Chris Crouch was anti-vaccine. Now his pregnant wife had COVID, and he faced a terrible choice.

[Demovictory9]

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Chris-Crouch-was-anti-vaccine-Now-his-pregnant-16917686.php


Chris felt vaccine mandates infringed on personal liberties, a perspective promoted by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and other prominent Republicans. And he and Diana also worried that the shots had been developed too quickly. As Chris liked to say, "God gave us our immune system and we could fight the viruses with our own immune system." Diana, meanwhile, was leery of anything that might hurt the developing baby she carried. She knew that early stories linking the vaccines to miscarriage and infertility were false, but thought avoiding them was the prudent thing to do, like skipping wine, raw fish and unpasteurized cheese - especially given some of the medical community's early hesitation. The World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now recommend that all pregnant individuals get vaccinated.

In the summer of 2021, soon after President Joe Biden declared the pandemic almost over, their two-year anniversary was approaching and the couple decided to go to Las Vegas to celebrate. They stayed at the Trump hotel, walked along the Strip and caught a showing of Cirque du Soleil. Diana had a headache, but it didn't keep them from going out and having fun.

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The emergency doctors at the local hospital immediately transferred her to Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, which had created a special unit for pregnant people with COVID. Chris remembers Diana screaming when doctors told them she needed a ventilator: "I have kids. I can't die." He held her and made a promise he wasn't sure he could keep: "You are not going to die," he vowed.

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Chris had never lost anyone close to him. And as he stared at his wife and saw her suffering, he couldn't shake the question that kept popping into his head: "Was this my fault?"

During those long hours alone, he struggled with how strongly he had held to beliefs about the vaccines without really examining them. Increasingly, he felt a responsibility to warn others about his mistakes, so he began writing to friends, family and even strangers on Facebook, urging them to get the shots. Somewhere along the way, he got vaccinated himself.

*** kinda long article about their circumstances**

[dchill]

1. "They stayed at the Trump hotel..."

Apparently a factor?

[Dorian Gray]

3. When I got to that line

in the article, my eyes rolled SOOOOO hard to the back of my head.

If I recall correctly, the Trump hotel in vegas doesn't even have a casino in it? It's slightly off strip. WHO chooses to stay there? (Fans)

While I feel for them because they went through hell, and it sounds like their family and friends are mostly being vaccinated after what happened to them, this story shows the toxic toxic toxic nature of being MAGA. Refusing to get a simple medical intervention (vaccine). But then allowing for a severe medical intervention. (Months in the hospital, all sorts of meds, ventilator.)

Christ.

[JI7]

2. That's a shitty situation to be in but it's of their own making

below comment from him :

"When you sit there and you see your wife on life support because of COVID, you throw out politics," he said later. "None of that matters anymore."

But you were ok playing politics as long as it was other lives . That's ALL it was . He admits he wasn't that informed but probably thought he was special and god protected him since it mentions them being religious.

Now his wife appears to have permanent health issues which prevents her and them from living as they did before. All because they chose to play politics .

[Dorian Gray]

4. I do think

they learned about as hard of a lesson as they could. And it sounds like he's moving on from it.

When 30% of our population is so brainwashed by MAGA that they won't get vaccines, it's hard to have sympathy for them. But I do. They actually suffered consequencesof their problematic thinking. (unlike so many other people)

[JI7]

11. They don't really have much choice . But I still don't have much sympathy for them because I know

what they would be doing right now if this didn't hit them hard personally.

[Dorian Gray]

12. Oh yeah....

you're right about that.

But they did learn the hard way. She'll probably have lifelong complications. So, they suffered some serious consequences. It's the people who never face consequences that really frustrate me.

[Skittles]

5. "... you see your wife on life support because of COVID, you throw out politics"

that is the problem with repukes, they only care when it affects THEM

[Meowmee]

6. This

If she had been mildly ill they would say oh it’s just a bad cold or whatever. No concern for the millions murdered. They contributed to and caused it, they are responsible first by voting in that fascist and then by refusing the vaccine, by not social distancing and masking.

All the care she received saving her life. My father got nothing for covid after they infected him. and they harassed me to kill him non stop at the end after more of their negligence caused his cardiac arrest and eventual death. It was literally a murder. They didn't give a shit because he was old and did not matter. My father would gladly have taken a vaccine but it was deemed by the powers that be that young healthy people should get it first. His life was more valuable and worthy than any of these people.

I feel sorry for their children to have such terrible parents. Total narcissists.

[tanyev]

7. "I have kids. I can't die."

That’s WHY you need to get vaccinated!

[Liberal In Texas]

8. The rest of the story is...

She didn't die.

Shortly before Christmas, on Dec. 23, Diana was able to return home. Chris rattled off the numbers to her: 139 days at the hospital, 101 on a ventilator, 51 of those also on ECMO. She was still attached to an oxygen tank and had three chest tubes in her lungs to keep them inflated, which were pretty painful. But she couldn't wait to be home.

Physically, doctors are optimistic Diana will make a full recovery, but it will take time, and she's still weak on her left side because of the strokes. Emotionally, she's struggling. She has anxiety about seeing people and leaving her home for fear of her or her loved ones being infected with the virus.

"Things I used to do before, I can't do anymore. … And so it's hard for the kids and it's hard for me, because you want to do so much more. And they want you to do so much more," she said.

All could have been avoided with a free vaccine. It boggles the mind.

[Arger68]

9. A hospital stay that long

Will cost millions of dollars. I wonder how much credit people like this give to President Obama and the Democratic party for legislation ending caps on health insurance? I'm betting none...

[Deep State Witch]

10. F*ck Around And Find Out

They fucked around and found out.