QAnon Star Who Said Only 'Idiots' Get Vax Dies of COVID

[TomCADem]

Source: Daily Beast

A leading QAnon promoter who urged both her followers and strangers she passed on the street not to take the COVID vaccine died Thursday of the coronavirus, making her just the latest vaccine opponent killed by the disease.

Cirsten Weldon had amassed tens of thousands of followers across right-wing social media networks by promoting the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy under the screenname “CirstenW.” She was prominent enough to become a sort of QAnon interpreter for comedian conspiracy theorist Roseanne Barr and started recording videos about QAnon with her.

In late December, however, Weldon started showing symptoms of coronavirus infection. In her last video, posted on Dec. 28, Weldon struggled through her remarks about the coming overthrow of the United States government, coughing and complaining that she was exhausted.

Three days later, Weldon was hospitalized in Camarillo, California. She posted a picture of herself wearing an oxygen mask to Instagram and claimed she had “bacterial pneumonia.” Weldon wrote in a post on the social media network Telegram that she refused to take coronavirus treatment remdesivir, calling it “Dr Fauci’s Resmedervir (sic).”

Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/qanon-star-said-only-idiots-194553934.html

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What is really hard to understand is not just how these folks are anti-Vax, but how they are big advocates of other remedies that were pedaled by Trump such as the horse dewormer.

Finally, the threats on hospital staff as being part of a deep state conspiracy to murder anti-Vaxxers is just scary.

[flying rabbit]

1. Way to own the libs girl!

[AllTooEasy]

10. To Hell with that line of thinking!!!

I'll reserve my Human Sympathies for the folks who die:

1) from breakthrough cases
2) because they can't get medical treatment as a result of anti-vaxxers filling up hospitals
3) from being ineligible for the vaccine or booster, like children
4) because they can't get access to the vaccine, like most of the world
5) are immune compromised, due to other medical treatments or a medical condition

These antivaxxers aren't victims, they are willfully negligent. Like feeling sorry for someone who speeds through red lights and eventually gets t-boned by a truck. Being liberal does mean "equivalent compassion for all mortal victims". Liberalism is about being factually correct, not underserved compassion for Darwin Award candidate.

[whathehell]

28. Riiiiight..

Refraining from overt sympathy is one thing, celebrating the death of one who'se only crime is ignorance is quite another.

Your claim that "liberalism is about being factually correct" is incorrect, though present day Trumpers
can make it seem that way. You see, before Trump, Conservatives and Liberals frequently AGREED on facts; it was their differing ATTITUDES toward those facts that distinguished them.

Liberals tend to be less judgemental toward those in need; Conversely, conservatives tend to be more judgmental, stressing "personal responsibility" and the need to "pull one's self up" by their bootstraps".


I think most here would agree that what distinguishes liberals from conservatives is tolerance and compassion, the latter being something Liberals rarely find someone "undeserving" of.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

32. Tolerance and compassion eventually run out.

These people are willfully stupid and their actions are endangering others. I am not going to wring my hands over their deaths- they gambled their lives to prove a point and they lost. Hopefully, any of their family members or friends who are not vaccinated will now change their minds.

[whathehell]

34. Sorry, but none of that

excuses the callous.mocking of someone's death.

One needn't "wring ones hands" to.refain from doing that.

[monkeyman1]

38. my pity level is zero now for the un-vax'd !

[Coventina]

54. Her crime was not one of ignorance. She was a BULLY!

GOOD RIDDANCE!

[whathehell]

68. Again, ignorance is not a "crime"

I'm sorry so many here seem "ignorant" of that fact, but do continue your charming celebration of death..The humanity of it all is inspiring.

[Farmer-Rick]

81. It wasn't ignorance that killed her

It was self righteous supiorority. It was her "I know everything" attitude. It was her willingness to hurt others that caused her death. She knew what she was doing. She was betting she would never get the illness. She was betting on the odds.

My step daughter and her family of 4 are anti-vaxxers and have never gotten vaccinated and have never gotten one of those deadly illnesses (well her children. Both her and her hubby were vaccinated when young.) that she has refused to get her family vaccinated for. She therefore thinks she's right not to get her family vaccinated. And we all know she has just been lucky so far.

This unfortunately dead woman knew there was a deadly virus out there, she just thought she was special and she wasn't going to get it. And if she did get it, she was betting on a very mild case. She was betting with her life and wanted the rest of us to do the same and she didn't care if we died doing it her way.

That is not ignorance. That is self righteous supiorority.

[yardwork]

96. Since you're being blunt with your opinion, I'll be blunt with mine.

The scolding you're doing here is one reason why Democrats lose elections. You come across as self righteous, and at the same time, as someone who's easily fooled by other people.

It's called virtue signaling and nobody likes it. It's why Democrats have a reputation for being out of touch and snobby. It's why people think Republicans are "real" and "down to earth" in comparison.

Overall, it's not just a bad look for you, it's actively contributing to negative impressions of Democrats. Please think about this.

[niyad]

55. Sorry, ignorance was not her only crime. Spreading that ignorance was a crime.

(And it is "whose", not "who'se". Auto correct sucks.)

[whathehell]

67. Sorry. but ignorance is not a "crime".

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It's a human condition, we all experience and exhibit, at different times, about different subjects.

[AllTooEasy]

99. You are confusing my Lack of Sympathy for Celebrating Misfortune

Apathy does not equal Celebration. In fact, Apathy and Celebration can not coexist, by definition. Sports Analogy - I could give two poops that Alabama lost the college football national championship tonight. In addition, I don’t celebrate Alabama’s defeat.

Similarly, I have no sympathy for this woman or any of her ilk who have or will end up like her. Frankly, I’m completely apathetic towards the pain and suffering that she endured during her final moments. I CLEARLY stated who I reserved my sympathy for. I do not Thank God that she died, celebrate her misfortune, or wish similar misfortune on the folks like her.

[groundloop]

11. It's difficult having any sympathy for those idiots

After SO many needless deaths which are easily prevented I just don't have it in me to feel sympathy for anti vaxxers and in fact find myself silently hoping Democrats will benefit at the polls.

[TomCADem]

25. I actually feel bad for these folks like anyone who is defrauded

You have Fox News quietly imposing fairly draconian COVID controls measures internally while FOx continues to promote anti-vax conspiracies. These folks are not only dying, but they are spreading the illness and their family members are getting sick and family members are being lost while Tucker Carlson and Fox knowingly promotes misinformation about the pandemic.

If we are not going to feel any sypathy for people who relied on such fraudulent information to their detriment, then why not repeal elder abuse and similar consumer protection laws.

[paleotn]

14. Are you kidding me?

And how many lives has her idiotic rhetoric claimed? Fuck her. She got exactly what she deserved.

[PSPS]

16. What's wrong with being glad about the self-inflicted death of a killer?

Her actions have certainly caused the deaths of others who were ignorant enough to believe what she was saying.

[AllTooEasy]

20. NOT A DAMN THING!!!

Best Question on this site!

[Pacifist Patriot]

23. If this is being wrong, I don't want to be right.

If this is what it took to keep her from killing more people, then so be it.

[whathehell]

63. What's wrong

is, this person was as ignorant as those whose deaths you are "certain" she caused. It's an all around tragedy, not something to celebrate.

[Pacifist Patriot]

22. I'm human, and I'm grateful she is no longer spreading misinformation and lies.

[Ray Bruns]

37. They are adults and have made their decision.

To hell with them

[IronLionZion]

46. One less Qanon

these people are dangerous to themselves and others.

[Lunabell]

61. YOU try being a human.

And not insult a fellow Democrat.

[whathehell]

62. So

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It's more humane to grave dance than to ' insult a fellow democrat'. Got it.

[Lunabell]

90. I didn't say one was better.

But insulting a fellow Democrat is pretty shitty. We're all over these covidiots and we have a right to express our disgust at them. Try keeping your opinions to yourself if you don't have anything but flames to share.

[tenderfoot]

71. You're not fooling anyone

eom

[whathehell]

72. Lol..I wasn't trying to fool anyone,

but whatever.

[wolfie001]

75. Really?

I meant, really? The idiot called for the PUBLIC HANGING OF FAUCI!!!!???? I'm in a celebratory mood:

[yardwork]

97. Her death may save the lives of many others. From the article:

Weldon focused on attacking vaccines and other efforts to fight COVID-19, saying in one video that Dr. Anthony Fauci “needs to be hung from a rope.” She claimed the vaccine killed people and even recorded herself yelling at people standing in line to receive vaccines.

“The vaccines kill, don’t get it!” Weldon warned the waiting vaccine recipients in an undated video posted to one of her online accounts. “This is how gullible these idiots are. They’re all getting vaccine!”

[Fullduplexxx]

2. Hope sav grabbed facebook page

[nycbos]

3. Bring out your dead.

[whathehell]

7. Just

hilarious.

[AllTooEasy]

12. Damn right it was...and I'm not rolling my eyes

...and appropriate for these clowns

[whathehell]

69. Haters gonna hate..

[Ferretherder]

79. Yeah, and...

...trollers gonna' troll.

[paleotn]

17. Your input is appreciated.

[winstars]

4. Her and friends seem like really nice people:

https://news.yahoo.com/qanon-star-said-only-idiots-194553934.html

In the face of these deaths, their surviving friends and supporters have started to allege that the dead QAnon figures are being murdered, either because they were refused internet folk remedies like ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine, or because they were killed by the deep-state to cover up their conspiracy theories. In December, Kuzma and a number of other conspiracy theorists were sickened with COVID-like symptoms after appearing together at a conference. Rather than acknowledge that they had COVID, the far-right influencers suggested they had been targeted by an anthrax attack


After Weldon’s death, her QAnon allies threatened to pursue violent action against staff at the hospital where she died. Scott McKay, a QAnon personality known as the “Patriot Streetfighter,” said he would publicize the names of doctors and nurses involved in treating Weldon, saying he wanted to “put the fear into these medical professionals” in a Telegram post. McKay proposed the hospital staff be sentenced to death, or be murdered in vigilante violence.

“If it’s not done in a military tribunal then it’s going to be done in the street eventually and not to my wishes,” McKay wrote. “That’s my greatest fear. But if it’s necessary, it’s going to be necessary.”


Bye Bye ASSHOLE!!!

[paleotn]

18. ......

[wolfie001]

76. So much correcting from that person

Making sure we DUers are just so nice and wholesome.

[winstars]

84. All good. I got a cool grammar lesson and the QAnon/Anti-Vaxxer ASSHOLE is still dead.

[wolfie001]

87. YES!

[AllTooEasy]

19. Sympathy for the Willfully Negligent does not demonstrate character

Character is hoping her death lights a fire under the butts of her ilk that are still living. Compassion for the Willfully Negligent negligently promotes willful negligence (BARZ!), which results in lost of lives. Where's the moral character in that?

One of my overweight, out-of-shape, +50 aged cousins was persuaded by myself and other family members via Consistent Bickering and Scorn to get vaccinated. She lost an mutually idiot friend to COVID about 3 weeks later. She thanked us for straightening her out in time, and then voluntarily got boosted. We saved her life from herself, by not being nice. That's Love. That IS Character!

[whathehell]

33. Except you don't KNOW that she was being "willfully negligent"

since you didn't.KNOW her, and, again, we're not talking about refraining from sympathy, OR giving positive criticism to the living, we're talking about ghoulishy mocking someone's death.
.

[AllTooEasy]

98. If she wasn't Willfully Negligent, then

What the heck do you call her? She willfully decided not to get vaccinated, and then mocked people who did. She promoted NOT Getting Vaccinated, AKA Negligence. Stop pretending that one has to Know her personally to recognize her Willful Negligence.

[winstars]

26. Cool, thanks for the grammar lesson. "She and her friends were/are fucking assholes"

Hope that sentence is grammatically correct.


Have a great day.

[whathehell]

31. Lol..Good to know you learned something, at least.

Poor writing skills so undermine credibility.

[ProfessorGAC]

36. So Does Flawed Logic...

...and sanctimony.

[whathehell]

47. My logic is fine, dear

and so is my sense of compassion.

[Pacifist Patriot]

73. I rarely put people on ignore.

But the rampant sanctimony and grammar policing is wearing extremely thin.

[monkeyman1]

39. another one that ate a damn dictionary!!

[KS Toronado]

82. Very polite way of telling a troll where to go.

[LymphocyteLover]

8. These people seem to be dying at a higher rate than the average COVID death rate of people their age

Either they really aren't healthy at all, and clearly they are mentally ill, they've just been infected with massive amounts of the virus because they are clearly not taking any precautions at all, or some combination of the two.

[Sherman A1]

9. Oh

[twodogsbarking]

13. You win. Claim your prize.

[Talitha]

15. Too bad, so sad...

One less manure spreader.

[NurseJackie]

21. Aw. That's a shame. Truly a shame.

[NNadir]

24. I hate to say it, but I love Darwin Awardees after they receive the award. n/t.

[aeromanKC]

27. These OP's never get old.

Keep em coming!!

[struggle4progress]

29. Don't mess around with Jim

[patphil]

30. Apparently she needed an upgrade to get to idiot status.

[barbtries]

35. available on

sorryantivaxxer.com

love the comments over there.

[Initech]

40. ...

[Historic NY]

41. Oops...

Only idiots die of Covid-19 when they have a chance to survive with a vaccine.

[Brainfodder]

42. At least she wasn't faking it like all of Fools News?

Trying to say something nice about those that pass?

[dchill]

43. I've been owned so many times, I don't know who holds the title!

[Solly Mack]

44. She died doing what she loved. She also died how she lived.

(I slay me)

[IronLionZion]

45. She has some very convincing antivax videos

and believes Hillary is a cannibal who enjoys eating human brains. You can watch her getting progressively sicker because COVID isn't impressed by her doing her own research.

https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/post/cirsten-weldon-61-sarasota-fl-influencer-q-tuber-anti-vaxx-dead-from-covid

[Orrex]

48. Good. Fuck her.

[vercetti2021]

49. Oh no

So what everybody have for dinner tonight?

[calimary]

50. Is it wrong that I'm smiling?

[usaf-vet]

51. No one will ever need to call him an idiot again.

[turbinetree]

52. No Pity....none...in fact I have violin ....

[Hulk]

53. Good riddance ...

Reading this story just put a big smile on my face. Reading this story just put a big smile on my face One less dumb ass above ground.

I would like to mention however that there are many doctors recommend the use of ivermectin as a remedy for the virus. My wife informed me today that she bought some for me and has it saved in the house. As soon as I return from my trip , yes that is in fact true, I’m going to flush that crap down the toilet within the first five minutes of walking in the d i’m going to flush that crap down the toilet within the first five minutes of walking in the door front door.

[niyad]

56. Anti-vax, but runs to the hospital.

[Sapient Donkey]

60. She was apparently anti-anti-viral too.

See the part where she rejected the anti-viral treatment? It's scary that her crazy friends are threatening medical staff because this lady was basically suicidal.

[YP_Yooper]

83. Yeah, I wouldn't take the "anti-viral" remdesivir either

especially for anything less than a very severe situation. Almost 2/3rds of everyone who takes it have damage to their innards just to recover a few days earlier.

20%+ of people who take it get severe liver/kidney damage, and another 40% get severe decrease in liver/kidney function.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33763917/

[Lasher]

85. Where does it say that in your linked source?

Maybe I'm just reading over it.

[YP_Yooper]

88. Apologies, I should've quoted and I added the complication categories for simplicity

In addition to the side effects, the WHO doesn't recommend it either:

The antiviral remdesivir should not be used as treatment for hospitalized Covid-19 patients, the World Health Organization said Thursday, only a month after the Food and Drug Administration approved the drug to treat patients over age 12 who are hospitalized with Covid-19.

Remdesivir, also known as Veklury, and the steroid dexamethasone are the only drugs authorized to treat Covid-19 patients. But a recent massive global study of remdesivir's effectiveness, run by the WHO, showed that remdesivir had little or no impact on hospitalized patients, contradicting previous trials.

Remdesivir has no meaningful effect on mortality or on other important outcomes for patients, such as the need for mechanical ventilation or time to clinical improvement," experts from the WHO Guideline Development Group wrote in a statement. The review was published in The BMJ, a medical journal.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/remdesivir-shouldn-t-be-used-hospitalized-covid-19-patients-who-n1248320

This is so tricky - research is jaded even among good sources. Here the NEJM says the stuff is great, but the study is funded by the Big Pharm company that makes it:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2116846

[C Moon]

65. And in her last video, she said she'll be gone travelling for a while.

She wasn't traveling for a while....she was fucking going to the hospital for treatment of COVID—and at that point her pea sized brain knew she had COVID, but her ego continued to lie to her viewers.

She didn't even have any god damned empathy for others who may catch it while unvaccinated, by admitting she caught COVID.

SHE IS THE EPITOME OF THE CURRENT GOP. They are ALL like her. Every god damned one of them.
Lies, lies, lies. Even when they are on their death bed they'll lie.

Fuck the GOP!

[Upthevibe]

57. Kick. N/T

[Jetheels]

58. Buhbye

[Sapient Donkey]

59. Wow, she doubled down the stupidity and reject antiviral treatment too

On the one hand I really dislike these people and their stupidity, but on the other hand I feel bad for them because there is a huge effort to push misinformation to these people. Many of them don't stand a chance. I oscillate between anger and pity.

[C Moon]

64. "QAnon Star" ....you gotta love that title: translated as "Boneheaded Deceitful Star"

It's hilarious that trump's presidency has come down to this: QAnon idiots and racists
In some ways, COVID protected us from these boneheads ruling a nation.

[Auggie]

66. Love the irony that her social security contributions get distributed to the vaccinated

[raccoon]

70. Well, at least she isn't--wasn't an idiot. Nt

[twodogsbarking]

77. Thank you to all of the other idiots.

[nattyice]

78. I love happy endings!

[myohmy2]

80. I hate to do it...

...

[roody]

86. Sad suicide story.

[papa3times]

89. This is what happens

when your membership in the death cult expires!

[Blue Owl]

91. Welcome home, child....

[The Unmitigated Gall]

92. Owned again...

Oh lord, when will it EVER stop???

[Aussie105]

93. Perhaps . . .

the death of someone we do not know doesn't touch us, and 'thought and prayers' is just a way of expressing a fake sympathy, something that is socially acceptable but emotionally empty?

Perhaps people are reacting to the REASON why she died? And react negatively to the lies she spread?

And to be honest, it's a stupid reason to die. Stupid obstinance and ignorance of facts and reality leading to . . . yep, stupid way to die.

Sympathy to those who knew her and are emotionally affected by her passing.

Most won't miss her Qanon disinformation stream though.

[SKKY]

94. Come one people! Seriously? Schadenfreude is never a good look. On anyone. Ever.

[yardwork]

95. Too bad she went to the hospital.

She refused potentially life saving treatment there but used other scarce resources that might have saved other people's lives. I'm sure she added to the enormous stress hospital caregivers are feeling. Selfish to the end.

[truthisfreedom]

100. I chalk it up to poor parenting.

Someone should have made her do her science homework in junior high.

[librechik]

101. I was so wrong. When I saw this thread had 100 replies, I thought

ALL of them would be "Idiot!"

I'm humbled by the relative compassion. What an idiot. RIP.