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JACKSONVILLE, Fla.
A Florida woman is devastated after losing her fiancé, mother and grandmother all in the course of five days to COVID-19. Tiffany Devereaux and her family live in the Jacksonville area about 30 minutes south of the Georgia/Florida border. Devereaux lost her grandmother last Saturday, her fiancée last Monday and her mother last Wednesday.
I had to skip going to my Meemaws funeral yesterday so I could get to the hospital to say goodbye to my Momma, Devereaux told WJXT through tears.
Devereauxs fiancé, 35-year-old Britt McCall, worked for the Duval County school system with his father, 60-year-old Mark McCall. Family members told CNN Mark McCall also became infected and died early Friday. His mother is still in the hospital.
Devereaux told WJXT that her 85-year-old grandmother was vaccinated, but already in poor health. The rest of the family was not. She also tested positive for the virus, but had mild symptoms. Devereaux said she now plans to get vaccinated and is encouraging everyone else to as well.
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liberal N proud
(60,339 posts)They call liberals sheep while being led to their deaths
jimfields33
(15,928 posts)Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)jimfields33
(15,928 posts)Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)After the rest of the unvaccinated members of the family brought it to her
Botany
(70,561 posts)Lots of 85 year old people die but the #s of people who have been vaccinated and
still die of the disease is very very small.
maxsolomon
(33,378 posts)any respiratory disease when you're at the edge can tip you over.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)That's tragic too, no? However, I can certainly understand why you would wholly ignore that.
Ilsa
(61,697 posts)and health problems. Even the vaccine couldn't save her. It should be a lesson to everyone that people are still at risk.
Mariana
(14,860 posts)She might never have been infected in the first place. There's no way to know for sure, of course - she may have caught it from someone else and spread it to her family members, rather than the other way around.
liberal N proud
(60,339 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)ananda
(28,873 posts)...
Solly Mack
(90,779 posts)Just overwhelming sadness at the avoidable tragedy of it all.
Crunchy Frog
(26,613 posts)And nearly lost the mother.
Lots of people regretting their vaccine "hesitancy".
MissB
(15,812 posts)Thats a whole lot of death between the two families. Very sad.
But getting vaccinated wouldve been good.
Botany
(70,561 posts)"Devereaux said she now plans to get vaccinated and is encouraging everyone else to as well."
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)So many of them just dig in their heels even deeper even after a close call or deaths of family members and close friends. It's amazing.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Johnny2X2X
(19,107 posts)If I was unvaccinated, these stories would have gotten me vaccinated, but Cons only pay attention when it's their family. So family by family, Covid is going to change their minds the hard way.
wryter2000
(46,076 posts)They're against "Obama" care until they need it. It's a lack of empathy. They're unable to put themselves in others' shoes. Once it hits them personally, they wake up. In general, this is why people become conservatives.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)roamer65
(36,747 posts)These people are devoid of it.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)agingdem
(7,852 posts)so it took the death of her fiancé and two close family members in addition to testing covid positive for this woman to have an epiphany moment?...so how many did she infect?
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)No criminal penalties for hitting protesters. Or is that jus BLM?. I forget.
wnylib
(21,567 posts)on the ground to puncture tires and protect themselves.
Or, better yet, have an armed guard posted to shoot out the tires of any car that approaches them - or the driver - and claim Florida's stand your ground law as defense.
Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)With our own.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Last edited Tue Aug 3, 2021, 06:14 PM - Edit history (1)
They dont need an armed guard. I suspect that people that have a gun permit will start showing up at street protests to protect themselves against murderous motorists - and per the law, the shooter can claim that he stood his or her ground (since the stand your ground law allows a person to gun down another person anywhere). DeSantis and the republicans in the legislature simply opened a bloody can of worms.
wnylib
(21,567 posts)in the midst of an activity, you don't always see what"s happening in time to respond or to prevent something. Having someone as a lookout, alert to all signs of danger, gives an advantage of stopping a car before it can mow people down.
maxsolomon
(33,378 posts)Who's gonna know?
snip: "Vaccination rates in Georgia counties near Jacksonville are some of the lowest in the state. In Charlton County, just over the state line, only 15.1% of the population is fully vaccinated. In nearby Camden County, 28.9% of people are vaccinated."
BannonsLiver
(16,439 posts)I dont get a listened to the CDC vibe here.
Quite the contrary, actually.
maxsolomon
(33,378 posts)not required for vaccinated people. You learned about it that way even if you don't know what a CDC or NIH is.
I'm presume some % of the unvaxxed took that as permission to unmask in indoor conditions.
BannonsLiver
(16,439 posts)Mariana
(14,860 posts)Why the hell are these people putting on a funeral with this Covid-19 explosion going on? Are they trying to kill off the rest of their relatives and friends too, or what?
BradAllison
(1,879 posts)Chainfire
(17,605 posts)Isn't that amazing...
Knowing that a half million other Americans had already died of the virus, it took multiple deaths in the family to encourage the woman to get vaccinated? WTF is wrong with people.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Could have made the same decision 5 months ago.
NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)Caliman73
(11,744 posts)So many stories of people, likely conservatives, who cannot understand the need to be proactive about a situation. They seem never to care until they or someone very close to them, suffer some grave consequence. They cannot seem to understand that we do what we do because we want to be protected and want to protect others.
BradAllison
(1,879 posts)And end the interview there.
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amuse bouche
(3,657 posts)The pandemic will never end, because of people like this
Sgent
(5,857 posts)I get the schadenfreude, but this is truly sad and I feel for this woman. To lose your mother or grandmother is bad enough, but your fiancé and future FIL as well? I don't know if this is considered sociology, psychology, or rhetoric, but obviously what we are currently doing in terms of messaging is failing people like her and her family, and I hope we can learn to do better.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)didnt rouse them. I have no idea what could have.
Mariana
(14,860 posts)There is nothing we can say that will make people like this listen to us.
Shellback Squid
(8,924 posts)spinbaby
(15,090 posts)I have a friend in healthcare in Florida who says that theyre regularly seeing entire families testing positive with many of them sick. She also says that sometimes one or two in the family will be negative because they sneaked out to get vaccinated.