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orleans

(34,051 posts)
Tue Jul 20, 2021, 10:58 PM Jul 2021

"oops there goes another rubber tree plant"




Unvaccinated Trump supporter who spread coronavirus conspiracy theories dies of COVID-19

On Tuesday, the Cape Cod Times reported that Linda Zuern, a former member of the Bourne, Massachusetts Board of Selectmen and a Trump-supporting figure in the local Republican Party, had died of COVID-19.

Zuern died at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston of severe complications caused by COVID-19, according to the report. She was 70 years old and had not been vaccinated.

"She was a strong woman who believed in speaking the truth and defending our freedoms in America," Republican State Committeewoman Deborah Dugan told the Cape Cod Times. Dugan was at Zuern's bedside when she died. "I would describe her to people as a little woman but a mighty warrior."

For months, Zuern, a member of the pro-Trump group the United Cape Patriots, had promoted conspiracy theories about the pandemic on Facebook. She has shared articles accusing the World Health Organization of a coverup of the "Wuhan Virus" and claiming COVID-19 is cover for "globalists" to usher in "U.N. Agenda 2030" — a sustainable development initiative right-wing conspiracy theorists assert is a plot to create a one world government.

https://www.rawstory.com/unvaccinated-trump-supporter/
more at link but you get the idea

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"oops there goes another rubber tree plant" (Original Post) orleans Jul 2021 OP
Bye bye. nt DURHAM D Jul 2021 #1
Good. rownesheck Jul 2021 #2
See ya... SheilaAnn Jul 2021 #3
Is it hard to be that willfully ignorant? I'll never know... brush Jul 2021 #4
She died for her freeDUMBS. East-A-Squared Jul 2021 #5
Welp. nt sheshe2 Jul 2021 #6
One less GOP voter. Buckeye_Democrat Jul 2021 #7
Brigham and Women's should have turned her away. Grins Jul 2021 #8
No, never. marie999 Jul 2021 #16
They're a self culling herd ornotna Jul 2021 #9
That is the weird thing about what they are doing. Blue_true Jul 2021 #10
the Rawstory article says this now-dead woman went to South Dakota *with her mother* RockRaven Jul 2021 #11
I won't speak ill of the dead padah513 Jul 2021 #12
President Trump grieves her loss dalton99a Jul 2021 #13
Ooops. Backed the wrong horse. LakeArenal Jul 2021 #14
I feel so UpInArms Jul 2021 #15
Karma, not sorry. lark Jul 2021 #17
Enjoy your stay in Hell. lagomorph777 Jul 2021 #18

rownesheck

(2,343 posts)
2. Good.
Tue Jul 20, 2021, 11:03 PM
Jul 2021

Dumbass deserved what she got. Please let there be millions more like her following in her dead ass footsteps soon.

brush

(53,776 posts)
4. Is it hard to be that willfully ignorant? I'll never know...
Tue Jul 20, 2021, 11:04 PM
Jul 2021

because wondering and asking questions about why 600m people died of a disease trumpers denied existing seems a no-brained to me.

Grins

(7,217 posts)
8. Brigham and Women's should have turned her away.
Tue Jul 20, 2021, 11:14 PM
Jul 2021

No vaccination, no admittance. Taking up space and resources for those who need it.

Yeah; and I don’t care.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
10. That is the weird thing about what they are doing.
Tue Jul 20, 2021, 11:34 PM
Jul 2021

I would have thought that they would want to stay alive to fight us, but noooooo, Trump have them in such a tight grip that they are literally walking off a high cliff for him.

RockRaven

(14,966 posts)
11. the Rawstory article says this now-dead woman went to South Dakota *with her mother*
Tue Jul 20, 2021, 11:34 PM
Jul 2021

and contracted COVID and then died. The decedent was 70 years old. The mother's age is not given, but is likely 90-something (realistically could be anywhere from 85-110, but 90s is most probable). The article also says nothing about the mother's vaccination status, or death status, but does say she was also infected.

This isn't just a story of stupid self-destruction. This isn't just a story of spewing dangerous bullshit into the world. It's also a story of a reckless endangerment/elder abuse (colloquially, I mean), or so it seems based on just this article...

padah513

(2,502 posts)
12. I won't speak ill of the dead
Wed Jul 21, 2021, 12:03 AM
Jul 2021

My hope is that her death will change a mind or two and turn someone from unvaccinated to vaccinated.

lark

(23,097 posts)
17. Karma, not sorry.
Wed Jul 21, 2021, 10:14 AM
Jul 2021

I m sorry for any innocent people this vile harridan might have infected, those I mourn.

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