3- ..She was immunocompromised. She should never had been led to believe she was safe.
Btw, had to read way down in the article to find this nugget.
4- On top of that is the elephant in the room. She was obese.
5- To make matters even worse, they probably put her on a ventilator too soon.
Also no mention in the article of treating her with monoclonal ABs.
6- This is infuriating. This poor woman was in the highest possible risk category. Yet she was led to believe that the miracle slot & a dumb mask kept her safe. So she punted sensible precautions, and now she is dead.
Her friends are right, this didn’t need to happen.
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1- Recently watcher the movie “Shattered Glass”, about reporter Stephen Glass & the numerous stories he literally made up for then prestigious “The New Republic” in the late 1990s.
2- … independent publisher “fact-checking” of stories often just means the final story matches the reporter’s raw notes.
If an enterprising reporter makes up notes or is being fed bs; welp, it’s considered fact-checked.
Glass did this for years before he was busted (cont).
3- And it wasn’t just “The New Republic”. From the linked article:
“..the compelling wunderkind who had seeped inside the skins of editors not only at The New Republic but also at Harper’s, George, Rolling Stone, The New York Times Magazine, and Mother Jones.”
1- "I was just one more example of our country’s tug and pull between fantasies of a post-covid summer and the realities of our still-raging pandemic, in which even the vaccinated can get sick."
2- "I had a breakthrough case of covid-19 — despite my two shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, the second one in April."
"Where did I get it? Who knows."
At least this reporter doesn't scream at the unvaccinated.
3- "We had flown across the country, seen friends, stayed at a hotel, eaten indoors and, yes, even gone to a long-delayed wedding with other vaccinated people."
"Emerson will not transition to a mask-optional policy on Sept. 17, instead extending the college’s requirement that all community members wear a mask indoors indefinitely."
3- "All requests for campus access by non-community members must be approved by the appropriate vice president or dean in consultation with the college’s COVID team."
The open borders people sure seem to like metaphorical walls now. 🤦🏽♂️
There is no way to know who the poor man caught COVID from, yet the widow is railing at the unvaccinated instead of railing at the drug companies for making a crappy product and/or owning her own terrible risk decision (cont).
2- “Gary Keplinger had a rare neurological condition, called myasthenia gravis, which may have made him particularly susceptible to complications from the coronavirus,..”
Heartbreaking but not the fault of unvaccinated people.
3- “But then, in July, they attended a gathering of extended family in a rented hall. It was attended by about 50-75 people, including numerous unvaccinated relatives, Ardith Keplinger said.”