Trump Supporter in ICU with COVID-19 Angry with Him Over Out-of-Control Pandemic
In March, Mark Schultz hosted an event for Axios co-founder and Oshkosh native Jim VandeHei for a taped interview with Donald Trump Jr.
"I wouldn't have done it for anyone else," he said.
Now, he is infected with COVID-19, lying in a hospital intensive care unit, laboring to breathe, unsure of when—or whether—he'll go home.
Schultz, 64, is the co-owner of Oblio's, a bar in Oshkosh that is beloved by a city that now has the highest rate of COVID-19 infection in the country.
Trump, he said, should have been more upfront with the public from the beginning about the dangers of the coronavirus, should have acted quicker, promoted wearing face masks. If he had, Schultz believes, maybe the pandemic would not have struck his community so hard, might not have wound up at his door.
Schultz says he started to feel sick last Friday, the same day the White House revealed Trump tested positive for COVID-19.
On Monday, Trump told Americans "Don't be afraid of COVID." On Tuesday, Schultz checked into the hospital.
"I'm just frustrated with the president—the nonchalantness of this virus," he said. "They should be afraid. It's nothing to mess with."
"I couldn’t breathe anymore," Schultz said about his decision to go to the hospital. "I couldn’t breathe and I had a fever. I had aches and pains. I had headaches … I never get headaches. And the tightness in my chest."
After arriving at the hospital Tuesday, doctors told Schulz he had developed double pneumonia, affecting both his lungs. He is now in a negative pressure ICU room receiving supplemental oxygen.
At times, Schultz lies on his stomach to help reduce his symptoms and blows into a machine to exercise his lungs. He tries to go without oxygen, but when he does, alarms attached to a blood oxygen monitor ring, then the tubes must go back into his nose.
He said he's barely slept in five days.
"I cough or I get the sweats and the chills," Schultz said Thursday. "I just get these hot flashes. I stay hot for hours, then last night when my oxygen thing went off, I couldn’t get warm. I couldn't get enough covers on me."
Thursday was the worst night.
"I just can't sleep," he said Friday. "If you can't breathe, you can't sleep."
Schultz is on steroids, Tylenol, and blood thinners. He said his oxygen has been more than doubled, and if he continues to need more, his doctor is going to try experimental treatment, including the Ebola drug Remdesivir and convalescent plasma therapy.
Schultz spoke to a Journal Sentinel reporter during what he called a "good spell"—coughing hard a few times but generally was able to chat.
"This lasts about an hour," he said. "It comes and goes and when it comes back, it hits you hard."
His blood oxygen level has at times dipped below 85%—normal is at least 95%—but generally, he's feeling the same, which he hopes, at least, is not bad news.
"I'm just kind of floating along," Schultz said. "The doc says that's better than going the other way."
But Schultz is not sure he's going to leave the hospital. His voice shakes when he talks about his family being at home, worrying about him, but unable to see him.
Ashenbrenner, his fiancée, has been battling COVID while their son attends school at home.
Schultz is documenting his time in the hospital through a series of videos taken by phone and shared on YouTube.
The first begins with this message, aimed at Ashenbrenner: "Sandra Jean. I don't know if I'm going to make it."
He takes a few breaths.
"This shit's real. I want people to know that."
The videos are part diary and part therapy. Schulz airs his grievances against the president and calls on viewers to take the threat of the virus seriously.
"You've gotta wear masks. You've gotta social distance. You've gotta wash your hands. You've gotta sanitize. You have to follow the rules. They're very simple."
Originally posted by Adam_PoEBut, you know... Herd immunity ugh3
In March, Mark Schultz hosted an event for Axios co-founder and Oshkosh native Jim VandeHei for a taped interview with Donald Trump Jr."I wouldn't have done it for anyone else," he said.
Now, he is infected with COVID-19, lying in a hospital intensive care unit, laboring to breathe, unsure of when—or whether—he'll go home.
Schultz, 64, is the co-owner of Oblio's, a bar in Oshkosh that is beloved by a city that now has the highest rate of COVID-19 infection in the country.
Trump, he said, should have been more upfront with the public from the beginning about the dangers of the coronavirus, should have acted quicker, promoted wearing face masks. If he had, Schultz believes, maybe the pandemic would not have struck his community so hard, might not have wound up at his door.
Schultz says he started to feel sick last Friday, the same day the White House revealed Trump tested positive for COVID-19.
On Monday, Trump told Americans "Don't be afraid of COVID." On Tuesday, Schultz checked into the hospital.
"I'm just frustrated with the president—the nonchalantness of this virus," he said. "They should be afraid. It's nothing to mess with."
"I couldn’t breathe anymore," Schultz said about his decision to go to the hospital. "I couldn’t breathe and I had a fever. I had aches and pains. I had headaches … I never get headaches. And the tightness in my chest."
After arriving at the hospital Tuesday, doctors told Schulz he had developed double pneumonia, affecting both his lungs. He is now in a negative pressure ICU room receiving supplemental oxygen.
At times, Schultz lies on his stomach to help reduce his symptoms and blows into a machine to exercise his lungs. He tries to go without oxygen, but when he does, alarms attached to a blood oxygen monitor ring, then the tubes must go back into his nose.
He said he's barely slept in five days.
"I cough or I get the sweats and the chills," Schultz said Thursday. "I just get these hot flashes. I stay hot for hours, then last night when my oxygen thing went off, I couldn’t get warm. I couldn't get enough covers on me."
Thursday was the worst night.
"I just can't sleep," he said Friday. "If you can't breathe, you can't sleep."
Schultz is on steroids, Tylenol, and blood thinners. He said his oxygen has been more than doubled, and if he continues to need more, his doctor is going to try experimental treatment, including the Ebola drug Remdesivir and convalescent plasma therapy.
Schultz spoke to a Journal Sentinel reporter during what he called a "good spell"—coughing hard a few times but generally was able to chat.
"This lasts about an hour," he said. "It comes and goes and when it comes back, it hits you hard."
His blood oxygen level has at times dipped below 85%—normal is at least 95%—but generally, he's feeling the same, which he hopes, at least, is not bad news.
"I'm just kind of floating along," Schultz said. "The doc says that's better than going the other way."
But Schultz is not sure he's going to leave the hospital. His voice shakes when he talks about his family being at home, worrying about him, but unable to see him.
Ashenbrenner, his fiancée, has been battling COVID while their son attends school at home.
Schultz is documenting his time in the hospital through a series of videos taken by phone and shared on YouTube.
The first begins with this message, aimed at Ashenbrenner: "Sandra Jean. I don't know if I'm going to make it."
He takes a few breaths.
"This shit's real. I want people to know that."
The videos are part diary and part therapy. Schulz airs his grievances against the president and calls on viewers to take the threat of the virus seriously.
"You've gotta wear masks. You've gotta social distance. You've gotta wash your hands. You've gotta sanitize. You have to follow the rules. They're very simple."
Influencer Dies From COVID-19 After Denying Its Existence
Dmitriy Stuzhuk told his followers that coronavirus didn't exist—but then he died from the disease.
A fitness "influencer" who thought COVID-19 did not exist has died from the virus at the age of 33.
Dmitriy Stuzhuk caught the disease during a trip to Turkey and had been taken to hospital upon returning to his native Ukraine, having tested positive.
The social media star, who promoted healthy living, was discharged from hospital after eight days, but the virus resulted in heart complications.
After he was rushed back to hospital, his ex-wife Sofia, 25, said he was in a "grave condition" and "unconscious."
She told her followers that he had problems with his cardiovascular system.
"His heart is not coping. His state is extremely grave. No-one can do anything with this. I did everything I could so the father of my three children lives. But nothing depends on me now."
Later, she announced his death, adding, "Only warm memories remain, three beautiful kids, and valuable experience."
Earlier, Mr Stuzhuk had posted on social media from his hospital bed, saying he had woken up in Turkey with a swollen neck and struggling to breathe.
He told his 1.1 million followers, "I want to share how I got sick and to strongly warn everyone. I was one who thought that Covid does not exist—until I got sick. COVID-19 IS NOT A SHORT-LIVED DISEASE! And it is heavy."
Dmitriy and Sofia Stuzhuk split up six months ago, but they had three children, the youngest just nine months old.
Originally posted by Adam_PoE👆 ****ing sad and ironic all at once!
Dmitriy Stuzhuk told his followers that coronavirus didn't exist—but then he died from the disease.A fitness "influencer" who thought COVID-19 did not exist has died from the virus at the age of 33.
Dmitriy Stuzhuk caught the disease during a trip to Turkey and had been taken to hospital upon returning to his native Ukraine, having tested positive.
The social media star, who promoted healthy living, was discharged from hospital after eight days, but the virus resulted in heart complications.
After he was rushed back to hospital, his ex-wife Sofia, 25, said he was in a "grave condition" and "unconscious."
She told her followers that he had problems with his cardiovascular system.
"His heart is not coping. His state is extremely grave. No-one can do anything with this. I did everything I could so the father of my three children lives. But nothing depends on me now."
Later, she announced his death, adding, "Only warm memories remain, three beautiful kids, and valuable experience."
Earlier, Mr Stuzhuk had posted on social media from his hospital bed, saying he had woken up in Turkey with a swollen neck and struggling to breathe.
He told his 1.1 million followers, "I want to share how I got sick and to strongly warn everyone. I was one who thought that Covid does not exist—until I got sick. COVID-19 IS NOT A SHORT-LIVED DISEASE! And it is heavy."
Dmitriy and Sofia Stuzhuk split up six months ago, but they had three children, the youngest just nine months old.
"I want to share how I got sick and to strongly warn everyone. I was one who thought that Covid does not exist—until I got sick. COVID-19 IS NOT A SHORT-LIVED DISEASE! And it is heavy." -snip
At least he didn't pull a Trump and continue to downplay covid-19 after contracting it, even if it was with his dying breath.
Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner—who tested positive for the coronavirus, resulting in his abrupt removal from Game 6 of the World Series after seven innings—left a designated isolation room at Globe Life Field, and joined his teammates for the championship-clinching postgame celebration after his positive test was revealed.
Turner—sometimes masked, sometimes not—mugged for the team photo and hugged teammates in front of millions of people watching on television who have been locked down, distanced, and unable to access testing or see loved ones.
Top Fox News executives and talent will quarantine and get tested after flying on a network-chartered flight from Nashville to New York—following Thursday night's presidential debate—with a staffer who later tested positive for the coronavirus. Passengers included network president Jay Wallace and on-air political hosts and analysts like Bret Baier, Martha MacCallum, Dana Perino, and Juan Williams.
The plane debacle isn't the only reminder of the danger of the pandemic for the network's employees in recent days. Last week, an internal memo was sent to Fox News staffers noting that web video producer Rob Brown, who had been with the network since 1999, had died. While the memo did not specify a cause of death, several sources, including a family member, confirmed that Brown—who had not been in the office since March—died from coronavirus complications.
Williams and Perino, who co-host late-afternoon talk show The Five, both showed up at the offices on Friday after the flight in which they were potentially exposed to the virus, raising alarms among staffers. And several of the show's unabashedly pro-Trump hosts, Greg Gutfeld and Jesse Watters, meanwhile, have taken an ambivalent stance towards large-scale anti-coronavirus measures like a national mask mandate, which experts say could save tens of thousands of lives.
"They think mask-wearers are punks," the source said of Watters and Gutfeld, noting how the pair have repeatedly echoed Trump's dismissive suggestions that we are "turning the corner" on the pandemic that has now killed more than 225,000 people in the United States, with no end in sight.
In light of their colleagues' at-times cavalier attitude towards the coronavirus—both on- and off-air—some Fox staffers have begun to re-examine in-office behavior and expressed concerns that some colleagues aren't taking the crisis seriously enough.
While on-air talent is subject to the network's rigorous testing protocols, they appear to be sending a message to viewers that social-distancing isn't that important.
Originally posted by Robtard
Fox News is largely state funded news and it's full of sycophantic idiots, so not surprising.
Is this really true?
What about the other 90%+ of the other news orgs that are HQ'd in NYC and CA that are Democrat-Leaning?
No, that figure is not ass-pulled. Of the major news orgs, a bit more than 90%+ are antagonistic to the GOP and favor the Democratic party. And a bit less are the opposite.
Originally posted by dadudemon
Is this really true?What about the other 90%+ of the other news orgs that are HQ'd in NYC and CA that are Democrat-Leaning?
No, that figure is not ass-pulled. Of the major news orgs, a bit more than 90%+ are antagonistic to the GOP and favor the Democratic party. And a bit less are the opposite.
Rules for thee and thine but not me and mine. It's how they do.
Originally posted by Surtur
Rules for thee and thine but not me and mine. It's how they do.
As a person who definitely does not like the GOP or the Dems, I see both situations, regardless of the split, as a problem. How about no-state sponsored press?
The press becomes the enemy of the people when they are almost completely serving to the government (regardless of party splits).
https://twitter.com/jangelooff/status/1324865727099187201
No social distancing, a shitload of people without masks.
I laughed.
Originally posted by SurturThey're all wearing masks except where chants and beer drinking are happening, but they were social distancing if you watch the footage.https://twitter.com/jangelooff/status/1324865727099187201
No social distancing, a shitload of people without masks.
I laughed.
Originally posted by SurturThere was a lack of social distancing, yes, but so many masks and visors were there, if anything, it was probably just some random person holding a mic who wasn't wearing one during the chants.
Lol are you drunk? They aren't all wearing masks or social distancing.
There were masks everywhere.