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Tom Yossarian Joad

(19,263 posts)
Thu Sep 16, 2021, 05:53 PM Sep 2021

Alabama Pickers, couple known for reselling and vaccine opposition, both dead of COVID

One of the last videos the married couple posted on their now deleted YouTube channel was about how they wouldn’t get the vaccine.

It was later reposted on Vaxx Mann’s channel, which is connected to a website titled SORRYANTIVAXXER.COM, dedicated to sharing stories of people who have gotten COVID and died, or came close to dying after sharing their anti-vax beliefs.

“I’ve got my own passport. It’s called the ‘Bill of Rights,’” Dusty said in the video around the 41:30 mark. “I think this will be all behind us in a couple of years.”

Dusty later spelled out the word vaccine and said that it was actually a form of immunity therapy they were giving people.

The pair then talked about everything they had survived already, including bone cancer, in Tristan’s case.

They also talked about COVID and the vaccine at length on their deleted channel.

Tristan died on Aug. 25 in her sleep, according to the GoFundMe page. Two days later, Dusty started a GoFundMe for her expenses on the 27th, while still in the ICU himself. /snip

https://www.al.com/news/2021/09/alabama-pickers-couple-known-for-reselling-and-vaccine-opposition-both-dead-of-covid.html

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DFW

(56,566 posts)
16. We southerners are used to that
Fri Sep 17, 2021, 12:09 PM
Sep 2021

For some reason, the least educated among us are often so self-sure of themselves, they come off as smug know-it-alls, just sticking it to the dumb "libbruls," who, though educated, are inferior beings worthy of nothing but contempt. Maybe it's some kind of defensive compensation for not knowing that "to be or not to be" is not just something that Mel Brooks (Jack Benny? Who's Jack Benny?) made up.

keithbvadu2

(40,144 posts)
3. "started a GoFundMe for her expenses"... Mitt would call them 'takers not makers'.
Thu Sep 16, 2021, 06:33 PM
Sep 2021

"started a GoFundMe for her expenses"...

Mitt would call them 'takers not makers'.

Response to Tom Yossarian Joad (Original post)

paleotn

(19,206 posts)
7. I'd say it's karma, but really it's not....
Thu Sep 16, 2021, 07:57 PM
Sep 2021

It's simply science. And reality. The thing about both of those is neither gives a good goddamn what dumb Homo sapiens think, feel or whatever.

Jon King

(1,910 posts)
10. And yet more overweight anti-vaxxers dead.
Thu Sep 16, 2021, 08:01 PM
Sep 2021

Goodness, at some point just maybe they see that if they are obese they should not be touting their anti-vax status?? Not like it is the biggest risk factor by far for the under 60s or anything.

 

Hulk

(6,699 posts)
12. Makes my day.....thank you God!
Thu Sep 16, 2021, 08:37 PM
Sep 2021

I'm LOVING these stories of the cult anti-vaxxers contracting the virus and dying. No sympathy at all. Glad the country is rid of such assholes.

BobTheSubgenius

(11,789 posts)
13. Whew!
Thu Sep 16, 2021, 08:54 PM
Sep 2021

When I saw "Alabama Pickers," my worst-case mind went to "Not Muscle Shoals!" That the thought made no sense did not immediately dawn on me, obviously.

Tarheel_Dem

(31,443 posts)
14. This is gonna sound really cruel, but it just pisses me off that we have to spend limited resources
Thu Sep 16, 2021, 08:57 PM
Sep 2021

on disgusting people like this. I say that because I have friends & family members who listened to ill informed bs, from ill informed a**holes like the ones described in the article, and many of them are no longer with us.

LymphocyteLover

(6,776 posts)
15. the fatality rate among these anti-vax folks is astounding
Thu Sep 16, 2021, 09:09 PM
Sep 2021

it's got to be higher than just the overall average, but I guess it helps so many of these people are older and often out of shape...

getagrip_already

(17,440 posts)
17. it's part of their belief system....
Fri Sep 17, 2021, 12:37 PM
Sep 2021

to first deny they are sick, then deny its covid, then take ineffective/harmful meds when they should seek real medical treatments, then go to the hospital when they can no longer breathe.

Treatment delayed is treatment forfeit. They are so sick when they finally do go in, they are already being sized for a toe tag.

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