34-year-old who joked on Twitter about not being vaccinated dies from COVID-19: report

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By Tom Boggioni
Published July 24, 2021

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According to a report from KCAL Los Angeles, a 34-year-old man who joked six weeks ago that he had not been vaccinated against COVID-19 died from the novel coronavirus this week after documenting on his social media accounts his declining health while asking for prayers.

The report states that Stephen Harmon, a graduate of Hillson College, made his last social media post on Wednesday just before he was intubated.

He wrote, "i'm choosing to go under intubation, i've fought this thing as hard as i can but unfortunately it's reached a point of critical choice & as much as i hate having to do this i'd rather it be willingness than forced emergency procedure. don't know when i'll wake up, please pray."

https://www.rawstory.com/covid/

Well dude you could have gotten a free shot(s), now you have left your family with the burden of paying for your hospital costs and your funeral....this is just how stupid you were and everyone else that follows what ever you idiots follow...you were advised...

[Texaswitchy]

1. His fault.

No sympathy.

Sadly more to come.

[AZ8theist]

40. Sorry, but I can't help laugh my ass off...

At these fucking morons.
Put myself, my family AT RISK BECAUSE OF YOUR STUPIDITY??
FUCK YOU.
FYI: I'm fully vaxxed and wear a mask EVERYWHERE in public. Hopefully, social Darwinism will thin the herd of imbeciles and Republicans. A better society awaits....

[liberal N proud]

2. Darwin says hold my beer

You can't escape science.

[Tadpole Raisin]

3. Unfortunately this will be one story

of thousands more to come and the pages of obituaries will again swell.

A pandemic of the unvaccinated. By the time they realize, if they ever do, there will be the doctor there like the one who was interviewed telling them “I’m sorry but it’s too late.”

[viva la]

7. As angry as I am at the unvaxxed because of the damage their resistance is doing to children-

I'm also angry with them for the traumatic and continuing ordeal they are forcing on health-care workers. A year and a half almost now has consumed the hospital staffs all across the world, and they probably had in April started tentatively planning vacations and weeks off...

But now-- back in crisis mode.

AND FOR WHAT?

[Tadpole Raisin]

11. You are so right!!!

Thank you for adding that!

[hibbing]

15. +1000

[roamer65]

4. 🦠🦠🦠

I’m NOT joking.


-Delta

[piddyprints]

5. My prayer:

That he didn’t infect people who couldn’t be vaccinated or were otherwise vulnerable. Yeah, that won’t work, but I’ll humor the “pray for me” crowd when they refused to do the responsible thing.

[LisaL]

6. I guess the joke is on him.

NT

[samnsara]

8. what other poor choices has he made during his short life?

[ansible]

9. Shouldn't more younger people be dying from the virus?

Death rate for the virus still disproportionally affects older people

[jmbar2]

10. The Dr's statement on this story is powerful

https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/07/23/hillsong-church-stephen-harmon-dies-covid-19-unvaccinated/

[Delphinus]

57. The tweet

(or Instagram post) the 34-year old put out three days before he died ... well, his god must have wanted him "home" or his faith wasn't strong enough for his god to heal him. That language irks me greatly.

[XanaDUer2]

12. Oh, so he finally died

I've been following this. He was attached to something called Hillsong Church.

His foolishness killed him. But at least he filled up his social media.

[Comfortably_Numb]

23. Maybe he did an onlyfans page before he crossed the idiot rainbow so his family isn't crushed

by his hospital and funeral costs.

[Mariana]

44. Maybe his fellow church members will take this as a sign from God

that they should get vaccinated. It's not likely, I know, but maybe they will.

[MissB]

50. The article linked a few posts above

Notes a statement from a pastor at the church that basically says, this guys views are his own, most of us at the church are vaccinated.

[Sherman A1]

13. Oh, Well. I guess being unvaccinated worked out pretty well for him

or perhaps not. But, he's not joking anymore.........

[Ferrets are Cool]

14. No sympathy.

[Marcuse]

16. Thoughts and prayers.

[johnthewoodworker]

17. Lets see, you deny the vaccine out of fear, Trumptard, or stupidity and die. Oh well.

[IronLionZion]

18. "If you're having email problems, I feel back for you, son. I got 99 problems, but a vax ain't one."

Was the funny joke if anyone else was curious. It's based on a Jay-Z song.



https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/07/23/hillsong-church-stephen-harmon-dies-covid-19-unvaccinated/

[keithbvadu2]

19. Another death for CPAC to celebrate.

Another death for CPAC to celebrate.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017667041

CPAC Crowd Cheers Low Vaccination Rates In America - Ring of Fire

[erronis]

20. Graduate of Hillson(g) College. Figures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsong_International_Leadership_College
(There is no "Hillson College" that I could find.)

Hillsong College, formerly known as Hillsong International Leadership College is the training program within Hillsong Church. Originally located in Sydney, Australia, Hillsong College has grown to have numerous campuses across Australia, with study options available online and opened their first overseas campus in Phoenix, Arizona in the United States in August 2019.

[XanaDUer2]

28. Hillsong did tweet

that many staff and congregants have been vaccinated.

This might have been a rogue proving-god-will-save-me idiot

[Mariana]

45. "Many" is extremely vague.

They could be calling 5% "many". If the majority of them were vaccinated, they probably would have said "most".

[XanaDUer2]

54. True

but we still don't know if they were advocating no vaccines

[Mariana]

58. I never suggested they were advocating no vaccines. nt.

[Traildogbob]

21. Delta suppressing the vote,

Not a damn thing the right wing courts can do to stop it. The filibuster has no power over this voter suppression. He shoulda went to his church instead of a damn science based hospital. His body, his choice.

[Warpy]

22. Because of people like him, a lot of people are starting to get the point now

and vaccination rates are starting to go up slightly.

Sadly, it will be too little, too late for many of them.

[YoshidaYui]

24. The rumors out there a really fucking stupid

Saw that someone had posted online to be careful of the vaccine because the government we’re placing tracking devices inside the vaccine. Dude, I’d rather be tracked then dead, duh! But you know “FreeDUMB!”

[ProfessorGAC]

30. Here's The Piece They Miss

If they're dead, they're VERY easy to track.
Wherever the grave or urn is; you'll find them there!
Worried about being tracked so they make themselves easier to track.
Dead people don't find a place to hide.

[YoshidaYui]

31. See? What you are saying takes logic

Most of these people are uneducated. Seems like the educational system has failed. How is it that I’ve managed to survive this? Good education.

[IronLionZion]

49. The tracking devices must be super tiny to fit through a needle.

[YoshidaYui]

59. Someone must think that

Star Trek is real. That’s technology that belongs to the 24th century at least.

[JI7]

56. There was also that nurse who opposed vaccines and ended up dying

I think she was in her 20s or 30s .

[Jon King]

25. And he had the added risk factor of being overweight...

Makes a huge difference in the statistics. A tennis instructor we know, also early 30s, refused the vaccine, got Covid, felt bad for 3 days, and recovered 100%. But he was a fitness fanatic and in great shape...although why he is anti-vax is beyond me.

Anyway, a guy like this who was overweight and sedentary was playing with fire.

[Orrex]

26. I wish I could feel bad about not feeling bad about this

Too bad he used up medical resources after deliberately choosing to sacrifice himself to stubborn ignorance.

[femmedem]

27. Looking at his twitter page a few days ago, my take was that he was a kind and caring young man.

His religious beliefs and distrust of medicine cost him everything, and he probably also contributed to anti-vaccine beliefs among his friends and followers.

But that is not the whole of who he was and it should not define him.

[Treefrog]

33. Thank you.

These threads where everyone chimes in to call a dead person names and laugh about death are really getting old.

[femmedem]

36. You're welcome. I felt compelled to speak up.

Sometimes I imagine what threads like this look like to people visiting DU for the first time. I know if this was my introduction to DU, I'd never return.

[XanaDUer2]

41. Also, his church tweeted that most staff and congregants

have been vaccinated. There's no proof they were telling people not to get vaccinated. Assumptions

[Mariana]

51. Most? Where did you see that?

"While many of our staff, leadership and congregation have already received the Covid-19 vaccine, we recognize this is a personal decision for each individual to make with the counsel of medical professionals," Houston's statement reads.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/24/us/hillsong-church-stephen-harmon-covid-vaccine/index.html

"Many" is utterly meaningless because it's so vague, he could be calling 5% "many". Also, if they consider it a "personal decision" then how the hell does he know how many are vaccinated? Answer: he doesn't. He's guessing.

[Treefrog]

43. I read this site for years, never joined for a long time - exactly for this reason.

Obviously, the vax thing wasn’t going on back then, but the pure hatred and negativity I see way too often. Not a good look.

[NYC Liberal]

52. Except for the part where he put other people's lives in danger.

If he just risked his own life, I’d agree. But he endangered countless other people who didn’t consent to taking that risk.

[ancianita]

29. Thanks for the post!

It's important to tell cautionary tales to the rest of the young.

I just passed this on to my 34 year-old smart son who's had his two Pfizers, and who can now pass this story on to his young peers at the farmers' market he runs every Saturday.

[XanaDUer2]

42. good!

I hope this story hammers home why young healthy ( though I've no ides how healthy this man was) folks must get vaccinated.

[calimary]

32. I'll pray for there to be fewer of the willfully ignorant.

Ideally they’d all see the error of their ways on their own. Unfortunately, as what happened with this fellow, their defiance will probably take care of things in another way….

[3Hotdogs]

34. FUCK !!! Ya see, I'm a lib'tard

--- and I've been soooo owned.

[Botany]

35. Guess his Jesus College didn't make him smart

"Hillsong College, formerly known as Hillsong International Leadership College is the training program within Hillsong Church."

[Sneederbunk]

37. An example or an exhibit if you will.

[COL Mustard]

38. No Sympathy For This Loser

I will say I have sympathy (or at least understanding) for the small percentage who have legitimate medical reasons, or genuinely felt religious beliefs and are not vaccinated. People like this idiot, sorry, just don't care. Enjoy your afterlife.

[kairos12]

39. Another Tucker acolyte dead.

[Hortensis]

46. "...don't know when I'll wake up." How dreadfully sad.

He also didn't know how many people he might have spread the virus to, but hopefully/probably he alone paid the ultimate price.

34 years old. RIP.

[lunatica]

47. Kicked and record for the last paragraph alone.

[BadGimp]

48. Guess he had a Fauci Ouchi...

I feel for his family and friends.

We are experiencing a "Pandemic of the Unvaccinated".

[liberal_mama]

55. I feel kind of sad when I read this, he believed the disinformation and now he's gone

From his tweets, he sounded kind of gullible and immature for his age.

His family must be devastated. I read on Facebook that his mother adopted him from India as an infant, along with his older sister.

[femmedem]

60. Thank you for expressing some empathy

for him and his family. I'm sad, too--even more so, knowing a little more about his backstory and contemplating how much his family must have loved him.