Ohio man who disparaged lockdown measures

[still_one]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ohio-man-who-disparaged-lockdown-measures-facebook-dies-coronavirus-n1189861

[dalton99a]

1. There seems to be a pattern

[Mariana]

7. There's no pattern.

Very few of the 47,676 people who've died of Covid-19 so far are on record as having minimized the danger and ridiculed the precautions. Very few of those who have minimized the dangers and ridiculed the precautions have died of Covid-19.

The only pattern here is that a handful of known Covidiots have died, and have had stories written about them.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. He is the face of the Re-Opener movement.

Sorry, he was old enough to know better, but he chose a political position to fight a medical reality.

[Blue_true]

3. May more that think like he thought join him.

I am tired of being gentle with those assholes, they are endangering all of us.

[BayAreaAtLast]

6. I concur.

Let them all infect each other and stay the hell away from us sane people.

[Chainfire]

4. I wonder if in his final minutes

if he had second thoughts about the seriousness of the virus? That might make ones passage into the infinity of death a bit troubling.

You wonder how his family and friends digest the situation, with his passage being ridiculed on a world-wide podium?

What a legacy.

[Ilsa]

5. A few snips:

Screenshots of Facebook posts calling social distancing measures “bullshit” have surfaced online just days after John W. McDaniel, 60, died of coronavirus on April 15. One screenshot of a post dated March 13 included an accusation that the virus was a “political ploy.”

“If you’re paranoid about getting sick, just don’t go out,” another post allegedly said. “It shouldn’t keep those of us from Living Our Lives. The Madness has to stop.”

Snip

“They would also like to remind everyone to continue practicing social distancing to keep each other safe,” the obituary said.

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