Gregg Prentice, 61, who served as accountant for the Hillsborough County GOP and also chaired the organization's committee for election integrity after spending months railing against COVID-19 precautions and criticizing Dr. Anthony Fauci, a Republican Party official in Florida died of COVID this week, leaving his county-level GOP organization without access to critical financial accounts.
In addition to his role compiling the Hillsborough County GOP's financials, Prentice spent most of the past year fearmongering about COVID-19 vaccines, mask mandates and other pandemic safety measures. Like many other conservatives in public life, he took aim in particular at White House COVID-19 adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci, writing on Facebook that America needed to "End Faucism." He also argued that "we need more socialist distancing than we do social distancing."
Prentice's death has also opened up a firestorm of conspiracy theories from other local Republican Party officials, including one who called COVID-19 a "medically engineered virus" and suggested — without evidence — that his death was the result of wrongdoing on behalf of the hospital he was being treated at.
As I said in an earlier post: Anti vax / Anti mask? It's A - OK with me! If you folks on the right wing want to exercise your God given freedom to put your lives at risk, they'll simply be a few hundred thousand less of you to vote in the next few elections.
Life is hard - It's harder when you're stupid! 😏
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@mchill saidDarwinism, it’s tough but fair.
Gregg Prentice, 61, who served as accountant for the Hillsborough County GOP and also chaired the organization's committee for election integrity after spending months railing against COVID-19 precautions and criticizing Dr. Anthony Fauci, a Republican Party official in Florida died of COVID this week, leaving his county-level GOP organization without access to critical financ ...[text shortened]... eper-dies-of-covid-leaving-party-without-access-to-finance-software/ar-AAOBRc8?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531
@kevcvs57 saidWhere are the stories of all of those smart people who masked up, sprayed antiseptic, social distanced and still died of Covid?
Darwinism, it’s tough but fair.
I am not an antivaxxer...I am not against the vaccine...I am against anyone deciding for me that I have to do something because it is for the Good of the rest of Society. That is kind of the definition of Communism. You will get the vaccine comrad...yes?
No! A vaccine that doesn't keep you from getting sick ... a vaccine that doesn't keep you from spreading ... how is that even a vaccine?
If people are fearful enough of the virus...they want the vaccine...then get it. But for those of us who have no fear... 'in a world, where those who have no fear are demonized, and socially shamed into being afraid'....
I have never said there isn't a virus. I have never said it wasn't contagious. All I have said really is that I am not going to take a vaccine that the left seems determined for me to take. The Left politicized the entire pandemic. I don't trust politics. I don't trust politicians....neither Republicans nor Democrats. I trust my gut. But in today's environment...I don't get the right to trust my gut? That's crazy.
@joc44 saidThis is nothing to do with communism; that's blatant deflection.
Where are the stories of all of those smart people who masked up, sprayed antiseptic, social distanced and still died of Covid?
I am not an antivaxxer...I am not against the vaccine...I am against anyone deciding for me that I have to do something because it is for the Good of the rest of Society. That is kind of the definition of Communism. You will get the vaccine comrad ...[text shortened]... I trust my gut. But in today's environment...I don't get the right to trust my gut? That's crazy.
Personal freedom is not unlimited. One man's personal freedom ends where his actions put the rest at risk. The nation went through the same vaccination debate a generation ago with polio. One of my uncles had polio, as did my father-in-law. People then understood the importance of public health and safety--it affects everyone. Apparently, some people in this generation don't understand, they think personal freedom trumps all other considerations, including public health and safety. Maybe if they'd seen in their own families what a disease like polio does to people, they'd understand.
@mchill saidCan you explain the difference between what you're doing and the utterly reprehensible practice of some people in the 80s and 90s of publicly blaming AIDS victims who refused to practice abstinence (or other safety measures, I guess) for their own deaths?
Gregg Prentice, 61, who served as accountant for the Hillsborough County GOP and also chaired the organization's committee for election integrity after spending months railing against COVID-19 precautions and criticizing Dr. Anthony Fauci, a Republican Party official in Florida died of COVID this week, leaving his county-level GOP organization without access to critical financ ...[text shortened]... eper-dies-of-covid-leaving-party-without-access-to-finance-software/ar-AAOBRc8?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531
@joc44 saidI’m not supporting forced or coerced vaccination although I’m double vaxxed and I still social distance where I can and always wear a mask in public I still think it’s a personal choice but choices have consequences and I do not believe the unvaxxed should be admitted to hospital for covid treatment, they should tough it out at home rather than clogging up icus and emergency rooms.
Where are the stories of all of those smart people who masked up, sprayed antiseptic, social distanced and still died of Covid?
I am not an antivaxxer...I am not against the vaccine...I am against anyone deciding for me that I have to do something because it is for the Good of the rest of Society. That is kind of the definition of Communism. You will get the vaccine comrad ...[text shortened]... I trust my gut. But in today's environment...I don't get the right to trust my gut? That's crazy.
You clearly have no idea what communism is other than as a catch all phrase for stuff you do not like.
@sh76 saidWho decided it was reprehensible to expect people, gay or straight, to practice safe sex in the face of the AIDS epidemic?
Can you explain the difference between what you're doing and the utterly reprehensible practice of some people in the 80s and 90s of publicly blaming AIDS victims who refused to practice abstinence (or other safety measures, I guess) for their own deaths?
It was a the central message of a well known public health campaign that was endorsed by the Terry Huggins Trust amongst others.
@joc44
So you would rather a MILLION die from covid, which we are headed for now, rather than doing the right thing, GET THE SHOT.
There IS no defense by screaming FREEDOM.
You want the freedom to KILL.
That is what it amounts to when you refuse to vax.
You say you are not anti vax but the EFFECT is the same.
You become part of the problem.
You are a Trump cultist and that means you have ZERO street cred.
So what was your LAST avatar?
You said you have been here 18 years but you just joined in 2018.
@sh76 saidI don't recall the folks in the 80's and 90's politicizing AIDS, or attacking public health officials for simply trying to save lives. Small differences perhaps, but valid ones.
Can you explain the difference between what you're doing and the utterly reprehensible practice of some people in the 80s and 90s of publicly blaming AIDS victims who refused to practice abstinence (or other safety measures, I guess) for their own deaths?
@sh76 saidI can.
Can you explain the difference between what you're doing and the utterly reprehensible practice of some people in the 80s and 90s of publicly blaming AIDS victims who refused to practice abstinence (or other safety measures, I guess) for their own deaths?
Gregg was an anti-COVID activist. In fact, he was an anti-everything activist. No masks, no vaccines, no distancing, it was all a left-wing hoax to get Biden elected. Maliciously Undermining and discrediting public health officials for their expert opinions. His statements and posts remind me of the old groucho Marx bit "Whatever it is, I'm against it."
An AIDS victim is making a personal choice to continue to practice risky behavior is A LOT different. In fact, this seems more akin to the overweight or otherwise unhealthy person with co-morbidities who catches COVID. For over a year now we've heard some version of "that person deserved it" from the right wing over their lifestyle decisions.
If there were a safe, free, simple AIDS vaccine in the 80's and the "AIDS victim" you refer to was out on every street corner telling people that health officials are lying to them for profit and the virus is man made and the vaccine is useless and then that person dies of AIDS, that's the analogy you're looking for here.
If you make sure your vitamin d is where it should and control your weight as well as blood sugar, covid should not be an issue.
I have a buddy who got 3 covid shots, guess what, he is in the hospital with covid.
I have covid, sonhouse you got your wish. Too bad for you that I was never hospitalized. I am doing much better now and am just waiting until I get the ok to go back to work.
Fever, diarrhea and weakness as well as coughing up crap out of my lungs was what I experienced.
@joc44 saidYeah. During a pandemic people die.
Where are the stories of all of those smart people who masked up, sprayed antiseptic, social distanced and still died of Covid?
I am not an antivaxxer...I am not against the vaccine...I am against anyone deciding for me that I have to do something because it is for the Good of the rest of Society. That is kind of the definition of Communism. You will get the vaccine comrad ...[text shortened]... I trust my gut. But in today's environment...I don't get the right to trust my gut? That's crazy.
However, dying because you don’t think it’s a thing is just plain Darwinism.
@shavixmir saidHe died most likely due to the standard American Diet, which is total crap.
Yeah. During a pandemic people die.
However, dying because you don’t think it’s a thing is just plain Darwinism.