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Showing Original Post only (View all)A Beloved Bar Owner Was Skeptical About the Virus. Then He Took a Cruise. NYT [View all]
?]Joe Joyce, left, the owner of JJ Bubbles, a popular neighborhood bar in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, with his family in the 1980s.
Decades before he would embark on a cruise to the Mediterranean, confident that the coronavirus would have little to do with him, Joe Joyce was known to the world as a social creature, the kind who would do well on a boat full of strangers.
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On March 1, Joe Joyce and his wife, Jane, set sail for Spain on a cruise, flying first to Florida. His adult children Kevin, Eddie and Kristen Mider suggested that the impending doom of the coronavirus made this a bad idea. Joe Joyce was 74, a nonsmoker, healthy; four years after he opened his bar he stopped drinking completely. He didnt see the problem.
He watched Fox, and believed it was under control, Kristen told me.
Early in March Sean Hannity went on air proclaiming that he didnt like the way that the American people were getting scared unnecessarily. He saw it all, he said, as like, lets bludgeon Trump with this new hoax.
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He and his wife then headed to their house in New Hampshire. Their children were checking in from New York and New Jersey, and on March 27, when Kristen got off the phone with her father, she called an ambulance. He was wheezing. His oxygen level turned out to be a dangerously low 70 percent. On April 9, he died of Covid-19. The following day, Artie Nelson, one of his longtime bartenders at JJ Bubbles, and also in his 70s, died of the virus as well.
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On March 1, Joe Joyce and his wife, Jane, set sail for Spain on a cruise, flying first to Florida. His adult children Kevin, Eddie and Kristen Mider suggested that the impending doom of the coronavirus made this a bad idea. Joe Joyce was 74, a nonsmoker, healthy; four years after he opened his bar he stopped drinking completely. He didnt see the problem.
He watched Fox, and believed it was under control, Kristen told me.
Early in March Sean Hannity went on air proclaiming that he didnt like the way that the American people were getting scared unnecessarily. He saw it all, he said, as like, lets bludgeon Trump with this new hoax.
...
He and his wife then headed to their house in New Hampshire. Their children were checking in from New York and New Jersey, and on March 27, when Kristen got off the phone with her father, she called an ambulance. He was wheezing. His oxygen level turned out to be a dangerously low 70 percent. On April 9, he died of Covid-19. The following day, Artie Nelson, one of his longtime bartenders at JJ Bubbles, and also in his 70s, died of the virus as well.
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A Beloved Bar Owner Was Skeptical About the Virus. Then He Took a Cruise. NYT [View all]
mzmolly
Apr 2020
OP
Sorry, but no. The damned sheeples will say that the stories are fake, written to smear
niyad
Apr 2020
#15
Get your news from a source who filed court papers that say false statements
gibraltar72
Apr 2020
#26
It's only a matter of time before every frumper loses a loved one to this democratic "hoax."
lindysalsagal
Apr 2020
#28
My aunt is a retired icu nurse who thinks the shitbag is a good president.
lindysalsagal
Apr 2020
#41
I feel sorry for the poor bartender. A bystander dead from someone else's ignorance.
Midnight Writer
Apr 2020
#38
"He watched Fox, and believed it was under control,'' Kristen told me. There you go. Tokyo Rose 2020
Evolve Dammit
Apr 2020
#49