On Tuesday, the Cape Cod Times reported that Linda Zuern, a former member of the Bourne, Massachusetts Board of Selectmen and a Trump-supporting figure in the local Republican Party, had died of COVID-19.
Zuern died at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston of severe complications caused by COVID-19, according to the report. She was 70 years old and had not been vaccinated.
“She was a strong woman who believed in speaking the truth and defending our freedoms in America,” Republican State Committeewoman Deborah Dugan told the Cape Cod Times. Dugan was at Zuern’s bedside when she died. “I would describe her to people as a little woman but a mighty warrior.”
What freedoms? Freedom from public health measures? That’s not one of our freedoms – it’s not one of anyone’s freedoms. It’s not a genuine freedom, it’s just anarchic refusal to consider the needs of others. It’s not one of our freedoms to drive down a shopping street at 80 miles an hour, and it’s not one of our freedoms to spread a lethal pandemic.
For months, Zuern, a member of the pro-Trump group the United Cape Patriots, had promoted conspiracy theories about the pandemic on Facebook. She has shared articles accusing the World Health Organization of a coverup of the “Wuhan Virus” and claiming COVID-19 is cover for “globalists” to usher in “U.N. Agenda 2030” — a sustainable development initiative right-wing conspiracy theorists assert is a plot to create a one world government.
Then she found out that COVID-19 is a real illness that destroys the lungs.
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She caught it on the way back from South Dakota. Of course. That’s where Republicans have stood up to Fauci and now their governor is being considered as a 2024 presidential candidate.
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So the virus is a) real and escaped/was released from a Chinese lab, b) being used as a pretext to Take Over the World, but c) not real or deadly enough to take any preventative measures. Have I got that combination right? If it was a Chinese bio-weapon, wouldn’t taking precautions against it be the patriotic thing for Americans to do? I know it’s asking too much for the conspiracy minded to make some sort of attempt at logical consistency, but still.
As far as the whole one world government thing, she’s still messed things up. By turning herself into a corpse, she is now much easier to track, and is less likely to resist our new masters.
To think Republicans once feared that the welfare state would make natural selection grind to a halt.
There’s a whole subreddit devoted to people like this
https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/
Ms. Zuern is currently trending there.
Not particularly newsworthy, is that?
We’re vacationing out near Yellowstone. Lots of bikers without helmets. Same mentality, though at least they’re not contagious.