Karma Comes for the Radio Anti-Vaxxers

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

Stories have been flooding social media for months about outspoken anti-vaxxers and COVID conspiracy nuts who wind up contracting the dreaded disease and then spend weeks writhing in extreme pain and discomfort before finally expiring.   Herman Cain led the way and countless others have since followed along in his footsteps.  Karma, it seems, has become almost as prolific as the virus itself.

This morning there was a story at Dailykos.com which discussed three radio talk show hosts and one evangelizer who had all spoken out against COVID vaccinations - and who all died of COVID within the past few weeks.  I found it so interesting that I decided to do a little more digging and see what I could learn about those individuals.

The four, all white, conservative men, were headquartered in just two states - two in Tennessee and two in Florida - and they passed away within a twenty-four day period.   Three were in their sixties, and the fourth was eighty.  All had used their radio perches to downplay the pandemic, take potshots at government efforts to control the spread of the disease, and to speak out against getting vaccinated.

The first to go was Dick Farrell, a 65-year-old talk show host out of Palm Beach County, Florida, who died of the effects of the virus on August 4th.    Farrell had referred to the spread of COVID as a "scamdemic" and had called Dr. Anthony Fauci a"power-tripping, lying freak."  And while Dick Farrell continued to minimize the situation even after becoming sick, he did quietly call his close friends and encourage them to get vaccinated. 

The next up was "Pastor" Jimmy deYoung, 80, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, who died on August 15th.  DeYoung, whose syndicated radio program, "Prophecy Today," ran internationally on an estimated 1,500 stations, and who was an occasional resident of Jerusalem, had discouraged his followers from getting vaccinated, and he had referred to the vaccine program as a "government control."  DeYoung also reportedly said that taking the Pfizer vaccine would make women sterile.

The third talk show host to succumb to COVID this month was Phil Valentine of Nashville, Tennessee.  Valentine, at just 61, was the youngest of the four, and he perhaps suffered the most.  He had been ill with the disease since July 11th and died on August 21st.  Valentine had spoken against getting the vaccinations, and at one point he had even recorded a parody song about getting vaccinated.  To his ultimate credit, he changed his mind after contracting the virus.

The final one to go was Mark Bernier of Daytona Beach, Florida, who died yesterday at the age of sixty-five.  Bernier, who had said on-air that he would not take the COVID vaccine, caught the disease and spent the final three weeks of his life in the hospital.

And that's it for radio talk show hosts who have died from COVID during August of 2021 - so far.  There are, of course, nearly three full days left in the month, so those sitting in front of microphones might want to show some restraint because karma truly is being a bitch right now!

Those who openly defy science do so at their own peril.