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'Nothing to be afraid of': Anti-vaxxer said he was 'glad' to catch COVID - it killed him days later

  

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Via:  john-russell  •  3 years ago  •  5 comments

By:   Sky Palma (Raw Story - Celebrating Years of Independent Journalism)

'Nothing to be afraid of': Anti-vaxxer said he was 'glad' to catch COVID - it killed him days later
A Cambridge-educated man who posted a video to social media downplaying the threat of COVID-19 has died from the virus, the Evening Standard reports. Solicitor Leslie Lawrenson, 58, died in home in Bournemouth, Dorset, just over a week after he shared a video claiming that COVID is nothing to be afr...

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A Cambridge-educated man who posted a video to social media downplaying the threat of COVID-19 has died from the virus, the Evening Standard reports.

Solicitor Leslie Lawrenson, 58, died in home in Bournemouth, Dorset, just over a week after he shared a video claiming that COVID is nothing to be afraid of. Lawrenson refused to be vaccinated because he felt he didn't need it. He had no underlying health problems.

In June, he posted two videos where he said his COVID symptoms were no worse than a cold. He also said that getting sick is just a part of life and that he was actually glad to have contracted COVID-19. But his parter Amanda Mitchell says, "I feel incredibly foolish. Les died unnecessarily."

"Les made a terrible mistake and he's paid the ultimate price for that," she said. "It was a daily thing that he said to us: 'You don't need to have it, you'll be fine, just be careful.'"

"Les was highly educated... so if he told me something, I tended to believe it," she added.


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JohnRussell
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1  seeder  JohnRussell    3 years ago

His dying words may have been interesting. 

Don't tempt fate. 

 
 
 
Paula Bartholomew
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2  Paula Bartholomew    3 years ago

Fools and their lives are soon parted.

 
 
 
Ender
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3  Ender    3 years ago

How many times do we have to see stories like this yet some will still brush it off...

I am getting to where I no longer have pity for fools.

 
 
 
devangelical
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3.1  devangelical  replied to  Ender @3    3 years ago

bwah ha ha ha, karma...

 
 
 
shona1
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4  shona1    3 years ago

Evening... Well you can't fix stupid..but the virus did.. and another life is wasted.

It makes no difference to the virus if you are highly educated or uneducated...

It is probably the only thing in this world that does not discriminate against anyone..

And it's very happy to comply..

 
 

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