Three first responders in Florida were killed by Covid-19 in one week as the delta variant of the virus continues to rapidly spread in the state. WESH’s Kelsi Thorud reports.
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#Florida #Covid #DeltaVariant
GOD bless all Law enforcement!
Maybe they’re dead but, at least the had their Republican rights.
Make drugs legal in Florida..people have the right to choose if they want to do drugs or not.Government can’t tell us what we can and can’t use
The only thing devasting is that under the Smith Mundt Act. Mockingbird media such as yourselves can literally tell or write anything made up with no legal repercussions.
Repeal the Smith Mundt Act!
IMAGINE IF PANDEMIC MANAGEMENT WAS AN OLYMPIC SPORT.
New Zealand finished the Covid race with 26 deaths 1 year ago.
China finished the race on 14 January 2021 with 4,636 deaths.
America is still struggling mid way through the race with 633,798 Covid deaths with 700 more each day.
WATCHING US MEDIA IS LIKE STEPPING BACK IN TIME.
It has been one year since New Zealand’s last Covid death.
US Covid deaths 633,798 New Zealand 26.
WTF US has 24,376 times more Covid deaths than New Zealand.
This video doesn’t mention that Florida doesn’t have a mandate for first responders to be vaccinated or whether these men were vaccinated. You need to include the fact that they would have lived had they bothered to get the vaccine. They still would have contracted the virus, especially if they refused to wear masks, but they would be alive.
Probably were vaccinated months ago.. you know one of those “rare” breakthrough cases that resulted in death.
i know
Still unvaccinated? Lol
Media is misleading.. making people ponder the deceased vaccine status. So that tells me everything I need to know —-that they were vaccinated but doesn’t fit the narrative.
God Bless our HEROES,
the 1st Responders.
🙏💖
Australia
Were any of these responders fully vaccinated????
It looks to me like the real pandemic is obesity! EVERY video MSM shows of people who’ve died from Coronavirus have been extremely obese.
We’re they vaccinated…???
Thanks Desantis!
Paramedics are vaccinated so why did this happen?
I like it when idiots get what they voted for. Nice to see Florida going full speed on that herd stupidity project.
FLORIDA IS A JOKE
How can you tell the difference from original to variants? You dont because there is not an accurate test to tell the difference. Can the “test” tell the difference between anual flu and variants? No! Because the PCR is a amplifier tool and not a diagnosis test. The inventor of the PCR process, Karry Mullis even tried to tell us that his invention is not accurate as a diagnostic tool. Right before he was mysteriously snuffed out with a lung infection…?
Is there a video I can watch on that?
It is so sad to lose the people that put their lives out for other’s
Greetings from Australia. I wrote a song. It’s called ‘Blame it on Corona’: https://youtu.be/2yleOBaHN6c Enjoy.
First responders in ambulances still have no health care.!! Paid poor wages
Delta varrent is 60% more contagious and much deadlier than the original Wuhan china virus
Show basic statistics. That’s all.
looks like the India’s Catastrophic scenario is happening now in a merica
and they will ave herd immunity which is the only thing that will stop covid.
Did deathsantis go to any of these Heroes funerals…….When one of his own family members die of COVID-19 watch him turncoat..
waaaaaaa reeeeeee you are played rip
Were they not vaccinated? If not then this is madness
https://tv.gab.com/channel/standonprinciples/view/dr-destroys-the-entire-covid-narrative-611132777b022aa59dd65777
Blame the governor. He is part of the death cult. You, the people of Florida, should deal with him before he kills and infects you all to satisfy his delusions of grandeur. He is Donald trump incarnate. He is using your, the people of Florida, suffering to fuel his asperations for higher office.
my deepest sympathies I am curious if they had the vcaccine?
Every premature fatality is a tragedy, but choosing to remain unvaccinated is clearly playing Russian roulette with this deadly virus. I had wrongly assumed that all first responders would be mandated to get vaccinated and not become a spreader or a victim? It’s easy in hindsight to wish our lives away. That’s what we hear from those who lay dying gasping for breath…’I wish I had just got the shot’ , but by then it’s too late. Florida is a political football, a temporary conservative stronghold for the anti-crowd.
Anti-science, anti-vaccine, anti-democracy, anti-reality. Political parasites like DeSantis are not making the best choices for the people of Florida, he’s using it as a springboard to the presidency In other words, your governor, the top state public servant is just another of these grifters on the gravy train.
Florida could do much better. Mandatory vaccinations for the military and hospital staff or care home staff, are taken for granted by the overwhelming majority. America faced every threat or national emergency with a united response, as with 9/11 and all the mandated travel and security restrictions on personal liberties until the danger passed. Today about a quarter of Americans still refuse to join this united effort against covid. They have become a threat to national security and it’s in your face.
Stupid people elect stupid leaders, stupid leaders make stupid decisions, stupid people die. Somewhere Darwin is laughing.
Good job, Governor DeSantis; you are killing the people who serve to protect your citizens.
In that case every governor is killing people. I understand only the deaths in FL matter. LOL
@J M Look at the number here in Mass and compare with Florida. We have are own problems, just not comparable to those caused by Ron.
Half dead myself
News didn’t say if they were vaccinated or not. Were these breakthrough cases where the people died or unvaccinated people who died?
Why? Didn’t they get the shot? I did cause I LISTENED TO THE EXPERTS
SAD, SAD, SAD if I could draw cartoons I would draw one for Florida Governor Dewhatso, it would show him standing at the Florida line saying that Florida is open for bussiness, come on down stay a while and enjoy our white sand. Then it would show a grave yard full of dead tourist staying a while in the white sand grave yard. Sad, SAD you life and you kids life to him means so little. Just SAD what some power hungry people will do.
Look up stats from other states. FL will have Herd immunity by October and all the other states will be have a surge of covid in the winter months.
Amazing how the media won’t mention if these individuals were vaccinated or not. Explaining how people who were vaccinated could possibly die when the government is pushing so hard for everyone to get an experimental medication that Biden and Harris absolutely refused to take last year can be seen as anything more than hypocrisy. Unfortunately the State of Florida lost some of its best citizens, but not knowing if they were vaccinated or not and if they had any underlying medical conditions makes reporting this as deaths related to only covid another ploy of the media to create panic to a virus that has over a 99% survival rate. This comment is directed at the media and in no way meant to be disrespectful towards these brave men who dedicated their lives to helping others. After 25 years in the Marine Corps I’m still baffled by how the media doesn’t actually report anymore but simply tells what information they want. God bless these men and may their families be in everyone’s prayers.
Wanna bet they weren’t vaccinated.
Well did they have the shot? Your governor said no mask….shocking but they are no special attention to them as any other death.
Stop sending covid positive illegals into Florida by the thousands we would not be having this problem.
The libs don’t know about the 1 million illegals that have crossed the border. CNN hasn’t told them. These are the people who last year who thought Cuomo should be President as he killed 10K old people.
Since almost all first responders got vaccinated does this mean the vaccine doesn’t work?
it means it kills everyone some quik some slow all in 4 years
Thank you governor Desantis Are you getting where you want to go? Who are you to demand not to wear a mask under penalty if they do specially the children at schools You are criminal with authority! I’m sorry for the loss and praying for the families as well
More people have died in CA from covid. Masks do nothing. You do what you want and let people raise their own kids. Obama had his big bash with no masks, 100K people at a concert in Chicago, Fire island had 1000’s of pretty boys like sardines in a can. Who are you to pick and choose what people do?
well Florida will get no sympathy from DeSantis as he will do nothing to protect them… he sooner Floridians die then try to enforce covid restrictions…may be time to charge him with murder for all the people who passed due to his stupidly
They obviously were vaccinated because trust me if they were not the media most definitely would have mentioned it
IM GUESSING THEY ALL HAD THE JAB….
We’re the dead men vaccinated?
You can ignore reality ….you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality ….
Covid can’t touch the sophisticated. Party on Obama!
Awake yet???? What is it going to take for all of you to wake up???
They need to just shut down the whole united states again all at once and leave it closed for at least 3 weeks until the people who are ignoring this virus decides to take the virus serious, the medical staff at the hospitals in NYC have learned over the past year that this is totally real and all those bodies stacked up in refrigerator trucks was real, I know because I drove one of the big rigs to drop off bodies at various medical examiner offices around the state of NY , think of your family and friends and how your being selfish by not doing anything about it for yourself, to those people who are ignoring this virus, I say you deserve to die alone and suffer from this virus, to those people who are taking this seriously and doing the right thing for other around you, I thank you for caring about your family and friends , GET THE VACCINE PEOPLE, YOU MAY NOT VALUE YOUR LIFE AND PERHAPS YOUR FRIENDS SHOULD NOT CARE EITHER ABOUT YOU
Liars, NBC is trying to slime DeSantis.
I guessing none of the three who passes away from Covid had been vaccinated. They could have took this opportunity to show support on this is why vaccinating is necessary.
why assume this? to fit your narrative and own belief? why not just stick with the fact they gave us no information and stay that way until proof is provided..
im guessing you’re a fearmonger
sorry to hear that but where they fully vaccinated or not???????
But there freedom lives on! 🙄
This is what happens you turn a orange man into your God and refuse to wear masks.
0.39 die as well . Is this realy well ?
If people cot the infection and in the same time take vaccine . Is this chance for Delta adapt himself to next for example EPSILON one or not .?
posible
When will people in Florida wake up!???
If you do not live in FL you have no idea. 7 out of ten people are wearing masks unlike Obamas birthday bash or lalopalooza in Chicago with 100K people stuffed like sardines.
Get vaccinated. Just look at the anti-vac idiots in the UK that tried to mess with the BBC. It’s mainly because of the un-vac that the virus is mutating and spreading.
Kinda weird how yall single out Florida
Whats the leading cause of line of duty deaths in blue cities
More people have died of covid in Cali. nobody cares because it is run by an Elitist snob who doesn’t wear a mask and sends his kids to a private school with no masks.
It is an insult to life itself to die unvaccinated from covid. Tragedy implies some heroism. “Tragic” is not for people who guessed their own virus system. Humans could not guess the wheel.
Desantis is murderer. Lock him up
All overweight…aka had underlying health conditions.
Scare tactics
So not vaccinated? Sad and pointless.
This story is suspect
Be at peace folks, thank you for serving community
Now do shootings in Chicago.
Could the fact that all 3 men were obviously overweight have made them more susceptible to the virus? Could the determinations that COVID was responsible for their deaths be false? ( Florida is one of the lowest COVID illness states). God bless them all and comfort in God to their families.
Thank desatan.
All obese. This should really scare those of us who have some pounds to shed. 😕
82% of people who died of covid were overweight. They probably smoked too.
🥰🥰
I wish there was some sort of vaccine or several vaccines that could stop this!
If only there were a vaccine!
If he would be given opportunity to be alive by god he would come back and advise others to wear mask and maintain social distanc and mainly take vaccines
not a vax look it up if you can still
Did they get the jab this year?
It’s not as dangerous as it was in the beginning, now it’s even worse.
It is the same but less people are dying.
When I see an ad for Chuck Schumer at the start of these reports I already know this is loaded crap. Key west is being hit by thousands of illegal unvaxed immigrants being sent there from the southern border by bus and plane, from over 150 countries. Let’s start with that.
thats ok they have the choice to get vaccine but decided not to so nobody fault but their own
Why aren’t they vaccinated !!
Covid defunding the police
REST IN PEACE, PRAYERS FOR THE FAMILIES.
GET VACCINATED ALREADY
This is your own Governors fault
The mask they were wearing didn’t save them.
Again, they tell you nothing about the victims health. But looking at these people I would bet that none of them could run a 10 min mile. The fact is, the USA is a very unhealthy country, 40% Obese, and one of the main reasons for this is, The AMA Food Pyramid. Stuffing your face with carb’s and being fat is not healthy. And I do not care what the sponsors, (ConAgra) of these news programs say.
They were overweight and probably suffering from diabetis.
All over weight. Now is the time to get into shape. Lose weight. Exercise daily. Get fresh air. Take your vitamins. Be as healthy as you can be.
Qanon rumplicans love their donivirus
I doubt the headlines are true
Not one word of the 1 million who have crossed the border spreading covid all over the country.
Interesting to see how MSM only focuses on those who die of covid do to unvaccination, but have failed to report on those that have died from the vax itself. Plus, this 3 responders all seemed overweight. Already and underlying health condition.
truth
FOUR police officers in Oregon got the vaccine and died from blood clots. They were in great health…until they got the left wing proclaimed “safe” vaccine.