Pressley Stutts, a Republican leader in South Carolina, has died from COVID-19 at the age of 64.

Though we are never happy to report such things, we’re becoming increasingly jaded and increasingly angry at the wake of suffering these victims leave behind. Earlier this month, Stutts and his wife were rushed to the hospital due to decreasing oxygen levels.

His wife recovered and returned home a few days later, but Stutts developed pneumonia. He was sharing Facebook posts right up until he was put on a ventilator in the ICU. (Almost all ventilator patients are now put in a medical coma, or there’s every indication he would’ve continued his conspiracy theory rants while in the ICU on a vent had he not been medically induced.)

According to People magazine:

Over the course of the pandemic — including his time in the hospital — Stutts made several social media posts about COVID-19 conspiracy theories, and once called face masks an “illusion.” 

In July, he also shared dismissive comments about the delta variant in a Facebook post, which has been flagged by the platform as false information, before criticizing Vice President Kamala Harris’ vaccination efforts in South Carolina. 

“It is a deadly bio-weapon perpetrated upon the people of the world by enemies foreign, and perhaps domestic.” he wrote in a lengthy post alongside photos of himself in the hospital. He later described the virus as “hell on earth”. 

“I really don’t have words to say about the imprint that he left on the political landscape in South Carolina,” Harvell said. “He had the kind of personality that enabled him to get done what others couldn’t do.”

Yes, well, we have some words to say about the imprint that he left on the political landscape in South Carolina. If this was as influential as we’re told, he’s surely left his imprint on people in the hospital right now trying to avoid the same fate or they’re just days away from their hospital trip. After all, this was a guy writing about this virus as he was in the hospital.

Though the article doesn’t say that Stutts wasn’t vaccinated, we know he wasn’t vaccinated. Vaccinated people don’t go to the hospital, let alone die of the disease. This means that if his followers heed the lesson of his death, they have to navigate the delta variant for another month if they get vaccinated tomorrow, a booster in two weeks, and immunity from death two weeks after that.

Vaccination should be his final “imprint.”

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