Anti-masking Maine GOP couple both catch Covid. Now she's dead.

[mainer]

“It’s absolutely horrible to be alone,” and “You have no idea how much I miss this,” posted with a photograph of the setting sun.

These are the last two Facebook posts from an Aroostook County woman before she passed away from COVID-19 last week. They haunt me…I can’t stop thinking about them.

Cindy Johansen, former chair of the Aroostook County Republicans, co-founder of the Maine Grassroots Republican Caucus, and wife of state Rep. Chris Johansen (R-Monticello), succumbed on August 10 to a disease that she claimed not to fear.

https://mainebeacon.com/opinion-who-benefits-and-who-loses-from-covid-19-disinformation/

[lagomorph777]

1. Glad she wasn't afraid of it.

Also glad one more maskhole bites the dust.

[NurseJackie]

43. Here's her FB page... open to the public, easy to find.

https://www.facebook.com/cindy.johansen.5

Here's her UGLY and mean-spirited profile photo "custom frame" (below) ... what a selfish and hateful little witch. Read her posts and updates. So much hostility. How can anyone have sympathy for a dark and depraved person like this? She clearly has (well... she HAD) anger issues.

[treestar]

54. Yes, how many of them

have said they would not live their life in fear?

[jpak]

2. Am I a bad person because I don't give a flying fuck about

Assholes like this ?

[roamer65]

5. Nope, not one bit.

Discard any unwarranted guilt.

[Moostache]

8. No, you are not alone in that...

I say fuck 'em...no vaccine by choice? No hospitalization then...get thee into the holding pen with the other science-denying fools...and if they die? They die.

[TreasonousBastard]

9. No. And you are not alone.

[RKP5637]

16. I don't think so. They have had way more than enough warning about how horrible this

virus can be. I just don't get it. I have no sympathy for them whatsoever. They basically choose to possibly die.

[Hortensis]

21. If it had to happen, I care that it didn't happen early last year. nt

[nolabear]

22. I suppose you're just a person. People are complicated.

I don’t know that it’s “bad.” I feel bad hearing it. How do you feel saying it?

[wnylib]

42. Good point. It is sad that so many

people have been persuaded to fear the preventions more than the disease. It is also sad that we are so polarized that we have lost the ability to feel anything for "the other."

I am angry about the leaders who dupe people into believing that they are safe without vaccines and masks. I am angry that their followers become victims of disinformation and then make victims of others, too, with their disregard for precautions.

But the whole situation is sad for all of us, that as a society we have come to the point of politicizing a disease and cheering the deaths of the opposition.

[nolabear]

48. Amen to that. All of it.

[jpak]

51. I don't cheer their deaths

I just don't care

K?

PS who polarized masks and vaccines?

Liberals? Democrats? DUers?

Nope

When someone claims "we" polarized the pandemic, I say bad words in their general direction.

Yup

[wnylib]

53. Sorry to see you take my comments

so personally since I did not specifically accuse you of anything.

Neither did I say that liberals and DUers polarized mask wearing. But since you bring it up, there are people from the left who follow a "natural" approach to life that makes them believe that exercise, supplements, and whole foods are enough to fight a deadly virus, so they refuse vaccines.

I am merely lamenting the effects of polarization on all of us, how it makes us less caring. I am not in any way suggesting that we should embrace views and behaviors that are anathema to us.

[lindysalsagal]

34. If you are, then I am, too.

[Elessar Zappa]

3. And her husband is still

speaking at anti-mask, anti-vax rallies even after his wife died. I guess you can’t fix stupid.

[dalton99a]

6. He should join her

[RKP5637]

17. Stupid is really stupid and seems not curable no matter what. n/t

[jmbar2]

19. Our latest award winner...

[Crunchy Frog]

44. Have you checked this out?

https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/

https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/comments/p8dwyl/maine_lawmaker_whose_wife_just_died_of_covid/

[jmbar2]

49. Ha! Brutal.

[Hortensis]

27. What's wrong with them is incredibly worse than stupidity.

I was thinking about what has happened to conservative culture. Conservative morality has always been generally focused more on protecting the wellbeing of the community, over the individual. That had many fine benefits. People with traditions of caring for neighbors they barely knew changed to knowingly spreading death indiscriminately through their communities.

All who aren't mentally handicapped are doing it knowingly. All excuses were manufactured to deny that truth.

[iemanja]

38. He probably wanted her dead.

[Crunchy Frog]

41. I wonder what kind of life insurance policy she had.

[mainer]

4. And I hear her husband is back out without his mask

His wife's death hasn't changed his opinion in the least.

[spooky3]

15. The last paragraph really is mind boggling. Nt

[durablend]

23. Hey, maybe he wants to be with her.

[Coventina]

7. Good. n/t

[reality1]

10. Death cult

they'll still be here after covid. Just a few less

[Raster]

11. Play stupid games. Win stupid prizes.

#EnjoyYourVentilator

[TexasTowelie]

26. That's if they can get a ventilator.

They are in short supply since the recall of the Phillips Respironics Trilogy vents.

[rickyhall]

12. At the rate they're dropping the debate may be over soon.

[NurseJackie]

13. Words can't express my feelings of sadness...

... because I have NO feelings of sadness.

[Ilsa]

14. Why didn't she follow mf45's instructions?

He told everyone that they shouldn't let it defeat them!

GOP leaders are helping the funeral industry.

[LiberalFighter]

18. What happened to her stupid religion?

[GPV]

20. Great piece

[Hugh_Lebowski]

24. I have some sympathy for the people who are legitimately confused about what to do

But people who actually out there, COVID-denying, anti-Mask, anti-Vax, actively discouraging others and LYING about known facts, on social media and/or in front of groups of people IRL?

No sympathy if they get sick and die at this point.

[Whiskeytide]

25. That's my take as well. I feel ...

… bad for people who are stupid. I don’t feel bad for people who are both stupid and mean. They make life harder for everyone.

[SoCalDavidS]

28. The Stupid People

At this point, they're holding the rest of us back too, so no sympathy from me.

[Whiskeytide]

31. A Berkeley professor published a paper in the '70s ...

… about the universal laws of stupid people.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/qz.com/967554/the-five-universal-laws-of-human-stupidity/amp/

So you’re probably right. They will be the end of us eventually. But my college roommate once said you shouldn’t hate a stupid person. It only affects you because, well, they’re stupid and thus unaware of the damage they cause.

I guess I go back and forth.

[sunonmars]

29. I cannot muster up sympathy for people that went around convincing other not to mask up or vaccinate

Karma has a way of making an idiot out of you.

[rdking647]

30. me either

im done feeeling sorry for anti maskers and anti vaxxers.
the hell with them..... literally

[East-A-Squared]

32. Bye Felicia.

[Bristlecone]

33. That's a good article.

[rpannier]

35. Another one bites the dust

[paleotn]

36. Karma variant.

[SergeStorms]

37. It's just like catching a cold.

What's there to be afraid of? 45 recovered in just a few days, and said it was the best he'd felt in many, many years.

Well, there's two more GQP voters that won't cast a ballot anymore. I hope they were huge, HUGE donors to the GQP as well.

I have no sympathy left for these jerks. None.

[Crunchy Frog]

39. Well I sure feel owned. I at least appreciate

that these people are practicing what they preach, and dying for it, instead of simply talking other people into dying while they run off and get secretly vaccinated.

[Evolve Dammit]

40. Join her asshole. It's just a Democratic hoax, right?

[Jon King]

45. One less terrible person roaming the planet.

Her right wing political fanaticism harmed the country and the planet. Good riddance.

[SkylineChili]

46. Behold...

“Behold the field in which I grow my fucks. Lay thine eyes upon it and see that it is barren.”

No sympathy for the innocently stupid, the willfully stupid, and the alien DNA epic stupid. They are destroying lives, economies, futures.
People are not "misled" or "confused" or "torn about the right thing to do." They are choosing this, and I am done with them. No sympathy from me, except for those who are too young or too compromised to get the vaccine.

[SidDithers]

47. I lover your username...

Haven't been able to travel to Cincinnati in a couple years.

Would always stop for Skyline Chili while in town. Man, I miss it.

Have a 3-way for me.

Sid

[SkylineChili]

52. Skyline is the Best!

Skyline is the best, but Gold Star is also wonderful. My favorite was Empress, but those closed. Cincinnati Chili RULES!!!

[Initech]

50. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

[futem]

55. They only way they learn!

[smirkymonkey]

56. Yeah, it's a good thing that this guy does look like he has any health risks at all.