NO, THE DEATH OF LUKE LETLOW WON'T CHANGE THE COVID DEBATE IN AMERICA

Terrible story:

Congressman-elect Luke Letlow ... 41, died at Ochsner-LSU Health Shreveport from “complications from COVID-19,” his spokesman, Andrew Bautsch, said in a statement.

... Letlow is survived by his wife, Julie Barnhill Letlow, and two young children, Bautsch said.

He was in critical condition but had recently shown signs of improvement when he "apparently suffered a cardiac event this evening that was refractory to all resuscitation efforts," said Dr. G.E. Ghali, of LSU Health Shreveport.

Ghali previously said Letlow was being treated with the antiviral drug Remdesivir and steroids. Asked if Letlow had any underlying conditions that would have made his death more likely, Ghali said in a text message, "none. All COVID related."

I wondered what our conservative friends were saying about this in right-wing comments sections. I didn't find as much wholesale denialism as I expected, and I even found some comments like this, at Breitbart:

Could you please come on my face book and tell my family it's real and not a Hoax. That stupid Narrative needs to stop. God Bless his Family an those dying alone as well. Hope 2021 is much safer an better for the United States.

Which prompted this response:

Everyone knows COVID is real, the trick they are playing in over inflating the numbers of infected and dead.

I have never heard anyone deny that the disease does not exist. This is simply a straw horse the left sets up to cover up how much they have over stated the effects of COVID.

It is disgusting how the Democrats have used a disease as an excuse to take away basics rights and freedoms.

That seems to be what much of the right-wing rank-and-file believes now: The virus is real, it can do real harm, but it doesn't kill as many people as the libs claim, and they're using it as an excuse for social control. (As a Newsmax commenter puts it, "No one says the disease itself is a hoax. That's why Donald the Magnificent delivered the Trump vaccine in record time. It's the dem lockdown and economic destruction for political purposes that's the hoax.")

But plenty of them do think the disease itself is a hoax. From Breitbart:

LSU just made 9k from the Feds blaming his death on COVID. It's a hoax and a boon to hospitals and health districts to blame deaths on COHOAX 19. Turn off the federal subsidies and this fraud will end. Just like H1N1.

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This stinks. THIS is why I won't go anywhere near a hospital anymore. This whole covid hoax wouldn't be possible without their help. I cannot, and do not, believe that an otherwise healthy 41yr old person, could have this outcome. I certainly wouldn't put it past the communist party, IN AMERICA, to eliminate a rival this way. This hospital should be investigated THOROUGHLY for their ties to the leftists !!

And have other suaspicions as well:

He was transferred from a catholic hospital to a college hospital.

I see the potential for a massive malpractice lawsuit.

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With plenty of "diversity-hire" doctors too

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I know for a fact that the democrats would have executed him for his seat.if possible

At Gateway Pundit, the skeptics really let their freak flag fly:

maybe they convinced him that he needed a ventilator--that's how they killed a lot of people in NYC hospitals (according to 3 whistle-blower nurses).

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I wouldn't put it past Deep State to murder this guy as an example to the rest to tow the line. It wouldn't be the first time.

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Sadly, my first thought is he was intentionally infected and killed.

Look at the beating the democrats just took in the House and remember what the democrats are capable of.

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The SAME people who are telling us that JOE BIDEN was elected fair and square are TELLING US THAT THERE IS A PANDEMIC.

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This is insane what Democrat Communist Fascists are doing. We are still trying out Medicare for All, using the China virus as the excuse for all deaths so that hospitals make more money AND we are in lockdown & have long wait times to see drs., get MRIs, surgery, etc.

And even if you get a "free" China virus vaccine, you still paid Big Pharma with your tax money.

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I agree--whenever they need to turn up the fear (like when people start waking up to the BS, or start protesting or opening up their businesses, or when they want people to take the DNA-altering vaccine), they can easily do something like this. This guy would probably still be alive if he stayed at home. I think they want to turn up the fear right now, probably to convince people to take the bioweapon injection. I think that's why they are pushing the latest BS about a new more deadly strain of covid. US media is 100% propaganda

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I think he was murdered too.

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Were the Clinton's in town?

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The sane ones list a fatal motorcycle accident as Covid. The insane and mentally ill question it. Right out of the Bolshevik playbook.

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There was a story on Tucker Carlson tonight from Michigan, I think, about all the patients being classified Covid when they weren't. One guy had three bullet wounds, but was classified as Covid. Car accidents, too.

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The CDC is now saying that only 6% of the 330k deaths were due to Covid alone. That's 20,000 max. Year over year deaths consistent for the last decade and even lower this year than last. The Covid crisis is baloney.

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And the annual flu season magically disappeared.

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So have deaths from cancer, leukemia, strokes, and other causes.

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Those are all just different strains of Covid... There's the 'Heart Attack' strain, the 'Car Accident' strain, the 'Leukemia' strain, the 'Stroke' strain, etc.

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And the most frequently contracted of all, the quasi common cold strain.

Oh but now there's two new "super strains" that are 70% more contagious than the original version. I'm SOOOOO terrified. Ha-ha ! Please Mr. CONvid, infect me. I want to demonstrate to the believing clowns out there how stupidly needless their fears are.

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There is so much truth out there about this PLANdemic. There's no excuse for people to be ignorant. We have the internet - the biggest educational resource in the world - at our fingertips. Research in the right places and you'll soon find it's all a globalist con game.

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If they didn't prevent him access to HCQ or other treatment like corticosteroids, he would probably still be alive. Medical establishment is run by mass murderers.

So I don't think the conversation will change. Not every right-winger is a conspiratorialist skeptic, but many are, and the rest are consumed with hatred for us because they think we're stealing their freedoms.