Pete Coulson, a member of Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin’s education indoctrination task force, recently died from COVID-19, conservative talk radio host Bill Colley reported Thursday.

After at least three weeks of hospitalization, during which his oxygen levels were depleted, Coulson died sometime between Oct. 1 and Wednesday, according to Colley’s report.

“Pete was a very healthy 67. He would tell people he was vaccinated in Christ. He didn’t fear death,” Colley wrote.

Coulson joined the task force in June, replacing Idaho School Boards Association President Jason Knopp, who withdrew from the group that targeted alleged leftist teachings in public schools over four summer meetings.

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He's now in ICU.

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So, he's a Texan first, then an American. How patriotic of him.

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Anonymous wrote:Far right-wing commentator Josh Bernstein supposedly contracted Covid recently and posted a death threat to Fauci.

https://www.alternet.org/2021/10/fauci/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

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Anonymous wrote:One of my uncle’s relatives through marriage just died from Covid after several weeks on a ventilator. I never met the guy but I knew who he was because he was always commenting on my aunt and uncle’s Facebook posts with super MAGA political stuff. The guy’s own Facebook page is nothing but political memes including anti vaccine stuff. Like PP said, someone who basically became their politics. Now my aunt and uncle are posting the usual “So and so passed away please keep our family in our prayers” type of posts and posting photos of good times together. It must be complicated to grieve the loss of someone who refused to do something that likely would have prevented their death. It’s a bit strange to see people responding to my aunt and uncle’s posts without acknowledging the elephant in the room. I imagine no one will bring it up at his funeral and that if anyone does someone will say “don’t bring politics into this” or something like that.

It’s crazy how the above scenario just keeps playing out over and over and over again in the US. Anyone who won’t get the vaccine at this point probably can’t be convinced. They probably see themselves as soldiers willing to die in a battle for freedom. I have a hard time wrapping my head around it.

Yeah, the vaccine hesitant and vaccine deniers should be forwarded to suicide help lines. They seem to have a death wish and it is very preventable. But like someone who is dead set on committing suicide, sometimes it is impossible to save them from themselves.

Anonymous wrote:One of my uncle’s relatives through marriage just died from Covid after several weeks on a ventilator. I never met the guy but I knew who he was because he was always commenting on my aunt and uncle’s Facebook posts with super MAGA political stuff. The guy’s own Facebook page is nothing but political memes including anti vaccine stuff. Like PP said, someone who basically became their politics. Now my aunt and uncle are posting the usual “So and so passed away please keep our family in our prayers” type of posts and posting photos of good times together. It must be complicated to grieve the loss of someone who refused to do something that likely would have prevented their death. It’s a bit strange to see people responding to my aunt and uncle’s posts without acknowledging the elephant in the room. I imagine no one will bring it up at his funeral and that if anyone does someone will say “don’t bring politics into this” or something like that.

It’s crazy how the above scenario just keeps playing out over and over and over again in the US. Anyone who won’t get the vaccine at this point probably can’t be convinced. They probably see themselves as soldiers willing to die in a battle for freedom. I have a hard time wrapping my head around it.