Texas Anti-Mask 'Freedom Rally' Organizer Fighting For His Life With COVID-19

[RandySF]

A Texas man who helped organize protests against pandemic restrictions is fighting for his life after being hospitalized for nearly a month with COVID-19, the San Angelo Standard-Times reported.

His wife, Jessica Wallace, wrote Wednesday on Facebook that she had a “heartbreaking update” about her husband, Caleb.
“He’s not doing good. It’s not looking in our favor,” she said. “His lungs are stiff due to the fibrosis. They called and said they’ve run out of options for him and asked if I would consent to a do not resuscitate. And it would be up to us when to stop treatments.”

“My heart just can’t. I can’t imagine my life without him.”

Caleb Wallace, a 30-year-old father of three, has been unconscious, ventilated and heavily sedated in the ICU at Shannon Medical Center in San Angelo since Aug. 8, the Standard-Times reported. His wife said on a GoFundMe page for household and medical bills that he was was intubated multiple times, had high fevers, infection and bleeding in his chest.



https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-anti-mask-covid-caleb-wallace_n_61285af4e4b0f562f3dc5224?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067

[RockRaven]

1. How many people were harmed by this ghoul's socially noxious behavior?

Alive or dead, fuck this guy to heck and back. The world would have less suffering in it if nobody else had ever known his thoughts, heard his speech, or seen his actions.

[jpak]

2. Don't care Nope

Nope

[PatSeg]

39. I know it is hard to have sympathy,

but he has three young children. I cannot condone his irresponsible behavior, but still I hate to see anyone unnecessarily go through such pain and loss.

We are all responsible for our own actions, but the ultimate blame must go to the purveyors of these deadly lies, many who know they are lies and keep telling them for political or financial gain.

[IcyPeas]

3. Ivermectin didn't work.

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Caleb instead began taking tablets of Ivermectin, high doses of Vitamin C, zinc aspirin, and an inhaler. By July 30, however, Caleb was taken by a relative to the emergency room at Shannon Medical Center.

[wnylib]

17. So if he had sought medical care sooner,

he might have had a chance to survive.

[COL Mustard]

28. If You Mean

If he’d been vaccinated, then yes, he might have survived. But now he’s just another dumbass who’s costing society a huge amount of medical expenses, and he’s going to die anyway because of the poor choices he made.

Sorry, I just can’t muster any sympathy for him or even for his family.

[wnylib]

31. Certainly his chances would have

been better if he had bern vaccinated, but actually, I was referring to the fact that, once he had symptoms, he refused to be tested and insisted on treating himself with zinc, vitamin C, and animal medicine pills. If he had sought medical treatment earlier in his illness, he might have survived.

So, he made the choice to refuse vaccines and masks, and chose again to refuse treatment when sick. He got the freedom that he wanted. I guess thst's all that mattered to him. More important to him than his family or than life itself. It would make a good epitaph. "He died for the right to refuse to live."

[skip fox]

43. Precisely.

[denbot]

4. No. Fucks. To. Give.

Bye Felisha

[dalton99a]

5. Now he knows

He wrote a letter in April to the San Angelo Independent School District and published by a local news outlet demanding that the school district “rescind ALL COVID-related policies immediately.” He falsely claimed that wearing masks had harmful effects on children and that there was “little evidence that masks worked for anyone.”"

[BigmanPigman]

7. What a terrible parent.

It's almost as if he wanted to harm kids, even his own. I hope he can't get any money to help him out. He doesn't deserve it.

[wnylib]

19. Looks like he is beyond any help

that money could provide. When he dies, it will be his wife and children who will suffer from the medical costs. What will go through the minds of the children, seeing how wrong their father was and how much harm he brought to his family? Besides growing up fatherless, they will live in poverty and in doubt about believing what adults tell them.

[vercetti2021]

6. Die then

You picked your choice

[Mariana]

8. I just wish they'd do it faster.

There are way too many people having to put off important medical procedures, because the hospitals are stuffed with these unvaccinated fuckers occupying beds for weeks.

[vercetti2021]

9. Yep

They should be tossed in parking lots. Let people who actually need medical procedures and actual life threatening sicknesses get the hospital beds. Antivaxxers? Fuck em, they made their choice. Let them reap it and die in a parking lot

[luckone]

11. Notice so many turn to go fund me to pay the bills . I don't think they can afford their freedumb

Freedumb isn’t free!

[vercetti2021]

12. Amazing isn't it?

A vaccine that is free. FREE is there for people. Yet when they recover and have long lasting damage, they have a huge bill. Seriously stupidity is the true virus here

[aggiesal]

26. Statement by unknown person ...

"Covid started out as a virus, but turned into an IQ test."

[vercetti2021]

27. I love that quote

Good one!

[Hekate]

10. What a gruesome way to die. All one can do is hope that others will learn from his experience.

[Cha]

14. Yes, that's the Hope.. that these

Pro Covid Anti-Maskers who actually got what they asked for will be a Cautionary Tale,

[wnylib]

24. As more and more of these cases occur,

I have been wondering what effect they have on the followers of anti maskers who advocate home remedies for the sick and who claim that covid is no worse than the flu. How many people who attended those rallies recognize the evidence in front of them and rethink what they believed? How many realize that masks and vaccines are not a "freedom" issue, but a public health issue? Do any of them come to regret accepting ideas and actions that they can now see are killing people?

[Crunchy Frog]

13. He's about to leave four children under age six fatherless.

Just over his own ego.

The sad thing is that they'll probably be better off without him.

[ShazzieB]

22. UGH.

I was about to post a "NO FUCKS TO GIVE" meme. Now I can't.

Those poor kids.

[IcyPeas]

33. There is a GoFundMe with 17,000 in it so far.

I do feel bad for his wife and kids and she is pregnant and due in September. She wore a mask but said her husband was too hard headed.

[TexasTowelie]

15. I posted a thread with some video links

including one where Caleb Wallace started an incident about not wearing a mask while getting his auto registration:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/107855859

[IcyPeas]

20. Some people are just jonseing for a fight

[wnylib]

25. Looks like he got his fight, not with

people that he could shout down, but with a virus that is shutting him down.

Easier to fight with people than with a virus.

[OhioChick]

16. No sympathy here...

These assholes are putting my kids at risk every damn day.

[quakerboy]

18. Gofund me for medical bills?

Per HHS.gov, "what services are covered at no cost"

"covid19 treatment and theraputics, including dr visits, er, in patient, out patient, nursing facility or long term acute care, rehab, and home health, aloong with medical equipment and ambulance, vaccines, and testing"

[monkeyman1]

21. jan.of 20' trump said it was the flu , yr & half later we all still are getting the flu ?

[Crunchy Frog]

45. The Freedom Flu.

[SergeStorms]

23. Wonderful.

The more of these COVID deniers who die, the better. They deserve every second of agony they get.

[TheDemsshouldhireme]

29. The word of the year really has to be

freedumb.

[Grokenstein]

30. Remember the New GOP Health Plan? Their answer to Obamacare?

Namely, the "Let Them Die In The Street" Plan?

Think Caleb was one of the "hell, yeah" people, or nah?

[rainin]

32. We tried to tell the other side that they were being lied to. What is wrong with these people? n/t

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

40. They are stupid. Tragically, hopelessly, dangerously, irrevocably stupid.

Stay away from Republicans.

[rainin]

44. Sad, but true. 100% n/t

[luv2fly]

34. Exactly zero

... shits to give for this asshat.

I feel for the kids.

[malaise]

35. I never argue with Darwin

That is all

[Johnny2X2X]

36. He deserves to die

But his family doesn't deserve to lose him.

This clown is responsible for death, a simple mask could have saved his life. A free vaccine could have saved his life. His death is pointless except that maybe others can learn from it.

But you can tell his wife wasn't on board with his craziness, and his kids deserve a father. What a shame. What I fail to see over and over is these people directing their anger at the Republican leaders who lied to them about Covid.

[hatrack]

37. My heart just can't . . . give a fuck.

Hey, look Mom! More Free-Range Stupid headin' for the Consequences Roundup! Yee-hah!!

[Initech]

49. Yeah I've literally run out of empathy for these morons.

[Lettuce Be]

38. And here's another anti-vaxer, taking up space, basically dead, let him go

Keeping people on vents while others that could survive are denied is wrong. Once a person is considered past the point of survivability, they need to get them off the vent and let them die in peace. People that subject so called loved ones to this torture are selfish.

[Buns_of_Fire]

41. Poor, poor Caleb. Allow me to offer my sympathies.

Now die already so that valuable bed is freed up.

[Orrex]

42. Good. Fuck him.

[Texaswitchy]

46. I care about the people who need medical care and can't get a bed.

Should have got a shot or two.

[Happy Hoosier]

47. Geez. That's too bad. NT

[Wingus Dingus]

48. Isn't there a more worthy human being they could give his ICU bed to?