3rd conservative radio host who condemned vaccines dies of Covid

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

A conservative Florida radio host who spoke out against Covid-19 vaccines died after a weekslong fight with the virus, marking the third radio personality to die from coronavirus who publicly rejected vaccines.

The death of Marc Bernier, 65, who was a mainstay on talk radio in Daytona, was announced Saturday night be WNDB, the radio station he was affiliated with for three decades.

“It’s with great sadness that WNDB and Southern Stone Communications announce the passing of Marc Bernier, who informed and entertained listeners on WNDB for over 30 years. We kindly ask that privacy is given to Marc’s family during this time of grief,” WNDB stated on Twitter.

Bernier was known for inviting differing viewpoints on his show, including Democrats, but had publicly railed against vaccines. The Daytona Beach News-Journal reported that Bernier had been hospitalized since Aug. 7.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2021/08/29/3rd-conservative-radio-host-who-condemned-vaccines-dies-of-covid-1390555

[KPN]

1. Should I feel guilty that -- given the overall circumstances -- this sounds like good news to me ?

[Major Nikon]

10. There's a silver lining

He will be given the Herman Cain Freedom Award

[AZ8theist]

39. Nope! Don't feel guilty. THIS IS WONDERFUL NEWS!!

I can't wait for all these fucking anti-vax MORONS to croak.

America will be a MUCH BETTER PLACE when they are all gone.

[sakabatou]

2. I have zero pity for Bernier. His family? That's another story.

[Wingus Dingus]

3. Had a megaphone to publicly spout harmful and irresponsible misinformation, but now family

asks "that privacy is given during this time of grief". The world is better off without this particular voice.

[certainot]

40. hundreds of dicks like him were policed by dittoheads into following the limbaugh spin/doctrine or

the dittoheads who listened to limbaugh give his spin earlier in the day on 600 radio stations, frustrated they couldn't call limbaugh and kiss his ass, would call their local blowhards and police them by repeating limbaugh and screaming at the producers etc- those were the real political correctness police, while bill maher blasted some sensitive hippie showing real concern for global warming or racism. and limbaugh policing 1500 radio stations attacked high school kids with bush sucks t-shirts to push school admin to censor them.

these assholes broadcast on stations licensed to operate in the public interest while following limbaiugh's lead in calling covid a hoax

[LittleGirl]

45. I was just going to say that! Thanks for typing it up for me! Cheers, eom

[Major Nikon]

4. Sending tots and pears

[Champp]

5. Free clue for Republicans: Those guys have always lied to you

about everything. And the guys and gals the corporate wigs hire to fill the shoes of the Dumb & Deceased will lie to you also.

Depend on it. It is the Republican WAY.

[marybourg]

6. "We kindly ask"? They characterize their own request as kindly?

These people run a communications company?

[spooky3]

16. Good catch nt

[NJCher]

50. That's funny as hell

It was a good day for republican word twisties. I’ve been laughing all day at how Lindsey Graham had to abandon saying the word “cataclysmic” Sunday morning on Face the Nation. He can only aspire to such polysyllabic heights when criticizing Joe Biden.

To his credit, he understood it was beyond his grasp and quit trying.

Maybe practice your hard words, Lindsey, before your next Faceplant the Nation appearance.😏

[fwvinson]

53. He could have been drunk as a skunk. I think I sound like that when I've had a bit too many.

[Sherman A1]

7. Oh well

[cinematicdiversions]

8. 3rd??? There have been like a dozen or so.

Honestly Talk Radio show hosts are a high-risk group. Hatred in thier hearts, no vaccines, and let's be honest it is not a profession known for its physical fitness standards.

[LymphocyteLover]

35. Yes, I don't know if there's an official count but I know it's at least 7

[PurgedVoter]

46. I am trying to make that list but I have only come up with 4

The list is here, https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215797938

[LymphocyteLover]

55. Thanks. I've lost track of the names but I'm pretty sure there were others.

They may have been more of really local broadcasters than syndicated radio people, so not as well known. I know in one span earlier this summer, there were like 4 in a row.

[dsc]

9. I am honestly a bit surprised that these people actually believed their own crap

unlike the Fox News personalities who we all know took the vaccine even as they publicly decry those who did.

[musclecar6]

11. Just

Another jackass encouraging other jackasses.

[cstanleytech]

12. While choosing not be vaccinated is a choice I have to wonder if our limited medical resources such

as ventilators should be reserved primarily for those that make the choice to try and help society by being vaccinated but nonetheless still catch the virus.

[ShazzieB]

48. Don't forget, though....

Very few vaccinated people ever get sick enough to need a ventilator.

Might as well let the antivax idiots have 'em.

[cstanleytech]

49. "Might as well let the antivax idiots have 'em." Over someone that is vaccinated? Sorry but no way.

[ShazzieB]

56. Did you read my whole post?

Last edited Tue Aug 31, 2021, 08:47 AM - Edit history (1)

I started by pointing out that very few vaccinated people get sick enough to need a ventilator. Maybe I should have followed that up by saying, "Might as well let the antivax idiots have most of 'em."

[cstanleytech]

58. As long as they set aside enough to handle other people that need them first then sure.

but otherwise though they should have to live (or not) with the consequences of their choice not get vaccinated.

[NoMoreRepugs]

13. Fuck em' - they're trash.

[llmart]

14. I have only one thing to say about that...

...keep 'em coming!

Three less hateful bastards in our country.

[ashredux]

15. Covid don't care...

[BootinUp]

29. Jimmy crack corn

I don’t care either.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

17. I'd imagine that a new CT will burble up from the Qesspool here shortly ...

Saying that Fauci is blasting concentrated delta virus into the homes of all 'freedom fighters' who publicly dare to question his socialist vaccine and mask dictates ...

[Jon King]

18. He was over the top anti-vaccine, how many others did he kill??

Looking at this guys social media, wow, just a rabid antivaxxer. Just imagine how many thousands of his listeners he has either killed or doomed to a life of diminished capacity.

He was truly a very evil person.

[DemInBuckhead]

19. (Co)Video Killed the Radio Star

Stolen from reddit...wish it was my original.

[kairos12]

32. DUZY! Thread Winner!

[IronLionZion]

20. And how many of his listeners got infected, spread it to others, or died

Sure, his family can kindly have some privacy, but no sympathy for these douchebags.

[bucolic_frolic]

21. Man, these guys are troopers for the cause

you gotta give 'em that.

Buh-bye!

[andym]

22. The scary realization is that these communicators believe the BS they are feeding others

The right-wing propaganda-sphere has them drinking the kool-aid so to speak. You can be sure that Murdoch and his children as well as the Fox executives and many of its hosts are smarter than this and immune to their own manipulation, but not so these influential intermediaries who spread their gospel of misinformation.

[futem]

23. keep thinning out your base!

[Dan]

24. Don't care, but on reflection

bring a friend!

[Justice matters.]

25. Remember RepubliQans: Karma is a real thing.

Karma.

[SamKnause]

26. Good.

[ZonkerHarris]

27. Lot of on-air jobs opening up. That Covid is a conservative's promotion dream virus. If you survive.

[2naSalit]

28. Good riddance!

[Larissa]

30. This is just the tip of the iceberg

The scientists know. Not too long ago someone linked on DU an article which quoted a Mayo Clinic top expert on vaccinations, Dr. Gregory Poland. Dr. Poland says he still wears a mask when out in public, when he's in a crowded scenario, whether it be indoors or outdoors.

"Don't be deceived that 'I got this far and I am OK.' This is a very different variant. It will find you," Poland told CBS 4.
"This virus will find everybody who is not immune," he added. The variant has become the dominant strain in the U.S. as cases are on the rise in swaths of the country with low vaccination rates.

On August 8, 2021, Larry Brilliant, a famed epidemiologist (he was a member of the team that helped to eradicate smallpox), said the Delta variant of coronavirus is "maybe the most contagious virus" ever. The pandemic is not coming to an end soon -- given that only a small proportion of the world population has been vaccinated against Covid-19. The good news is that vaccines -- particularly those using messenger RNA technology and the one by Johnson & Johnson -- are holding up against the delta variant, Brilliant told CNBC's "Street Signs."

Still, only 15% of the world population has been vaccinated and more than 100 countries have inoculated less than 5% of their people, noted Brilliant.

"I think we're closer to the beginning than we are at the end [of the pandemic,] and that's not because the variant that we're looking at right now is going to last that long," said Brilliant. If the prediction turns out to be true, it means that the Delta variant spreads so quickly that "it basically runs out of candidates" to infect, explained Brilliant. It appears to be a similar pattern in the U.K. and India, where the spread of the Delta variant has receded from recent highs. (No doubt America will keep Delta plenty busy.)

But in addition to boosting vaccination in countries with a low inoculation rate, Brilliant said one group of people needs a booster shot "right away" -- those who are 65 years and above, and were fully vaccinated more than six months ago but have a weakened immune system. "It is this category of people that we've seen create multiple mutations when the virus goes through their body," said the epidemiologist. "So those people, I would say, should be given a third dose, a booster right away."

[oasis]

42. Wow.That's both important and very scary information.

[truthisfreedom]

31. Darwin Award.

It started as a virus. It turned into an IQ test.

[orleans]

33. and the good news is that he won't be indirectly killing people anymore by

telling them not to get the vaccine

i guess he showed them -- that they definitely should vax up!

[Evolve Dammit]

34. Wat the fuck did they really think? Guess they believed 45 and the 'hoax" BS, These deaths are all

on Orange Man and his admin, and it continues with a vengeance. Despite the actual facts, they are so far gone they can't admit what is happening. Since their numbers are in the tens of millions, we are, and will remain in deep shit.

[Demovictory9]

36. interesting to check in on freerepublic regarding these deaths. don't think these deaths change

their view of vaccinations or masks.

"was he overweight? should have got in shape". "didn't start the horse medicine soon enough". "didn't take the vitamin D". " died because vaxxed people are super spreaders". "hospital is lying about cause of death"

Paraphrasing some of the comments regarding the death of the Caleb Wallace guy.

[Hulk]

37. Karma is kicking some ass this week.

No sympathy for these seditious morons. Adios stooge. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.

[Tiger8]

38. Another One Bites The Dust!

Compliments of Freddie Mercury & Queen

[W T F]

41. Actually: he's the 4th anti-vax radio hose to dir from Covid-19 this month

It’s getting hard to keep count
[link:https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/28/2048869/-Marc-Bernier-is-Fourth-Anti-vaccine-Radio-Host-to-Die-of-Covid-this-Month|

[Turbineguy]

43. These influencers could make money right to the end

advertising for undertakers.

[Orrex]

44. Good. Fuck him.

I guess he wasn't part of that famous 99.97% who survive.

[ShazzieB]

47. This is how I feel every time covid claims another one of these antivaxxers...

I'm not proud of feeling this way. A human life is a human life and al that. But here we are.

[colsohlibgal]

51. Stupid Kills

Not sure how we emerge from this time when tens of millions have gone over the edge and there is no reasoning with them.

We’re almost certainly coming to a reckoning.

[bill]

52. Poughts aand Thrayers

Let #TheThinning continue

[SWBTATTReg]

54. Conservatism is losing the battle against COVID, who would have thunk? Duhhh...these people are ...

dumber than Homer Simpson ... when will they ever learn that sprouting conservative nonsense against common sense measures to battle the spread of a rapidly mutating killer virus that doesn't care about the political platform they stand for?

Perhaps sometimes, it's a good idea to stop over analyzing the Pros and/or the Cons of both sides of every issues and get down to business, realize that in some things, common sense measures such as masking, social distancing, vaccines, etc. do make sense, no matter what your political beliefs are.

My apologies to Homer Simpson ... the show has been a source of laughter and enjoyment for many years even though I haven't watched the show for a while.

[onetexan]

57. Kaaaaarrrrrmmaaaaaaaa

[BlueWavePsych]

59. And the hits just keep on coming ...