A Texas GOP leader railed against vaccines and masks. Then he died of covid.

[UpInArms]

A leader of the Texas Republican Party hopped on Facebook in May to post about a “mask burning” party 900 miles away in Cincinnati.

“I wished I lived in the area!” wrote H Scott Apley.

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And on Friday, the 45-year-old Dickinson City Council member republished a Facebook post implying that vaccines don’t work.

Two days later, Apley was admitted to a Galveston hospital with “pneumonia-like symptoms” and tested positive for coronavirus, according to an online fundraising campaign. He was sedated and put on a ventilator.

On Wednesday, he died, members of his county’s party announced on social media.
Patrick McGinnis, chairman of the Galveston County Republican Party, said in a statement that Apley’s death was a “tragedy … magnified by his youth, his young family especially his very young son.”

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I feel so owned

[viva la]

1. Wife and newborn are also sick

It's... unhuman. Heck, it''s unmammalian. Animals take care of their young.
But Republicans don't.

[SoCalDavidS]

7. Party Over People nt

[Lovie777]

2. republican's plan . . ..

kill their constituents and blame the Democrats for it. And some of their constituents are so insane they will believe it.

[napi21]

3. I HOPE stories like this one are spread far & wide. MAYBE when their own start dropping like flies,

they'll heed the warning and get their own damn shot!

[dalton99a]

4. Now he knows.

Fucking asshole

[SamKnause]

5. Good.

[SoCalDavidS]

6. THIS nt

[Chainfire]

8. Poetic justice.

A real hero who sacrificed his life upon the alter of Republican Politics. They should erect a statue to the idiot.

[mercuryblues]

9. Republican Family Values

Killing their families to own the Democrats.

[Mariana]

10. Funny how their faith is never strong enough

to stop them from going to the hospital, when they discover they can't breathe.

[orwell]

11. It was God's will...

...or Darwin's.