Anonymous wrote:The amount of hate toward this woman on this thread is appealing. I hope Jeff will remove it entirely. We had 60,00-100,000 people in US dying from blood clots every year prior to Covid. My grandmother died because of a blood clot. I honestly don't care what other viruses those hundred of thousands of people had at the time of their death (HPV, Aids, flu, herpes, or any other possible virus on the Earth). We should not be joyfully celebrating these deaths and try to use one death out of hundreds of thousands to make our politically motivated point. I am honestly very embarrassed for the people from my party commenting on this thread.

Anonymous wrote:I know several folks who developed blood clots AFTER receiving the vaccine, including a 30-year old male colleague who almost died! And an elderly family member died within 2 days of getting his second dose, from a blood clot to his lungs. But we cannot discuss vaccine injuries or deaths because it's just right-wing conspiracies, right?

(note -- the spike protein causes the clots but the vaccines also generate the spikes.)

Anonymous wrote:I know several folks who developed blood clots AFTER receiving the vaccine, including a 30-year old male colleague who almost died! And an elderly family member died within 2 days of getting his second dose, from a blood clot to his lungs. But we cannot discuss vaccine injuries or deaths because it's just right-wing conspiracies, right?

(note -- the spike protein causes the clots but the vaccines also generate the spikes.)

Anonymous wrote:I know several folks who developed blood clots AFTER receiving the vaccine, including a 30-year old male colleague who almost died! And an elderly family member died within 2 days of getting his second dose, from a blood clot to his lungs. But we cannot discuss vaccine injuries or deaths because it's just right-wing conspiracies, right?

(note -- the spike protein causes the clots but the vaccines also generate the spikes.)

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Anonymous wrote:This is so sad and such a waste. Kelly and I were friends - former colleagues at Gibson Dunn - and I was completely shocked when I found out that she had died. I saw the story in the media before I saw posts from our many mutual friends on my Facebook page.

Kelly was opposed to COVID vaccine mandates and to other COVID restrictions (particularly beach closures in SoCal in 2020) throughout the pandemic. She was very vocal about those positions on Facebook and, no doubt, elsewhere. But believe me when I say that she was not a mindless Trump follower. She was smart, accomplished, and passionate. But ultimately misguided, and that has come with tragic consequences.

Kelly and I were poles apart politically and on COVID issues, but she was a good, decent person. Hard-working, committed to seeking justice for victims of crime (she was a Deputy DA in Orange County, CA), and genuinely compassionate. She was also loyal, had a great sense of humor, and was tons of fun to be around.

It's worth remembering that behind the public image of every "political" COVID casualty, there is a real person with family and friends. I am astounded that there are still people who refuse to get vaccinated (and Kelly was not vaccinated according to her husband, Mattias), but I take no pleasure if and when something terrible happens to those people. It's a tragedy every time. This one just happens to hit close to home for me.

RIP, Kelly. Gone much too soon. You'll be missed.

Thank you for this kind, humanizing post. I am very pro-vaccine and sometimes I find myself forgetting that people who hold dangerous positions like hers (meaning anti-vax) are still people with good qualities. I’m so horrified by what Trump and his followers have done to our democracy that I lump together everyone who thinks like them on any point, and my first reaction when I see a death like this is, “Oh well, they deserved it.” Obviously, that isn’t true and I need to work on it.

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Anonymous wrote:The amount of hate toward this woman on this thread is appealing. I hope Jeff will remove it entirely. We had 60,00-100,000 people in US dying from blood clots every year prior to Covid. My grandmother died because of a blood clot. I honestly don't care what other viruses those hundred of thousands of people had at the time of their death (HPV, Aids, flu, herpes, or any other possible virus on the Earth). We should not be joyfully celebrating these deaths and try to use one death out of hundreds of thousands to make our politically motivated point. I am honestly very embarrassed for the people from my party commenting on this thread.

I kind of agree with the bold part.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The amount of hate toward this woman on this thread is appealing. I hope Jeff will remove it entirely. We had 60,00-100,000 people in US dying from blood clots every year prior to Covid. My grandmother died because of a blood clot. I honestly don't care what other viruses those hundred of thousands of people had at the time of their death (HPV, Aids, flu, herpes, or any other possible virus on the Earth). We should not be joyfully celebrating these deaths and try to use one death out of hundreds of thousands to make our politically motivated point. I am honestly very embarrassed for the people from my party commenting on this thread.

Could not disagree more. This woman was spreading a dangerous anti-vaccination agenda and basically died by her own hand.

She died of a blood clot. This whole thread is misinformation.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The amount of hate toward this woman on this thread is appealing. I hope Jeff will remove it entirely. We had 60,00-100,000 people in US dying from blood clots every year prior to Covid. My grandmother died because of a blood clot. I honestly don't care what other viruses those hundred of thousands of people had at the time of their death (HPV, Aids, flu, herpes, or any other possible virus on the Earth). We should not be joyfully celebrating these deaths and try to use one death out of hundreds of thousands to make our politically motivated point. I am honestly very embarrassed for the people from my party commenting on this thread.

Could not disagree more. This woman was spreading a dangerous anti-vaccination agenda and basically died by her own hand.

She died of a blood clot. This whole thread is misinformation.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The amount of hate toward this woman on this thread is appealing. I hope Jeff will remove it entirely. We had 60,00-100,000 people in US dying from blood clots every year prior to Covid. My grandmother died because of a blood clot. I honestly don't care what other viruses those hundred of thousands of people had at the time of their death (HPV, Aids, flu, herpes, or any other possible virus on the Earth). We should not be joyfully celebrating these deaths and try to use one death out of hundreds of thousands to make our politically motivated point. I am honestly very embarrassed for the people from my party commenting on this thread.

Could not disagree more. This woman was spreading a dangerous anti-vaccination agenda and basically died by her own hand.

She died of a blood clot. This whole thread is misinformation.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The amount of hate toward this woman on this thread is appealing. I hope Jeff will remove it entirely. We had 60,00-100,000 people in US dying from blood clots every year prior to Covid. My grandmother died because of a blood clot. I honestly don't care what other viruses those hundred of thousands of people had at the time of their death (HPV, Aids, flu, herpes, or any other possible virus on the Earth). We should not be joyfully celebrating these deaths and try to use one death out of hundreds of thousands to make our politically motivated point. I am honestly very embarrassed for the people from my party commenting on this thread.

Could not disagree more. This woman was spreading a dangerous anti-vaccination agenda and basically died by her own hand.

Anonymous wrote:The amount of hate toward this woman on this thread is appealing. I hope Jeff will remove it entirely. We had 60,00-100,000 people in US dying from blood clots every year prior to Covid. My grandmother died because of a blood clot. I honestly don't care what other viruses those hundred of thousands of people had at the time of their death (HPV, Aids, flu, herpes, or any other possible virus on the Earth). We should not be joyfully celebrating these deaths and try to use one death out of hundreds of thousands to make our politically motivated point. I am honestly very embarrassed for the people from my party commenting on this thread.