Current Events > A Medical Worker's Horrific Account of an Anti-Vaxxer Begging to Take the Shot

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Humble_Novice
01/15/22 9:56:46 PM
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https://www.reddit.com/r/DeathsofDisinfo/comments/s1icb7/we_are_tired_we_are_burnt_out_but_my_colleagues/

A patient came to my unit for COVID related symptoms, very large man, standard goatee, covered in tattoos, VERY anti-vaxx, and took every opportunity to tell us all how stupid we are and that were sheep, even at times resorting to violence/threats against staff. Said he was a caged lion or some cringey shit, I dont know. You know the usual rhetoric these idiots spout.

Well as time went by and his condition worsened, but his attitude never improving, but that never changed his care. We always went in and took his bullshit!

We must of wore him down, and plus with being on a very busy ward with VERY sick people, hearing all the code blues, he started to realize that he was in serious trouble, I guess watching us wheel the Black Stretcher (the special stretcher we use to transport DBs to the morgue) as we took his neighbours for the last ride theyll ever take. His attitude started to improve, but his condition did not.

Then when his sats started dropping and we could no longer keep him on our ward as we werent equipped to handle his level of aquity, he earned a trip to the ICU.

When I went to inform his of his transfer, I explained to him what was happening, I told him I was sorry but we where going to be moving him to the ICU to be placed on a vent.

As I started unhooking him from the wall, and the transfer team came in the room, I think he saw the writing on the wall, he was going to have a tough road ahead of him, and the reality and the consequences of his choices set in, and they hit him like a ton of bricks.

He immediately burst in to tears and BEGGED us to give him the vaccine, he begged us to let him live, he said he was sorry profusely. He begged us to forgive him, to save his life and that he wasnt ready to die. When we told him it was too late for a vaccine,

What happened next will haunt me for the rest of my life..

As we wheeled him out of his room and down the hall he went absolutely hysterical, he started wailing and crying begging for his mom.

I have never in my life seen a fully grown man absolutely come unglued like that and cry for his mom.

As a man myself, it really got to me, it made me think of the absolute horror he must have felt to ask for his mom, again he was refused as he needed to get to the ICU and we was to be intubated ASAP, and his current hysterics where only exasperating his condition.

He squeezed my had with that little strength he had left and mouthed Im so sorry, please forgive me through his tears.

He went through the doors of the ICU, that would be the last time I would see him. That is until 2 weeks later, as I was bringing yet another body to the morgue, I was looking for a free slab, when I came to a familiar name. It was Mr.Lion.

Seeing his name on the slab door white board brought me no joy, no happiness, only sadness. While this guy initially was a huge asshole, he eventually came around, he was actually a REALLY cool guy, once he put the politics, the misinformation, all the bullshit, when he finally let all of his hate go, we saw the kind of person he could have been, and thats sad as fuck.

These are people, they have feelings, they are human beings, sadly they chose the wrong path in life, and they have to be the ones to face those consequences, often alone.

But yet my colleagues and I are the bad guys, its always our fault that these people cant have visitors, its our fault they cant have horse dewormer, its our fault they're going to die, and they let us know it EVERY SINGLE FUCKING CHANCE THEY GET!

But yeah Im the bad guy, I think Ive had 3 days off total for December, when I left for work last night, my kids woke up and my oldest bolted to the door as I was locking it, I could hear him bawling his eyes out, he flung open the door, tears streaming down his face, my 3 yo at the top of the stairs crying as well.

My oldest, 8yo, jumped on me, almost knocking me over, I couldnt make out most of what he was saying but it had to do with him missing me, and hes scared Ill get COVID again, and he just wants me to stay home. Its Christmas daddy

Fucking killed me, I cried all the way to work, I absolutely love my job, but its hard, so very hard.

I knew this was a possibility when I started in healthcare before the pandemic hit, I accepted the risks that come with this line of work, but those are the breaks.

I miss my wife

I miss my sons

I miss the simple things I can no longer do

My life is go to work, then go home, and repeat. I dont go out much because even here in Canada these antivaxxers are now targeting my colleagues and I with vandalism, death threats, threats of violence, a few have even been assaulted just because we work for the health authority.

We used to be heroes, now people are slashing our tires and smashing out our windows.

For what?

Im tired, I would like to go someplace that isnt work, I dont know what I want, I just dont want to keep toe tagging these morons. But I will, its my job.

I wish I could take time off, but gotta pay those bills!

Were people with feelings, but lately those feelings are hanging by a frayed thread, my friends and I are tired.

Please get vaccinated, if you are medically able!

Edit: I know what I want, I want the senseless and unnecessary deaths to stop, and a vacation somewhere warm, somewhere where someone will cater to me for a change

If you are an anti-vax reading this, and read the whole post up to this point, I applaud you.

Common rhetoric from the anti-vax crowd is always the same "I did my research, I wont get the shot" my morgue is FILLED with people whom "Did their own research" the ICU, also filled with researchers, and remember that COVID ward, you guessed it, filled to the brim with researchers!

You say my body, my choice, but I have patients that aren't able to get life saving surgeries because our ICU is full with "patriots". These are people with families, lives, good, kind people that are fated to die through no fault of their own when they don't fucking have to, but hey, you did your research right? your choices only affect you........right?

If you're an anti-vax, I challenge you, go volunteer at your local hospital, try and walk a shift in our shoes, because I can garuntee you, if you saw just once what we have been going through almost daily for the last 2 years, you would be singing a different tune, at least I would hope anyway.

I wish you all the best, please get your shots, we can't keep going at this rate!
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myzz7
01/15/22 10:05:59 PM
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cringe

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gamer167
01/15/22 10:10:46 PM
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Im not saying a situation like this couldnt or wouldnt happen, but these days whenever I see something like this on Reddit I assume its fake/exaggerated for upvotes. It always almost too perfect of a situation to try and get their point across.
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Humble_Novice
01/15/22 10:14:06 PM
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gamer167 posted...
Im not saying a situation like this couldnt or wouldnt happen, but these days whenever I see something like this on Reddit I assume its fake/exaggerated for upvotes. It always almost too perfect of a situation to try and get their point across.
Sometimes, reality can be stranger than fiction, and this tale shows how dangerous it is to engage in reckless behavior during a pandemic.
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kingdrake2
01/15/22 10:15:10 PM
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the black stretcher.... ventilator.

seems those anti-vaxxers need to take a look at those things to try and persuade them from that big lie.
before it's too late.

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Humble_Novice
01/15/22 10:17:24 PM
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kingdrake2 posted...
the black stretcher.... ventilator.

seems those anti-vaxxers need to take a look at those things to try and persuade them from that big lie.
before it's too late.
Unfortunately, they rarely ever learn until it's too late. Some would rather double down than admit to being wrong.
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Strider102
01/15/22 10:18:11 PM
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gamer167 posted...
Im not saying a situation like this couldnt or wouldnt happen, but these days whenever I see something like this on Reddit I assume its fake/exaggerated for upvotes. It always almost too perfect of a situation to try and get their point across.

We've had numerous stories like this since 2020 though.

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FLAMING EVIL HOMER
01/15/22 10:18:46 PM
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myzz7 posted...
cringe


This.


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nfearurspecimn
01/15/22 10:22:52 PM
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Humble_Novice posted...
if you saw just once what we have been going through almost daily for the last 2 years, you would be singing a different tune, at least I would hope anyway
that's giving anti-vaxxers too much credit

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GrandConjuraton
01/15/22 10:23:04 PM
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_HayleyWilliams
01/15/22 10:23:06 PM
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FLAMING EVIL HOMER posted...
This.
I'm sure a Reddit post that "proved" that every medical worker and expert is lying for money would have your full attention, though

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MushroomMuncher
01/15/22 10:23:21 PM
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Reddit stories are 60% of the time fake

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Itachi157
01/15/22 10:25:36 PM
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The first paragraph makes me not want to believe this story honestly. It's a little too stereotypical in portraying the type of person redditors all want to laugh at.
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Flockaveli
01/15/22 10:26:07 PM
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Kid should have listened to the professionals and gotten the vaccy.

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cjsdowg
01/15/22 10:27:16 PM
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gamer167 posted...
Im not saying a situation like this couldnt or wouldnt happen, but these days whenever I see something like this on Reddit I assume its fake/exaggerated for upvotes. It always almost too perfect of a situation to try and get their point across.

We literally see this with public names being Super anti-Vax then dying.

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darkprince45
01/15/22 10:27:56 PM
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Bruh. These fake ass stories always the same. Theyre always some tattooed big MAGA guy lol. The worst part, is all these people eat this shit up

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FLAMING EVIL HOMER
01/15/22 10:31:07 PM
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_HayleyWilliams posted...
I'm sure a Reddit post that "proved" that every medical worker and expert is lying for money would have your full attention, though


Not really. It'd probably be more funny than cringe though

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Back_Stabbath
01/15/22 10:33:17 PM
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i mean, this guy didn't post on a throwaway and has months (from what I could be bothered scrolling) of his experiences as a PCA among other things. but yeh everything on the internet is fake

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sktgamer_13dude
01/15/22 10:34:24 PM
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Imagine trolling about COVID in 2022. Some fucking people.

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Humble_Novice
01/15/22 10:42:55 PM
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darkprince45 posted...
Bruh. These fake ass stories always the same. Theyre always some tattooed big MAGA guy lol. The worst part, is all these people eat this shit up
Everything is conveniently fake for people like you. Have some remorse for a change.
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_HayleyWilliams
01/15/22 10:47:21 PM
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darkprince45 posted...
Bruh. These fake ass stories always the same. Theyre always some tattooed big MAGA guy lol. The worst part, is all these people eat this shit up
I never see you get this mad about the bioterrorists prolonging a deadly worldwide pandemic because they believe fake ass stories.

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Arcanine2009
01/15/22 10:49:08 PM
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darkprince45 posted...
Bruh. These fake ass stories always the same. Theyre always some tattooed big MAGA guy lol. The worst part, is all these people eat this shit up

I mean, there's plenty of stories where unvaccinated patients regret not getting the vaccine...
https://www.newsweek.com/icu-patient-former-anti-vaxxer-regrets-turning-down-vaccine-i-believed-hoopla-1614281

https://nypost.com/2021/09/13/texas-girl-dies-of-covid-19-infection-from-anti-vax-momtexas-girl-4-dies-of-covid-19-after-being-infected-by-anti-vax-mom/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/anti-vaccine-fort-st-john-pregnant-wife-1.6222325

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/unvaccinated-hospitalized-patients-say-they-regret-not-getting-shot-n1273342

here's 21 more stories
https://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/regret-COVID-unvaccinated-hospital-coronavirus-16378317.php

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TheLiarParadox
01/15/22 10:49:26 PM
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I'm not saying this person is automatically telling the truth but I don't see what is so farfetched about it. r/HCA has had countless dudes fitting the profile narrate their demise, including many who realized they were wrong after it was too late. There have also been medical personnel talking about this kind of thing in a way more credible outlet than reddit.

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MushroomMuncher
01/16/22 3:44:30 AM
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Humble_Novice posted...
Everything is conveniently fake for people like you. Have some remorse for a change.
Redditors are infamous for fake ass stories like this, its all about those upboats and karma

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megamanfreakXD
01/16/22 3:52:12 AM
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myzz7 posted...
cringe
Cringe? To the healthcare worker or the patient?

I was in his shoes a year ago, so stories like this are real.

That's how it is. As a healthcare worker myself I am sick of this shit too. Already our vaccine is weakened against the new variant, because of some clowns in congress and the antivax.

Lets not forget the people who died before the vaccine came out. They would have loved to take it just to have a chance at living.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/22/nyregion/stephan-kamholz-dead-coronavirus.html

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ScazarMeltex
01/16/22 3:59:39 AM
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I mean, there were 2561 deaths yesterday alone in the US. The last major data dump from Saint Louis I saw was from about a week ago.

1,023 COVID-positive hospitalizations, just 281 patientsor 29% of the total patientsare vaccinated in some form. However, the task force confirmed that of those 281 patients, 98% of them did not receive a booster shot. The task force argues this new statistic may be the best argument yet to encourage people to get vaccinated and receive a booster.

If you don't think that things like this aren't happening then you aren't paying attention. Maybe this particular poster is full of shit, maybe they aren't. I know 2 different nurses at 2 different Saint Louis Hospitals (Mercy South and Barnes) and they are both burned out, emotionally exhausted, and demoralized to the point of being ready to quit their jobs. They've both told me stories about people who beg to get vaccinated (because they are morons who don't understand how it works) as they get sicker and sicker. I don't feel compassion for anti-vaxxers who are dying anymore. I feel it for their families, and I feel it for the workers who have to deal with them and watch them die. But fuck them for putting their families and the healthcare workers through all this.

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kingdrake2
01/17/22 1:30:39 PM
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megamanfreakXD posted...
because of some clowns in congress and the antivax.


the latest variant came from south africa from an immunocompromised patient. but the trump administration/china didn't do enough to stop the spread from occurring in the first place.

most of the blame to trump.

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WingsOfGood
01/17/22 1:36:49 PM
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anti-vaxxers will just say this is made up

until they are found in the same situation but then it is too late
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deanshow
01/17/22 2:08:50 PM
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This

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FLAMING EVIL HOMER
01/17/22 2:19:49 PM
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These people would be better of begging their family members who are antivax to get the vaccine. Better chance to have an impact then spreading another sob story online to people who have no relation to the person.


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LostForest
01/17/22 2:28:20 PM
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Humble_Novice posted...
He squeezed my had with that little strength he had left and mouthed Im so sorry, please forgive me through his tears

This was when I knew it was fake lol.

(Anti-vaxxers still suck though )

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CyricZ
01/17/22 2:39:27 PM
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I know life kinda really sucks in this hellscape, but for people here to publicly state under their name that a tragedy is fake for no other reason but for them to feel just the tiniest bit better, just to give themselves permission not to care, only serves to amplify for us all what must be a deep depression that has subsumed their lives.

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FLAMING EVIL HOMER
01/17/22 2:39:50 PM
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Am i wrong?
If a person isnt vaxxed by now, another interenet sob story isnt gonna change their mind because they are too far gone for that.

Now maybe if this guy in the story begged and cried to his family, that might have a bigger impact and actually have a chance at changing maybe 1 or 2 people which more than zero.

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MushroomMuncher
01/17/22 2:40:14 PM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

Its Reddit, the same thing

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/8/8/AAZ7f7AAC0S4.jpg

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VigorouslySwish
01/17/22 2:40:54 PM
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Facebook is a murderer

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Unknown5uspect
01/17/22 2:42:11 PM
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I still couldn't give less of a fuck about that person.

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ViewtifulJoe
01/17/22 2:44:41 PM
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It's not the same as that ominous feeling from late 2019/early 2020 when all we had were conflicting stories from Chinese hospitals, but it's something at least.
I don't think anti-vaxxers are going to read this and change but I guess it might have people taking boosters more seriously.

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harley2280
01/18/22 4:56:40 PM
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darkprince45 posted...
Bruh. These fake ass stories always the same. Theyre always some tattooed big MAGA guy lol. The worst part, is all these people eat this shit up

They're the same because a very specific demographic is killing themselves.

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Sackgurl
01/18/22 5:13:35 PM
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medical workers shouldn't be forced to empathize with future triage victims, seems cruel to make them experience this

just bar access to hospitals to the unvaccinated and have them die at home where they want to be anyway

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Kolibri X
01/18/22 5:24:32 PM
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Subtlety is not the propagandists strongsuit.

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darkprince45
01/19/22 4:34:55 PM
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People on CE getting irl worked by a fake Reddit story lol

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UghWhoCares
01/19/22 4:35:46 PM
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darkprince45 posted...
People on CE getting irl worked by a fake Reddit story lol
Youre still fucking crying about this thing that every ICU nurse has experienced?

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darkprince45
01/19/22 4:40:49 PM
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i didnt realize I was crying, alt. Lol

I was just finding it funny that a Reddit account that bounces back and forth from being an American in the south and then Canadian in his most upvoted story. Is something we cant question or deeply depressed as stated by Cyric

looks like you have been worked the most

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DemonBuffet
01/19/22 4:45:16 PM
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Even if its a fake story, the reality is that medical staff are overworked due to an increase of covid cases, and big, maga anti-vaxxers are are abundant.
Im just saying that this particular story could be real given the circumstances, especially if you work/work with the medical field.

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pick4six
01/19/22 4:50:12 PM
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Cope more darkprince there are numerous stories of anti-vax regretting their decision in the hospital right before they go on the ventilator

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darkprince45
01/19/22 4:52:29 PM
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pick4six posted...
Cope more darkprince there are numerous stories of anti-vax regretting their decision in the hospital right before they go on the ventilator
I dont need to cope lol. I think you think Im like Im huffing and puffing mad about the medical industry or something. All Im saying this story is obviously is fake and yall eat it up lol

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