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Ohio Joe

(21,756 posts)
Thu Nov 11, 2021, 12:35 PM Nov 2021

Another suicide by covid

Anti-Vaccine Doctor Who Called Mask Wearing 'Dangerous' Dies of COVID-19

Dr. Christopher Foley, who criticized mask-wearing and spread false information about a COVID-19 vaccine, passed away from complications of the virus.

The Minnesota doctor pushed back against continued use of masks, writing on his company website that they are "downright dangerous" if worn for extended periods of time. He was also critical of the vaccine, calling it a "human experiment" and advocated for the widespread use of ivermectin and vitamins to cure COVID-19.

Foley's obituary said he passed away from an "unexpected illness," but his son, Logan Foley, confirmed at his funeral that his death was the result of complications from COVID-19.

"Was he vaccinated? No, he was not," Logan said. "If he'd only been vaccinated, wouldn't he still be here? Obviously, we'll never know."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/anti-vaccine-doctor-who-called-mask-wearing-dangerous-dies-of-covid-19/ar-AAQAEDK?ocid=msedgntp

Zero sympathy... In fact I'm glad the fool is dead. At least now he will not kill any more people. This POS had blood on his hands and got what he deserved.

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Another suicide by covid (Original Post) Ohio Joe Nov 2021 OP
Good. Fucker used his influence to kill people. dalton99a Nov 2021 #1
Stupidity... NHvet Nov 2021 #44
This is so sad bottomofthehill Nov 2021 #50
How many did he kill first. Good riddance to bad rubbish. onecaliberal Nov 2021 #2
Foley or Folly? malaise Nov 2021 #3
I think we can assume he'd still be alive viva la Nov 2021 #4
I think it's a murder suicide. plimsoll Nov 2021 #5
Jim Jones without the Kool Aid. dchill Nov 2021 #6
That would be a fantastic shirt for 2022 and 2024. plimsoll Nov 2021 #15
Ivermectin is the new Kool Aid. wnylib Nov 2021 #47
That is probably a better description - nt Ohio Joe Nov 2021 #17
I hope Minnesota cancels his medical license - posthumously FakeNoose Nov 2021 #7
ooh ooh ooh bucolic_frolic Nov 2021 #8
LOL Auggie Nov 2021 #13
lol Demovictory9 Nov 2021 #46
Self Rapture moreland01 Nov 2021 #9
Everytime one of these science denying fools pops their clogs, I applaud. GoneOffShore Nov 2021 #10
Tots and Pears... BlueIdaho Nov 2021 #11
Womp, womp!!! Another jackass bites the dust. paleotn Nov 2021 #12
I and many of his colleagues have worn face masks of one type of another for decades hlthe2b Nov 2021 #14
That's one of the questions I don't get. yardwork Nov 2021 #22
+1. He had to wear masks many times in med school and residency dalton99a Nov 2021 #26
DumDum Deady wins the Dirt Nap prize. Shame he also killed many others. Fucker Celerity Nov 2021 #16
Oh he was a part of the experiment.Didn't he know he was in a very large control group Walleye Nov 2021 #18
Good riddance to human trash. kairos12 Nov 2021 #19
It's time we recognize that these anti-Vaxx fools are nothing more than Ray Bruns Nov 2021 #20
. struggle4progress Nov 2021 #21
I get what you mean, but there have been COVID patients who committed suicide IronLionZion Nov 2021 #23
People you describe I view as victims Ohio Joe Nov 2021 #29
Good riddance. ShazzieB Nov 2021 #24
Ladapo is an absolute nut job Larissa Nov 2021 #32
Excellent. lagomorph777 Nov 2021 #25
I love stories like this! MyMission Nov 2021 #27
These people are cultists Larissa Nov 2021 #28
Serves him right. (nt) Paladin Nov 2021 #30
A murderer died - good! lark Nov 2021 #31
I'm waiting for the new Florida surgeon general's obituary. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Nov 2021 #33
I'll bet he actually IS vaccinated, though. hlthe2b Nov 2021 #34
Strengthen the gene pool, baby! bif Nov 2021 #35
Even many of my liberal friends & family Dark n Stormy Knight Nov 2021 #36
Post removed Post removed Nov 2021 #37
awww, thanks pooky Ohio Joe Nov 2021 #40
Bye bye bonehead. niyad Nov 2021 #38
A discredit to our profession (full disclosure: I'm a PA, not an MD). Aristus Nov 2021 #39
Gee I'm not forced to wear a mask 24/7 LiberalFighter Nov 2021 #41
I'm happily the 100th rec. nt live love laugh Nov 2021 #42
LOL! Lucky Luciano Nov 2021 #43
It was not an "unexpected illness." His family lies like him. SunSeeker Nov 2021 #45
I've seen local obits like that. wnylib Nov 2021 #48
Yes, usually it's just "sudden illness" or, in one case I know, "short illness." SunSeeker Nov 2021 #52
If life insurance companies would deny survivor benefits RicROC Nov 2021 #49
Ass. geardaddy Nov 2021 #51
It's much worse when a doctor says these conspiracies Polybius Nov 2021 #53

bottomofthehill

(8,334 posts)
50. This is so sad
Fri Nov 12, 2021, 12:20 PM
Nov 2021

When will medical science step up to the plate to protect these Heroes. There must be something that can protect the medical community, Masks, Vaccines, something must be done to protect them.

What a fucking idiot.

viva la

(3,303 posts)
4. I think we can assume he'd still be alive
Thu Nov 11, 2021, 12:48 PM
Nov 2021

If he got the vaccine. He probably never would have gotten sick, and if he did, he'd probably not have died. I guess son can't quite deal with the reality that his daddy died needlessly and took others with him.

plimsoll

(1,670 posts)
5. I think it's a murder suicide.
Thu Nov 11, 2021, 12:59 PM
Nov 2021

Anytime one of these "influencers" dies I think of all the people they misled and assume that those people were killed by their lies.

plimsoll

(1,670 posts)
15. That would be a fantastic shirt for 2022 and 2024.
Thu Nov 11, 2021, 01:34 PM
Nov 2021

Any Republican who has been battling getting people vaccinated.

We can start now with Tucker McSwanson.

paleotn

(17,931 posts)
12. Womp, womp!!! Another jackass bites the dust.
Thu Nov 11, 2021, 01:30 PM
Nov 2021

Guess he's never worked in an OR where they routinely wear masks for hours on end.

hlthe2b

(102,292 posts)
14. I and many of his colleagues have worn face masks of one type of another for decades
Thu Nov 11, 2021, 01:33 PM
Nov 2021

and even before COVID-19, many of us for hour upon hour throughout a shift--in surgery, in ICU, in ER with respiratory or other infectious diseases, in NICU, with transplant patients, in cancer wards. Sometimes I think I've spent more time in a face mask than without.

I don't understand why he got by with spewing this nonsense. Many of the press have health care professional family members who undoubtedly have impressed on them how ludicrous this is, yet even on the non-Fox media, they are timid in calling bullshit, bullshit when interviewing a supposed medical person such as this spewing nonsense.

Some days, it is just too infuriating to discuss.

Rest fitfully in perpetual regret, idiot. Harsh, yes, but damned deserved.

yardwork

(61,650 posts)
22. That's one of the questions I don't get.
Thu Nov 11, 2021, 02:34 PM
Nov 2021

Millions of face masks worn by health professionals all over the world, every day, and never any concern until now. Lunacy.

Ray Bruns

(4,098 posts)
20. It's time we recognize that these anti-Vaxx fools are nothing more than
Thu Nov 11, 2021, 02:11 PM
Nov 2021

toddlers refusing to eat their broccoli.

IronLionZion

(45,452 posts)
23. I get what you mean, but there have been COVID patients who committed suicide
Thu Nov 11, 2021, 02:34 PM
Nov 2021

because they felt so bad with pain and depression long term they couldn't take it anymore.

Ohio Joe

(21,756 posts)
29. People you describe I view as victims
Thu Nov 11, 2021, 03:03 PM
Nov 2021

Idiots like the one in the OP and covid itself are what is responsible for what happened to them. I sincerely apologize if it came across as me denigrating them in any way.

ShazzieB

(16,420 posts)
24. Good riddance.
Thu Nov 11, 2021, 02:36 PM
Nov 2021

Of course, there are still way too many other scary covid deniers in positions of power and/or influence, doing their best to get people killed, like Joseph Ladapo, DeSatan's new handpicked Surgeon General. And DeSatan, too, for that matter. And many, many, many others.

Larissa

(790 posts)
32. Ladapo is an absolute nut job
Thu Nov 11, 2021, 03:58 PM
Nov 2021

He'll be successful in helping DeSatan finish off survivors in the next go around of the virus. Don't let your guard down, people. Parts of the U.S. and much of the world remain unvaccinated, which could allow for outbreaks and dangerous new variants to emerge. According to The New York Times Coronavirus Tracker, the total vaccination rate for the U.S. is just 58 percent. The ideal is 90 percent. People get tired, the virus doesn't. We've seen it regroup, morph and coming raging back like gang-busters.

Keep your guard up.

Larissa

(790 posts)
28. These people are cultists
Thu Nov 11, 2021, 03:02 PM
Nov 2021

They are passive suicides that have joined together in the dark nooks and crannies of social media. Some of them may feel that, at last, they belong to something: a suicide cult. Some of them talk about "going to the Lord," while they chose to look past the incredible, life-saving miracle of the vaccines. Instead, they infect the innocent and keep the virus circulating. To say nothing of the resources they are draining from the health care system and repeatedly put their own families at risk of infection. It is because of these dead brains that we will never reach herd immunity, leaving the door open for further mutations of SARS-CoV-2.

sorryantivaxxer.com

lark

(23,105 posts)
31. A murderer died - good!
Thu Nov 11, 2021, 03:28 PM
Nov 2021

Not gleeful, just the facts, he earned this 1000 times over and a monster has been removed - good!

33. I'm waiting for the new Florida surgeon general's obituary.
Thu Nov 11, 2021, 04:04 PM
Nov 2021

He's anti-mask, anti-vaccine, anti-mandates, proi-ivermectin and demonstrably incompetent to give guidance on COVID. Given how dishonest these guys are, however, I expect both he and DeSantis are vaccinated. Fuckers.

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,760 posts)
36. Even many of my liberal friends & family
Thu Nov 11, 2021, 04:53 PM
Nov 2021

told me I was being overly dramatic when I called TFG's rabid supporters the #TrumpDeathCult. The signs were clear even before COVID came along to prove it.

Response to Ohio Joe (Original post)

LiberalFighter

(50,948 posts)
41. Gee I'm not forced to wear a mask 24/7
Thu Nov 11, 2021, 07:20 PM
Nov 2021

I don't need to wear it when I am home. In the car. Filling the gas tank. Mowing the lawn. When I am outside. Although I do when walking to the store and inside. Or walking to the car from the store.


I've seen at least two kids walking home still wearing their mask.

wnylib

(21,487 posts)
48. I've seen local obits like that.
Fri Nov 12, 2021, 08:27 AM
Nov 2021

Last edited Fri Nov 12, 2021, 02:12 PM - Edit history (1)

I check the county health dept web site regularly for covid statistics. As the numbers of delta deaths increased, so did the obits in the local newspaper that say, "unexpected illness." I have yet to see an obit that gives covid as the cause of death.

SunSeeker

(51,571 posts)
52. Yes, usually it's just "sudden illness" or, in one case I know, "short illness."
Fri Nov 12, 2021, 01:08 PM
Nov 2021

Short illness was appropriate in that case since Covid-19 killed him in just a few weeks.

RicROC

(1,204 posts)
49. If life insurance companies would deny survivor benefits
Fri Nov 12, 2021, 12:08 PM
Nov 2021

based on the deceased having committing suicide (German: Selbstmord= self killing) by refusing to become vax'd,
I wonder if that could be a further incentive to increase the %age of vaccinations. At least maybe pressure by the family would make the jackass reconsider his stubborn anti-vax stance.

Polybius

(15,428 posts)
53. It's much worse when a doctor says these conspiracies
Fri Nov 12, 2021, 02:17 PM
Nov 2021

When a 3-toothed Nazi with trouble putting together a sentence says it, most laugh it off. When a doctor says it, some likely took him serious.

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