NEW YORK (VINnews) — A British anti-vax solicitor with no underlying health conditions died of coronavirus just days after insisting it is “nothing to be afraid of” and hoping that he had contracted the virus in order to gain natural antibodies to COVID-19.
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Leslie Lawrenson, 58, a solicitor from Bournemouth in Southern England, died at his home on 2 July. Lawrenson was a vociferous opponent of the vaccines who spoke out on social media against “taking the jab.”
His partner Amanda Mitchell, 56, became seriously ill while Mr Lawrenson was infected and spent a week in hospital. She said afterwards that his belief that Covid-19 vaccines were too “experimental” put his family at risk.
Mitchell added that Lawrenson had made a “terrible mistake” and warned others to vaccinate immediately, writing on her Facebook page that “I’m trying to stop any other family suffering a loss and the total devastation that we are going through.”
Speaking to the Stephen Nolan programme on BBC Radio 5 live, she said: “I feel incredibly foolish. Les died unnecessarily.” Mitchell said that her partner, a graduate of Cambridge University, had read materials on social media warning of the dangers of vaccination.
She added that “It was a daily thing that he said to us: ‘You don’t need to have it [the vaccine], you’ll be fine, just be careful.’
“He said to me: ‘It’s a gene thing, an experimental thing. You’re putting something in your body that hasn’t been thoroughly tested’.
“Les was highly educated… so if he told me something, I tended to believe it.”
Mitchell who suffers from diabetes and hypertension, was hospitalized with the virus at the same time that her husband, who appeared to be recovering, was found dead in bed just 9 days after posting that he saw coronavirus as “no worse than a cold.”
In a video blog posted to Facebook on June 24 while suffering from Covid-19, Mr Lawrenson said every part of his body was “wracked with pain”.
Despite feeling ill, he stood firm in his opposition to the vaccine, adding: “The potential dangers from taking the experimental jab for me are not worth that risk. I’d rather take my chances with my immune system.”
Daughter Carla Hodges, 35, from Hertfordshire said: “[Leslie] was so brainwashed by the stuff that he was seeing on YouTube and social media.
“He said: ‘A lot of people will die more from having the vaccine than getting Covid.’”
Ms Mitchell said she would be having the vaccine as soon as doctors declared her fit enough.
antivaccers are FOOLS
I’d love to see more of the stories from those ppl who said the vaccine is nothing to be afraid of and are no longer here with us.
Like my cousin.
Why isn’t society owed balanced news?
Why only one side is being publicized?
How sad and cruel
Suicide by COVID.
Very sad that he convinced others to not get the vaccine. Common sense and their lives out the window.
What a very sad story.
These stories are all to common. The antivaxers are a dying breed and may become extinct.
I feel bad that he was mislead by wrong information. Everyone should be aware that if you spread anti vaccination information you may have a lot of blood on your hands. You might not realize that in your lifetime. But don’t think you’ll get away with it!
All the insane frum anti vaxers better take note. the previous generation appreciated vaccine because they saw what happened with polio etc… the new young dumb anti vax movement in the frum community are simply young and stupid. (actually its a stirah to venishmartem so not to frum)
Unfortunately, there is indeed a cure for stupid.
He was going on about how the flu was so bad. He had to catch himself a couple of times to be certain to minimize the COVID while fearing the flu. He’s gone. Nobody to blame but himself.
What a Putz.
Vaccinate or don’t vaccinate. Keep your ego to yourself.
It does make you think why has approximately 30% of the medical community rejected getting the vaccine? When you dive deeper into the data, 96% of the Medical Doctors/Physicians/Virologists have taken the vaccine. I’ll follow the folks with the higher IQ and education.
Still waiting for an article about all these ppl that quarantined for 10 plus month, only to leave when Dr f gave them the ok, and die a week later from covid . What a sad way to spend the last year of ones life
I was going to get the shot as I wanted to go to israel but my doctor told me not to ( age 21 not sure if that’s why)
I feel sorry for the imbecile. It would be easy to say that he was just too stupid to live… because he was. Still, death is too cruel a fate for stupidity.
The man was right, that, certainly for many people, it makes much more sense to use one’s own immune system than risk the shots, which the FDA has approved for only “Emergency Use”.
However, it would also make sense to use the known cures for Covid, like HCQ/Zinc and monoclonal antibodies, rather than rely only on the immune system.
Am I a bad person if I have started to wish that every vaccine refusenik for non-medical reasons should catch covid 19 and suffer enourmously?
Notice they don’t tell you WHAT he died of. Its just “He died of Covid-19” without any elaboration. This is a propaganda hit piece. Plain and simple.
Maybe he died of frustration – dealing with so many unfounded propagandists running loose in the world. Aside from this, let’s not forget that the covid virus has never actually been isolated, and that in fact, what’s actually being tested for is ‘the common cold’. The shot’s magic is in its patent-based money!