COVID-19 Deniers Event Leaves Host Dead, 12 Infected

[Shrek]

https://www.newsweek.com/covid-19-deniers-event-leaves-host-dead-12-infected-1583553

A leading Norwegian conspiracy theorist who denied coronavirus was a dangerous disease has died from the virus after hosting two events at his property.

Hans Gaarder, 60, was found to have tested positive for COVID-19 after he died from the virus on April 6, just days after he hosted an illegal gathering in Gran municipality, around 40 miles north of the Norwegian capital Oslo.

Gran municipal chief physician Are Løken said the preliminary autopsy report confirmed his death was due to having the deadly virus.

Local newspaper Hadeland reported that at least 12 people had been infected with the virus after they attended the illegal gatherings.

[JanMichael]

1. Ha! Good news. nt

[SoCalDavidS]

8. Precisely nt

[MoonchildCA]

9. The worst part about this story is he was diagnosed postpartum.

Last edited Fri Apr 16, 2021, 03:26 PM - Edit history (1)

He never knew he had it.

Edit: Post mortem! Oh my god, spell check hates me! I was rushing off to my vaccine appointment, and didn’t notice.

So funny though. Gotta leave it for chuckles.

[milestogo]

17. That would be amazing.

I think you mean postmortem, not postpartum.

[littlemissmartypants]

18. Probably the damned auto correct! nt

[MoonchildCA]

52. Yes! Thank you!

Pretty funny though.

[littlemissmartypants]

53. Hahaha! Definitely. ❤ nt

[MoonchildCA]

50. At least we all got a good laugh.

See my edit above.

[Peccadillo]

60. Or postDEpartum

Not to be confused with postDOLLYpartum

[Rabrrrrrr]

30. Although postpartum is technically also correct information. :D

Just not helpful information.

I'm typing this postpartum, by the way.

[MoonchildCA]

49. I'm crying!

See my edit above.

[soldierant]

55. I could look this up, byt

does "postpartum" refer to being born, or to giving birth? If the former, so am I (typig portpartum.) If the latter, not so much. But definitely not post mortem.

[milestogo]

62. Postpartum means after giving birth

I looked it up:

The postpartum (or postnatal) period begins immediately after childbirth as the mother's body, including hormone levels and uterus size, returns to a non-pregnant state. The terms puerperium, puerperal period, or immediate postpartum period are commonly used to refer to the first six weeks following childbirth.

The term postnatal usually refers to the child in the period after being born.

The term post-mortem usually refers to the examination after death.

[soldierant]

67. *

[LisaL]

70. Local authorities believe he hat the virus for several weeks before dying, but didn't tell anyone.

So he likely knew, just didn't get tested/treated, being a covid denier and all.

"Local officials believe Gaarder may have been ill for several weeks without informing anyone, newsinenglish.no reported."

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/covid-19-denier-dies-from-virus-after-hosting-illegal-events-in-norway/ar-BB1fFCHs

[MoonchildCA]

71. And then he threw a party.

What a horrible man.

[lagomorph777]

2. Darwin works in not-very-mysterious ways.

Very good news.

[Wounded Bear]

3. At 60, he's probably already reproduced...

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

[lagomorph777]

4. 12 others maybe not so lucky.

And the grandkids will have statistically reduced odds of reproduction, with a smaller inheritance available.

[Crunchy Frog]

45. At 60 he could still reproduce again. Except he won't be. I think he still qualifies.

[LisaL]

5. Despite living in Norway, he appears to have been a Trump supporter.

NT

[overleft]

23. There are people with no common sense in every country.

[Butterflylady]

24. Of course he was, that accounts for his stupidity.

[IronLionZion]

28. Ironically, RW nationalist types often support RW nationalist leaders in other countries

so American Republicans have expressed support and gone to meetings with far right leaders in Europe, South America, and more. BREXIT asshole Nigel Farage was campaigning at Trump rallies here in the US.

[Cousin Dupree]

6. Karma, you are the best!

[3Hotdogs]

63. Gaardner: Covid ain't real."

Covid: "Now, Gaardner ain't real."

[PatrickforB]

7. Oh, man, the first thing I did when I saw this was laugh. I know it

is not funny at all, but geez. Denying COVID exists when it has killed 3 million people worldwide so far is...well...stupid.

[JI7]

10. Hope nobody innocent was killed becsuse of him

[Ms. Toad]

12. Unlikely, since 12 were infected at the party he was infected at.

Those 12 would have infected others, etc.

[bucolic_frolic]

11. Pride goeth before the corpse. /nt

[Ilsa]

15. Add "and stupidity" after "Pride" and you have his epitaph. nt

[Riverman100]

13. Karma at it's finest

Darwin award

[Marthe48]

14. Sow the wind reap the whirlwind

Karma

Darwin award

Thinning the herd.

[KS Toronado]

16. The 12 others were probably coronavirus deniers also

Could have been a mask burning party which seems to be popular lately.

[Aristus]

19. Man, what an embarrassing way to die.

A little critical thinking was all it took to avoid it. But I suppose to some, death is preferable to thinking...

[Initech]

20. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes!

[NHvet]

21. Karma

and her evil sister, Schadenfreude, doing what they do best !

[Celerity]

46. Don't forget schadenfreude's hawt Swedish cousin

skadeglädje



Skadeglädje är den enda sanna glädjen.

Schadenfreude is the only true happiness.

[calimary]

68. Oooooooh, that's a good one!

Must admit this whole thread has been most entertaining!

[Fullduplexxx]

22. Fafo

[rickford66]

25. The placebo group. Science !!

[struggle4progress]

26. "Watch this! Here, hold my beer!"

[Nasruddin]

27. At least he died doing what he loved

[superpatriotman]

29. I can't upvote this fast enough

Or smug enough.

[catbyte]

31. ...

[RussellCattle]

32. "Municipal Chief Physician?" Why that sounds like socialized medicine. Put him down as....

....extra dumb as he no doubt had access to some free and very good medical care.

[Demnation]

33. Thinning the gene pool.

[Snackshack]

34. This is one of the many things...

That surprises me about this Pandemic and that is the level of denial we are seeing in other countries not just here in America. Normally those countries seem to be pretty good about trusting scientific evidence.

[live love laugh]

40. America first.The denial epidemic started here. nt

[McKim]

61. It's Denial

It's denial, a powerful force. The reality of this illness is too frightening for them to want to comprehend so they pretend it doesn't exist so they can be comfortable. But it is a fool's game.
Many just don't want to accept reality and I guess they have plenty of company.

[gratuitous]

35. You should know, Mr. Gaarder, that I for one feel totally pwned

Well played, sirrah.

[dalton99a]

36. Good thing he found out.

[EndlessWire]

37. It's not funny.

It's sad. Yes, he was stupid. Yes, he has now caused further problems. But, it's still sad that someone died from this effin virus.

We need to vaccinate everyone, hook, line, and sinker. Everyone. The enemy is the virus.

[LymphocyteLover]

47. I'm truly sad a lot of other people died from this virus. Him, not so much.

[BobTheSubgenius]

38. I can't even venture a guess on what happened to Gaarder, but the other 12?

They'll recover very quickly once they learn all they have is a hoax.

[live love laugh]

39. Deniers gonna deny.

[Crunchy Frog]

41. I love it when that happens.

[lindysalsagal]

42. Every now and then, it's not a U.S. citizen to be ashamed of.

But mostly, it usually is us...

[Corgigal]

43. As the Beatles say,

See how they run.

[roamer65]

44. 🦠

I love planned events. I’ll even help with the catering. Promise!

[packman]

48. I morn anyone's death - but, there are exceptions

[Behind the Aegis]

51. ...

[BigmanPigman]

54. Norway had a 100% increase in Covid deaths over the past week.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/weekly-trends/#weekly_table

Worldometers has a new chart...it measures the changes in Covid (deaths and new cases) in all the countries on a weekly basis. There are a lot of countries with huge increases in death recently.

[FreeState]

57. Not too hard to do with the current spike

Norway’s had less than a 1000 total deaths from COVID (compare that to say South Carolina with almost 10,000 deaths with roughly the same total population).

[BigmanPigman]

58. If you look at the bar graphs

of the World from Feb 2020 until now and this 4th spike that we are currently in is the largest yet, and no sign of it going down. In fact it is increasing at a rate more severe than any of the past three waves. This must be due to the highly contagious variants.

[FreeState]

64. Yep that and Easter

It’s the new variants and the Easter holiday (Norwegians get a week off for easter and many take a longer break - close to 50% go to cabins with their families).

[tclambert]

56. I hope Karma gets paid overtime. She's had to work her butt off lately.

[Mad_Machine76]

59. This just pisses me off

You have people shouting from the rooftops how contagious COVID is and how social distancing is important and then you have people whom flagrantly deny it, get other people to join you in your denial and THIS is the outcome.

[C Moon]

65. I wonder what was going through his head as he was lying there, unable to breathe, every day.

Was he sorry? Or did he still think it wasn't COVID—it was a heart problem or something?
People like him affect the lives of others...he should have been sorry.

[Mr. Scorpio]

66. Think he learned his lesson?

[Dorian Gray]

69. Hopefully

his death will teach anybody whom he influenced that he was full of shit and that Covid is actually dangerous. And that they will quarantine after being exposed.