South Carolina’s longtime Freedom advocate, Pressley Stutts, is a beloved patriot who needs our help due to a sudden turn of events. Pressley recently took on an unexpected battle with the China virus, and as of this writing, is now hospitalized and in ICU. Pressley’s wife Patty was also hospitalized. She has returned home, but in compromised health, and will likely need assistance until Pressley is up to speed.
While praying for a speedy recovery for them both, Pressley’s friends also anticipate what is likely to be a long, slow recovery, due to the severity of his illness. Thus, the many unknowns in this scenario have inspired me to create this account.
A local Republican Party official in South Carolina died of COVID-19 Thursday, after spending nearly three weeks in the ICU during which he posted misinformation about vaccines and called coronavirus “a deadly bio-weapon.”
Both 64-year-old Pressley Stutts and his wife were rushed to the hospital with COVID-19 complications on August 1, according to the Greenville News. His wife was released earlier this month, but Stutts was moved to the intensive care unit.
On August 8, Stutts shared a picture of a nurse protesting against vaccine mandates and added: “Yes! Give a SHOUT OUT to those on the front lines. They place their lives in danger Every. Single. Day.”
While hospitalized, Stutts continued to dutifully post pro-Trump content, including posts about his belief that the election was stolen.
“Every day in ICU, they give me a cognitive test asking me various questions as to date, where am I, etc,” Stutts posted on August 4, along with a picture of himself and Trump. “They always ask who the President is and I keep telling them the President is STILL Donald J. Trump! Not going to let them fool me with that poser named Joe. Nosirree!”
When he was hospitalized, Stutts said COVID-19 “created double pneumonia in my lungs.” He falsely described the disease as “a deadly bio-weapon perpetrated upon the people of the world by enemies foreign, and perhaps domestic,” but stressed that he was against vaccine and mask mandates as “an ardent defender of Freedom and Liberty.”
Even after he was moved to the ICU, he continued to insist that he was against vaccine and mask mandates and shared anti-vaccine content on his Facebook. Stutts posted a quote attributed to British science fiction writer Ian Watson about what’s “in your best interest” which has spread throughout anti-vaxxer social media as a rallying cry against COVID-related mandates.
In his final post, on August 13, Stutts said he was “making a decision to go on a ventilator.” Lin Wood, the QAnon-promoting pro-Trump lawyer whom Stutts backed in his bid to become chair of the South Carolina Republican Party, claimed in a Telegram post two days later that the hospital was effectively killing Stutts and advised his followers to “avoid hospitals at all costs,” calling them “medical prisons.”
Straight up nutters.
he/him we all just have to live through it,
holding each other’s hands.
In his final post, on August 13, Stutts said he was “making a decision to go on a ventilator.” Lin Wood, the QAnon-promoting pro-Trump lawyer whom Stutts backed in his bid to become chair of the South Carolina Republican Party, claimed in a Telegram post two days later that the hospital was effectively killing Stutts and advised his followers to “avoid hospitals at all costs,” calling them “medical prisons.”
No need to blame the hospital. Doth the axe boast against him that heweth?
Social distancing has likely already begun to flatten the curve...Continue to research good antivirals and vaccine candidates. Make everyone wear masks. -- J.D. Vance
94.6% of the confirmed cases have been unvaccinated
93.8% of the covid hospitalizations have been unvaccinated
96.4% of the covid deaths have been unvaccinated
Of course, the percentage vaccinated has increased over time, so the July percentages are lower.
79.9% of the confirmed cases were unvaccinated
79.3% of the covid hospitalizations were unvaccinated
85.7% of the covid deaths were unvaccinated
60% of folks in my county are fully vaccinated, so if the vaccines "didn't work," all those percentages for last month should be around 40%.
Only four vaccinated people have died of COVID in my county. I'm liking those numbers.
The bad news:
July had double the number of new cases than June
The first two weeks of August had more new cases than the total for July
he/him we all just have to live through it,
holding each other’s hands.
RI and you have to wonder why folks aren't convinced by that. FDA approval for Pfizer expected on Monday. Maybe that's what some skeptics were waiting for. Let's hope so.
LIGHT HAS A NAME
We only get stronger when we are lifting something that is heavier than what we are used to. ~ KF
RI and you have to wonder why folks aren't convinced by that. FDA approval for Pfizer expected on Monday. Maybe that's what some skeptics were waiting for. Let's hope so.
Formal approval will probably make the difference for some. It will also make it easier to require vaccination in certain circumstances. I think the military will start as soon as Pfizer is approved. Teachers in our district are required to be vaccinated. I suspect mandatory vaccinations will pop up in other circumstances.
he/him we all just have to live through it,
holding each other’s hands.
