Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Now that this is public and politicians are weighing in ...
A) Jessica was married to my cousin Tommy. I didn't know her well. In fact, I last saw them at a funeral for another relative a few years ago. Her death is beyond tragic. She leaves behind two little girls.
B) My first paying journalism job involved writing obituaries. We confirmed details with the families of the deceased, but that's it. Obits in Legacy are also written by family or friends.

Jessica Berg Wilson Obituary (1983 - 2021) The Oregonian

 

Dear God, that's tragic. Her life was so rich and yet there's that "What if?"
I'm sorry, @gingerbread.

 

An obituary is whatever people want to pay to say about their loved one, but no matter where you want to place the blame, it doesn't change the outcome. Righteously dead is still dead.

I'm sorry for your family's loss, gingerbread. I hope time will ease their pain and suffering. I hope those two little girls find happier times.

 

So horrible. And senseless because of the usual bottom feeders who are more numerous than locusts during a plague.

 

I am truly very sorry for your loss.

But JFC, after reading this paragraph,

Jessica's greatest passion was to be the best mother possible for Bridget and Clara. Nothing would stand in her way to be present in their lives. During the last weeks of her life, however, the world turned dark with heavy-handed vaccine mandates. Local and state governments were determined to strip away her right to consult her wisdom and enjoy her freedom. She had been vehemently opposed to taking the vaccine, knowing she was in good health and of a young age and thus not at risk for serious illness. In her mind, the known and unknown risks of the unproven vaccine were more of a threat. But, slowly, day by day, her freedom to choose was stripped away. Her passion to be actively involved in her children's education—which included being a Room Mom—was, once again, blocked by government mandate. Ultimately, those who closed doors and separated mothers from their children prevailed. It cost Jessica her life. It cost her children the loving embrace of their caring mother. And it cost her husband the sacred love of his devoted wife. It cost God's Kingdom on earth a very special soul who was just making her love felt in the hearts of so many.

I seriously think we have no chance to stop Covid without hundreds of thousands of more deaths. How do you get through to people who actually believe that paragraph makes any kind of sense in any universe?

 

Twitter fact checked the obit and labeled it "misleading."
I hope media outlets such as The Oregonian, her home town paper, or The Seattle Times, where she lived, do the same.
Critics slam Twitter fact check of obituary attributing young mother's death to vaccine

 

Same

 

I am very sorry, but was that obituary published in a newspaper or just on the Legacy web site?

 

This is a story about medical professionals refusing the COVID-19 vaccine. It seems inconceivable to me, and yet, theirs and others' vehement opposition to to the shots begs some questions.

A few skeptical U.S. hospital workers choose dismissal over vaccine

 

It's on the Oregonian web site. Not sure if it's in the actual newspaper.

 

What questions?

There’s only one: Why do they want to see people die needlessly?

 

I'm very sorry for your family's loss, gingerbread -- for Jessica's family's loss. The saddest thing is that her young daughters will probably lose any memories they have of her. As they get older, most people remember very little from their lives before the age of 5.

Should the fact that Jessica Wilson felt the way she did with regard to getting the vaccine, and then died of vaccine-induced complications, as well as the fact that there are medical professionals who decry the shot at the least, and refuse to get it at worst, and the fact there are still so many others who feel/believe the same give us any pause? Certainly, a death like Jessica Wilson's is more ammunition for the anti-vax crowd, but is there something to their concerns?

Between all that stuff, and the fact that I know someone, a retired administrator for a large health-care organization who refused to get vaccinated despite the fact he was among the older, vulnerable crowd, who recently died of COVID-19, and given the fact that my best friend recently retired from a job she absolutely loved rather than get the shots when Disney imposed mandatory vaccinations on its employees, I can't help but wonder a little bit. My friend was a vaunted Imagineer on the Star Wars Land project that opened last year and was in the midst of another major upcoming project more recently, but "The mandatory vaccine was a deal-breaker for me," she said.

She isn't even retirement age yet, still nearly 10 years away, in fact. But she could afford to quit, and I knew she would do it if she were required by the job to get the vaccine. Still, I can't believe she and others are digging their heels in so deeply over this. Are we who lambast such people wrong at all?