This is the tragic cost of ignorance and misinformation.

Let's depend on FACTS, RESEARCH and SCIENCE.

There is no indication that other than speaking loudly and spreading misinformation, Linda Zuern had any science background. The ANTI-VAXXERS are spreading the virus and jeopardizing others.

Not only was Linda Zuern unvaccinated, but went before a pubic meeting:

"At a Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates meeting in December, Zuern spoke about a report on the use of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment of the COVID-19 virus. Zuern questioned why some doctors were not allowed to use the medicine on patients. "

PUBLISHED IN JAMA (there are other studies as well):

“In the well-conducted clinical trials published to date, hydroxychloroquine has been evaluated in a wide variety of populations, ranging from patients with severe illness to individuals at risk of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, in whom the drug was used as primary prophylaxis; these studies failed to show any beneficial effect of the drug.”
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This comment from the NY POST, the MURDOCH TABLOID:

The same kind of misinformation could have potentially prevented smallpox from being eradicated in the US, Fauci said.

“If you look at the extraordinary historic success in eradicating smallpox and eliminating polio from most of the world, and we’re on the brink of eradicating polio, if we had the pushback for vaccines the way we’re seeing on certain media, I don’t think it would have been possible at all to not only eradicate smallpox,” Fauci said. LINK

UNVACCINATED Linda Zuern, former Bourne selectman, dies of complications of COVID-19

Beth Treffeissen Cape Cod Times 

Published Jul 20, 2021

BOURNE — Linda Zuern, remembered as a staunch conservative, well-respected educator and friend to many in the town of Bourne, died on Friday due to complications of COVID-19. 

“This is one exceptional lady that touched so many lives, so many lives,” said Mimi Frank, her good friend from Woods Hole. 

Zuern, 70, died at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston on Friday of severe complications caused by COVID-19, according to family members and friends.

Zuern was brought from Cape Cod by MedFlight to the hospital in early June and had been in a coma on a ventilator until her death. She was not vaccinated against COVID-19, according to a close friend and one of her neighbors.

Zuern was one of the first members of the United Cape Patriots, a local grassroots conservative group that frequently held Trump support standouts on the Bourne rotary, along with other rallies.

She was often seen holding a Trump support poster as motorists drove by honking in support or against, said Adam Lange who founded the group in 2017.  Lange was one of four people who protested last week in opposition to the state VaxBus program — which distributes COVID-19 vaccines — when it arrived in Provincetown. 

Zuern was a big believer in the Constitution and believed in having a small government, which is what the Tea Party was all about, Lange said. Zuern helped found the Upper Cape Tea Party, he said. 

After her father died last year Zuern went to visit her mother in South Dakota. On their return trip to Bourne, both her mother and herself contracted COVID-19. Her mother survived the disease. 

At a Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates meeting in December, Zuern spoke about a report on the use of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment of the COVID-19 virus. Zuern questioned why some doctors were not allowed to use the medicine on patients. 

Ronald Beaty, the former county commissioner, is proposing that the town of Bourne honor the former selectmen by naming a street, roadway, or municipal structure after Zuern in the near future. 

“It was a shock that we lost her,” said Beaty, who has supported Zuern over the years. “We are all grieving and we are going to miss her very much.” 

Beaty admires Zuern for being a very vocal person in the community. She motivated people to work on campaigns and frequented the Bourne Rotary to support former President Donald Trump, he said. 

HOW CREDIBLE IS MEDICAL MISINFORMATION FROM A MORBIDLY OBESE WHITE MAN? 

PEOPLE WHO REFUSE TO WEAR FACE MASKS & ARE UNVACCINATED PUT ALL OF US AT RISK. 

MUST READ

Group of United Cape Patriots protest 'VaxBus' in Provincetown over COVID vaccine

Michaela Chesin  Wicked Local 

Published Jul 15, 2021 

PROVINCETOWN – After an uptick in positive COVID-19 cases in town, the state’s VaxBus rolled to a stop near MacMillan Pier Thursday morning.  

When it arrived, the mobile vaccination clinic covered with the slogan “trust the facts, get the vax,” was met with red and white signs emblazoned with anti-vaccination slogans posted outside the nearby public restroom.

Four members of the United Cape Patriots, a conservative grass-roots group, were also handing out flyers to people walking by the bus stop.  

“Wouldn’t you want to know the facts before you vaxx?” the flyer read.  

People should be made aware of all facts, said Adam Lange, of Brewster and founder of United Cape Patriots.

“We defend freedoms across Cape Cod. That includes medical freedoms. We’re out here informing people of the downside of the experimental vax,” Lange said.  

Reuters Fact Check determined that vaccines are not “experimental,” as they all have been put through standard safety testing before being rolled out to the public.  

The vaccine death numbers posted on the anti-vaccination sign should be accompanied with the 600,000-plus deaths from the virus itself, said Orleans resident Steven Allard, who was walking around the pier with his wife, Mary Ann, Thursday afternoon. 

“If I go out into the world unvaccinated, there’s a much bigger chance of me getting COVID, and not only me dying, but the people around me [dying],” Allard said. “If you’re a responsible citizen, you do this not just for yourself but for other people.” 

Allard said those who want to use their freedom to not get vaccinated have that right. But if they get sick from COVID, he said they also have the freedom to take care of themselves, instead of getting first-responders sick.  

The anti-vaccine activists' facts and figures printed on their flyers come from a federal database known as the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS. The database includes hundreds of thousands of reports of health events that occurred minutes, hours or days after vaccination. 

But according to a National Public Radio report, many of the reported events are coincidental and not caused by the COVID vaccination. 

The CDC reported that while the agency is aware of the misuse of the VAERS data, there are no immediate plans to change the system in part because VAERS is one of the agency's best sources for early warnings about real vaccine side effects, according to the NPR report. 

COVID-19:Uptick of cases in Provincetown prompts request for pop-up testing units

The ‘VaxBus,’ a partnership between the state, Yankee Line Inc. and Purple Shield Medical traveled from Pittsfield to Provincetown, administering either J&J or Pfizer doses of the COVID vaccine, Michael Peterson, VaxBus administrator, said. Clients who choose the Pfizer shot will be able to get their second dose when the bus comes back to Provincetown on Aug. 5, he said. By end of day, six people received shots through the VaxBus.

Peterson said VaxBus staff has encountered several groups of anti-vaccine protesters as the bus has made its way across the state.

“As long as they’re expressing themselves peacefully and they don’t deter people from making their own decisions or get in way of the people trying to get a vaccine, then that’s their prerogative,” Peterson said.  

“It seems like a lot of the protestors are coming out after the fact," he said. "To my knowledge, when the big centers were giving out vaccines at Gillette Stadium and the Hynes Auditorium, I don’t know where the protestors were then, but they seem to be targeting our mobile vaccine buses for whatever reason." 

Peterson said being able to bring vaccines to people in their own communities has been a positive experience overall. 

While some protestors seem to think they are forcing the vaccines on people, VaxBus EMT Shaun Alger said that's not the case.

“We’re here to fill the need,” Alger said.