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Texas Anti-Mask 'Freedom Rally' Organizer Fighting For His Life With COVID-19

His pregnant wife said this week that the hospital was "out of options" for her husband.

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His wife, Jessica Wallace, wrote Wednesday on Facebook that she had a “heartbreaking update” about her husband, Caleb.

“He’s not doing good. It’s not looking in our favor,” she said. “His lungs are stiff due to the fibrosis. They called and said they’ve run out of options for him and asked if I would consent to a do not resuscitate. And it would be up to us when to stop treatments.”

“My heart just can’t. I can’t imagine my life without him.”

Caleb Wallace, a 30-year-old father of three, has been unconscious, ventilated and heavily sedated in the ICU at Shannon Medical Center in San Angelo since Aug. 8, the Standard-Times reported.

Announced tonight that he passed away. Leaves behind three daughters and another kid on the way who will never get to see their father walking them to school or walking them down the aisle.

Didn’t have to happen, but this is the cost of disinformation and it’s real.

 

[Deleted member 365]

Texas Anti-Mask 'Freedom Rally' Organizer Fighting For His Life With COVID-19

His pregnant wife said this week that the hospital was "out of options" for her husband.

www.yahoo.com

His wife, Jessica Wallace, wrote Wednesday on Facebook that she had a “heartbreaking update” about her husband, Caleb.

“He’s not doing good. It’s not looking in our favor,” she said. “His lungs are stiff due to the fibrosis. They called and said they’ve run out of options for him and asked if I would consent to a do not resuscitate. And it would be up to us when to stop treatments.”

“My heart just can’t. I can’t imagine my life without him.”

Caleb Wallace, a 30-year-old father of three, has been unconscious, ventilated and heavily sedated in the ICU at Shannon Medical Center in San Angelo since Aug. 8, the Standard-Times reported.

Sounds like a sucky way to go. “His lungs are stiff?” Yikes…

These deaths are tragic, sad, and just horrific.

What’s incredibly frustrating is that most of them could be avoided. I know people don’t like to admit that they’re wrong but there comes a point where id rather admit I was wrong and get vaccinated than die with a damn tube down my throat and my lungs going stiff.

 

[Deleted member 365]

Announced tonight that he passed away. Leaves behind three daughters and another kid on the way who will never get to see their father walking them to school or walking them down the aisle.

Didn’t have to happen, but this is the cost of disinformation and it’s real.

I struggle with this. Anyone else?

On one hand this is a terrible way to die and now that family will forever be left without their loved one. So sad.

On the other hand, these people are narcissistic, selfish, and incredibly dumb. All they had to do was get vaccinated. Have they been paying attention to the last two years? Covid sucks. Get vaccinated! I struggle with compassion.

It’s a weird situation because I don’t naturally like this. I want to be compassionate and caring. But I only have so many ****s to give. It’s hard not to think, “well that’s one less dumb person consuming our natural resources.”

All well. People I guess are living with their natural consequences to their dumb actions. Anyone else struggling with this? How do you best cope? Any advice because these stupid ****ers are making me feel less human.

 

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These are children…

 

[Avery]

I struggle with this. Anyone else?

On one hand this is a terrible way to die and now that family will forever be left without their loved one. So sad.

On the other hand, these people are narcissistic, selfish, and incredibly dumb. All they had to do was get vaccinated. Have they been paying attention to the last two years? Covid sucks. Get vaccinated! I struggle with compassion.

It’s a weird situation because I don’t naturally like this. I want to be compassionate and caring. But I only have so many ****s to give. It’s hard not to think, “well that’s one less dumb person consuming our natural resources.”

All well. People I guess are living with their natural consequences to their dumb actions. Anyone else struggling with this? How do you best cope? Any advice because these stupid ****ers are making me feel less human.

It’s not even about being vaccinated to a point. The guy got sick and rather than seek medical attention because he didn’t want to be added as a statistic, he spent four days pumping himself with ivermectin instead of actual treatments that would have likely saved his life. This is why medical advice on FB and social media is insane to follow.

I read poison control cases are up 500% with ivermectin and just can’t fathom why people think it’s an good idea but an approved vaccine taken by tens of millions is more unsafe.

 

[Deleted member 365]

It’s not even about being vaccinated to a point. The guy got sick and rather than seek medical attention because he didn’t want to be added as a statistic, he spent four days pumping himself with ivermectin instead of actual treatments that would have likely saved his life. This is why medical advice on FB and social media is insane to follow.

I read poison control cases are up 500% with ivermectin and just can’t fathom why people think it’s an good idea but an approved vaccine taken by tens of millions is more unsafe.

Get vaccinated, seek actual medical attention, or down a bunch of **** meant for livestock? Gee what a tough decision

 

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Get vaccinated, seek actual medical attention, or down a bunch of **** meant for livestock? Gee what a tough decision

If this convinces a few individuals to make different decisions, perhaps his death as a cautionary tale means others will choose a different path.

But I fear that the beat will simply go on because the echo chamber of distrust is loud and emboldened.

 

[fishonjazz]

I struggle with this. Anyone else?

On one hand this is a terrible way to die and now that family will forever be left without their loved one. So sad.

On the other hand, these people are narcissistic, selfish, and incredibly dumb. All they had to do was get vaccinated. Have they been paying attention to the last two years? Covid sucks. Get vaccinated! I struggle with compassion.

It’s a weird situation because I don’t naturally like this. I want to be compassionate and caring. But I only have so many ****s to give. It’s hard not to think, “well that’s one less dumb person consuming our natural resources.”

All well. People I guess are living with their natural consequences to their dumb actions. Anyone else struggling with this? How do you best cope? Any advice because these stupid ****ers are making me feel less human.

Dont give in to this way of thinking. Stay compassionate despite the stupidity

 

[Al-O-Meter]

These are children…

Yes, but those regions have wildly different populations with the South having the most people.

 

[Red]

I struggle with this. Anyone else?

Of course. Disinformation is clearly one of the biggest problems infecting our society. And I use the word “infection” on purpose. It’s akin to a disinformation pandemic. It includes the warning Timothy Snyder references in my signature. And it entails so much more, literally infecting every area of human knowledge. It is bound to be highly destabilizing in any society it infects. It is simply a HUGE problem. I know you are being more specific, focused on the consequences on everybody of the unvaccinated who are rooted in disinfo, and married to crackpot remedies, but the rejection of the approach of expert based medical advice is part of this much broader based problem. The further we diverge as a society from the ability to reach a consensus opinion on REALITY, the more destabilized, the more disconnected, the more distrusting, the more divided we will grow, and the harder it will be to ever solve this enormous problem…

Bad News, by Joseph Bernstein

Selling the story of disinformation

harpers.org

 

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It is bound to be highly destabilizing in any society it infects. It is simply a HUGE problem.

There has never been a society anywhere on Earth or ever in history in which there wasn’t bad information believed by a sizable portion of the population. The most stable and long lived societies you can think of, such as the dynasties in China or Egypt, had plenty of untrue beliefs. It is not realistic to set ‘no bad information’ as a standard we should strive for and I deeply distrust the idea of establishing an authority that functions as a gatekeeper over what information the public is allowed to be exposed to.

The best we can do is to put more effort into strengthening critical thinking skills, stomping out the cancel culture that springs to life whenever something outside the Overton window is discussed, and facilitating communication by agreeing on the definitions of words. Our society is currently terrible at all three. Students are graduating from college with worse critical thinking skills than when they graduated high school. Cancel culture is crazy and we can’t agree on simple concepts like what a woman is or what constitutes violence.

 

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There has never been a society anywhere on Earth or ever in history in which there wasn’t bad information believed by a sizable portion of the population. The most stable and long lived societies you can think of, such as the dynasties in China or Egypt, had plenty of untrue beliefs. It is not realistic to set ‘no bad information’ as a standard we should strive for and I deeply distrust the idea of establishing an authority that functions as a gatekeeper over what information the public is allowed to be exposed to.

The best we can do is to put more effort into strengthening critical thinking skills, stomping out the cancel culture that springs to life whenever something outside the Overton window is discussed, and facilitating communication by agreeing on the definitions of words. Our society is currently terrible at all three. Students are graduating from college with worse critical thinking skills than when they graduated high school. Cancel culture is crazy and we can’t agree on simple concepts like what a woman is or what constitutes violence.

I was not endorsing any approach. I was simply stating what should be obvious by now(referring to the words I wrote, not the article I linked to. I stand by the words I wrote 100%). I mean of course one cannot name any undisputed truth that will not have people who reject it. There are quite a few of my fellow citizens that believe our political leaders are actually shape shifting reptilian aliens. And I am not interested in creating gatekeeper authorities. From a practical viewpoint, I’ll go no further than what Timothy Snyder states in “On Tyranny”, and contained in my signature. That is trouble enough right there. Yeah, civics should be taught as early in the education regimen as possible, that might also help. And critical thinking? Of course. And very, very, very few people will ever master that skill. And emotions will annihilate reason every time. Every single time. We are not built to be rational beings. Sadly. The ad men all know that. That’s why we sell presidents every 4 years. And launch negative ads after negative ads. The day I wake up and find the American public is no longer susceptible to persuasion via the emotions of fear and hate, is the day I’ll wonder what planet I’m on.