Defender of the People
Mask Burning Party
On Facebook, Apley endorsed a Mask Burning Party.
Apley, a leader of the Texas Republican Party hopped on Facebook in May to post about a “mask burning” party 900 miles away in Cincinnati.
The 45-year-old Dickinson City Council member republished a Facebook post implying that vaccines don’t work.
Two days later, Apley was admitted to a Galveston hospital with “pneumonia-like symptoms” and tested positive for coronavirus, according to an online fundraising campaign. He was sedated and put on a ventilator.
He Died With a Fundraising Success
A GoFundMe page for Apley raised $28,000 from over 300 donors.
He was serving his first term on the Texas GOP’s State Republican Executive Committee.
The GoFundMe effort failed to mention why he died.
Sorry, Too Late
A doctor in Alabama, which has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country, last month wrote a detailed Facebook post about how a lot of “young healthy people” were being admitted to the hospital “with very serious” covid infections.
“One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for the vaccine,” Brytney Cobia wrote. “I hold their hand and tell them that I’m sorry, but it’s too late.”
Will This Persuade Anyone?
Of course not. At least not members of the diehard anti-vaxxer flat-earth society.
However, it might help family members realize that there is help for the dead from GoFundMe.
Unfortunately, and as I have stated before, people need their own near death experience before they learn a damn thing.
Also unfortunately, some don’t make it.
Nurses Concerned About Unvaccinated COVID-19 Patients
Also consider West Virginia Nurses Concerned About Unvaccinated COVID-19 Patients.
“The handful of patients who we have had recently, all of them are young, otherwise healthy lived and independent lifestyles,” ICU nurse Taylor Krisher said about unvaccinated patients. “It’s hard for me because I see it. I work with patients who are so sick I can’t leave the room for 12 hours.”
Krisher said most of the hospital’s COVID-19 patients are younger people who did not want to get vaccinated against the deadly virus. After battling for their life, a number of patients have told Krisher and her co-workers that they regret not getting a shot.
“The kids and other relatives were saying goodbye to him,” Krisher recalled one unvaccinated COVID-19 patient she was caring for on FaceTime before he died. “I was having to push medicine just to keep him alive long enough that he was able to say goodbye.”
“He knew he was going to die, it was just when,” ICU nurse Chelsea Ebbert said choking up while thinking about another unvaccinated patient.
Ebbert said every patient she has cared for that was not vaccinated regretted their decision, and a number of patient’s family members have also decided to go get vaccinated after seeing their loved one’s condition. Many of these are people in their 30s or younger who were not significantly at risk from previous COVID-19 variants, but the delta variant targets.
Word About Hypotheses
“The handful of patients who we have had recently, all of them are young, otherwise healthy lived and independent lifestyles,” ICU nurse Taylor Krisher said about unvaccinated patients.
The odds are overwhelming Apley would be alive IF he got vaccinated.
Instead he pounded his chest in support of “freedom”.
Apley is now free. He is free to preach his message from his grave.
Somehow this does not seem like a “Give me Liberty or Give Me Death” kind of moment, but if I hear from Apley, I will post his reply.
Although it’s hard to feel any empathy for Apley, I would rather he have lived so that he could spread a better second opinion. This was an easily preventable tragedy.
Mish
at all the highly vaccinated countries ,which are at levels of
“compliance” we are told required for “herd” immunity (ignoring natural
immunity),and the DELTA
rampant…..UK, Israel ,Malta, Gibraltar , to name a few. Getting the
USA to that level of compliance is NOT going to end the pandemic. The
CDC
Infection and TRANSMISSION of the DELTA variant,so achieving “herd”
compliance will do NOTHING to end
Vaccination is a personal choice and should NOT be forced or coerced on
to anyone. If you feel it will help you, go for it !! Don’t condemn
those who
meaning years, not just a few months,and those who have natural immunity
from prior infection. Yes, some Unvaxxed
Covid,and Yes,some Vaxxed will also die from Covid or the Vaccine. This
makes the vaccine a truly personal choice which should be respected
either way. It is up the individual to make an INFORMED decision,and not
feel pressure from certain bloggers, friends, family, employers, and
governments !!
groups complained that it was too modest to achieve the results they
expected. The trial originally tested the results from a single
Ivermectin dose in January this year, but was later changed to involve
one daily dose for three days of 400 micrograms of the drug for every
kilogram (about 2.2 pounds) of the patients’ weight, up to 90 kilograms.”
Best bet, get your overall immunity up and running because the vaccine is just BS whack-a-mole for all the variants to come
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed an increased number of deaths reported after a COVID-19 vaccination. Between December 14, 2020, through July 19, 2021, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) received 12,313 reports of death among people who received a COVID-19 vaccine.
UPDATE: As of 2:30 PM CT on July 21, 2021, the CDC’s website modified the number of VAERS reports related to COVID-19 vaccination deaths from 12,313 to 6,079, through July 13, 2021. The CDC’s webpage’s Last Update date remains July 19, 2021.
UPDATE #2: As of 6:30 PM CT on July 21, 2021, the CDC’s website stated through July 19, 2021, VAERS had received 6,207 reports of death (0.0018%) among people who received a COVID-19 vaccine. The CDC’s webpage’s Last Update date reflects July 21, 2021.
n = 58) counties yielded significantly lower COVID-19 cases at HE
versus LE (615 versus 905, p = 0.034). HE per capita deaths were
significantly lower than LE (9.4 versus 19.5, p = 0.017). However, case
mortality did not differ between HE and LE (1.78% versus 1.46%, p =
0.27). Regression analysis, adjusted for relevant covariates,
demonstrated decreased COVID-19 infection rates by 12.82%, 12.01%, and
11.72% per 495m of county centroid elevation, for cases recorded over
the previous 30, 90, and 120 days, respectively. This population-adjusted, controlled analysis suggests that higher
elevation attenuates infection and death. Ongoing work from our group
aims to identify the environmental, biological, and social factors of
residence at HE that impact infection, transmission, and pathogenesis of
COVID-19 in an effort to harness these mechanisms for future public
health and/or treatment interventions.
Farr’s laws is a law formulated by Dr. William Farr when he made the observation that epidemic events rise and fall in a
roughly symmetrical pattern. The time-evolution behavior could be
captured by a single mathematical formula that could be approximated by a bell shape
He showed that during the smallpox epidemic, a plot of the number of deaths per quarter followed a roughly bell-shaped and that recent epidemics of other diseases had followed a similar pattern. In 1796 Edward Jenner developed the worlds first vaccine against small pox. This is old news.