The above name is unfamiliar to you?
Mr Bernier has the dubious distinction of being the third conservative anti-vaccination radio host to die from COVID-19.
You can read about him -and the other two hosts- who passed away in this article by Daniel Politi and presented on Slate.com:
Marc Bernier becomes the third Anti-Vax radio host to die from COVID 19
His death follows the deaths of Phil Valentine of Nashville and Dick Farrel of Florida, both of whom when they were hospitalized with COVID-19 decided that maybe the virus was indeed serious and urged their friends to vaccinate. For both of them, alas, it was too late and the virus took their lives.
However, for Mr. Bernier, it appears his final tweets suggested he remained an Anti-Vaxer even to his death.
I really don’t get it.
You hear about people being so anti-vaccine and anti-mask yet they fall for bullshit “treatments” like hydroxychloroquine and, more recently, ivermectin, a horse de-wormer (!!!!), instead of, you know, getting the free vaccine that has been proven to help against COVID-19.
It’s almost like they know, deep in their souls, that COVID-19 is serious but have so convinced themselves that the liberal media, Fauci, and the CDC, are somehow trying to bamboozle them with the approved vaccines and therefore IF they try anything, damned if they’ll do whatever Fauci or the CDC of FDA recommend… and therefore they go to dubious bullshit artists and stock up on their bullshit drugs and recommendations.
…whew…
Truly makes me wonder when a chunk of society collectively lost their damn minds and are so intensely sure their negative feelings toward such figures is justified they will go the extra mile to somehow “prove” their ideas/notions are right.
Even when it might mean they do so at the risk of their very own lives.