These types of stories are, sadly, going to be increasingly common in the next few months and perhaps year. Despite being ironic, they are obviously very sad, and no one is going to take any gratuitous “satisfaction” or self-righteousness in the fact that they happen, at least not here. Some anger, however, is justified.

A Texas man who called the vaccine a “poison” died of the real fatal risk, COVID. Alan Scott Lanoix 54-year-old died last month. His wife and three sons buried him on Father’s Day. Imagine. From everything we’ve seen and read, it was 100% preventable.

Now his sister wants the news out, everywhere, as if people don’t know. But we applaud the effort. According to Rawstory:

“It’s hard to believe that one decision can change your whole life,” Lanoix’s sister Lisa Adler told New Orleans’ CBS affiliate. “The kids had to bury their father on Father’s day. He thought the vaccine was poison and he was afraid of getting it and there’s a lot of people that have that same feeling.

“I was scared to get it myself, but you have to worry about what the consequences are,” she added. “He was a great person and I urge anybody if they are on the fence about getting the vaccine, do it in my brother’s memory.”

Tragic. But how many of those remaining are going to be moved by the story? Will they even hear the story? Too many of these people live in their own little world and get nothing but misinformation. From this point forward, COVID is going to become almost exclusively an anti-vax disease, most – by far, are MAGAs.

It seems almost irrelevant to point out that he spent 17 days on a ventilator in the ICU prior to dying. The disease doesn’t just take lives, but also drains economic resources, making hospitalization more dangerous for everyone in society.

Entirely tragic, entirely avoidable, and entirely ironic. “Poison.” The virus is poison, the vaccine, a near miracle.

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