Unvaccinated Texas mom and dad on ventilators beg their 4 kids to get COVID shots

[left-of-center2012]

Lydia and Lawrence Rodriguez, of La Marque, were admitted to a hospital three weeks ago, ill with COVID-19, KTRK TV reported. Despite constant medical care, the virus has continued ravaging their bodies.

“My 42 yo cousin didn’t believe in the vaccine. Now she and her husband are in the ICU on vents fighting for their lives with this delta variant while their 4 children are at home,” Rodriguez’ cousin Dottie Jones said. “We’ve been told they are very, very, very, very sick is what the doctor told us,” Jones said. “And if they do survive, it’s going to be a long, long road.”

“One of the last things Lydia said before being intubated was to make sure her kids get vaccinated”

Jones is asking for prayers, words of encouragement, any and all help that friends can spare for her cousin and family. She’s taken in their kids for the time being, Jones said, and on top of the emotional toll, the household and medical bills are “becoming overwhelming.”

But this all could have been avoided, Jones said.

https://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/nation-world/national/article253183023.html

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. A "come to Jesus" moment...

Sad. It did not have to come to this.

[SallyHemmings]

2. They may be seeing their Jesus sooner than they expected

Tragic.

The misinformation on Facebook is literally killing people. Congress needs to take a sledgehammer to it. The boy genius will still be rich.

[FakeNoose]

5. Jesus already came and brought them a vaccine

... but they refused it.

[TheBlackAdder]

6. And if they come out of it, they'll say Jesus or God saved them. Not Jesus or God allowed it.

[jimfields33]

3. We really need to ensure the POC has access to vaccines very easily

Their percentages are low all over the country. I think it’s access. Other reasons too, but access is not always easy.

[FakeNoose]

7. Yes I think internet access has a lot to do with it

I got my vaccinations (both shots) in March but I spent a solid month on-line, trying to get set-up with an appointment. I'm lucky to have a home computer and internet access, so it wasn't too difficult for me.

But a lot families don't have those things, including minorities, so how are they going to get the help they need? How are they going to understand the importance of getting vaccinated?

We need to reach out to our neighbors and other people in our communities, and try to help those who don't have the ability to make their own appointment for the shots.

[appalachiablue]

11. Amen, that was a burdensome process

and people who don't have computer access for days and weeks on end are shut out. That system was whacko for many people.

I live in a high tech use area. After spending weeks online looking for a location and time that would work, I had to miss the first appt.

In frustration I just went to the local CVS, asked and the nice pharmacist said ok. I got both doses there. Walk in, no appt.

If there's another public matter like this, I'll go to a store rather than spend hours online futzing over a hot computer!

[murielm99]

12. It was burdensome.

I signed up with our county health department. We were about number 900 in line. I went everywhere on my computer. My son helped us. We drove fifty miles for our shots. He drove from suburban Chicago to central Illinois.

A week later, our health department called us to make appointments. We were glad to tell them that the next people in line could have our spots.

Now, people can just walk in for shots. I have little sympathy for those who don't.

[sarge43]

15. For the second shot I was in a line of cars for an hour

Wasn't fun, but ... neither would a vent tube being jammed down my throat.

I flat do not understand these people.

[appalachiablue]

21. Yes, getting vaccinated is so much easier now,

there's no excuse for delay anymore after the early months of confusing appointment scheduling. And it's troubling to watch the country sink this low in ignorance, defiance and hate. Stay well.

[33taw]

8. It is correct that POC need more access. However, it sounds like these individuals did not

believe in vaccines. I think we need to address why they don't believe or trust vaccines.

[Crunchy Frog]

20. It states in the article that they "didn't believe in vaccines".

That doesn't suggest that access was an issue for them. This is an issue of personal responsibility IMO.

I'm not saying that there aren't people who have difficulty with access, but that doesn't sound like the situation here.

I'm also uncomfortable with people making automatic assumptions about anyone with a Hispanic sounding name. Plenty of those people supported and voted for TFG, and willingly drank the Kool-aid.

[NH Ethylene]

4. So sad for the kids.

The parents are pretty young (40s). With all the messaging about the elderly and those with comorbidities being the most at risk, they probably thought this couldn't happen to them.

[ashredux]

9. We are seeing these stories daily...maybe some folks will wake up

[PortTack]

10. So sad! Ppl spreading disinformation ...so wrong

[Jon King]

13. Not getting vaccinated and being overweight is absolutely crazy.

We have some in our junior tennis community who are refusing to vaccinate their 12 and overs. I try to convince them but it is what it is. The only good thing is these young people are super fit and exercise 4-5 hours per day.

Looking at this couple's facebook, the entire family has the added risk factor of being overweight. Statistics are what they are, unfit people are having way worse outcomes from Covid.

Perhaps not politically correct but is absolutely is a risk factor that must be entered into a parent's decision.

[sarge43]

14. Shoulda, woulda, coulda

Feel very sorry for their children; them?, not so much.

[ffr]

16. How many others did they infect and what about the healthcare workers they're exposing??!!

They expect the people they shit on to care for them while they're having a come to jesus moment?

It's hard to show empathy for the results of their selfish behavior.

[Crunchy Frog]

17. People seem to have an awfully difficult time with accepting the consequences of their own choices.

No prayers from me for people who are sick/dying by their own deliberate choices.

I do hope that these sorts of situations will encourage others to get vaccinated, and take basic safety precautions. That's the ones who don't dismiss them as "crisis actors".

Hope the kids learn something from this.

[GulfCoast66]

18. Sad. Hope they make it. I'm no longer religious. But love this though...

If they die and do go to their heaven and are welcomed by Christ the first thing he says to them is ‘you dumbass. I gave you a vaccine.’

[Dan]

25. And then maybe, send them straight to hell.

[Johnny2X2X]

19. One family at a time

Conservatives are incapable of learning from tragedies that don't happen directly to them. It will have to be 1 family at a time.

[Ilsa]

22. I think only the two oldest are eligible to be vaccinated, if that picture

was recent. Only two kids look older than 12.

[boston bean]

23. 😞

[Dan]

24. Sadly, I have run out of sympathy for the unvaccinated - unless there is a medical reason.

[Chainfire]

26. If I could not have been vaccinated, I would have perfected my hermit imitation.

[uponit7771]

28. +1, here's what I'm seeing (pic). We shouldn't enable them

[Chainfire]

27. Vaccine deniers will also deny the validity of these kinds of stories.

They will consider the story a sham brought to them by the Socialist who want to vaccinate them, with an experimental concoction, for just a cold. Always an excuse.

You can not apply logic to illogical people; it just doesn't take.