Thankfully, our doctors and other medical staff are getting awfully good at caring for people with severe COVID, otherwise, one might actually begin to see a dip in the right-wing populist MAGA-type folks’ population and loss of voters. That is not, however, the way we want to win elections and gain political power.

In saying “we,” one should be referring to the global community because Right-Wing populism, extremism, and conspiracy paranoia, aren’t limited to the United States, indeed, a story out of Italy sounds strangely familiar.

According to The Daily Beast:

An Italian anti-vaxxer and COVID-denier who sparked outrage after declaring himself a “plague spreader” and boasting about how he walked around sick and maskless in a supermarket has died of COVID-19, according to local media reports.

Maurizio Buratti, also known as Mauro from Mantua, died in a Verona hospital Monday, just a few weeks after being hospitalized. He was 61.

So young. This man should have been looking at another 25 wise years on this Earth, if not more. But just like all too many of our MAGAs, it appears that this man wanted to hurt the people that had put him through “pain” (as he interpreted it).

Buratti’s condition took a turn for the worse, perhaps unsurprisingly, after he called in to the Zanzara radio program on Radio 24, where he was a frequent and well-known commenter, and openly told listeners he was seriously ill, with a high fever, but had made a point of strolling through a crowded grocery store maskless.

He railed against pandemic-related restrictions and claimed he was “defending the constitution,” saying he would not get tested for the coronavirus because of a supposed conspiracy in which he said the test swabs themselves cause the virus.

Test swabs cause the virus? That sounds almost like something we heard from Trump; “Are numbers are so large because we do so much testing…” True, not identical in rationale but from the same idiotic ballpark.

We don’t celebrate anyone’s death, but given this guy knew he had it and was trying to spread it, it sounds like his death might well have saved others’ lives. Awful thing to say, which makes it an awful truth.

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