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Yes, every death is a tragedy, and John Donne’s Meditation 17, which says that “no man is an island” remains as true today as the day it was written.

Nevertheless.

The pattern that is beginning to emerge here is, at the very least, worthy of closer examination. That is to say:

1. Right-wing radio host bets on Trump’s fanatic support
2. Said host parrots that COVID-19 is a “hoax”
3. Problem: why would you need a vaccine for a hoax?
4. Solution: the vaccine is worse than COVID!
5. Radio demagogue shouts this idiocy daily to dumb listeners
6. COVID contracts
7. Reality of whole body pain and agony of slow strangulation
8. He regrets being a gullible idiot who led his listeners to death
9. Radio host dies

Let’s review the current body count, shall we?

1. Marc Bernier, he was a truly horrible person.

Bombshell lawsuit accuses vaccine deaths are hidden https://t.co/TcH4ip2Bip

– Marc Bernier (@MarcBernierShow) July 20, 2021

This woman has the political life expectancy of milk. Biden’s press secretary tweets gay insult to Lindsey Graham https://t.co/Xuw6Rs0K3l

– Marc Bernier (@MarcBernierShow) February 3, 2021

Vote Change: SMOKING GUN on Georgia Voter Fraud https://t.co/PmmJAxVoye

– Marc Bernier (@MarcBernierShow) January 3, 2021

… and finally, his last pinned tweet, comparing vaccination to Nazi gas chambers

It should say: “Now the United States government is acting like the Nazis. Shoot! ” https://t.co/8WLpXVxGRm

– Marc Bernier (@MarcBernierShow) July 30, 2021

Actual state:

Bernier was off the air on Monday, August 2, affected by Covid-19 at home. Sean Hannity’s syndicated show was airing instead. On Saturday August 8, Bernier was hospitalized, according to the WNDB station manager, who described Bernier as “anti-vaccine.” And that seems to be the last word on his status:

Dick Farrel, right-wing screamer and Newsmax host:

It was all in Trump’s favor:

Mister. @realDonaldTrump we are proudly wearing and selling “Trump for President” t-shirts. Would you like one? pic.twitter.com/Vsc9w07ty9

– Dick Farrel (@talkradioking) July 21, 2015

I drank the Kool-Aid

“I am not vaccinated. I am not a sheep. “

Weeks before dying from COVID, MAGA radio host Dick Farrel called for the arrest of Dr. Fauci, referred to COVID vaccines as “poison” and stated, “I know I don’t need them and will never need them.”https://t.co/gLcc9ugDUX pic.twitter.com/5FU6aXYmbf

– PAT • LEE (@pat_lee) August 7, 2021

Actual state:

Dick Farrel, a former right-wing radio host in Florida and a Newsmax TV host, died of complications from Covid-19, says NBC News affiliate WPTV. https://t.co/6UVvwlZxPS

– NBC News (@NBCNews) August 8, 2021

Phil Valentine was a performatively terrible person:

Hurrah! https://t.co/8ZeJooXLYp

– Phil Valentine (@Valentine’s Day) October 27, 2020

FYI, if they find enough voter fraud in MI and WI and the count in GA goes the way of Trump, this is over and Biden is the loser. And you don’t even need PA. Yes, it is a long shot, but let the process unfold.

– Phil Valentine (@Valentine’s Day) November 11, 2020

More than 66,000 people voted in GA who were not of legal age to vote. Biden won by less than 13,000. You do the math. I’ve been waiting for tests and this is only part of it. Thousands of dead and thousands of criminals voted. There is no way the election can be certified.

– Phil Valentine (@Valentine’s Day) December 4, 2020

Six states have joined the actual lawsuit with Texas, in addition to all the states that have filed amicus briefs. SCOTUS has no choice but to invalidate the results in the 4 states named by Texas. See why here:https://t.co/goNOrB0VyE

– Phil Valentine (@Valentine’s Day) December 10, 2020

This is a US government study showing that face masks not only don’t work, they are detrimental to your health. I wonder why this has not been in all the news and Fauci has not promoted it.https://t.co/MLi8W7hDFI

– Phil Valentine (@Valentine’s Day) April 20, 2021

It is the bullets that caught my attention. https://t.co/m1rbhNV2tT

– RolandRivers (@RolandRivers) June 10, 2021

He scoffed at the vaccine:

New parody of Phil Valentine & The Heartthrobs song. Vaxman (to Taxman of the Beatles). Another instant classic!https://t.co/2W9ta7XBIB

– Phil Valentine (@Valentine’s Day) June 21, 2021

Ah, but I’m sure your vaccine is perfectly safe. Do not worry about that.https://t.co/mNC7Sj4XpV

– Phil Valentine (@Valentine’s Day) July 15, 2021

And later:

Valentine scoffed at the need for vaccines and wrote on his blog that his chances of dying from the virus, should he become infected, were “much less than one percent.”

He announced his Covid-19 diagnosis on July 11 and vowed to return to his show in a day or two.

“Unfortunately for the haters, it looks like I’m going to make it,” he wrote. “Interesting experience. I’ll have to inform you when I get back on the air. I hope it’s tomorrow, but I can take a day off just as a precaution. “

Less than two weeks later, his radio station, 99.7 WTN, announced that the Nashville host was hospitalized “in very serious condition, suffering from Covid pneumonia.” The statement said Valentine had changed his mind and urged others to get vaccinated.

Actual state:

Phil Valentine died of COVID after mocking the disease as a hoax and spreading misinformation about the vaccine. He was on a ventilator for weeks. The senator must have run out of space to include those details; there is no way I am omitting the facts in an interested way. https://t.co/eoroksiSr4

– Erin and a half Ryan (@morninggloria) August 22, 2021