Raccoon Jesus
Todd McLellan is an inside agent
This narrative originated in a CNN interview of a travel nurse in South Dakota. It may be another situation similar to that nurse in Chicago back in April who made some wild claims that turned out not be credible.
FACT CHECK: CNN's Viral COVID-19 Nurse Might Have Overembellished A Bit
CNN's South Dakota Nurse's Story Unravels Even Further, and It Just Gets Strange
RedState used to be a legitimate conservative site pre-Trump. Now it's mostly a useless MAGA clickbait site. But it looks like it may have engaged in a random act of journalism here. This type of story is just too good to fact check for CNN and other similar news outlets.
Not suggesting things aren't worse in the Dakotas, but I doubt there are many people whose last words are along the line that COVID is a hoax.
Okay--let's say that particular story is exaggerated. You have medical personnel in this very thread echoing the sentiment and more than an ample supply of people calling it a hoax publicly even as they pass. Hell, we hit fast forward on the Hermain Cain chapter and mashed right through a bunch of public officials contracting the virus and here we are. There are more than a few pages of high-profile similar cases of deniers.
While I appreciate the fact check of the one particular story that wasn't even the one I was referencing, this is being a bit obtuse in order to deliberately miss the point--that there are WAY too many people out there--especially at this point!--dismissive of COVID's simple existence, including those in leadership positions in said state, and this dereliction of leadership all around is harmful in so many ways.
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