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Botany

(70,424 posts)
Fri Sep 3, 2021, 04:15 PM Sep 2021

Texas man who argued 'masks aren't going to save you' contracts COVID-19, no longer breathes on own

Last edited Fri Sep 3, 2021, 04:57 PM - Edit history (1)

I have just learned that this is an old story. Sorry, they all run together after awhile.

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Texas man who argued 'masks aren’t going to save you' contracts COVID-19, no longer breathes on own

As the delta variant continues to spread across the country, unvaccinated individuals are facing the worst of it. Many of those who once organized against pandemic safety measures like wearing masks and getting vaccinated are now battling the virus in hospitals. In one incident, a Texas man who helped organize protests against COVID-19 restrictions is fighting for his life after being hospitalized for almost a month, the San Angelo Standard-Times reported.

“He’s not doing good. It’s not looking in our favor,” said Caleb Wallace’s wife, Jessica. “His lungs are stiff due to the fibrosis. They called and said they’ve run out of options for him and asked if I would consent to a do not resuscitate. And it would be up to us when to stop treatments,” Jessica wrote Wednesday on Facebook. “My heart just can’t. I can’t imagine my life without him.”

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“Caleb would tell me, ‘You know masks aren’t going to save you,’ but he understood I wanted to wear them,” Jessica said. Jessica told the Standard-Times that she was “less conservative” than her husband and chose to wear a mask. “It gives me comfort to know that maybe, just maybe, I’m either protecting someone or avoiding it myself.”

Founder of “The San Angelo Freedom Defenders,” a group that hosted a rally last year to “end COVID tyranny,” Wallace reportedly helped organize multiple anti-mask and vaccine rallies including one called “The Freedom Rally,” which occurred days before he began experiencing symptoms. The event prided itself in being a protest against the “government being in control of our lives.”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/27/2048575/-Texas-man-who-argued-masks-aren-t-going-to-save-you-contracts-COVID-19-no-longer-breathes-on-own?detail=emaildkbow

I'm all out of shits to give for these people.

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Texas man who argued 'masks aren't going to save you' contracts COVID-19, no longer breathes on own (Original Post) Botany Sep 2021 OP
He no longer breathes at all. He died nt XanaDUer2 Sep 2021 #1
When you are no longer breathing on your own and the hospital asks your family to sign a DNR ... Botany Sep 2021 #5
I cannot find it now, XanaDUer2 Sep 2021 #10
He left three daughters under 6, and a 4th about to be born. Crunchy Frog Sep 2021 #16
He died 4 days ago. August 30. hlthe2b Sep 2021 #21
He died the other day Ritabert Sep 2021 #2
Fine by me. Texaswitchy Sep 2021 #3
Phew, you really have to wonder what makes these people tick. They must be RKP5637 Sep 2021 #4
You have to wonder about these people. Did they go to public school where you had have a TB shot? Botany Sep 2021 #9
They don't vaccinate against TB, at least not in this country. Crunchy Frog Sep 2021 #17
oh darn...this candle I had burned out a couple weeks ago Roland99 Sep 2021 #6
Yes Texas, let's not let government control your lives? pwb Sep 2021 #7
He died last week! Good God, we're still posting this? There were 20 threads on it! greenjar_01 Sep 2021 #8
Old news. He already died. Crunchy Frog Sep 2021 #11
Sorry I just saw "it" today from Daily Kos. Botany Sep 2021 #15
I was thinking, kewl, covid dug him up and killed him again. Comfortably_Numb Sep 2021 #12
zombie virus nt XanaDUer2 Sep 2021 #13
Yup Comfortably_Numb Sep 2021 #18
His widow will be better off without that crazy in the house. lagomorph777 Sep 2021 #14
He has a point: masks aren't going to save him now. jrthin Sep 2021 #19
This idiot is clearly owning the libs LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2021 #20
Love it malaise Sep 2021 #23
Another one bites the dust Fullduplexxx Sep 2021 #22

Botany

(70,424 posts)
5. When you are no longer breathing on your own and the hospital asks your family to sign a DNR ...
Fri Sep 3, 2021, 04:20 PM
Sep 2021

... order you are more then likely dead or soon will be. I hope his family gets to enjoy his Free-Dumbs.


XanaDUer2

(10,472 posts)
10. I cannot find it now,
Fri Sep 3, 2021, 04:23 PM
Sep 2021

but there's a video of him threatening, bullying, and harassing a poor lady at the DMV over masks. They call a deputy, rightly, and he's an asshole to him.

Mr. Wallace tells this poor civil servant she'll be up "shit's creek" , and threatens to sue and get her in trouble. I'm sure she's earning the big bucks.

He was very nasty

Crunchy Frog

(26,574 posts)
16. He left three daughters under 6, and a 4th about to be born.
Fri Sep 3, 2021, 04:34 PM
Sep 2021

I can't feel bad for him, but I feel bad for the orphans.

RKP5637

(67,080 posts)
4. Phew, you really have to wonder what makes these people tick. They must be
Fri Sep 3, 2021, 04:20 PM
Sep 2021

stupid as hell and so severely propagandized ... plus never even had an elementary health class in school. It's all a total WTF.

Botany

(70,424 posts)
9. You have to wonder about these people. Did they go to public school where you had have a TB shot?
Fri Sep 3, 2021, 04:22 PM
Sep 2021

Crunchy Frog

(26,574 posts)
17. They don't vaccinate against TB, at least not in this country.
Fri Sep 3, 2021, 04:40 PM
Sep 2021

I did used to get the skin test for it as a kid, and also as a healthcare worker. My sons have never even been tested for it.

Botany

(70,424 posts)
15. Sorry I just saw "it" today from Daily Kos.
Fri Sep 3, 2021, 04:32 PM
Sep 2021

Although after awhile these right wing Pastor, talk show host, anti vaxx, anti science,
free DUMB patriots, and so on dying of C-19 stories all run together.

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