It is sadly ironic that this COVID-19 story came out today. My daughter forwarded me The Atlantic article "The Coronavirus’s Unique Threat to the South" which was rather prescient. After reading the article. I sent her the following message. Great...
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Karen Kolb Sehlke is the Texas woman who called the COVID-19 a hoax.
Her actual words were:
"Wake up!!! This is what the beginning of socialism looks like!
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!"
Karen Kolb Sehlke died 4/2/2020 due to complications from the COVID19 virus.
It is a shame she died. And I feel for her family and loved ones. But willful ignorance can be dangerous.
There’s evidence these ideas are sticking. One poll by YouGov and the Economist in March 2020 found
13% of Americans believed the Covid-19 crisis was a hoax,
AS of now, there are 50,177 Covid-19 deaths in the US. In March, 13 percent of Americans believed Covid-19 was a hoax. Roughly, in other words, of the people who have been infected, 6,523 of them thought it was a hoax when they were infected and then died from it. So what? Does that mean that we should accept the word of the New York Times without question? Or Rush Limbaugh's? Or the government's? Or the WHO's? Or the CCP's? Or the 9-11 Commission for Truth's? Or the Warren Commission's? No, and especially not the Daily Kos, where your story comes from.