A reality television star is serving as yet another example of why it’s important to just follow the science when it comes to public health and safety. Jason Hitch of TLC’s 90 Day Fiancé has died from complications of coronavirus.

Hitch’s sister Shannon confirmed to multiple news outlets that the 45-year-old Army veteran was not vaccinated and that he had no “comorbidities,” or preexisting medical conditions.

Hitch first appeared on 90 Day Fiancé in 2014. The show follows couples that have gotten K-1 visas — passes into America available only to foreign citizens engaged to US citizens, who are then given 3 months to marry after being issued the visa.

The Florida native married a Brazilian woman, Cassia Tavares, who moved to the US to be with him. The couple filed for divorce in 2018, after having separated the year prior. Ironically, Hitch had expressed on the show that he was worried about his future wife becoming “bored” after moving to America, not enjoying the weather, or being unimpressed by the entertainment:

Cassia getting bored here has been on my mind. The next 90 days is gonna be tough. I hope that I can fix all that.

Unfortunately, Jason Hitch is not the first and will not be the last person to die unnecessarily from the highly contagious virus or one of its strains. The fact is, there are too many people who have either been fooled by anti-vaccine propaganda into distrusting the life-saving medicine, or who are simply too selfish to concern themselves with helping to end the pandemic by getting the shot.

In the past week alone, I have met two different men who refuse to get vaccinated just because they “don’t like being told what to do.” Of course, we’re told what to do every day in a million ways and do it all without thinking twice — wearing our seat belts, obeying traffic signals, not smoking in airports, keeping our music down late at night.

It’s a shame that people don’t see getting the vaccine and potentially saving lives as being important enough to bother with.

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