We have a very tragic story to talk
about and involves a COVID death.
A COVID death of a sheriff's deputy
in Denver.
And this death was announced
on Twitter by the Denver sheriff's
office.
Talking about the fact that he had
passed away tragically from
COVID complications.
His identity by the way,
is freely available both in their
statements and the social
media posts we'll be showing you.
But, I feel as a person who lost
a family member to COVID.
While I find this particular
story to be very revealing
about the effect that COVID
misinformation being spread by
incredibly powerful people has had.
Resulting in deaths this deputy,
I still feel uncomfortable on
behalf of the family or for
the sake of the family.
And so, we're going to be obscuring
the identity.
That said, this sheriff's deputy
did pass away.
And in fact, that department had
lost another deputy just two
weeks earlier to COVID.
Now, I know maybe you're
vaccinated, maybe you live
in one in a part of the country.
Where it kind of feels the pandemic
has passed that 33 year-olds
shouldn't be dying of COVID.
But they are still dying of COVID,
many people are still dying
of COVID.
And many of them
are dying needlessly.
Now, a sheriff's deputy is other
first responders in the state of
Colorado.
Became eligible for the COVID-19
vaccination back in January.
And were among those allowed to
have vaccines as the very
first wave of doses were available
in the state.
But the shots were not mandatory.
And it turns out that as is true
with many, this deputy was opposed
to the vaccine according to
public posts on his Facebook page.
He posted multiple images and
comments about mask-wearing and
the vaccine.
So it wasn't just the vaccine,
it was the measures.
All of what was being done to stop
the spread of the virus.
He posted things like,
before you shame me in public for
not having a mask,
ask yourself one simple question.
Will this mask stop an uppercut?
The joke being that he will punch
you in the face if you point out
that he's exposing himself
to a virus.
In response to a comment that said,
laugh it up as the next wave hits
and everything gets closed again.
Because it's unfortunately we
are seeing numbers climbing again.
Sorry to be a downer, but
it's true.
One month ago, you responded,
I'm not afraid of the last wave, or
the next one.
And he wasn't, he had been
convinced that it wasn't a big
deal, but it was still a big deal.
In America, a lot of
people are still getting COVID.
We're going to get to those
numbers in one second.
Wanted to show you one more image
that was being spread by a friend
of the network Ken Klippinstein.
He had posted a meme saying,
I don't care if you've had your
vaccine, I have an immune system.
With the issue with that being
that the nearly 600,000
Americans who've died of COVID.
And the millions of others who
will suffer life changing side
effects of having had it.
They had immune systems too.
And it wasn't enough to save their
lives as it
was not enough to save his life.
And so he passed away, and he's not
the only one, it's not over.
23,000 Americans are still getting
COVID every day or
being tested positive for it.
At least, that is down but
it's still a lot, and we're still
averaging 667 deaths every day.
Which seems a lot when the number
was going up.
But now that it's going down,
people are pretending as if that
might as well be zero, but
it's not.
His deputy is just one of those
667 odd deaths in any given day.
And it's looking based on what
we're seeing from his activity
didn't have to be that way.
He was led to believe insane things
about COVID as so
many generally conservatives were.
And that is how you get to
667 deaths a day.
That's how you get to 600,000
deaths overall so
far in the pandemic.
>> So this is mainly to try to
help right-wingers,
they'll never believe it.
But most of the left-wing
is already vaccinated.
Well, I'm vaccinated, over 60% of
California is vaccinated.
We're fine, and
if you get vaccinated,
even if you get the disease.
You'll get a small viral load and
you're very likely to be fine.
So we're actually trying to help
the people who are not vaccinated
like this officer.
But they just don't want it,
they don't want our help.
They would rather have lies that
endanger their lives,
than to believe the truth.
So protecting his name etc because
>> [CROSSTALK] It's going to feel
bad for the family.
>> Of course and I feel bad for
him, I feel bad for him, that he
joined a cult psychologically.
>> Yeah. >> And that cult convinced
them that to almost literally drink
the Kool-Aid, and so >> When
you do something more, >> Yeah.
>> It also convinced them to tell
other people, that they are somehow
dumb or silly or wrong,
if they take care of themselves.
And I want us to see how ironic
it is,
that no one talks about not getting
a cancer screening the same way.
Nobody talks about not going to
get a checkup, the same way,
these are medical things.
These are health centric elements
that all of us engage in on some
level.
But this one thing is so
important to some people, that they
must share their healthcare advice.
Or their indoctrination to the rest
of the world.
And tell people,
don't get that prostate exam,
don't do that, right?
Or don't get your annual check up,
don't do that,
you don't need to do that.
But they're saying,
don't wear a mask,
don't get the vaccine.
And they become part of
the ecosystem, that creates death.
And yes it's tragic, it is sad, but
it needs to be revealed,
because opportunities like these
teach you lessons.
>> Yeah.
>> And there are people that were
around here that they believed him.
They don't believe him anymore,
that's why this story
needs to be told.
>> Another brilliant point, I had
not thought about it that way.
I mean, who would go around going,
don't get cancer screenings.
You don't want to find out if you
have cancer.
I mean, that would be >> Right.
>> The craziest thing you've ever
heard. And here they are doing
the craziest thing you've ever
heard, and >> Exactly.
>> Yeah, I just reminded of John
kerry's line out
when he was centered, but
when he came back from Vietnam.
And it was our unit and a war and
he said, how do you ask a man to be
the last man to die for a mistake?
And right now, the right-wing,
probably the most predominant
person in that culture
is at this point Tucker Carlson.
Even Donald Trump has said
take the vaccine >> But for times.
>> Yeah, but we'll times but Tucker
Carlson is spreading anti vaccine
propaganda, nightly on his program.
And he's basically asking you to be
the last man to die for a mistake.
And unfortunately,
this officer was one of those men,
but he isn't the last man.
>> Yeah.
>> There's going to be 667 tomorrow
and the day after, and
the day after.
Imagine if you had 667 people died
in a mass shooting in one event.
It would be the largest news story
for now, I hope.
[LAUGH] Soon that will become
commonplace.
>> Mm-hm.
>> But when it happens for
COVID, there's a third of
the country saying.
No big deal,
don't believe your lying eyes.
And it's okay,
if our family members die.
It's amazing,
I've never seen anything like it.
It's Jonestown, on a mass scale.