Texas GOP Official Mocked COVID Five Days Before He Died of Virus

[babylonsister]

Texas GOP Official Mocked COVID Five Days Before He Died of Virus
‘MY HEART IS BEYOND BROKEN’
H. Scott Apley’s Facebook page was filled with anti-mask, anti-vaccine content until he was suddenly hospitalized on Sunday.
Justin Rohrlich, Reporter
Updated Aug. 04, 2021 9:34PM ET / Published Aug. 04, 2021 5:38PM ET
Texas GOP


A GOP official from Texas who regularly espoused anti-vaccine and anti-mask views online has died from COVID-19, five days after posting a meme on Facebook questioning the wisdom of getting inoculated against COVID.

Dickinson City Council member and State Republican Executive Committee member H. Scott Apley, 45, died in a local hospital around 3 a.m. Wednesday morning, according to a GoFundMe page set up to help Apley’s family with expenses. He was admitted to the facility in Galveston on Sunday with “pneumonia-like symptoms,” and was hooked up to a ventilator as his condition worsened. His wife was also infected, the family said.

“He leaves behind his wife, Melissa, who is COVID positive, as well as their infant son Reid,” according to the fundraiser, which has so far raised almost $15,000 of its $30,000 goal. “Your donations are greatly appreciated and will help the family as they get through this difficult period.”

“My heart is beyond broken for his family,” Dickinson Mayor Sean Skipworth wrote in a Facebook post. “Scott was a new father and that makes this loss especially tragic.”

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[COL Mustard]

1. Well............Bye

No sympathy for him. Sympathy only for their infant son. Just can't care about people like this.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. Bye, Felicia.

[TexasTowelie]

3. I abhor his politics, but it is sad that his son will not know his father.

Local news article: https://www.galvnews.com/news/free/article_ecb2fe5f-cee6-5106-9fdb-13b09245ab72.html

[nycbos]

4. I feel sorry for his kid.

He is going to grow up without a father because he wouldn't protect himself from a deadly virus. Hopefully he will grow up to be better person than his father was.

But my sympathy is limited for the adults and his family.

[callous taoboy]

5. My two brothers are deep into anti-mask, vax, common sense:

This is a big fear of mine, that they will die from this. One of them has had respiratory issues since childhood.

[Orrex]

6. Sounds like that miserable fucker worked very hard to contract the virus

I congratulate him on his resounding success.

[bottomofthehill]

7. Another Patriot dies of Suicide by Covid

[Croney]

8. His FB page is still up and public, and the comments are hilarious.

Oops, I mean, sending tots and pears.

[Submariner]

9. He sacrificed 30 to 40 more years of his life to "own the Libs"

Well, I guess we lost that one DU members. Who gets to tell his now fatherless son his dad was an assh*le.

[BlueJac]

10. Karma will get you!

[scrabblequeen40]

11. What do you do when a mass murderer finally dies?

That's what this news feels like. This man's actions have killed hundreds of his followers. I'm happy the killing of his followers was halted, at least I hope so.

[lapfog_1]

12. too bad it wasn't july of 2020 when he contracted Covid

then we could have awarded him a Darwin award.