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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,922 posts)
Tue Jan 25, 2022, 08:04 PM Jan 2022

'NCIS' Actor Who Decried Vaccine Dies of COVID Complications

Vachik Mangassarian, a veteran character actor known for his roles on NCIS, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has died at the age of 78 from COVID-19 complications. Representatives for Mangassarian confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that he passed away in Burbank, California.

The Iran-born Armenian star moved to the U.S. at age 23 and landed his first Hollywood role in 1978. In the decades since, he held a slew of roles, starring as the architect Qasim Zaghlul in Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D and guest starring on Curb Your Enthusiasm. More recently, he appeared on NCIS: Los Angeles.

In the months before his death, Mangassarian had frequently expressed his opposition to COVID-19 vaccines and veered into truther territory, posting memes to Facebook that suggested the pandemic was part of a grand conspiracy.

In one post from September 2021, the actor posted a photo of a parody news report saying that “millions test positive for Sheeple 19.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/ncis-actor-who-decried-vaccine-dies-of-covid-complications/ar-AAT89Tm

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'NCIS' Actor Who Decried Vaccine Dies of COVID Complications (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2022 OP
I second that: Scrivener7 Jan 2022 #1
I'm A Proud & LIVING Sheep SoCalDavidS Jan 2022 #2
He held a slew of roles, starring as the architect Qasim Zaghlul in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D & Budi Jan 2022 #3
This gets so depressing peggysue2 Jan 2022 #4
Hear, hear peggysue2 ailsagirl Jan 2022 #9
I don't get it either. It's not as if these people have never had vaccinations before. What is it LoisB Jan 2022 #17
fucking moron Skittles Jan 2022 #5
Probably a Trump voter. vanlassie Jan 2022 #6
The Daily Beast says he posted "I'm less scared of COVID..." tishaLA Jan 2022 #12
omG! NCIS & the rest are Cha Jan 2022 #14
If he Traildogbob Jan 2022 #18
I thought Hedy killed him ... dweller Jan 2022 #7
It's exceptionally dangerous to be 70-something and unvaxxed... RockRaven Jan 2022 #8
People are crazy stupid....I swear they belong to a death cult Farmer-Rick Jan 2022 #13
Tough luck!! Nt USALiberal Jan 2022 #10
Now he's a C-lister in wingnut heaven. LudwigPastorius Jan 2022 #11
Darwin wins again. TomSlick Jan 2022 #15
Bye Felicia IronLionZion Jan 2022 #16
 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
3. He held a slew of roles, starring as the architect Qasim Zaghlul in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D &
Tue Jan 25, 2022, 08:16 PM
Jan 2022



Vachik Mangassarian, a veteran character actor known for his roles on NCIS, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has died at the age of 78 from COVID-19 complications. Representatives for Mangassarian confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that he passed away in Burbank, California.

The Iran-born Armenian star moved to the U.S. at age 23 and landed his first Hollywood role in 1978. In the decades since, he held a slew of roles, starring as the architect Qasim Zaghlul in Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D and guest starring on Curb Your Enthusiasm. More recently, he appeared on NCIS: Los Angeles.
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RIP, Sheeple

peggysue2

(10,828 posts)
4. This gets so depressing
Tue Jan 25, 2022, 08:23 PM
Jan 2022

Reading about unnecessary deaths because of . . . willful ignorance.

I do not get it. I will never get it.

LoisB

(7,202 posts)
17. I don't get it either. It's not as if these people have never had vaccinations before. What is it
Tue Jan 25, 2022, 11:00 PM
Jan 2022

about the Covid vaccines that makes them so nutty?

tishaLA

(14,176 posts)
12. The Daily Beast says he posted "I'm less scared of COVID..."
Tue Jan 25, 2022, 10:47 PM
Jan 2022

"than a Democrat in the White House" on social media. He also did the let's go Brandon bullshit.

Eff him.

Cha

(297,154 posts)
14. omG! NCIS & the rest are
Tue Jan 25, 2022, 10:54 PM
Jan 2022

better off without that crap.

That's some world class Brainwashing, buster.. in the jon voight cult for TFFCG.

Traildogbob

(8,720 posts)
18. If he
Tue Jan 25, 2022, 11:06 PM
Jan 2022

Would have listened to the Democrat in the White House he would be alive. Instead he listened to the Republican in the White House. Shoulda known, everything he touches, dies. History. Learn from it. Don’t rewrite it to suit you. No fucks here. More wasted soul.

RockRaven

(14,959 posts)
8. It's exceptionally dangerous to be 70-something and unvaxxed...
Tue Jan 25, 2022, 09:00 PM
Jan 2022

As of last month, the Covid-19 weekly death rate for people in the US 65+ was 0.5 per 100,000 for vaxxed&boosted versus 44 per 100,000 for the unvaccinated. You're literally 90 times more likely to die from it at his age if you don't get vaxxed.

Another online mortality calculator I found, using data from the UK, put someone his age/gender/ethnicity/height/weight (latter two just guestimated by me) and unvaxxed having a 1 in 8 chance of dying once they return a positive Covid test. And that is without any other medical conditions.

Farmer-Rick

(10,160 posts)
13. People are crazy stupid....I swear they belong to a death cult
Tue Jan 25, 2022, 10:49 PM
Jan 2022

It's like they are mesmerized by some super power. But it's only an idea and a stupid idea at that. They are betting their lives on an unproven, fact free, contradictory, conspiracy theory.

What a giant waste of life. I don't understand these conservatives anymore.

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