Post by the Scribe on Sept 7, 2020 6:43:50 GMT
Tweets Disappear After Conservative Deaths From COVID-19
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July 31, 2020 Tim Peacock News, Politics
Within the last few days two prominent conservatives succumbed to complications from COVID-19. In the wake of those deaths, tweets from both persons downplaying the seriousness of the pandemic (and measures needed to mitigate it) disappeared from the Internet.
Herman Cain
Before contracting COVID-19, former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain attended Donald Trump’s Oklahoma rally:
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Subsequent to this rally, Trump had social distancing stickers removed from seats at the rally site encouraging people to sit closer to one another in addition to promoting falsehoods about mask use.
Leading up the rally, he tweeted:
Following the rally, Cain was not only diagnosed with COVID-19, but hospitalized:
Cain later died on July 30, 2020. After his death, the Oklahoma rally tweet above disappeared from his Twitter account.
Cain is joined by Turning Point USA co-founder Bill Montgomery (who also recently died due to COVID-19 complications).
Bill Montgomery
Prior to Bill Montgomery’s death, his organization tweeted this:
Immediately following Montgomery’s death, the organization deleted this tweet as the organization’s other co-founder tweeted:
The parallels between the two high profile deaths – while not shocking – provide further evidence of a longstanding tradition in conservative culture of ignoring the advice of scientists and doctors until it personally affects a person.
Perhaps pundit Ana Navarro-Cárdenas put it best when she tweeted this week, “Herman Caín thought Covid was a hoax, scoffed at wearing a mask. Died of Covid. Bill Montgomery, co-founder of pro-Trump, Turning Point USA, scoffed at virus. Died of Covid. Rep. Gohmert refused to wear a mask. Has Covid.” She concluded, “See a pattern? Covid doesn’t care about partisanship.”
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www.peacock-panache.com/2020/07/tweets-disappear-covid19-38677.html
July 31, 2020 Tim Peacock News, Politics
Within the last few days two prominent conservatives succumbed to complications from COVID-19. In the wake of those deaths, tweets from both persons downplaying the seriousness of the pandemic (and measures needed to mitigate it) disappeared from the Internet.
Herman Cain
Before contracting COVID-19, former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain attended Donald Trump’s Oklahoma rally:
i2.wp.com/www.peacock-panache.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Herman-Cain-tweet-1-1.png?w=562&ssl=1
Subsequent to this rally, Trump had social distancing stickers removed from seats at the rally site encouraging people to sit closer to one another in addition to promoting falsehoods about mask use.
Leading up the rally, he tweeted:
Following the rally, Cain was not only diagnosed with COVID-19, but hospitalized:
Cain later died on July 30, 2020. After his death, the Oklahoma rally tweet above disappeared from his Twitter account.
Cain is joined by Turning Point USA co-founder Bill Montgomery (who also recently died due to COVID-19 complications).
Bill Montgomery
Prior to Bill Montgomery’s death, his organization tweeted this:
Immediately following Montgomery’s death, the organization deleted this tweet as the organization’s other co-founder tweeted:
The parallels between the two high profile deaths – while not shocking – provide further evidence of a longstanding tradition in conservative culture of ignoring the advice of scientists and doctors until it personally affects a person.
Perhaps pundit Ana Navarro-Cárdenas put it best when she tweeted this week, “Herman Caín thought Covid was a hoax, scoffed at wearing a mask. Died of Covid. Bill Montgomery, co-founder of pro-Trump, Turning Point USA, scoffed at virus. Died of Covid. Rep. Gohmert refused to wear a mask. Has Covid.” She concluded, “See a pattern? Covid doesn’t care about partisanship.”
Peacock Panache readers:
We hope you enjoyed reading this article! If you would like to support our ongoing work, please consider buying us a cup of coffee. It's not much, but we don't do this for the money. We do, however, need caffeine to keep going some days!