Three prominent anti-vaxers die of covid in the past week. Bernier was another conservative icon, a long-time radio host in Fort Lauderdale who refused the vax and bragged about it. His ridiculous tweet in July earned a rebuke from Nicki Fried who is running for the Dem nomination to challenge DeSantis.
Not sure if he took ivermectin like the others, and if he did it's probably doubtful that killed him. But refusing the vaccine, there's NO DOUBT that's what killed him...
One thing these grossly false characterizations (like Benier's) of medical professionals giving covid shots being similar to Nazis conveniently forget. When Nazi doctors experimented on people in camps they weren't conducting medical experiments that the doctors themselves had experienced. People giving covid shots are all vaccinated, and they wear masks...
Speaking of vaccinations and masks, a cautionary tale about what refusing both can lead to. This is from a CDC analysis of an outbreak in an elementary school in Marin Co (CA) during a brief 6 or 7 day period in May...
So this school had one classroom per grade, an average of 25 students or so per class. On May 19 one of the two unvaccinated teachers in the school felt symptoms consistent with covid, but dismissed it as sniffles and being tired. Not only did she go to work the next day, but she actually violated the school's mask policy by removing her mask while reading a story to the kids inside the classroom...
On May 21, she finally got tested and was positive. From May 23-26, all of the students in her class were tested and out of 24, 12 tested positive. The infection rate was 80% (8 of 10) of students in the first two rows but dropped to 28% (4 of 14) in the back 3 rows.
Prior to being tested, one of the students in her class hosted a sleepover that included kids from another grade, and the kids in that class ended up testing positive at a rate of 6 of 18. Another 8 people identified as parents/siblings of the exposed students from either class also tested positive.
No other teacher tested positive so that one single teacher who was unvaccinated and violated mask policy ended up infecting 26 other people. Fortunately, there were no serious consequences to the health of any of the infected, but this was an early indication of how rapidly Delta infects the unvaccinated...
Outbreak Associated with SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617.2 (Delta)...
COVID-19 outbreak associated with an unvaccinated infected teacher in an elementary school from May–June 2021 in Marin County, California.
www.cdc.gov
