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Man who declined COVID-19 vaccine speaks out after undergoing double lung transplant
ABC News, via MSN ^ | 17 June 2021 | ABC News

Posted on 06/17/2021 2:57:15 PM PDT by BeauBo

Joshua Garza had a chance to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in January but he passed it up, thinking he didn't really need it.

Now, the 43-year-old Texan is hoping to inspire others to get the shot after he became so ill following his COVID-19 diagnosis that he needed a rare double lung transplant to survive.

"COVID ended up attacking my lungs," Garza, of Sugarland, told ABC News.

After testing positive for COVID-19 in late January, Garza's health deteriorated rapidly. On Feb. 2, when he ended up falling while trying to walk, his wife called for an ambulance to take him to the hospital. He was ultimately transferred to Houston Methodist, where he was put on an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine to pump and oxygenate his blood for him.

"It was quick, it was within three weeks, the lungs were already shot," said Garza, who works in the oil and gas industry.

Garza was put on the lung transplant list, and on April 13, successfully underwent surgery. He spent several more weeks recovering and rehabilitating to regain his strength after two months on life support before being released from the hospital on May 27...

"It's much easier to get the vaccine than to go through something like this," Huang said of Garza's case. "He's extremely lucky. Most people in this situation don't make it to the transplant. You can't count on this outcome."

For Garza, he's sharing his story in hopes of helping prevent others from experiencing what we went through.

"If I knew what I know now," he said, "I would have definitely went through with the vaccination."

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


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To: firebrand
Only the statistically illiterate will have anything to look at here.

You make an interesting point, vax man. So I looked it up.

Turns out, people are not statistics. They are people.

You can google it.


221 posted on 06/17/2021 6:50:12 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: greeneyes; Travis McGee; David Chase
I mean, if you can’t trust “scientists” and “journalists” who CAN you trust?”

The people you trust the most.
Q


222 posted on 06/17/2021 6:51:58 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: TBall
I think the most important information in the report was the brain damage that does occur, not the fact that in milder cases it can't be seen easily.
223 posted on 06/17/2021 6:53:50 PM PDT by firebrand ( )
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To: House Atreides; bagster

If you were 16 or older and had a medical condition that put you at risk of severe COVID-19, you were eligible for the vaccine in Texas starting December 29, 2020.


What was Mr Garza’s medical condition that qualified him for an EARLY shot?

I’m sure you know, since you keep yapping about it.

From the first sentence of article....he didn’t think he needed it. What makes YOU think he needed it?


224 posted on 06/17/2021 6:54:48 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: David Chase

However Ivermectin for the treatment of Covid-19 also has Not received FDA approval and in fact the FDA warned against its use.


It’s stupid to care about what the FDA says when you have access to studies about the effectiveness of Ivermectin. If the FDA makes a decision, it will be based on those studies. You can read those studies and make a decision without taking into consideration how it will affect the political interests of the people at the FDA.

It’s not hard to read the studies. Often all you need to do is read the abstracts. If there are controversies, they are explained clearly in a publication that cites the study.


225 posted on 06/17/2021 6:56:01 PM PDT by TTFX ( )
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To: David Chase
That’s like someone knowing about the 9/11 attacks and not saying a peep until it was done. Disgusting.

Yea, but is it? Really?

You people and your stupid analogies. At least you now admit that the vax is like 9-11 (worse, really. way more dead).

#BabySteps


226 posted on 06/17/2021 6:56:14 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: firebrand
This is the neurotic conspiracy stuff that gives all right-wingers a bad name.

When in history has worrying about what leftists think benefitted freedom and liberty?
227 posted on 06/17/2021 6:56:54 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: David Chase
That’s when Joe Biden got vaccinated. Look it up.

Yea, but isn't he like 112 years old? And the fake Preezy? And doing fake photo ops with masks and shots to coerce you sheep into wearing masks and taking poison vax shots?

You probly should think before you open your yap, Chase.


228 posted on 06/17/2021 6:59:20 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: bagster

Have they tried putting fish gills into people instead of lungs? Surely someone has worked on that, since the Chi-com military were equipping mice with humanized lungs.


229 posted on 06/17/2021 7:00:55 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: firebrand

This is the neurotic conspiracy stuff that gives all right-wingers a bad name.


If eugenicists are promoting vaccination, paying attention is common sense.


230 posted on 06/17/2021 7:01:38 PM PDT by TTFX ( )
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To: EEGator
Same side Homie.

Oh, I know. I was agreeing with you and speaking to Bobo the Clown, Vax Ambassador to FreeRepublic.

Apologies for the mix-up.


231 posted on 06/17/2021 7:01:55 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

When right-wingers are actually abetting disease and death, and therefore making our other ideas suspect by association. If we cut out the ignorance, hysterical paranoia, and purposeful deception, we are therefore helping the cause of freedom.


232 posted on 06/17/2021 7:02:21 PM PDT by firebrand ( )
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To: Jane Long; Skywise
You’re aware the vaccine was eligible to people under 50 (with co-morbidities) at the end of January… right? ~~~~~~~~~

"Not in Texas."

Note the part where Jane Long posted (post #74), that as of December 29, 2020, those in Texas who were "16+ with a health condition which increases the risk of severe COVID-19 illness" (the co-morbidities I referenced), were in fact, eligible for the vaccine.

Thanks Jane, for debunking those (like yourself) who were trying to say that the story must be BS, because no one under 65 was offered the vaccine in January. There it is in black and white:


233 posted on 06/17/2021 7:02:36 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: TTFX

“ It’s stupid to care about what the FDA says when you have access to studies about the effectiveness of Ivermectin. If the FDA makes a decision, it will be based on those studies. ”
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Pretty much my point except I got vaccinated also instead of waiting for the FDA’s approval.

So, what I was saying is that I have no problem using or doing what needs to be done with or without Government approval.

The first part that you quoted I was pointing out that both vaccines and ivermectin do not have FDA approval for Covid-19.

If cocaine would safe a life…,……I’d use it or get it for anyone that needs it.
(Never used street drugs except for trying marijuana when I was a kid.)


234 posted on 06/17/2021 7:03:02 PM PDT by David Chase
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To: firebrand

Obviously if you can’t breathe and need a respirator your likely to have brain damage. That’s why it is very important to recognize covid patients early on and have a therapeutic treatment that will prevent there being a lack of oxygen to the brain. I’m not a doctor but might I suggest Hydroxyclolqine, zinc, Ivermectin... for starters. Also, if you can’t smell or taste then it is time for a therapeutic.


235 posted on 06/17/2021 7:03:21 PM PDT by TBall
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To: firebrand
All anti-covid-vaxxers think their own racial group is being targeted for extinction. All over the world, everyone thinks the people in charge are out to get them. This is the neurotic conspiracy stuff that gives all right-wingers a bad name.

You're not paying attention.

It's okay, though. The world needs lemmings too.


236 posted on 06/17/2021 7:04:24 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: David Chase

What day did that Podcast come out? Tuesday?

When did the vaccines roll out? December of 2020.

I’m not accusing the Doc of anything. It’s the calendar that’s convicting him.

He waited 6 months before doing a Podcast for something so important as this?

The evidence is a 6 MONTH TIME FRAME.

I don’t have Twitter any longer.
Perhaps you can ask him for us. I’m sure he has a good reason for not saying anything until now……….
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No can do.

I have never had a twitter and ain’t starting now.

Actually, I believe the data that led to his coming forward now, is the recent data that showed the JAB didn’t stay in the muscle, but is spreading throughout the body.

He actually got the JAB before this info came out.

But you have succeeded in convincing me that facts don’t matter to you at all. Just attack the source and push the Vax.

I got it. I won’t be wasting my time posting to you any more, since you obviously do not care about facts. You are just here to attack.

VAERS reported Deaths and injury? Nothing to see here-lousy data. Stop and figure out how to mitigate the VAX injury - no attack the source that says there is a problem.

Yep-I got it.

Don’t bother posting to me ever again. You are the one that is disgusting.


237 posted on 06/17/2021 7:05:51 PM PDT by greeneyes ( Moderation In Pursuit of Justice is NO Virtue--LET FREEDOM RING)
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To: TTFX

Evil people can ride on any issue if they’re clever enough. We’re not evil just because we are in synchrony with eugenicists on this one issue, for completely different reasons, but let’s not be stupid either. Facts are facts.


238 posted on 06/17/2021 7:05:52 PM PDT by firebrand ( )
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To: BeauBo

LOL! What proof do you have that Mr Garza was even eligible?

The first line of your article says he thought he didn’t need it, no talk of any underlying issues, in article/by him.

Keep trying, though.


239 posted on 06/17/2021 7:06:33 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: BeauBo

Cherry picking.


240 posted on 06/17/2021 7:07:18 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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