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SarcasticSatyr

(1,362 posts)
1. That article does not say he died, only that it's not looking good ...
Sat Aug 28, 2021, 07:25 PM
Aug 2021

Maybe the story has been updated?

SarcasticSatyr

(1,362 posts)
3. I stand corrected ...
Sat Aug 28, 2021, 07:28 PM
Aug 2021

... I guess Caleb died doing what he loved; owning the libs and being worm free.

Wingus Dingus

(9,173 posts)
5. Should have stuck to his guns and not even bothered with
Sat Aug 28, 2021, 07:35 PM
Aug 2021

the hospital. Should have laid down on the floor at home and died in pure blissful FREEDOM and not used up resources that would have been better spent on someone less destructive to society.

Eugene

(67,101 posts)
6. "He was so hard-headed"
Sat Aug 28, 2021, 08:28 PM
Aug 2021
Texan Man Who Organized Anti-Mask Protests Dies of COVID (Slate)

Wallace started experiencing typical COVID-19 symptoms on July 26, including fever and cough. At first, he refused to get tested or go to the hospital. “He was so hard-headed,” Jessica Wallace told the San Angelo Standard-Times. “He didn’t want to see a doctor, because he didn’t want to be part of the statistics with COVID tests.” At first he tried to self-medicate with Vitamin C, zinc aspirin, an inhaler, and ivermectin tablets. But a few days later, a relative took him to the emergency room.


https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/08/caleb-wallace-texas-san-angelo-mask-covid-protests.html

Let freedumb reign!

 

greenjar_01

(6,477 posts)
7. This is like the 20th thread goofing on this guy's death
Sat Aug 28, 2021, 10:34 PM
Aug 2021

At what point does it become ghoulish and vicious?

GulfCoast66

(11,949 posts)
8. I'll let you know when I think it is.
Sat Aug 28, 2021, 10:54 PM
Aug 2021

But we are along way from it.

Folks like him are why this shit is not already over. A year ago I was an empathetic liberal. 4 months ago I was getting annoyed.

Now, I am a liberal out of fucks to give.

If this guy and folks like him made decisions that only effected themselves I would still be empathetic to people who chose to take actions that harmed themselves. But they are effecting so many other innocents. So I can’t see it becoming ghoulish to me. They’ve earned it.

That said, as a man who does not believe in hell his death was as close as we can get to that fantasy. I don’t wish that type of death on anyone. Mainly due to the emotional damage it does to the hero’s caring for them. And, yes to him. I can’t mourn his passing. But I take no pleasure from his unimaginable suffering. Subtle difference, I realize. But life is a subtle place.

 

greenjar_01

(6,477 posts)
13. How is that bullying? He's speaking in a calm and measured manner throughout?
Sun Aug 29, 2021, 09:23 AM
Aug 2021


I mean, I don't agree with him, and do people really wear the incredibly stupid sunglasses on cap look to a public meeting?, but I don't see where he bullied anyone here. He expressed a disagreement, rather respectfully, I'd say.
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