Posted on Aug 31, 2021
Three anti-vax conservative radio hosts have died from Covid in one month
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“Bogus,” Dick Farrel called Covid vaccines. “Promoted by people that lied.”
“I’m not taking it, are you kidding me? Mr Anti-Vax?’ said Marc Bernier.
“If you’re not at high risk of dying from Covid then you’re probably safer not getting it,” said Phil Valentine.
All three men, influential conservative radio hosts well known for their vaccine scepticism, went on to die of Covid within a year of their comments, and within just a month of each other.
Their deaths were, for many, a tragic reminder of the realities of Covid – and the serious dangers of the misinformation surrounding it.
“I’m not taking it, are you kidding me? Mr Anti-Vax?’ said Marc Bernier.
“If you’re not at high risk of dying from Covid then you’re probably safer not getting it,” said Phil Valentine.
All three men, influential conservative radio hosts well known for their vaccine scepticism, went on to die of Covid within a year of their comments, and within just a month of each other.
Their deaths were, for many, a tragic reminder of the realities of Covid – and the serious dangers of the misinformation surrounding it.
Three anti-vax conservative radio hosts have died from Covid in one month
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."By the time they died, two of the three, experiencing the ravages of the virus firsthand, had publicly changed their stance on the vaccine.
Mr Valentine, who passed away August 21, expressed regret to his brother that “a lot of people didn’t get the vaccine because I didn’t.”
While Mr Valentine was still battling the virus in hospital, his brother Mark made it his mission to spread his brother’s new pro-vaccine message, telling wbur.org:
“That’s my purpose for being here today, is to take the message that he’s unable to take, and that is: Take politics out of it. It’s time for us to get together and fight this thing collectively,” he said. “Just put all the conspiracies and microchips and all that business aside and go get vaccinated and don’t put your family through what his wife and the rest of us are going through.”
Mr Farrel also had a change of heart, according to his friend Amy Leigh Hair. She posted on Facebook on August 4: “RIP Dick Farrel. He is the reason I took the shot! He texted me and told me to ‘Get it!’ He told me that this virus is no joke and he said: ‘I wish I had gotten it!’”
Despite high profile deaths such as those of the three radio hosts, plus the Covid fatality rate rising in 14 states this week, anti-vax messaging remains widespread."
..."By the time they died, two of the three, experiencing the ravages of the virus firsthand, had publicly changed their stance on the vaccine.
Mr Valentine, who passed away August 21, expressed regret to his brother that “a lot of people didn’t get the vaccine because I didn’t.”
While Mr Valentine was still battling the virus in hospital, his brother Mark made it his mission to spread his brother’s new pro-vaccine message, telling wbur.org:
“That’s my purpose for being here today, is to take the message that he’s unable to take, and that is: Take politics out of it. It’s time for us to get together and fight this thing collectively,” he said. “Just put all the conspiracies and microchips and all that business aside and go get vaccinated and don’t put your family through what his wife and the rest of us are going through.”
Mr Farrel also had a change of heart, according to his friend Amy Leigh Hair. She posted on Facebook on August 4: “RIP Dick Farrel. He is the reason I took the shot! He texted me and told me to ‘Get it!’ He told me that this virus is no joke and he said: ‘I wish I had gotten it!’”
Despite high profile deaths such as those of the three radio hosts, plus the Covid fatality rate rising in 14 states this week, anti-vax messaging remains widespread."
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