Posted on 04/01/2020 7:37:37 AM PDT by Cronos
A 66-year-old Virginia musician and pastor who had questioned coronavirus media coverage died from the disease after a trip to New Orleans.
A 66-year-old Virginia resident who fell ill with the new coronavirus, or COVID-19, on a trip to New Orleans died Wednesday morning at a hospital in Concord, North Carolina. The death of Landon Spradlin, an accomplished musician and a pastor, has drawn viral attention online, in part because earlier this month Spradlin questioned whether media coverage of the disease was overblown.
Spradlin lived in Gretna, a small town in Pittsylvania County, about halfway between Lynchburg and Danville.
While driving home from New Orleans, Spradlin, who had pastored at several different churches over the years, started feeling much worse. He and his wife, Jean Spradlin, stopped in Concord, where he was admitted to a hospital and diagnosed with pneumonia. He was eventually put on a ventilator as his condition worsened before he died.
Because of hospital restrictions, Spradlin's daughter, Judah Strickland, was not able to be with her father before he died. Strickland told WTVD that she'll try to carry on her father's legacy of faith and music.
Some media outlets have noted that Spradlin shared a meme on his Facebook page that compared coronavirus deaths to swine flu deaths. The meme described the reaction to the coronavirus as "mass hysteria"
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“The actual number of deaths from this are still tremendously lower than the flu at least so far and no one would have posted had he died if the flu.
So his point was valid.”
Nope, not valid.
The part most are getting wrong is the fact that the Flu is in every square inch of USA, this virus is brand new and most places aren’t even exposed yet.
...66-year-old... who had questioned coronavirus media coverage...
Partisan Media Shills update.
It is valid.
According to your logic, since the flu is inarguably deadly and takes 20,000- 80,000 Americans each year, we should not be physically assembling for church. It’s very communicable! Or we are murderers.
I guess you’d extrapolate that to any gathering.
Look, you can’t compare the Flu that is everywhere to something that doesn’t even exist in most places, then say which is deadlier.
It’s impossible to compile stats for a virus this new.
I can, in this sense:
We know the flu (different strains every season). We know it kills 20-80,000 Americans per year. We know how it’s transmitted. None of this is theory.
If it is murder to pass it on then there is no justification for any assemblies of any kind, ever.
We don’t know covid. I guess we know a little. But not like we know the flu. Yet we are shutting down things to the extreme of forbidding worship (not even allowing with six feet between worshippers) and limiting funerals to an attendance of ten.
It makes NO sense.
I was wondering about our one case from Pittsylvania.
That whole “everybody should come to Mardi Gras” is beginning to look like a bad idea. Of course, I can’t imagine the hell if someone had tried to cancel that thing.
you don't say...
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