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Virginia Pastor Dies From Coronavirus After Previously Saying 'Media Is Pumping Out Fear' About Pandemic


https://www.newsweek.com/virginia-pastor-dies-coronavirus-after-previously-saying-media-pumping-out-fear-about-pandemic-1494702

A 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.

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.


And just like that, another Trump supporter came and went. The previous one was an old couple taking hydroxychloroquine for fishtanks...

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You can't fix stupid. I see many Trump supporters dying from the coronavirus because of their stupidity.

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Speaking of which, I wonder if kspkap is going to jump in and tell us about 'karma' again ? Now may be a good time.

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Darwin's Theory in action.

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The end is the only important part.

YOU are happy that a person, who you think liked President Trump, died.

YOU are a sickening human being.

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I'm happy? Where's that? Was I in joy? If it's just stupid people in general, yeah, I guess, but I wouldn't say I am happy about it. Amusing how you somehow find something out of nothing. Guess it comes with the territory.

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