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 ...
Jane Long wrote:
“And, you could not just ‘walk up’ for any ‘left over shots’.....you had to register, and wait for your phone call/appointment time, during the designated group dates.”
Exactly !
You’re welcome!
And I agree, the media is gross.
In that article, they didn’t mention if the guy who had the double transplant had any underlying conditions.
The last one got scrubbed from the net, but it was bragging about how whites were going to be a minority in the US due to uncontrolled immigration, ha ha! -- but that anyone white who mentions this is a white supremacist motivated by hate.
Shove it troll.
Great. Another paid Big Pharma shill.
Your childish insults avail you nothing. You are only proving yourself to be a fool.
If you learn some manners and humility, people will be more likely to take you seriously. I’m sorry that you weren’t raised right.
Jane Long is a very respected and a long time member of FR. You are only a newbie.
Do better.
He should I stead go on a pro Ivermectin tour and say “look at what happened to me because no docs offered me Ivermectin”.
“Bullshiite. Your fear has emboldened the communist bastards that are taking over our country. Grow a pair of balls a quit pissing yourself. We’re in an existential fight against leftists, not coughing viruses”
Post of the year.
Hey. That's exactly what I say, Mith. And why I give you the personal honor of my attention.
See, you ain't so stoopy after all. Congrats.
I second that emotion.
Post of the Year nominee.
Jury is out. It may have some effect but we now have multiple vaccines that are effective. if you are not at risk you probably don’t need prophylaxis. If you are get vaccinated.
Come on, folks, act like adults and keep on point.
Regardless if you do or do not get vaccinated, don’t be so triggered that other people made a decision that was not the same as your decision.
Overweight, perhaps even obese based upon the picture which they crop in order to not show the belly.
And Branch Covidians like you ensure that others will follow China's lead and release COVID-21, COVID-22, and a slew of other bio-weapons because sheep like you will ensure that people will listen to their gods of government and television instead of reason.
And Branch Covidians like you ensure that others will follow China's lead and release COVID-21, COVID-22, and a slew of other bio-weapons because sheep like you will ensure that people will listen to their gods of government and television instead of reason.
It takes a special kind of stupid to equate taking a 30-second vaccine to protect one's self and family with acceptance of government tyranny as has been on full display throughout this pandemic.
Special kind of stupid?
Calling it a 30-second vaccine?
-It's not a vaccine. It's an experimental treatment.
-It's not 30-seconds. It could be days and then death. It could be the rest of one's life. It could impact their offspring since the spike proteins cluster in the ovaries. They have NO IDEA what the long term impact of these experiments are.
-Are you protecting yourself and your family? Are you certain of that because Mr. Fauxi told you? Is this not the same individual who hid his illegal use of taxpayer money to fund banned gain-of-function bio-weapon experiments in Wuhan China and then lied about it?
-It's the exact acceptance tyranny and forced experimentation that was identified in the Nuremberg Code in 1947 after the Nazis decided to perform experiments on individuals they considered less than human.
Permissible Experiments from the Nuremberg Code
-The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.
-the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent
-the person involved should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion
-the person should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision.
-The duty and responsibility for ascertaining the quality of the consent rests upon each individual who initiates, directs, or engages in the experiment. It is a personal duty and responsibility which may not be delegated to another with impunity.
-The experiment should be so conducted as to avoid all unnecessary physical and mental suffering and injury.
-Proper preparations should be made and adequate facilities provided to protect the experimental subject against even remote possibilities of injury, disability or death.
-The experiment should be conducted only by scientifically qualified persons.
-The highest degree of skill and care should be required through all stages of the experiment of those who conduct or engage in the experiment.
-During the course of the experiment the human subject should be at liberty to bring the experiment to an end if he has reached the physical or mental state where continuation of the experiment seems to him to be impossible.
Yes. Because he was denied Ivermectin, HCQ and other treatment protocols. His lungs could have been saved if the CDC permitted doctors to treat sick people. But, instead they sent him home until he was sick enough to require ventilation - that is the Fauci/CDC protocol.
It's a worldwide conspiracy I tell ya. 180 or so countries and the globalist won't let any of them save their people with horse wormer and is letting them die to save the planet. Do I have this BS down or what?
A healthy 43 year old was offered the vaccine in January? Right. Cut the bullshit.
Now do a story of healthy 19 year old dying from the ‘vaccine’.
As I said, special.
“A healthy 43 year old was offered the vaccine in January? Right. Cut the bullshit.”
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See post 74 where Jane Long debunks all those who were saying in January you had to be age 65 or over to be vaccinated in Texas. As of December 29 those age 16 or over with a comorbidity were eligible.
The article does say he is 43 years old. Please point out where the article says he was healthy. Thanks for your help and kindness.
December 2020 for 16+ with other conditions... in Texas, per image you posted.
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