- Tip #1: If they’re trying to get you killed, they’re not your friend.
- Tip #2: If they desert you in the face of a real enemy, they’re not your friend.
- Tip #3: If they dump you because you’ve decided to get vaccinated, they’re not your friend.
Jim Sells, 71, a retired pilot who lives in Georgia, attended a Wisconsin airshow. Prior to this, he was on conservative social media “all the time;” I needn’t go into detail about what ideas filled his head. Suffice to say, he says, “I’m with 500,000 people, hardly a single mask, and it smells like freedom.”
Jumping off a cliff is freedom, too. So is standing in front of a train. Nobody’s going to stop you.
Neither do I need to tell you what happened next. One or more of his 500,000 friends infected him. He didn’t take the symptoms seriously at first. He took vitamins. When he started having breathing trouble, an acquaintance had to talk him into going to the hospital.
At the hospital, doctors told him “they didn’t know if they could help him,” but would do “all they could.” They put him on oxygen mask and attached heart monitors. Then, they “asked me if I wanted to be resuscitated. And I’m in total shock,” he says. (Spoiler alert: He survived. But not by much.)
Sells spent 16 days in the hospital, mostly in the ICU. (How much did that cost someone else? — Ed.) And there are after-effects; even today, he’s not completely recovered. He’s still in physical therapy, and “even minor exertion still leaves him exhausted.”
On top of that, he’s being excommunicated by his conservative friends, because he plans to get vaccinated. What the heck is with that? Why do they care whether he gets vaccinated? It’s not their arm.
But it is what it is, and what it is, is “Sells says he has already lost friends over his recent advocacy for vaccines,” CNN says. But actually, no, he hasn’t lost any friends, because they were never his friends to begin with. They were his worst enemies.
Read story here.