'It's devastating': Unvaccinated woman thought she could 'escape' COVID-19 - now she says she'll

[riversedge]

Her son was also in the ICU at some time.
they both suffered horribly--

The only silver lining is that she will now hopefully talk others into getting vaccinated.





'It's devastating': Unvaccinated woman thought she could ‘escape’ COVID-19 – now she says she’ll ‘never be the same’

https://www.rawstory.com/woman-regrets-forgoing-vaccine-after-rough-battle-with-it-was-devastating/

July 13, 2021


After a rough battle with COVID-19, a North Carolina woman who was unvaccinated is now urging people to get the shot, 13News reports.


"I thought I was healthy enough and that I could escape it," said Linda Edwards, who contracted the virus about three weeks ago. "Really, it was the most frightening thing I've ever been through in my life."

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"It's changed my whole life. I'll never be the same," Edwards said. "I just thought if I live through this, I want to go on a mission to try to help people to see that it is not worth not taking the vaccine because of what it can do to your family. We could've easily have had two funerals."

Only 34% of the people in the county where Edwards lives are partially vaccinated, and 31% are fully vaccinated. According to Graham County Health Director Beth Booth, the vaccine hesitancy in the county "is almost taken to another level."

[Martin Eden]

1. The Republican Party has become a death cult

Anti-mask
Anti-vaccine
Anti-healthcare
Anti-environmental regulation
Anti-gun control

Pro-life?

He'll no!

[calimary]

12. As long as they - um - "take care of their own" ...

The “Death Party” sounds pretty appropriate for a label.

[KS Toronado]

17. We need to use the "Death Party" or something similar

To our advantage in the midterm elections. After Qrump recovered from covid he should have encouraged
everybody to get the vaccine, but instead went on a vaccines are bad and killing people campaign.
Probably because he had stock in hydroxychloroquine.

[lagomorph777]

28. Genocide for hire.

Putin paid per body bag.

[calimary]

30. They ARE "The Death Party."

That pathetic Sarah Palin liked to use the word “death” to describe something she didn’t like and aimed to destroy or otherwise undo. She’s use lame-ass term “death panels” to denigrate efforts to cover the uninsured.

Well, Sarah, I’m TAKING that twisted characterization and reapplying it where it’s actually relevant and has Real-World significance in how it affects people.

DEATH PARTY. So THERE!!!


Death Party. Pass it on.

[raccoon]

2. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Nt

[jaxexpat]

4. It's a bad Santa moment for them.

[jaxexpat]

5. It's a bad Santa moment for them.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. These people think they can practice medicine without a brain

[Girard442]

6. Too healthy to get COVID? You never had a cold?

You think the 600,000+ who died were all overweight chainsmokers with a meth habit?

[oldsoftie]

8. Yes. Thats what they think. "God gave me a strong immune system"

I have a long list of people who need to catch this shit as opposed to others. Hate feeling that way, but these people need a several day stay in the hospital

[COL Mustard]

10. MTG? Paging MTG To The White Courtesy Phone

Remember the video of her doing pull-ups or something and saying that was her COVID prevention regimen?


Hey, hope springs eternal!

[oldsoftie]

11. She's certainly one of them!

And, sad to say, it shouldnt be a mild case. That would just embolden her.
Trump had his own opportunity. When he got out of the hospital, he could have easily told everyone "Hey folks, this shit is no joke. Listen to your doctor". Wouldn't have cost him a single follower; they'll follow ANYTHING he says
But he's a child

[rambler_american]

19. Superior jeans

[obamanut2012]

13. Yes, they do think that

That healthy younger people who wash their hands won't get the hoax flu. Or, if they do, it'll just be like a head cold, even though it isn't even an upper respiratory illness.

[Mariana]

26. Covid denial and Covid vaccine resistance really has become a religion.

They've convinced themselves that all those people who died were already on death's door from being very old and/or sick with something else and were going to die very soon anyway. They believe all the excess deaths recorded in 2020 and 2021 are "fake news".

[RobinA]

33. Instead Of Condemning

this woman, why not give her a thumbs up for coming around when nature told her she was wrong. She's a lot more liable to convert a couple of her fellow deniers than I would be, having been vaccinated the third day it was available.

[Mariana]

34. I didn't condemn this woman. nt.

[lindysalsagal]

31. A friend told me just that: She's super-human and can never get it. She meant it. I asked, "Then, wh

then what about protecting the rest of us." no answer on that one. She just doesn't care about anyone else. She's going to have to give up her favorite hobby because the groups demands vaxxes.

[UCmeNdc]

7. It is the fault of the Republican party. GOP politicians are promoting not getting the vaccine.

They need to take all of the blame for every covid death.

[oldsoftie]

9. I dont know, I've heard several saying to get it.

Even Governors. And then they get blasted on social media for "giving in".
Even Mark Levin said on his radio show that HE got the shot. Stopped short of telling his listeners to get it though

[riversedge]

16. A few smart -or scared of the fallout --mayors and Repug Govs have flip-flopped and are

now urging vaccination.

[Lonestarblue]

14. Some Republicans seem to believe that the virus doesn't hurt or kill white people.

So they’re okay with the virus continuing to spread if it just hurts or kills brown and black people. Trump turned the virus response into a political response as soon as those early reports showed that minorities were dying at a higher rate than white people.

I hope this woman has an impact on others around her. We need to stop more variants from developing.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. If 34% & 31% fully vaxed, that is about all they are gonna get; so there'll be 5th & 6th waves there

If the number of people fully vaxed is close to the number of people with at least one, it means that most people who are going to get vaxed are already vaxed. Maybe they will get to 40% and those people will be protected.

The rest? 60% is large enough for the virus to rampage around in fifth and sixth waves. Many people will die in that county.

[keithsw]

18. Fuck this woman

And all the other science denying morons just like her. They are the very reason more and more people are dying and this fucking virus is spreading. I don't GAF if they all die

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

20. Stay as far away from Republicans as you can.

Stupid kills.

[BumRushDaShow]

21. In the original ABC13 article is this

(snip)

"It was devastating. I had no dreams of ever staying that long. It's the longest I've ever been in the hospital," she said. "I was there hoping and praying my son was okay here because he had tested positive, too."

Her son, Shane, had been airlifted to Mission Hospital and was staying in the room right next to her, but she said doctors didn't tell her because they didn't want to worry her.

Along with COVID-19, Shane was dealing with renal failure and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).

"They thought it would really bother me, and it would have because he was really serious," she said. "They said it's a miracle he walked out of there."

(snip)

More: https://www.wlos.com/news/local/ill-never-be-the-same-unvaccinated-nc-graham-county-woman-now-urging-vaccinations-after-covid-battle

The "renal failure" is something that has been mentioned over and over among some long-haulers where they literally had to go on dialysis (some pretty much for life).

This thing about "don't worry about a mild case" is just ridiculous because you don't know how the virus, "mild" or not, will manifest in your body depending on where it manages to land once inside, attach, and replicate.

[oldsoftie]

22. Even some who hardly got sick end up with lung damage

Its the damndest thing

[BumRushDaShow]

24. Yup

and that even happens with some severe bouts of the seasonal flu and/or with any of the pneumonias (bacterial, viral, or fungal) in general. But COVID-19 has its own special virulent and damaging type of pneumonia.

[Danascot]

23. Psst

Urging them to get vaxxed is a liberal plot so they don't get vaxxed and then Covid will kill them. (It's working so don't tell them.)

[Evolve Dammit]

25. Tennessee just shut down all vaccinations programs. GOP is a Death cult

[marble falls]

27. Sometimes knowing the beast requires meeting the beast. Sometimes meeting the beast ...

... kills you, but one never walks away from the beast unchanged.

[roamer65]

29. They should have to pay for their care out of pocket.

Fuck them.

[Raftergirl]

32. The people who need to read this article

won’t even see it.

Covid is just something they will have to go through to believe it is real and one can get very sick or die from.

[Silent3]

35. Practically every individual realization like this...

...will remain an individual realization, because the people who need to learn from these events will dismiss such stories as having nothing to do with themselves, and/or write them off as "pro-vax propaganda".

[Crunchy Frog]

36. I'm glad she at least learned from this. Now how long before they start demonizing her on Faux?

[apnu]

37. We keep seeing this story. Republican gets it and says "holy cow! I shoulda got vaxxed!"

The greatest disservice Trump did in all of this was minimizing the risk of this virus. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have died because of that. Millions more will have permanent damage from it. It all could have been prevented if Trump didn't make masks and the vax political. But he did, and all that blood is on his fucking hands.

Fuck you Trump, fuck you to the end of time.