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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,647 posts)
Fri Oct 22, 2021, 01:21 AM Oct 2021

A couple died of covid, leaving five children behind. A relative says people called their deaths 'fa

‘fake news.’

Two days after arriving at a Fredericksburg, Va., hospital with covid-19 in September, Misty Mitchem was put on a ventilator. Another two days later, she died.

Misty’s husband, Kevin Mitchem, got the news as he arrived at a separate hospital with an unshakable cough. He also had covid-19, and within a week or so he couldn’t breathe on his own, Kevin’s younger brother, Mike Mitchem, told The Washington Post.

Kevin died on Oct. 8, orphaning the four children he and Misty had raised together — and leaving behind a 22-year-old daughter from a previous relationship. But before he did, he expressed regret that he had not been immunized.

“His last words to my mom were, ‘Mom, I love you. I wish I would have got the shot,’ ” Mike Mitchem told The Post.

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Since the Mitchems’ deaths have made headlines, Mike Mitchem said, almost a dozen people have reached out to tell him they have been vaccinated because they heard Kevin and Misty’s story. Yet he’s also noticed that others online have called the story “fake news.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/10/21/stafford-virginia-couple-die-covid-19/

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A couple died of covid, leaving five children behind. A relative says people called their deaths 'fa (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2021 OP
Those Are Their People SoCalDavidS Oct 2021 #1
I can attest...stories about unvaxxed dying of covid get flooded with comments such as 'they didn't Demovictory9 Oct 2021 #2
I'm really sorry cate94 Oct 2021 #3
Every time I read the words "fake news" it reminds me secondwind Oct 2021 #4
Virginia has so many of these traitors to humanity traitorsgalore Oct 2021 #5

Demovictory9

(32,411 posts)
2. I can attest...stories about unvaxxed dying of covid get flooded with comments such as 'they didn't
Fri Oct 22, 2021, 02:38 AM
Oct 2021

die of covid", "they shoud have taken the" horse medicine.

secondwind

(16,903 posts)
4. Every time I read the words "fake news" it reminds me
Fri Oct 22, 2021, 05:09 AM
Oct 2021

of FUCKING TRUMP. I’m not a hating person, but he really is the most vile, vicious POS this country has to offer. He has wrecked untold numbers of lives…. I can’t go on.

traitorsgalore

(1,393 posts)
5. Virginia has so many of these traitors to humanity
Fri Oct 22, 2021, 05:48 PM
Oct 2021

They love how stupid they are, walking around with constant smirks that hide their low self-esteem, along with the goatee and statements all over everything like "don't tread on me".

It's horribly cruel to say it but humanity is better of every time one of them dies. They want to spread deadly disease, want to resurrect the confederacy, want to see people suffer and are proud to shove it in your face whenever a person has the misfortune to interact with one of them.

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