Florida GOP official who wanted to 'end Faucism' dies from COVID-19

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An official from Florida's Hillsborough County Republican Party — which has been busy mobilizing members to protest coronavirus restrictions such as school mask mandates — has died from COVID-19.


Now, the GOP official's friends and colleagues are spreading wild conspiracy theories about the "engineered virus," and alleging he was "illegally intubated" at a local hospital, according to a report from the Tampa Bay Times.

Gregg Prentice, a software developer who headed the local party's "election integrity" committee, recently checked in to Tampa General Hospital after experiencing "brain fog" and difficulty breathing, according to his friend, Jason Kimball. Prentice was placed on a ventilator and died the next day.

"Two days after Prentice's death, Kimball called for an investigation into Tampa General during the public comment period of the Tampa City Council meeting and accused the hospital of 'intubating people illegally,'" the Tampa Bay Times reports. "The remarks from Kimball earned a strong rebuke from members of the City Council who swiftly defended the hospital as a world-class medical institution. John Dingfelder called Kimball's comments 'very dangerous.'"

On Facebook, Kimball wrote: "Tampa General Hospital ER and ICU doctors are criminals and murderers!!! They intubate everyone and stick them on a ventilator for NO REASON just 'out of precaution' as the doctor told me - WITHOUT consent from the family!!! Tampa General Hospital is evil."

"We have a genetically engineered virus spreading around Florida," Kimball added. "We lost Gregg Prentice, a mentor to many in Hillsborough County, due to the engineered virus."

Prentice himself railed against local COVID-19 restrictions on his Facebook page last year.

"I am just hearing that our County Administrator Mike Merrill has PROHIBITED gatherings of more than 50 people?!?!?!" Prentice wrote in March 2020. "What is his problem? How in the world does he take a CDC 'suggestion' and a Presidential 'recommendation' and turn it into a Merrill PROHIBITION?!?!? This kind of stupid isn't limited to a single topic. And what are we going to do about it? He needs to be gone."

A month later, Prentice wrote, "We need more socialist distancing than we do social distancing."

"End Faucism," he wrote in May 2020.

The Tampa Bay Times notes that the Hillsborough County Republican Party recently hosted anti-mask, anti-vaxx Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene at its annual fundraiser — a maskless indoor event that went against CDC recommendations. Prentice also recently appeared on a podcast during which the host referred to COVID-19 as a "plandemic" and said it was designed to "crush small businesses and consolidate power in the multinational corporations."

During his many years working for the party, Prentice focused heavily on Florida's voter databases — often levying "severe accusations" at elections supervisors in Democratic counties, with his work drawing the attention of national conservative groups and GOP officials, who consulted with him when writing legislation. As head of the election integrity committee, Prentice led efforts to question election results in various counties, according to the Tampa Bay Times.

"The Hillsborough County GOP has called for a review of the 2020 election in Florida — a state former President Donald Trump won by more than 3 percentage points — similar to the partisan recount unfolding in Arizona," the newspaper reported.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/flori...covid-19-causes-financial-problems-for-party/

 

Yeah, the stupid never quit being stupid, they just double down on stupidity. You can't even feel sorry for this level of stupid. The more of them that outright die, the less they will spread their disease to the rest of us.

 

If you're vaccinated, why should you care?

 

because hospitals and services get overwhelmed.

I've told you this a dozen times.

 

Where?

 

every time you act like all these hospital cases and deaths don't matter.

Hospitals are overwhelmed, nurses and doctors are overworked, people who don't have covid get denied treatment.

this shouldn't need to be explained to an adult.

The only "issue" is how you clowns are trying your best to make a pandemic the absolute worst one possible by spreading BS about a life-saving vaccine. This isn't hate, it's karmatic schadenfreude!

 

Many of the hospitals are under staffed Due to vaccine mandates. Google it.

 

...but where? Give us an example of what you're talking about.

 

https://www.google.com/search?q=del...wAngAgAEAiAEAkgEAmAEAyAEIwAEB&sclient=gws-wiz

 

...from your link...

"Nearly one in three Americans between the ages of 50 and 80 put off an in-person appointment for medical care in 2020 because they were worried about exposure to the novel coronavirus, new national poll data show.

The findings suggest that even though most health care settings adapted early to reduce patients’ exposure risk from staff and fellow patients, concern about exposure to the virus that causes COVID-19 was enough to cause them to delay already scheduled care."

https://healthblog.uofmhealth.org/w...icans-delayed-health-care-over-covid-concerns

 

A Man Died After Being Turned Away From 43 ICUs At Capacity Due To COVID, Family Says

https://www.npr.org/sections/corona...virus-alabama-43-icus-at-capacity-ray-demonia

 

A war hero died because hospitals were full of COVID patients.

A little over a week ago, as U.S. soldiers risked their lives flying tens of thousands of Afghans and Americans to safety, U.S. Army veteran Daniel Wilkinson — who earned a Purple Heart in Afghanistan — went to the hospital in Bellville, west of Houston.

An emergency room physician discovered that Wilkinson had gallstone pancreatitis, a treatable condition in which a gallstone blocks the pancreatic duct and causes inflammation. He needed care the Bellville hospital couldn’t provide.

For more than six hours, according to a CBS report, Wilkinson waited.

No hospital had room for him. No ICU had beds. Hospital after hospital told his doctor they were bursting at the seams with COVID-19 patients.

Finally, a bed in a Houston V.A. hospital opened up. But not soon enough. The next day, Wilkinson died. He was only 46.


https://www.houstonchronicle.com/op...You-want-tyranny-A-war-hero-died-16419994.php

 

A Kansas man died waiting for an ICU bed while hospitals were filled to capacity with COVID-19 patients

A Kansas man reportedly died after waiting days for an intensive care unit bed because all the nearby hospitals were filled to capacity — largely with COVID-19 patients.

Robert Van Pelt, 44, died August 22, five days after his heart unexpectedly stopped while he underwent a routine procedure at a hospital in McPherson, Kansas, according to The Kansas City Star.

The newspaper reported that after Van Pelt's heart stopped — leaving him without oxygen for several minutes — he was airlifted to a hospital in Wichita and intubated. But doctors said Van Pelt needed to be in a hospital with a neurological ICU.

A GoFundMe created by Van Pelt's family, which raised $9,840 so far, said he needed to be transferred "due to possible damage to the brain and prolonged brain seizure activity."

But Van Pelt ended up waiting three days for a bed in a neurological ICU, according to KWCH.

By the time a bed opened up for Van Pelt at Ascension Via Christi St. Francis in Wichita, Kansas, doctors said he no longer had brain activity, the Kansas City Star reported.

The newspaper added that Ascension had converted some of their neurological ICU beds for COVID-19 patients.

In an update last Sunday, Van Pelt's family said that he "unfortunately, passed away tonight at 6:44 pm in the loving arms of his family and friends. His organs are now on their way to saving the lives of others and enlightening the lives of their family."

In Kansas, the highly contagious Delta variant has left hospitals in the state overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients, according to the Associated Press.

"We accept transfers as we are able, but when the volumes are running high, there often are times when we cannot," Kris Hill, VP of nursing of Ascension Via Christi St. Francis, told the AP.

The coronavirus pandemic

https://www.insider.com/kansas-man-dies-icu-unites-full-due-to-covid-19-2021-8

 

I have had delayed appointments due to Covid. They were just scheduled checkups and the nursing staff just had a survey for me to answer. If there had been any concerns I could have got an appointment.

 

First off, the man wasn't "turned away" from 43 ICUs. It's not like he was driving around to 43 hostpitals while having a heart attack. The folks at CRMC called around, found one 200 miles away.

"...that he was forced to spend his last days so far from home." That's the complaint. It doesn't say how long after arriving there he died. It must have been a while since the family complained about the drive.

Next, COVID patients were only 50% of the beds. The rest are likely recovering from elective surgery put off for the past 18 months.

"ICU capacity in Alabama has been maxed out in recent weeks, and COVID-19 patients occupy about half of the intensive care beds, according to Johns Hopkins University."

President Trump converted the 800,000 sf Javits Center into a huge ICU facility in a week. It wouldn't hard to temporally expand capacity if the need was truly there.

https://www.defense.gov/Explore/New...rs-converts-nycs-javits-center-into-hospital/

 

only 50 percent of the beds...derp

 

This should give you an idea of how many beds we're talking about...

https://www.modernhealthcare.com/hospitals/covid-19-could-fill-hospital-beds-how-many-are-there

In Alabama, we're talking about 1700 beds...half (850) with COVID patients...out of 5,000,000 residents. Of the COVID patients currently in hospitals, only 2% die. That means that just 17 currently hospitalized patients in Alabama won't make it. 17 out of 5,000,000. More people die each weekend in Chicago from gun violence.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/nhcs/hospital-mortality-by-week.htm

 

Facts don’t matter. How enlighten. Keep your day job, that is until a supervisor sees your always on here instead of working. No wonder you want unions.

 

Have you ever experienced any type of pancreas attack Yak?

 

Jason Kimball. He's the stupid one in his family.

Here's the Rhodes Scholar (in Kimball terms anyway) of the bunch.