Disaster Virginia Pastor Who Posted About Coronavirus Being Mass Hysteria Dies of Virus - Stay safe out there Kiwis

Virginia pastor dies from coronavirus after previously saying "media is pumping out fear" about pandemic

Landon Spradlin previously shared Facebook meme suggesting the media is reporting on the virus just to attack Trump.

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Virginia man who downplayed the seriousness of the coronavirus as merely the media "pumping out fear" has died after contracting the virus.

Landon Spradlin, 66, a pastor and traveling musician, died on Wednesday, March 25, at a hospital in North Carolina after testing positive for COVID-19.

As first reported by Patch, nearly two weeks before his death Spradlin shared a meme on his Facebook page suggesting the media "can manipulate your life."

The post compared the "mass hysteria" surrounding the number of deaths from the coronavirus in the U.S. while Donald Trump has been president compared to the deaths from H1N1 under Barack Obama's administration.


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In the comments section underneath the March 13 post, Spradlin wrote that while he knows COVID-19 is real, the "real issue" is "the media is pumping out fear and doing more harm than good.

"It will come and it will go," he added.

Facebook has since flagged the post as displaying "partly false information" after being reviewed by independent fact-checkers.

Following reports of his death, Spradlin's Facebook page has been littered with people mocking and criticizing him for his views on the virus.



Spradlin's daughter Judah Strickland has described her heartache that she wasn't able to say goodbye to her father at the hospital in Concord, North Carolina, because she was restricted from seeing him.

"I said 'look, I haven't seen my dad in almost six weeks,' she told WSLS. "Please let me go see him. And she [hospital worker] said 'look under any other circumstances we would, but this is uncharted territory for us.'"

Elsewhere, a GoFundMepage raising money for Spradlin's family has since gone on to raise more than $22,000.

Virginia resident Landon Spradlin died at a North Carolina hospital after contracting the virus.GOFUNDME

Spradlin is one of two people to be recorded to have died from the virus in North Carolina, the second being a patient in their late 70s.

"We extend our deepest sympathies to the families and loved ones," North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper said in a statement.

"This is a stark warning that for some people COVID-19 is a serious illness. All of us must do our part to stop the spread by staying at home as much as possible and practicing social distancing."

There are more than 86,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the U.S., making it the country with the highest number in the world, according to Johns Hopkins University. More than 1,300 have died from the coronavirus, with 753 patients managing to recover.

This infographic, provided by Statista, shows the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases by state.

 

[JULAY]

I like the virus's sense of humor.

 

[crocodilian]

The stock market is tanking for logical reasons. I don't wanna risk lung scarring. I wanna scuba dive and hit bongs not gasp for breath after this is all over. Not to mention the fact that you, me and everybody else reading this can have undiagnosed underlying health conditions making us more susceptible to extreme outcomes. There are already kids on ventilators in the US along with oodles of healthy adults with no underlying health conditions. Anybody kvetching about the economy and their fucking shekels at the expense of American lives is a filthy turbo k1ke. I remember a time when America bent over backwards and spared no expense to save their people.

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Remember when they went so far as to rig up rockets to a C-130 to try to save 52 fucking people ‽ That doesn't sound very "economically viable" either.

The actual numbers for COVID victims below the age of about 60 is very low, both in Italy and the United States. You'll have to forgive me if I'm not very enthusiastic about tanking the world economy and kickstarting a recession over a virus that's not any worse than SARS or H1N1, nor Reagan's flying vanity project.

 

[Sped Xing]

That graphic. My first glance impression was, "Great, a population distribution map. Soooo informative."

Then I noticed New York is ten times ahead of even the shithole country that is California in absolute numbers.


God and me hate NYC.

 

[Shaved Kiwis]

The actual numbers for COVID victims below the age of about 60 is very low, both in Italy and the United States. You'll have to forgive me if I'm not very enthusiastic about tanking the world economy and kickstarting a recession over a virus that's not any worse than SARS or H1N1, nor Reagan's flying vanity project.

Fuck grandpa and the cripples! I've gotta increase shareholder value. I'd rather we tank the economy to save some old people and useless cripples then under react and start digging mass graves like Iran. I dunno what I find more disgusting; your attitude or the fact that your greed helps legitimize filthy commies.

 

[JULAY]

The actual numbers for COVID victims below the age of about 60 is very low, both in Italy and the United States. You'll have to forgive me if I'm not very enthusiastic about tanking the world economy and kickstarting a recession over a virus that's not any worse than SARS or H1N1, nor Reagan's flying vanity project.

The only reason for that is that younger people are getting ventilators and O2 if they need them. When there are millions of cases in the US, that will no longer happen, and you'll see people in the US in their 30s and 40s who contract the virus and have severe complications start dying en masse. At this point the world economy is fucked no matter what... People aren't going to risk death just because people like you and Trump think that they should.

 

[Powder Puff Gorl]

Fuck grandpa and the cripples! I've gotta increase shareholder value. I'd rather we tank the economy to save some old people and useless cripples then under react and start digging mass graves like Iran. I dunno what I find more disgusting; your attitude or the fact that your greed helps legitimize filthy commies.

You're not the only one who has friends affected by this. I have a dear friend in her 70s who has had it for two weeks. Do I want her to die? Of course not. But if the economy buckles, there's a high chance she won't get what she needs to stay alive. If there's no production there's no money. If there's no money, there's no means to pay healthcare workers, to buy medicine, to save lives, to pay for tests, to do research on vaccines, etc. We have to get back on our feet economically to fight this virus. That's a fact.

It is possible for folks to care deeply about people who have the virus and to also realize that there are tough decisions to make. One doesn't exclude the other.

 

[DocHoliday1977]

Pretty sure it was his pre existing conditions that made him weaker and susceptible. Many Christians tend to think they can disregard healthy living thinking Jesus will just "heal them" no matter what.

And if he did accept Jesus, Jesus took care of him and he's very happy where he's at. This is our eternal hope. That being said, we ALL will die someday. Even Jews and politicians.

No one outsmarts death. No one.

 

[Zero Day Defense]

You'll have to forgive me if I'm not very enthusiastic about tanking the world economy and kickstarting a recession over a virus that's not any worse than SARS or H1N1, nor Reagan's flying vanity project.

I dunno, SARS-classic is pretty bad.

 

[Shaved Kiwis]

You're not the only one who has friends affected by this. I have a dear friend in her 70s who has had it for two weeks. Do I want her to die? Of course not. But if the economy buckles, there's a high chance she won't get what she needs to stay alive. If there's no production there's no money. If there's no money, there's no means to pay healthcare workers, to buy medicine, to save lives, to pay for tests, to do research on vaccines, etc. We have to get back on our feet economically to fight this virus. That's a fact.

It is possible for folks to care deeply about people who have the virus and to also realize that there are tough decisions to make. One doesn't exclude the other.

It's obviously not a zero sum game, it's also obvious that greedy cocksuckers from here to China have been downplaying this shit for "muh economy". Half the stuff you mentioned wouldn't be an issue if instead of both parties giving 1.5 TRILLION to fat cat J00 bankers they would have given us the money. That's ~4.5k to each American.