After a rough battle with COVID-19, a North Carolina woman who was unvaccinated is now urging people to get the shot, 13News reports.
“I thought I was healthy enough and that I could escape it,” said Linda Edwards, who contracted the virus about three weeks ago. “Really, it was the most frightening thing I’ve ever been through in my life.”
“It was devastating. I had no dreams of ever staying that long. It’s the longest I’ve ever been in the hospital,” she said of her two-week hospital stay. “I was there hoping and praying my son was okay here because he had tested positive, too.”
Her son, Shane, had been airlifted to the same hospital she was staying in and was in the room right next to her, but doctors didn’t tell her because they didn’t want to worry her. Shane was a dire situation of his own, facing renal failure and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
“They thought it would really bother me, and it would have because he was really serious,” she said. “They said it’s a miracle he walked out of there.”
“It’s changed my whole life. I’ll never be the same,” Edwards said. “I just thought if I live through this, I want to go on a mission to try to help people to see that it is not worth not taking the vaccine because of what it can do to your family. We could’ve easily have had two funerals.”
Only 34% of the people in the county where Edwards lives are partially vaccinated, and 31% are fully vaccinated. According to Graham County Health Director Beth Booth, the vaccine hesitancy in the county “is almost taken to another level.”
“We feed them the science and the information, but they still believe a certain way. A lot of the belief system out here is that it is still very political,” Booth said.
As for Edwards, she says she’ll be getting vaccinated as soon as she can.
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An unvaccinated Trump supporter recently filmed herself throwing an epic temper tantrum after the cruise she was supposed to be on booted her off after she tested positive for COVID-19.
A TikTok user who goes by the name of Amethyst216 last week posted a video in which she documented what she said was an unjust removal from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship due to her positive COVID test.
At the start of the video, she claims that she already had COVID once three months ago, which she says gives her “high positive antibodies.”
As the hazmat suit-clad ship workers try to remove her and her luggage from the vessel, she grows more and more agitated and starts screaming at the top of her lungs.
“I’m tired of Royal Caribbean telling me what I’ve gotta do when you’ve been f*cking lying to us!” she screamed. “They’re f*cking lying!”
In previous TikTok videos, Amethyst216 expressed her devotion to former President Donald Trump, including a video last year in which she donned a red MAGA hat and said that Trump “loves us and he proves it to us every single day.”
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Went on #RoyalCaribbeanFreedomOfTheSea July2 We gave them our negative Covid test &they accidentally gave us a band 4 vaccinated ppl. #foryoupage
Five members of a north Texas family were charged in connection with the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Kristi Munn, of Borger, and other family members traveled to Washington, D.C., for the “Stop The Steal” rally promoted by former president Donald Trump, according to a relative of the woman’s fiancé who notified the FBI three days after the riot.
“Washington D.C. here we come,” Kristi Munn posted on Facebook, tagging family members who traveled with her. “#StopTheSteal #TrumpIsMyPresident.”
Agents examined screenshots from Munn’s Facebook and Snapchat accounts the relative had made showing six family members, including a minor child who has not been charged, at the U.S. Capitol, and investigators then examined social media accounts belonging to other family members.
“POTUS HAS REQUESTED YOUR ATTENDANCE WASHINGTON DC JANUARY 6TH 2021,” posted relative Tom Munn on his own Facebook account. “Our President has only asked two things from us, so far… #1 Vote #2 January 6, 2021.”
Tom Munn also posted a photo of the pickup truck and trailer camper, which was festooned with a QAnon sign, that they used to travel to Washington, along with updates from shortly after the riot.
“Made it back to the hotel about an hour ago,” Tom Munn posted. “Have lots of pics and video to follow . . . the DC police opened up on a small group climbing the scaffolding, with gas grenades . . . The only damage to the capital building was several windows and sets of doors. Nothing inside the capital was damaged. I can tell you, patriots NEVER made it to the chamber. There was no violence in the capital building, the crowd was NOT out of control . . . they were ANGRY!!!”
Kristi Munn also posted updates from the event on her own Facebook page, where she similarly denied the violent actions seen in multiple videos from the siege.
“These women stormed OUR capital and demanded OUR House and Country back!!!!” Kristi Munn posted. “They did not brake [sic] burn threaten swear push touch or hurt another American there today but they damn sure made their voice hear [sic]!!!”
Investigators identified all of the family members shown on surveillance and other video climbing through broken windows into the Capitol during the riot, and they also appeared in various livestream videos recorded that day inside the building.
Subsequent social media activity confirmed their presence inside the building, including one Facebook conversation between Kayli Munn and another relative who asked how the march had been.
“F*cking great!” Kayli Munn said. “Holy sh*t we were inside the f*cking capital!”
Cell phone location data obtained in a search warrant further confirmed their presence inside the Capitol as Trump supporters attempted to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s election win.
Kristi Munn, Tom Munn, Dawn Munn, Josh Munn and Kayli Munn were each charged with illegally entering a restricted government building with the intention of stopping official business and using threatening language in the Capitol to disrupt a session of Congress.
Large cruise ships will be banned from sailing into the centre of Venice from August 1 amid fears they are causing irreparable damage to the lagoon city, Italy’s government said Tuesday.
“The decree adopted today represents an important step for the protection of the Venetian lagoon system,” said Prime Minister Mario Draghi in a statement following a cabinet minister that approved the law.
Instead they will be diverted to the city’s industrial port of Marghera, although this is viewed as only a temporary solution, with ministers calling for ideas on a new permanent terminal.
Campaigners have for years been calling for cruise ships to be banned from sailing past the iconic St Mark’s Square, saying they cause large waves that undermine the city’s foundations and harm the fragile ecosystem of its lagoon.
The debate was reignited by the return last month of cruise ships after months of quiet in the city during the coronavirus pandemic.
The UN’s cultural agency UNESCO late last month recommended Venice be put on a list of “World Heritage in Danger” sites ahead of a meeting of its World Heritage Committee in China starting Friday.
Infrastructure minister Enrico Giovannini said the ban was a “necessary step to protect the environmental, landscape, artistic and cultural integrity of Venice”.
The ban will apply to ships which fulfill any of four criteria: weighing more than 25,000 tonnes, measuring more than 180 meters long, more than 35 meters high or producing more than 0.1 percent sulphur.
Ships that do not fulfill one of these criteria — notably smaller cruise ships with around 200 passengers — are “considered sustainable” and will continue to be able to dock in Venice centre.
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