4) Daughter of unvaccinated Florida county employee who died after #COVID19 swept through her office building says she & her family are steadfast in refusing their shots, even though their mother’s inoculated coworkers did not get sick at all.
✔️mRNA vaccines do not use live virus that causes #COVID19
✔️They don’t affect or interact with our DNA in any way
✔️ mRNA vaccines are held to the same rigorous safety and effectiveness standards as ALL other types of vaccines in the U.S. cdc.gov/coronavirus/20…
14) Linda Zuern, “staunch conservative,” former Republican selectman, “educator,” and unvaccinated Trump supporter and QAnon fanatic who promoted hydroxychloroquine and spread #coronavirus conspiracy theories dies of #COVID19
15) “I’m admitting young healthy people to the hospital with very serious COVID infections. One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that I’m sorry, but it’s too late”
17) H. Scott Apley, a councilmember of Dickinson, Texas and member of the Texas State Republican Executive Committee, mocked vaccines for months. He just died from #COVID19.
18) Travis Campbell of Tennessee & his wife didn’t bother getting vaccinated. He now holds on for life in ICU & pleads with others to #GetVaccinated. He also infected two of his little kids. Who else did he infect? What variants did he breed?
20) Four UNVACCINATED Broward County, Florida, teachers die from #COVID19 in less than 24 hours, as schools prepare to reopen and #COVIDIOT@GovRonDeSantis mandates against mask or vaccine mandates. He earned his #DeathSantis hashtag.
21) Catholic Cardinal Burke, who spoke out against vaccine mandates, insisted on in-person services, and quoted theories that vaccines contain “microchips” used to control citizens, has been placed on ventilator after contracting #COVID19
22) An anti-vaccine Tennessee pastor, Jimmy DeYoung, who pushed hydroxychloroquine & horse paste (ivermectin), has died following a short battle with #COVID19
How many did he infect? How many variants did he breed? How many died from his disinformation?
23) Baby girl orphaned after parents die from #COVID19. The mother was just 32 & 32 weeks pregnant. She was unvaccinated. Her last act was giving birth to her baby girl.
Who else did she infect? What variants did she breed?
26) Mask-bashing, anti-vax Maine Republican, Chris Johansen, loses wife to #COVID19 after both get virus. Cited twice for breaking mask rules, he was one of seven @GOP lawmakers who refused to wear masks.
27) 3yo little girl, Aurora Cannon, is fighting for her life at a hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Mom is a healthcare hero facebook.com/amelia.hickey who has been documenting her fight against #COVID19.
29) His father died of COVID, but he believed the #Coronavirus vaccine was a government conspiracy with a tracking device. Michael Stevenson moved to Florida where he contracted #COVID19 and died.
Only one of his sons decided to get the vaccine after his death. #Spreadnecks
30) Pressley Stutts, Republican Tea Party leader in South Carolina, shared conspiracy theories on election, #coronavirus, & vaccines from ICU bed. He called Kamala Harris’ vaccination efforts “ungodly”
✔️mRNA vaccines do not use live virus that causes #COVID19
✔️They don’t affect or interact with our DNA in any way
✔️ mRNA vaccines are held to the same rigorous safety and effectiveness standards as ALL other types of vaccines in the U.S. cdc.gov/coronavirus/20…
32) So, if mRNA vaccines don’t contain live #coronavirus, how do they actually work to prevent #COVID19? You can thank researcher @kkariko for her life’s work which was the basis for this amazing scientific breakthrough.
33) While masks provide some protection to the mask wearer (depending on mask type), they mainly serve to protect others by limiting the spread of #coronavirus-laden airborne particles. How effective are masks? That depends on the mask and the wearers:
34) John Pierce, anti-vaxx lawyer for Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse as well as more than a dozen Capitol terrorists is reportedly on a ventilator and non-responsive after contracting #COVID19.
35) Wisconsin Republican state Sen. Andre Jacque, who questioned election, authored legislation to bar government or business owners from requiring vaccines or show proof of vaccination, has been intubated fighting #COVID19. He hid diagnosis.
36) Lisa Steadman had #COVID19. Her husband, Ron, later tested positive. They started symptoms on 7/30. Lisa was taken to a Florida hospital after passing out & returned home eight days later to find her husband dead
Both were unvaccinated. Who else did they infect? #Spreadnecks
37) BABY dies from #COVID19 amid Delta surge in Louisiana where 31% of all newly reported COVID cases are in children below the age of 18.
39) Missouri Republican lawmaker's unvaccinated husband died of #COVID19. Rep. Sara Walsh @SaraForMissouri said they both refused vaccine because it wasn’t fully approved by the FDA.
He made his choice to die and endanger others. Like Jesus taught?
41) Tim Parsons, Center Point Church pastor, died from #COVID19 after congregation fasted & prayed, “pleading with God for his healing.” Church advised members "not to worry" about #coronavirus because "God is in control"
Yeah, God gave us brains to create masks & vaccines #WWJD
41B) Center Point Church deleted its #COVID19 information page with section titled, “Should I be worried about COVID-19”
“We don't want to be worried because the Bible tells us not to worry. We know God is in control.. be wise by practicing what the CDC calls 'safe distancing.’”
42) Caleb Wallace, who founded “San Angelo Freedom Fighters” to “end covid tyranny” has died of #COVID19. He refused to get tested for #coronavirus and treated himself with ivermectin. He was 30 & leaves behind three children & pregnant wife
43) Outspoken anti-vax, anti-mask conservative radio host Marc Bernier is dead after 3-week battle with #COVID19
In his last tweet, he said being pro-vaccine was like the Nazis after a post urging vaccination by @NikkiFried, a Democrat running for Governor against #DeathSantis
44) Jacksonville mother loses two sons aged 35 & 41 to #COVID19. She also caught the virus with them. She was vaccinated and had mild symptoms. They weren’t and died.
“It’s a parent’s worst nightmare… please get vaccinated.”
45) Another Florida conservative radio host, Dick Farrel, “the other Rush Limbaugh,” died from “severe damage” from #COVID19. He said #coronavirus vaccine was “promoted by people who lied all along about masks”
In the end he changed his tune, but who did he infect?
46) Robert David Steele told reporters he was first to call #coronavirus a hoax. He led charge on anti-vaccine and covid denialism. He said NASA had child slaves on Mars. QAnon followers believe he was murdered to make @GovRonDeSantis look bad.
47) How are anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers not accomplices to murder?
U.S. Army veteran Daniel Wilkinson died of a treatable illness because the ICU at the hospital that could have saved him was filled treating unvaccinated #COVID19 patients.
49) Mark McConnaughey, a vaccinated Nebraska man, died in Iowa because ICUs were filled by unvaccinated #spreadnecks suffering from #COVID19. They tried calling 23 hospitals before they finally could airlift him to a hospital in DesMoines. It was too late
50) Barbara Crosby, Trump-loving, anti-mask, anti-vaxx #Spreadneck South Carolina school board member of 12 years, says it's not her duty to protect kids from #coronavirus and dying from @COVID19: “God decides who lives or dies, right?”
51) 3 teachers, 15 Miami-Dade school staffers die of #COVID19 in 10 days, yet Florida schools prohibited from issuing mask or vaccine mandates. This is murder.
52) "A woman died of the #coronavirus, and as her family was planning the funeral, her mother was also struck down. An aunt took over arrangements for the double funeral, only to die of #COVID19 herself two weeks afterward"
53) Mike Lowe, a 38yo firefighter died of #COVID19. He & his wife Christina refused vaccine because “it was a political game.” Christina now supports vaccines, but in a Trumpy, conservative way: “I understand some of you believe that this political - I don't know that it's not…"
54) Florida fire chief Randy Burnham dies from #COVID19 after #coronavirus sidelines 75% of department. Was he vaccinated? We don't know since Florida has no vaccine mandate for first responders.
58) Ray Martin DeMonia, of Alabama, was just 3 days away from celebrating his 74th birthday. He died of heart complications after being turned away from 43 hospitals in 3 states due to unvaccinated #spreadnecks inundating ICUs.
59) Nurse Shanda Parish has cancer, but won’t get vaccinated, even after losing both parents to #COVID19. She resents judgment from friends asking why they didn’t get vaccinated: “people make us feel like it’s our fault they’re gone.”
60) This “Christian” radio host became infamous for reading obituaries from people who died of AIDS while playing the Queen song "Another One Bites the Dust”
Now Bob Enyart bit the dust.
But who did he infect? What variants did he breed?
61) Gregg Prentice, Hillsborough County, FL @GOP accountant & chair of the committee for election integrity, who wanted to “end Faucism” dies from #COVID19. He said, "we need more socialist distancing than we do social distancing."
62) R.I.P. Alabama Pickers. Dusty and Tristan Graham wouldn’t get vaccinated ‘cuz they had a “passport to travel called the ‘Bill of Rights.’” That passport led to the morgue.
They left their kids behind. Who else did they infect? What variants did they breed?
63) Alaskan Donald Tice belittled the #coronavirus & trumpeted (pun intended) right-wing disinformation about #COVID19. On his deathbed, he posted, “President Trump, fight the good fight. Break down the left’s fraud! Make America Great Again.”
64) Anti-vaxxer Jacob Zimmerman thought the vaccine was the “mark of the beast” and that “Christians should wake up.” Well, he’s not waking up. He died from #COVID19 on September 11. He was just 41 and left behind a wife and 17-month-old baby whom he infected.
65) COVID makes a noise. Imagine being a nurse listening to that noise all day, all night, day after day, incessantly. This is what the unvaccinated and Republican disinformation have wrought on our healthcare workers.
1/10: Pass Universal Background Checks:
33 states don't require background checks for all gun sales. Close the Gun Show Loophole & expand background checks to include magazines and ammunition.
2/10: Close the Charleston Loophole:
Each year hundreds of thousands of potentially prohibited people buy guns from licensed dealers without a completed background check. Extend the time to complete one.
2 - On Ronald Reagan’s birthday, it’s fun to remember how he took my dead father’s social security survivor benefits away from my struggling single mom, taxed social security to pay for massive tax cuts on the rich, & how Republicans are pushing for more!
3 - On Ronald Reagan’s birthday, it’s fun to remember how he reclassified KETCHUP as a vegetable to cut funding for school lunches while he transferred billions to the top, exploded deficits, and widened income inequality with his trickle down idiocy.
Republicans have spent decades trying to abolish gov’t agencies including EPA, FDA, & FBI, pass massive tax cuts for the wealthy & big oil, eliminate minimum wage, slash Medicare, & dismantle Social Security.
Marco Rubio getting honest on the Republican play book: Cut taxes on the rich, use their resulting deficits as ammo against Democrats and an excuse to gut programs like Social Security and Medicare.
1) As Russian forces close in on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and face brave resistance, I wanted to share a short story of my mother, a Freedom Fighter from another brutal Russian invasion: Hungary, 1956.
She taught me freedom is not free. History repeats.
#Ukraine
2) The Soviet Union occupied half of Europe after WWII & built a very real iron curtain right down the middle. Ignoring agreements, Stalin redrew the map and installed puppet governments. He even took a piece of Hungary & annexed it to Ukraine, dividing families for decades
3) Khrushchev’s "secret speech" in February 1956, denounced the crimes of Stalin and his cult of personality. This "de-Stalinization" led reformers across the Eastern bloc to openly express their discontent with Soviet occupation and oppression.
2) In 1987 Soviet diplomats & KGB arranged a Moscow visit. On his return, Trump spent $100,000 on full-page ads criticizing US foreign policy on “why America should stop paying to defend countries that can afford to defend themselves."
3) Trump’s love affair with authoritarianism & dictators is nothing new. Trump saw breakup of Soviet Union as weakness, praised communist China for massacre at Tiananmen, & praised China’s Xi for becoming “President for life.”