Texas Woman Who Claimed COVID-19 Was ‘Media Driven’ Hoax Dies From Virus (Image via Facebook)
To our Trump-supporting commenters here at BfAZ (and those readers who share their worldview):
Mark Twain famously observed that it is easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
But I’m going to give it a try anyhow.
Folks, it’s time you took a long hard look in the mirror. You won’t like what you see, but you need to see it, nonetheless.
A few months back, my Blog for Arizona colleague Mike Bryan, in, Covid-19 is on Track to Kill Thousands in Arizona Alone, wrote:
Due to the very limited testing across the country (entirely the fault of President Trump), official tallies of verified COVID-19 cases undoubtedly represent only a small fraction of the actual numbers. Arizona is dead last in per-capita testing in the nation, and has not even attempted contact tracing or active screening for infections or antibodies. For every verified case there could be dozens or hundreds of cases that are sub-clinical, sub-critical, incubating, and all the while spreading, at an exponential rate.
The actual extent of the epidemic is like a vast, and swiftly growing, invisible mass below the water line. In the official numbers of verified cases, we see only the very tip of the mass and assume that is the disease. Dead wrong. Those numbers in the media are merely the tip of an epidemic iceberg. And we’re steaming straight toward it, full speed ahead.
He went on to explain his warning, which was based on the statements of epidemiologists, including Anthony Fauci. His purpose was to urge readers to tell Doug Ducey to issue a shelter-in-place order, which, at the time, he was resisting. (Ultimately, Ducey did act, but his delay in doing so made matters worse. Then, in May, Ducey jumped the gun on reopening. When Arizona cases began to surge, he again acted haltingly, first refusing to allow cities to require masks in public, then doing so, but not issuing a statewide mask requirement.)
You all excoriated Mike for that post.
Carmen wrote:
Hey DemTard, get your head out of Hillary’s butt and say something truthful. OUR President is doing everything possible for all of us. Two things.. get your crystal ball out and tell us whats going to happen in 2, 3, 4 weeks from now and provide the WORLD with a solution. You pin this on OUR President.. is he also responsible for all the other Countries on our amazing shared World going through even worse crisis (Italy, Spain…)?!? Second thing, DO NOT cash your stimulus check… or be forever pegged as a hypocrite!
Trump in 2020!!
Matthew Williamson wrote:
Quit your fear mongering, you democRAT, political, partisan hack.
Solo Geezer wrote:
Thousands are on track to, not read your ridiculous scare blog! I realize it makes the left feel important to blame everything on President Trump. It’s not going to work Michael. We don’t scare easy.
H3 wrote:
The majority of the previous comments are spot on. Just because somebody is educated doesn’t mean they are not biased and this is a totally biased, scare blog, out to raise more hate for our President….
Steve A wrote:
Entirely doom and gloom and showing your liberal hate for Trump.What a ridiculous blog article. Who allowed this garbage!!
Your comments expressed the same view as Karen Kolb Sehlke, a Texas Trump supporter who was sure the pandemic was a hoax. She wrote in mid-March:
If you think for one second this “pandemic” is not media driven, and controlled by radical people in powerful places…well…go back to sleep under the rock you crawled out from.
This thing has killed less people in the same time frame then cigarettes, cancer, drunk driving, domestic violence, car crashes, cross stitching accidents (j/k on the last one but probably close), stabbings, overdoses, and please don’t get me started on abortion.
Wake up!!! This is what the beginning of socialism looks like! They are controlling what you buy…bc it’s what you think you need, where to go…bc it’s where they tell you not to go, and how to live…bc you now fear the very existence of anything outside of your home and control.
They are leading with fear. Causing you to panic like sheep.
…
You don’t need hand sanitizer, toilet paper, and Lysol. You need common sense, a sense of direction, faith, a will to fight, and of course guns!
Now wash your hands and live the life they don’t want you to have!
#America #trump2020
A few weeks after penning that message, Ms. Sehlke died of complications from Covid-19.
You all were sure, as Ms. Sehlke was, that Mike and others urging us to act were peddling fear.
Did you ever once consider that the problem might not be us “DemTards” peddling fear, but your president and your governor selling a false sense of safety, knowing full well that doing so was reckless?
I’ll go out on a limb here and guess “no”.
Accordingly, by all appearances, you, and those of like mind to you, disregarded the advice of all the doctors and epidemiologists. You refused to wear masks. You gathered in large groups indoors. You went to bars. No way were you going to let a pandemic infringe on your freedom.
And some of you became infected, perhaps unknowingly. And you infected others. And they infected still more people. And those people infected still more people. And so on.
Along the way, people were hospitalized. Some died.
And here we are today. Arizona is now the most infected state in the nation. Yes, one of the 49 other states, New York, has more confirmed cases relative to its population than Arizona but that won’t be true a month from now. New York’s governor acted; ours refused to act. New York’s infection rate is dropping. Arizona’s is skyrocketing.
Our positive test rate, about 25%, is off the charts, even compared to those of Texas, Florida and other struggling states.
Back in March, Mike predicted, based on what he’s read about the science, that thousands of Arizonans would die. Well, we just passed the 2,000 mark, and the infection rate may not even have peaked yet.
Now, if you’re still looking into that mirror, put your hands up, so you can see your palms.
Your president and your governor have blood on their hands.
Do you see any on yours?
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Complete madness is not holding the lot in charge accountable. Write a book like the niece. If courts and rule of law skunks out carve it into a written legacy of shame.
Could not agree more
Liberty without responsibility is anarchy. For the GOP, “we, the people” has become “me, me, me.”
It’s not just a lack of concern for humanity and the world, it’s also a complete disregard for how their behavior impacts other people. Perhaps more accurately, it’s an aggressive lack of concern and an aggressive disregard for anything that doesn’t empower their MAGA-mouth autocrat squads. Unlike other countries where they have acclimated to accepting the fact that maintaining public health requires participation and sometimes an inconvenience, the fist- clenching MAGAS waving their weapons and ranting about ‘standing against the government,’ are the same group upholding and standing behind this oppressive anti-democratic regime, thus clearing the path for their autocrat.
And the Trumpists will blare ‘What about my liberties?’ Their childish misconception still rages around a faulty premise, primitive reactionary- psychology and coded stimulus pushed by those that would sacrifice anyone and everything to prove they are ‘ liberated’ — GTFO.
The arrogance, ignorance and lack of democratic spirit the MAGAS uphold is lethal.
Freedom doesn’t mean you get to do whatever you want and act with complete impunity.
These people really don’t care about anyone but themselves. They have NO concern for their family members, friends, co-workers or just the public in general. I’ve seen these people in action, it’s all about me, me, me and to hell with anyone else. How dare you make me wear a mask in public, why that is just anti-American! As far as I’m concerned, when they get the virus, don’t go to the hospital, stay home and deal with it yourselves, after all, it’s only a hoax. Also, don’t try to appeal to these people, cults will only listen to their dear leader.
Sorry I missed them. Wonder what those people think of their Lord allowing Putin to pay bounties for the murder of American soldiers in Afghanistan…. it seems to be fine by Trump to have Putin do this to Americans…. I’ll wait to hear them all say that’s perfectly fine with them.