
Tennessee Right-wing radio host Phil Valentine1 and Trump-devotee has died after battling coronavirus.2 Valentine had previously expressed his disagreement with mask mandates, stating that hospitals were never in danger of being overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients. He has also been critical of the virus vaccines, voicing his concerns over their safety. As with all COVID deniers, antivaxxers, and antimaskers, as they lay intubated and waiting for the crush of their lungs and ultimate death by the disease they mocked they beg for the vaccine they refused being told by attending doctors and nurses that it is “too late” for them to receive and benefit from.3 Vaccines help stop the transmission of the virus, they keep people out of the hospital with serious cases, and most importantly, they help save your life and the lives of those around you. But there’s one thing the vaccines can’t do — they can’t help fight COVID-19 if you already have it.
Phil Valentine Radio Hate-talk show, FL blasts vaccine
The twice-impeached, two-time-loser of the popular vote, 5-times bankrupt, serial rapist, low IQ former president Donald J. Trump held a superspreader of COVID-19 virus before a packed unmasked audience in Alabama on August 21, 2021. Of the more than 11,600 Alabama COVID-19 deaths, only 26 were vaccinated.[.1. https://www.businessinsider.com/alabama-covid-19-deaths-unvaccinated-2021-8. Cf. https://apnews.com/article/health-coronavirus-pandemic-32617c0cb852301b4bfed849e207baad.]
Healthy and in their 30s, Christina and Josh Tidmore figured they were low-risk for COVID-19. With conflicting viewpoints about whether to get vaccinated against the virus filling their social media feeds and social circles, they decided to wait. They did not trust their doctors, but only turned to social media for advice–and it was wrong and unchecked. On July 20, Josh came home from work with a slight cough initially thought to be sinus trouble. On Aug. 11, he died of COVID-19 at a north Alabama hospital as Christina Tidmore witnessed a doctor and her team frantically try to resuscitate her husband. He was the father of three children; he was 36 and she is 35. Christina noted: “Josh was completely healthy, active, not a smoker.” He would have turned 37 on Saturday. The doctors at the hospital and around Alabama note they are seeing a spike in COVID cases and deaths among young adults and children.4 The state is also seeing a surge in COVID cases among children, although deaths so far have been rare. The state this week set a record for pediatric hospitalizations with 50 children hospitalized with COVID-19.
Earlier another right-wing radio host (known as a shock talk host) and anti-vaxxer5 and vociferous critic of Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dick Farrel, died of COVID.6 A strong supporter of Donald Trump, after describing Fauci as a “power-tripping, lying freak” who conspired with “power trip lib loons”,7 urged people not to get vaccinated8 as recently as June, died April 4, 2021.9
Hillsong Church global senior pastor Brian Houston had announced the death of Stephen Harmon, who attended Hillsong in California, on social media this week. Harmon had said on social media that he would not receive the vaccine, even when he was fighting Covid-19 in a hospital this month.10
Stephen Harmon said he trusted his faith in religion would protect him. Despite contracting the virus, Harmon said he would still not get vaccinated. He even made jokes about the pandemic and vaccines before his death and shared memes where he put more trust in the Bible than top US disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci.11
A leader of the Texas Republican Party, the 45-year-old Dickinson City Council, hopped on Facebook in May to post about a “mask burning” party 900 miles away in Cincinnati. “I wished I lived in the area!” wrote H Scott Apley.12 Later, Apley, 45 and the father of five, was admitted to a Galveston hospital with “pneumonia-like symptoms” and tested positive for coronavirus, according to an online fundraising campaign. He was sedated and put on a ventilator.13 His wife, Melissa Apley, also tested positive for COVID. Apley died on April 3, 2021.14 GOP voters are among those who remain largely unvaccinated against COVID,15 and are believed to be more hesitant. The CDC’s director, Dr Rochelle Walensky, referred to rising COVID infections in a swathe of GOP states as a “pandemic of the unvaccinated”.16
Curt Carpenter, of Pell City, Alabama, a 28-year-old anti-vaxxer who died from COVID 2 May after 51 days on a ventilator, allegedly told his family the disease was “not a hoax” after believing in the fringe conspiracy and falling-ill in March.17 His mother, Christy Carpenter, also believed the virus was not real. Just 12 antivaxxers are responsible for almost two-thirds of anti-vaccine content circulating on social media platforms. They must be arrested and tried for genocide and executed when found guilty in a court of law. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube must deplatform the Disinformation Dozen. Alabama has one of the country’s lowest vaccination rates, with just 42.4 per cent of its adult population vaccinated.18 One doctor in Alabama refuses to treat anyone who is unvaccinated.19 All doctors must refuse to treat anyone unvaccinated, and all antivaxxers and antimaskers. Two deep-red states: Missouri and Arkansas, now constitute the country’s COVID epicenter–and all are pro-Trump20 and spread his mass-information that has always been coupled with hate, racism, and ignorance, as Paul R. Pearson so graphically described.21 COVID cases in both states have skyrocketed in the past month. According to data compiled by The New York Times,22 Arkansas has gone from a seven-day average of about 230 cases per day in late June to about 1,020 this week. In Missouri, that number has gone from 640 to 1,980.23 Just 39% of all Missouri residents have been vaccinated.

Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and chairwoman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services… holds a photograph from the Lake of the Ozarks inMissouri on Memorial Day Weekend during a hearing on Capitol Hill on Thursday, June 4, 2020.
Parts of southern Missouri are registering around 60 cases per 100,000 residents a day. By comparison, New York City, a major outbreak zone at the start of the pandemic, is averaging about 2.6 cases each day per 100,000 residents, according to data compiled by The New York Times.24 The fire chief in Springfield, David Pennington, tweeted on Thursday: “This is a mass casualty event, happening in slow-motion. EMS resources are depleted, and the hospital systems are overwhelmed. Our community is in crisis.”25
Christopher Key, an antivaxxer from Alabama, stormed into a Missouri Walmart on Monday, August 16, 2021, and told the pharmacists in the store that they would be executed if they keep on giving COVID vaccine shots.26 The video shows Key and a handful of supporters praying in the parking lot of the supercenter before entering. During the prayer, a person could be heard saying: “Thank you, Lord Jesus, for waking up Springfield” and “help us put the fear of God in these pharmacists.” Alabama has the highest percentage of white christian evangelicals committed to god’s “Chosen One”: Trump who they believe has given his total self to their god of hate. Before entering the Walmart, Key cackled: “”Okay, guys, this is the vaccine police. We’re outside of Walmart about to go in. We’re going to put Walmart and the pharmacists on notice to let them know that there in violation of the Nuremberg Code.” He continued: “We’re going to let them know that 45,000 people within three days of receiving the vaccine dropped dead. And if they give one more vaccine after today, after being put on notice, then they can be hung up, and they can be executed.”27 Key had argued that masks are the sign of Satan and vaccines are a part of Satanic rituals–and Key was god’s “vaccine police.” It is a testament to stupidity in believing a “man” who squandered billions and lost millions on scams, who is on record of having raped 26 females, cheated on every one of his three wives, has a following of millions who have very little but believes in his bullshit and many have comedown with COVID and some have died cruel and unnecessary deaths that have been reviewed by CNN.28
They claim they are fighting “socialism” but live with it everyday: riding on public roads and highways, going to public schools and university, enjoying public health care, reading in public libraries, swimming in public pools, being protected by public armed forces and police, using public airways and public stations (radio and television), living off public insurance (social security, Medicaid, Medicare, etc.) and so much more.
NOTES
- https://www.wkrn.com/news/conservative-talk-show-host-phil-valentine-hospitalized-with-covid-19/. ↩
- https://www.thedailybeast.com/conservative-radio-host-phil-valentine-who-recorded-beatles-parody-about-vaccines-dies-from-coronavirus. ↩
- https://www.al.com/news/2021/07/im-sorry-but-its-too-late-alabama-doctor-on-treating-unvaccinated-dying-covid-patients.html. Cp. https://www.healthline.com/health-news/vaccines-will-only-help-if-you-get-them-before-youre-sick-with-covid-19. ↩
- https://apnews.com/article/health-coronavirus-pandemic-32b7763e53ec1c77b18e842a264ecb03. ↩
- https://www.wptv.com/lifestyle/taste-and-see/vocal-anti-vaccine-broadcaster-dies-from-covid-19-complications. ↩
- https://www.thewrap.com/dick-farrel-anti-vax-radio-host-dies-covid/. ↩
- https://www.thedailybeast.com/anti-vaxx-radio-host-and-former-newsmax-anchor-dick-farrel-dies-of-coronavirus?ref=home. ↩
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/09/dick-farrel-dies-covid19/. ↩
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/08/rightwing-radio-host-dick-farrel-anti-vaxxer-dies-covid. ↩
- https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/24/us/hillsong-church-stephen-harmon-covid-vaccine/index.html. ↩
- https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/us-anti-vaxxer-who-made-jokes-about-covid-19-vaccine-dies-of-coronavirus-4008923.html. Cf. https://californianewstimes.com/anti-vax-hillsong-church-member-stephen-harmon-34-dies-of-covid-after-posting-i-got-99-problems-but-a-vax-aint-one/451538/. ↩
- https://www.facebook.com/h.s.apley/posts/10158448646298089. ↩
- https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-scott-and-melissa-apley-with-medical-bills?fbclid=IwAR2UD6WbwPDbxNKeHScRNi4m6Fa62bpy829XuZ73U0UpQbmjNVpPofivxPE. ↩
- https://people.com/politics/republican-politician-dies-of-covid-complications-days-after-mocking-virus/. ↩
- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/covid-delta-variant-louisiana-unvaccinated-b1892578.html. ↩
- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/covid-texas-gop-scott-apley-b1897325.html. ↩
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/07/26/covid-vaccine-regrets/. ↩
- Alabama has one of the country’s lowest vaccination rates, with just 42.4 per cent of its adult population vaccinated. ↩
- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/alabama-doctor-unvaccinated-covid-patients-b1905092.html. ↩
- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-covid-levels-arkansas-missouri-b1886887.html. ↩
- https://pearsonally.com/blog/trumps-messaging-to-american-racists/. ↩
- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage. ↩
- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/missouri-delta-variant-covid-vaccinations-b1881435.html. ↩
- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html. ↩
- https://twitter.com/SGFFireChief/status/1413154694898360321?s=20. Cp. https://twitter.com/EricSClay/status/1413141328809005068. ↩
- https://www.facebook.com/100001620757500/videos/815551149141074/. Cf. https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/politics/2021/08/18/man-tells-springfield-walmart-pharmacy-they-executed-vaccinations-christopher-key/8160309002/. ↩
- https://www.insider.com/man-storms-walmart-to-put-staff-on-notice-vaccine-shots-2021-8. ↩
- https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/03/politics/covid-victims-who-said-no-to-the-vaccine/index.html. ↩
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