Current Events > 24-Year-Old Who Needed Double Lung Transplant Wishes He Had Taken COVID Vaccine

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https://news.yahoo.com/24-year-old-who-needed-double-lung-transplant-wishes-hed-been-vaccinated-for-covid-19-180810400.html

A 24-year-old Georgia man who contracted COVID-19 and required a double lung transplant, and who remains hospitalized, has expressed his regret he did not get vaccinated for the virus, which has so far killed more than 607,000 Americans.

Blake Bargatze had told his parents he was putting off receiving a COVID-19 vaccine because he felt uncertain about its possible side effects, WSB-TV in Atlanta reported.

He wanted to wait a few years to see, you know, if theres any side effects or anything from it, said Paul Nuclo, his stepfather. As soon as he got in the hospital, though, he said he wished he had gotten the vaccine.

Bargatze was the only member of his family who passed on getting vaccinated, Cheryl Nuclo, his mother, told Fox 5 Atlanta. Once hospitalized, however, he asked to be inoculated.

The night before he was intubated, he wanted it, Nuclo said. So it was a little bit too late then.

Bargatze, who had no preexisting medical conditions and has endured prolonged intensive care stays at hospitals in three different states over the last three months, believes he contracted COVID-19 during an April visit to Florida.

He had called me that Friday when he got the results, Bargatze's mother told WSB-TV, and hes like, Mom, youre going to be mad. I got COVID.

A GoFundMe page set up by Bargatzes friends is raising money to help cover his medical bills.

He was initially admitted to ICU at St. Marys in West Palm Beach, FL on April 10th, and then he was air transported to Piedmont Atlanta Hospital on April 24th to be placed on ECMO, the GoFundMe page states, referring to an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machine. Many complications occurred during his hospital stay that caused extensive damage to his lungs, requiring the need for a double lung transplant to survive. Blake was transferred to the University of Maryland Medical Center on June 12th. He remains on the ventilator and ECMO as he waits for the lung transplant.

Thanks to the spread of the Delta variant of COVID-19, the number of new cases has increased nationwide by a staggering 109 percent over the last two weeks. Deaths from the disease, which had fallen precipitously as more Americans were vaccinated for it, have also begun ticking back up as vaccination rates have stalled.

Bargatzes mother said her son wants vaccine skeptics to learn from what happened to him and to get vaccinated for COVID-19.

Maybe if some people were kind of on the fence and swaying, he wants them to see what might be the extreme of what can happen, she told WSB. Not using a fear tactic but it can happen.

If you refuse to take the COVID vaccine, then get ready to have this happen to you while being forced to pay huge medical bills.

I mean it's good to get the vaccine, but this was a random freak case you realistically had little chance of happening to you if you're healthy. Now with delta and other mutations coming up, the chances of such might be increasing.

damn

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Humble_Novice posted...

A GoFundMe page set up by Bargatzes friends is raising money to help cover his medical bills.

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https://twitter.com/IndFLGovTrack/status/1415406420011458564

At least he came around I guess. Had to deal with far too many who refused to change their mind, even as they died.

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I don't think it's completely unreasonable to be skeptical of the vaccine, but this is the gamble you're taking and in this guy's case his expectation of somehow waiting years and not getting COVID during that time was a bit unrealistic, especially since it doesn't sound like he was being careful

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I'm glad that he at least can see the error in his way. Hopefully he can convince other fence sitters to finally get the vaccine.

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Humble_Novice posted...

A GoFundMe page set up by Bargatzes friends is raising money to help cover his medical bills.

I'm gonna pass on that one, fam.

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Unlucky, unforeseeable, unpreventable

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eston posted...

I don't think it's completely unreasonable to be skeptical of the vaccine,

Stopped reading right there.

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Funkydog posted...

At least he came around I guess

it's a positive change if he lives and wants to do better (not believe covid is a hoax, thinks he doesn't need the vaccine). some unfortunately got covid and they didn't change one bit (even family members died) they chalked it up to something else.
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Humble_Novice posted...

https://twitter.com/IndFLGovTrack/status/1415406420011458564

That's absolutely unfair to those who have been waiting

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"don't drink and drive" said the drunk driver who crashed his car
"don't do drugs" said the junkie who destroyed his life

as if these examples of "do as i say, not as i do" people after the fact ever really helped anyone.

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AsucaHayashi posted...

"don't drink and drive" said the drunk driver who crashed his car
"don't do drugs" said the junkie who destroyed his life

as if these examples of "do as i say, not as i do" people after the fact ever really helped anyone.

um....they realized afterwards the error of their ways.

"sometimes a hypocrite is a man in the process of changing"

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brestugo posted...

Stopped reading right there.

I think it's good that you recognize your own inability to think critically

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eston posted...

I don't think it's completely unreasonable to be skeptical of the vaccine, but this is the gamble you're taking and in this guy's case his expectation of somehow waiting years and not getting COVID during that time was a bit unrealistic, especially since it doesn't sound like he was being careful

It is unreasonable to be skeptical of it at this point when almost a billion people are fully vaccinated and are just fine.

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He wanted to wait a few years to see, you know, if theres any side effects or anything from it,

I don't know why these people don't seem to have the same skepticism of the long term side effects of covid-19 itself

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krazychao5 posted...

um....they realized afterwards the error of their ways.

that's fine and all but the problem is that they're trying to change the minds of the idiots that they themselves used to be(hence after the fact). if the countless examples prior to his own(like you know, the hundreds of thousands dead etc.) didn't help himself change his ways, what exactly would prompt other idiots again like himself to change until after the fact?
it's like a weird self-fulfilling prophecy type deal.

as such his message reads like nothing but attention seeking and as also mentioned, lungs that could have gone to other people.

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AsucaHayashi posted...

that's fine and all but the problem is that they're trying to change the minds of the idiots that they themselves used to be(hence after the fact). if the countless examples prior to his own(like you know, the hundreds of thousands dead etc.) didn't help himself change his ways, what exactly would prompt other idiots again like himself to change until after the fact?
it's like a weird self-fulfilling prophecy type deal.

as such his message reads like nothing but attention seeking and as also mentioned, lungs that could have gone to other people.

If he associated with other people who had his same mindset, then they now personally know someone impacted in a very negative way from waiting to get the vaccine. I think a lot of these people haven't seen the impact first hand with someone they know.

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EmbraceOfDeath posted...

It is unreasonable to be skeptical of it at this point when almost a billion people are fully vaccinated and are just fine.

Vioxx? Ranitidine? etc.

A lot of products are pulled from market later

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Vampire_Wreath posted...

Vioxx? Ranitidine? etc.

A lot of products are pulled from market later

Both of those were removed because extended use of them over time could cause negative side effects.
That's not how vaccines work.

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eston posted...

I think it's good that you recognize your own inability to think critically

Critical thinking is fine. Analysis paralysis is not. More than enough evidence to dismiss the skeptics.
Dismissed.

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brestugo posted...

Critical thinking is fine. Analysis paralysis is not. More than enough evidence to dismiss the skeptics.
Dismissed.

I dont think that has anything to do with what I posted but ok

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Nemu posted...

this was a random freak case you realistically had little chance of happening to you if you're healthy.

This is what everyone thinks... until they find out they're not the exception of the rule.

"It won't happen to me" is the beginning of the end for many people. Be safe or be sorry, this person is now in the latter.

That said I'd understand some slight hesitancy. I was like that myself, but the time between the elderly taking the vaccine and me being allowed to take it in the first place was enough "wait and see" for me.

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Dat_Cracka_Jax posted...

Both of those were removed because extended use of them over time could cause negative side effects.
That's not how vaccines work.

How do you think they found out other than having post-marketing surveillance over an extended period of time?

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Dat_Cracka_Jax posted...

I think a lot of these people haven't seen the impact first hand with someone they know.

if people really need to see things "first hand" to believe something then they're probably already beyond help..

Umbreon posted...

This is what everyone thinks... until they find out they're not the exception of the rule.

"It won't happen to me" is the beginning of the end for many people. Be safe or be sorry, this person is now in the latter.

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AsucaHayashi posted...

if people really need to see things "first hand" to believe something then they're probably already beyond help..

I'm not sure what point you think you are making

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Vampire_Wreath posted...

How do you think they found out other than having post-marketing surveillance over an extended period of time?

My point is those were not side effects from taking something just once. Please provide an example of something removed because it caused cancer or some other issue years later after one use/dose if you want to draw the comparison to the vaccine

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Nemu posted...

I mean it's good to get the vaccine, but this was a random freak case you realistically had little chance of happening to you if you're healthy.

this sort of terrible take, SMH.
isolated case #373748484855


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Dat_Cracka_Jax posted...

I'm not sure what point you think you are making

"hundreds of thousands of people have died or suffering severe consequences of covid... better make sure i first know of somebody who personally have experienced the same before i do something about it"

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Getting corvid was enough or me to immediately get the vacs, I've felt like shit at times but that was an awful experience and so much bullshit happened as a result of it for me, not eager to go another round with it, corvid can keep the damn belt.

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Dat_Cracka_Jax posted...

My point is those were not side effects from taking something just once. Please provide an example of something removed because it caused cancer or some other issue years later after one use/dose if you want to draw the comparison to the vaccine

Rotashield
Trasyol
Rapacuronium

etc.

Not to mention your argument and goalpost moving is dumb af since plenty of withdrawn drugs are not dose/time duration dependent for its risk.

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https://tinyurl.com/5fpprujt

also this was linked to j&j vaccine. learned about it on my gf's weekly conference call

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krazychao5 posted...

https://tinyurl.com/5fpprujt

also this was linked to j&j vaccine. learned about it on my gf's weekly conference call

well:

Of the more than 12 million vaccine doses administered in the U.S., there have been around 100 reports of people developing Guillain-Barr syndrome.

stop chicken littleing this garbage for political purposes


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so you don't deny that there are bad outcomes from the vaccines?

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Vampire_Wreath posted...

Rotashield
Trasyol
Rapacuronium

etc.

Not to mention your argument and goalpost moving is dumb af since plenty of withdrawn drugs are not dose/time duration dependent for its risk.

Rotashield side effects were seen within two weeks of a vaccine dose, so that just adds evidence that any major side effects would already have been seen long ago for the COVID vaccines.
Trasylol is not a vaccine and not relevant here.
Rapacuronium is not a vaccine and not relevant here.

Stop pushing your antivax bullshit and pretending you have any clue what you're talking about.

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All medicine have potential side effects.

Some people can't take Tylenol, doesn't change the fact that 99% of us use it with no problem.

The potential side effects from vaccines are insignificant compared to the much more likely and much more fatal effects of Covid-19.


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krazychao5 posted...

https://tinyurl.com/5fpprujt

also this was linked to j&j vaccine. learned about it on my gf's weekly conference call

Calling it "linked" is misleading at best, pretty much just misinformation.

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krazychao5 posted...

so you don't deny that there are bad outcomes from the vaccines?

there are bad outcomes from drinking beer, eating meat or using cell phones. Somehow no one chicken littles that.

the same losers chicken littling vaccines bought hydroxycloroquine in mass because trump told them so, so theyre full of shit

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Vampire_Wreath posted...

Vioxx? Ranitidine? etc.

A lot of products are pulled from market later

Oh you're right. We should be skeptical of all modern medicine forever because if could be pulled off the market in 25 years.

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limp-bizkit-89 posted...

there are bad outcomes from drinking beer, eating meat or using cell phones. Somehow no one chicken littles that.

the same losers chicken littling vaccines bought hydroxycloroquine in mass because trump told them so, so theyre full of shit

Exactly. They can shut the fuck up

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krazychao5 posted...

so you don't deny that there are bad outcomes from the vaccines?

There are bad outcomes for being born. We call life skeptics "suicidal"


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EmbraceOfDeath posted...

Rotashield side effects were seen within two weeks of a vaccine dose, so that just adds evidence that any major side effects would already have been seen long ago for the COVID vaccines.
Trasylol is not a vaccine and not relevant here.
Rapacuronium is not a vaccine and not relevant here.

Stop pushing your antivax bullshit and pretending you have any clue what you're talking about.

keep moving the goalposts, you wanted drugs, then you wanted to limit to one dose, now you want to limit to vaccines, you're such a bad-faith poster

It's bullshit to say that there are no possible concerns later on, and your original posts are insinuating that no post-marketing surveillance is needed if adverse events aren't seen in the first month or year


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Why are people so worried about potential side effects of the vaccine, when Covid has known long term side effects and the very short term of death?

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Humble_Novice posted...

https://twitter.com/IndFLGovTrack/status/1415406420011458564

This was my first thought. Because this guy was fucking stupid someone else didn't get a transplant. Fuck this douche.

Vampire_Wreath posted...

keep moving the goalposts, you wanted drugs, then you wanted to limit to one dose, now you want to limit to vaccines, you're such a bad-faith poster

It's bullshit to say that there are no possible concerns later on, and your original posts are insinuating that no post-marketing surveillance is needed if adverse events aren't seen in the first month or year

Shove your anti-vaxx bullshit concerns. People need to shut the fuck up and get jabbed.

Anti-science dumbasses picking and choosing when to worry about science and non-zero possibilites are only doing so for political reasons. They aren't consistent. Stop giving people the benefit of the doubt.

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krazychao5 posted...

so you don't deny that there are bad outcomes from the vaccines?

this is why most people don't bother arguing with conservatives, their entire existence revolves around trying to force a gotcha statement

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AsucaHayashi posted...

"don't drink and drive" said the drunk driver who crashed his car
"don't do drugs" said the junkie who destroyed his life

as if these examples of "do as i say, not as i do" people after the fact ever really helped anyone.

...yes, yes they do.

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