NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A conservative talk radio host from Tennessee who had been a vaccine skeptic until he was hospitalized from COVID-19 has died. He was 61.
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Nashville radio station SuperTalk 99.7 WTN confirmed Phil Valentine’s death in a tweet Saturday.
Valentine had been a skeptic of coronavirus vaccines. But after he tested positive for COVID-19, and prior to his hospitalization, he told his listeners to consider, “If I get this COVID thing, do I have a chance of dying from it?” If so, he advised them to get vaccinated. He said he chose not to get vaccinated because he thought he probably wouldn’t die.
After Valentine was moved into a critical care unit, Mark Valentine said his brother regretted that “he wasn’t a more vocal advocate of the vaccination.”
“I know if he were able to tell you this, he would tell you, ’Go get vaccinated. Quit worrying about the politics. Quit worrying about all the conspiracy theories,” Mark Valentine told The Tennessean on July 25.
“He regrets not being more adamant about getting the vaccine. Look at the dadgum data,” Mark Valentine said.
Phil Valentine had been a radio personality since he was 20 and became a popular conservative host by railing against a state income tax proposed by Republican then-Gov. Don Sundquist, the Tennessean reported.
The program grew into a nationally syndicated show that aired for 12 years on as many as 100 stations, according to the newspaper. At the end of the run, Valentine signed a three-year deal in 2019 that kept him on 99.7 WTN.
“Phil Valentine was a visionary for the conservative movement, and he made an enormous impact on the lives of many Tennesseans,” U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn tweeted. “My deepest condolences and prayers are with Phil’s wife, Susan, and his family. May they be comforted and surrounded by love during this difficult time.”
You can’t fix stupid.
It is horrible to die so young.
shame, he realized his mistake too late….
Definitely no headlines for “man rushes to get Covid vaccine and gets a stroke, heart issues or rare blood disorder” the media is the spokesperson for big pharma and only pro vax stuff gets publicized. Social media is also happy to censor “anti vaxxers” who were all to happy to get the shot and now they are posting their sad stories. Those horrible “anti-vaxxers” are promoting vaccine misinformation and must be censored to save lives.
Just remember people, you are only hearing half a story. The vaccine -might- work to save lives, time will tell . It’s too soon to know because it’s effectiveness seems to be waning. At the same time people are being harmed. I know several people who developed serious neurological conditions no doctor can diagnose, and yet another who survived a serious heart attack days after her shot. Trust me nobody in the FDA gives a hoot.
Of course, the AP (Always Propaganda) doesn’t mention that this late radio host likely never had Covid before, which means he didn’t have antibodies. (If he did, they surely would have trumpeted that.)
They also don’t mention the treatments available, including monoclonal antibodies and others that the media either refuses to cover or lies that they are not effective.
The sole purpose of the article is to get more people to get the shots, regardless of the individual risk to those people if they were to get the shot.
So why the headline? Many people who took the vaccine, have died….or not
Many people commenting here and downvoting rational comments are sheep. I have read of a few cases where people have taken the covid shots and still died of covid-19. And these are just a few stories the Israeli MSM had deemed to tell while the vast majority of msm keeps on hyping those deaths where they didn’t take the shots. In Israel the hospitilization rate is at 50% for those who took these shots. They are not releasing the amount of deaths but it is just as likely to be 50% as well. And as in many such instances, these cases are undereported so the percentage of people in hospitals despite getting the shot may be higher.
The fact is that we are not getting a clear picture from the mainstream media which is practically forcing these shots on the gullible public.
Just curious if you’re also publicizing stories of healthy pro-vax people that died shortly after taking the vaccine (which there are many), or are we just glamorizing the few anti-vaxxers that die.
There have been a few of these antivax radio personalities dying from Covid so it’s no longer news worthy