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TX Man, 'Freedom Defender' Argued Masks Don't Protect- Got Covid, Unconscious, Vented Since Aug. 8
Daily Kos, Aug. 27, 2021. - Ed.
As the delta variant continues to spread across the country, unvaccinated individuals are facing the worst of it. Many of those who once organized against pandemic safety measures like wearing masks & getting vaccinated are now battling the virus in hospitals. In one incident, a Texas man who helped organize protests against COVID-19 restrictions is fighting for his life after being hospitalized for almost a month..“He’s not doing good. It’s not looking in our favor,” said Caleb Wallace’s wife, Jessica. “His lungs are stiff due to the fibrosis. They called and said they’ve run out of options for him & asked if I would consent to a do not resuscitate. And it would be up to us when to stop treatments,” Jessica wrote Wed. “My heart just can’t. I can’t imagine my life without him.”
Caleb Wallace, a 30-year-old father of 3, has been unconscious, ventilated, & heavily sedated in the ICU at Shannon Medical Center in San Angelo since Aug. 8. On a GoFundMe page she started to help pay household & medical bills, his wife said he was intubated multiple times, had high fevers, an infection, & bleeding in his chest. Wallace first had symptoms on July 26. After experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, he refused to get tested or seek medical care. "Every time he would start to cough, it would turn into a coughing attack.." "He was so hard-headed. He didn't want to see a doctor, because he didn't want to be part of the statistics with COVID tests."
Instead, he began treating himself with a cocktail of Vitamin C, zinc, aspirin, & ivermectin— an anti-parasitic drug that has been falsely promoted by some as an effective cure for COVID-19. Within 4 days, he was taken to the hospital.. Taking ivermectin isn’t all Wallace believed in. His wife said he was also extremely anti-masks & believed they would not prevent infection. In April, he even wrote a letter to the San Angelo Independent School District that demanding that the school district “rescind ALL COVID-related policies immediately.” In it, he claimed that wearing masks had harmful effects on children & there was “little evidence that masks worked for anyone.”
Founder of “The San Angelo Freedom Defenders,” a group that hosted a rally last year to “end COVID tyranny,” Wallace reportedly helped organize multiple anti-mask and vaccine rallies including one called “The Freedom Rally,” which occurred days before he began experiencing symptoms. The event prided itself in being a protest against the “government being in control of our lives.” Wallace’s story follows similar incidents across the country, in which those who opposed COVID-19 safety precautions or called the virus a hoax contracted severe cases...
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"He was so hard-headed. He didn't want to see a doctor, because he didn't want to be part of the statistics with COVID tests."
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Now he is just a statistic that dying alone in hospital bed.
