Never Be, Dead Due To Covid
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Thursday September 16, 2021 · 9:00 AM EDT
There are roughly 332 million people in the United States today. I would say give or take, because we are about 600k short, as Covid has killed one in every 500 human beings in the country. That is sobering. I know hundreds of people, most of them, but not all, still alive after Covid. But I have never computed it until CNN did it for me.
Early on the mainstream media did a tremendous disservice by plastering headlines about how the disease was much less likely to affect the young. So the young, naturally, thought So what? This woman, a 29 year-old bride to be named Samantha Wendell, probably thought something similar. She probably thought she was young, so she was safe. But Delta is a game changer in that department.
Samantha Wendell could not wait for her wedding this summer. For nearly two years, the 29-year-old surgical technician had been meticulously planning every detail, from the seating chart to the Tiffany blue floral arrangements, her fiancé, Austin Eskew, said. Wendell and Eskew wanted to start a family as soon as they got married, Eskew, a correctional sergeant, said. The couple, of Grand Rivers, Kentucky, hoped to eventually have three, maybe four, children.
So when the Covid-19 vaccines came out, and some of Wendells co-workers said the shots caused infertility an unfounded claim that has gained ground despite top reproductive health groups refuting it she just kind of panicked, Eskew, 29, said.
Now here I will take a detour and skip to an ESPN reporter named Allison Williams, who is probably going to be mentioned more and more as we hear about the expectant moms and those trying to start a family suffering from Covid. Because you see, she is high profile, and woefully misinformed.
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This woman said in public that she is putting her family and health first by not getting the vaccine, because she wants another child. (Yes my head hurts too) But there is zero evidence whatsoever to suggest that the vaccine would compromise any potential pregnancy.
So lets return to the story of Ms. Wendell. She had co-workers, that, and this is just a guess, had Doctorates in Biochemistry from Facebook University spout off in her ear about how vaccines are bad for fertility. She listened. She hesitated.
And then she was gone-just like that..
..Misinformation killed her, said Maria Vibandor Hayes, 39, a cousin who lives in New Orleans and said goodbye over FaceTime before Wendell died on Sept. 10. If we can save more lives and families lives, then this is the gift that she left for us to deliver. Despite her initial hesitancy, Wendell herself had recently changed her stance on the vaccine. As the delta variant spread, causing cases to rise, and restrictions were instituted for those who were unvaccinated, she concluded in early July that it made sense to get vaccinated ahead of the couples honeymoon to Mexico.
She and Eskew got vaccination appointments for the end of July. In the meantime, wedding preparations continued: dress fittings, menu tastings, and a bachelorette party in Nashville, Tennessee.
She and Eskew got vaccination appointments for the end of July. In the meantime, wedding preparations continued: dress fittings, menu tastings, and a bachelorette party in Nashville, Tennessee.
She would come back from Nashville sick. She began to uncontrollably cough. She got weaker. The disease took her over. Last Friday, after being informed that her situation was hopeless, her family disconnected life support. She was so close to getting the vaccine. She had put aside the rantings of her co-workers, and chose science over rumor. She was this close.
But thanks to rumor, and misinformation, and lies, and ignorance, she was influenced just enough, just long enough, to let Covid into her body and end her life.
How do those co-workers feel do you suppose? Do they understand that their mouths, and the spouting off of them, and likely, lets face it, their insidious addiction to social media and susceptibility to miscreants likely contributed to Samanthas death? Do they understand what they have done? Will anybody ever charge people with deliberate spreading of misinformation on social media with manslaughter?
And how many more families have to be destroyed, marriages cancelled, lives ended, tears shed, before the truth about the consequences, and the protection, finally seep in?
Or is it still just about the notifications button, and the temporary endorphin boost, the digital drug we call social media provides?
America is underdosing against Covid by overdosing on Facebook and the like.
And yes, it is deadly.
Samantha Wendell planned her whole future that never came, because the lies landed in her brain faster than the truth.
Then it was too late.
Social media misuse is undermining efforts to end this pandemic.
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"Misinformation Killed Her" -Friend Of 29 Year-Old Kentucky Bride To Never Be, Dead Due To Covid [View all]
babylonsister
Sep 2021
OP
The children? The pediatric cases? That is one breathtaking claim you are making.
Hekate
Sep 2021
#44
CDC: Being obese and less than 65 increases risk of death from Covid 2-fold among unvaccinated.
andym
Sep 2021
#55
THat IS idiocy if you are just accepting anything posted on places like that while ignoring what
JI7
Sep 2021
#60
A friends daughter double vaxed in March, is now pregnant with a healthy baby...
winstars
Sep 2021
#8
I don't think someone's pointless death will sway any of these anti-vaxxers at this point.
sop
Sep 2021
#9
The actual overall case lethality rate is nowhere near 2%. I have seen this rubbish
Celerity
Sep 2021
#37
But it is more fatal compared to the flu which has the same under reporting issues
IbogaProject
Sep 2021
#56
It's driving the crazies, indoctrinating the right, and empowering white supremacists.
Initech
Sep 2021
#19