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Anonymous wrote:James Ring, President of the Lakeland, Florida GOP, is recovering from a serious bout with Covid. He is a healthy and fit 39-year-old with no preexisting conditions, but at one point his blood-oxygen level was 78 and he thought he was going to die.

Ring said the emergency room doctor immediately admitted him into the COVID unit. Both his lungs were filled with COVID-19 pneumonia and the virus had thickened his blood, making him susceptible to clots in his heart, lungs, and legs, “which could ultimately prove fatal.” He said they gave him steroids for his lungs, a breathing treatment, shots in his stomach to thin his blood, and “a cocktail of medications to fight the infection in my lungs.”

“The nights were filled with the sounds of people coughing uncontrollably and crying. Everyone was alone and desperate for help,” Ring said. “I remember looking out my window with the view of Lakeland Hills Boulevard, watching (Lakeland Police) cars pass and remembering how I used to be one of them. I cried and cried as I began to accept that I probably wasn’t going to make it out of the hospital alive. Everyday had just been more bad news and my symptoms kept getting worse.”

He hopes that people will realize the pandemic isn't over, to continue wearing a mask, and get vaccinated.

"I contracted the virus and unknowingly passed it to some of the people I love the most,” declining to say publicly who that is. He added that they are all doing ok. “I shared my story to say this - this pandemic is not over. Please take it seriously and remember to wear a mask. Even if you think they’re silly, it’s better than sitting all alone in a COVID unit wishing you had.”

https://www.theledger.com/story/news/regional/2021/07/07/lakeland-gop-leader-james-ring-survives-covid-urges-masks-and-vaccines/7882410002/

It would be nice if some of these GOP leaders could develop a respect for science and empathy BEFORE they got COVID.

Anonymous wrote:James Ring, President of the Lakeland, Florida GOP, is recovering from a serious bout with Covid. He is a healthy and fit 39-year-old with no preexisting conditions, but at one point his blood-oxygen level was 78 and he thought he was going to die.

Ring said the emergency room doctor immediately admitted him into the COVID unit. Both his lungs were filled with COVID-19 pneumonia and the virus had thickened his blood, making him susceptible to clots in his heart, lungs, and legs, “which could ultimately prove fatal.” He said they gave him steroids for his lungs, a breathing treatment, shots in his stomach to thin his blood, and “a cocktail of medications to fight the infection in my lungs.”

“The nights were filled with the sounds of people coughing uncontrollably and crying. Everyone was alone and desperate for help,” Ring said. “I remember looking out my window with the view of Lakeland Hills Boulevard, watching (Lakeland Police) cars pass and remembering how I used to be one of them. I cried and cried as I began to accept that I probably wasn’t going to make it out of the hospital alive. Everyday had just been more bad news and my symptoms kept getting worse.”

He hopes that people will realize the pandemic isn't over, to continue wearing a mask, and get vaccinated.

"I contracted the virus and unknowingly passed it to some of the people I love the most,” declining to say publicly who that is. He added that they are all doing ok. “I shared my story to say this - this pandemic is not over. Please take it seriously and remember to wear a mask. Even if you think they’re silly, it’s better than sitting all alone in a COVID unit wishing you had.”

https://www.theledger.com/story/news/regional/2021/07/07/lakeland-gop-leader-james-ring-survives-covid-urges-masks-and-vaccines/7882410002/

Ring said the emergency room doctor immediately admitted him into the COVID unit. Both his lungs were filled with COVID-19 pneumonia and the virus had thickened his blood, making him susceptible to clots in his heart, lungs, and legs, “which could ultimately prove fatal.” He said they gave him steroids for his lungs, a breathing treatment, shots in his stomach to thin his blood, and “a cocktail of medications to fight the infection in my lungs.”

“The nights were filled with the sounds of people coughing uncontrollably and crying. Everyone was alone and desperate for help,” Ring said. “I remember looking out my window with the view of Lakeland Hills Boulevard, watching (Lakeland Police) cars pass and remembering how I used to be one of them. I cried and cried as I began to accept that I probably wasn’t going to make it out of the hospital alive. Everyday had just been more bad news and my symptoms kept getting worse.”

"I contracted the virus and unknowingly passed it to some of the people I love the most,” declining to say publicly who that is. He added that they are all doing ok. “I shared my story to say this - this pandemic is not over. Please take it seriously and remember to wear a mask. Even if you think they’re silly, it’s better than sitting all alone in a COVID unit wishing you had.”

Anonymous wrote:Turning point co founder died in June 2020 - before the vaccine.

I’m fully vaccinated and do not support the vaccine deniers - but check you facts before posting.

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Anonymous wrote:A little reminder that it is appalling, yes, that anti-vaxxers will refuse the shot and that it will kill some of them, but it may well kill the people who cannot get the shot yet (children) and may well kill people who cannot get the shot perhaps ever (immune compromised people whose doctors have said it’s not appropriate for them).

It just saddens and angers me that here we are, facing down delta, parts of Australia appear to be facing a lockdown and we have plenty of vaccines - and plenty of people who can’t be bothered to get the shot for the most absurd reasons possible, weakening us all.

Steffan Tubbs, a longtime Denver radio personality and documentary filmmaker who's manned the afternoon-drive program at KNUS since early 2018, is currently hospitalized with COVID-19.
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous KNUS hosts have decried shutdown orders and safety protocols related to the novel coronavirus — perhaps most notably attorney Randy Corporon, who represented Bandimere Speedway after a July 4, 2020, event that attracted around 7,000 mostly unmasked attendees.

But the station's take on COVID-19 hasn't been universal. Morning-drive personality Peter Boyles has stirred up the audience over his unwillingness to act as a denier of the disease (as well as his belief that Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden), and Tubbs has focused on a range of other issues — many of them featured in his 2020 documentary Denver in Decay, which castigated the city for its response to last summer's social justice protests. Indeed, his 3 a.m. tweet marks the first time the word "COVID" has appeared in one of his Twitter messages in 2021.

Westword has reached out to Tubbs, who recently traveled to attend a child's graduation ceremonies. According to Boyles, speaking on the air this morning, Tubbs had not been vaccinated.

Anonymous wrote:Another one gone too soon /s

He was anti-vax and anti-mask.