Lisa Brandon was smart. She took the vaccine. Her two sons did not take the vaccine. They are now dead. Notably they were younger, 35 and 41. This lady has now lost every one of her three sons and her home, almost entirely because the last living sons refused to take the vaccine.
Lisa Brandon's sons Free and Aaron Jaggi, 41 and 35, died within a day of each other due to COVID-19. While Brandon got better, both of her sons got worse and had to be hospitalized and eventually put on ventilators after developing double pneumonia. Free died on August 12, followed by his brother just hours later on August 13. Now their mom is speaking out in and hopes that her story will drive others to get vaccinated.
"It's a parent's worst nightmare," Brandon told News4Jax. "The only reason I'm doing this is to put the word out to please get vaccinated." Brandon credits having gotten the Moderna vaccine herself with her milder case and said she believes her sons "would be alive today if they would have gotten their shot."
"They wouldn't have gotten it as bad. I wish I could have made them do it. And now it's too late," Brandon told News4Jax. Brandon has now lost all of her children. Her other son, David, died five years ago. She also has to move out of her house because she shared rent with her sons.
Looking at Free’s Facebook (I was unable to find Aaron’s social media) I honestly see exactly what i was envisioning. A bald out of shape middle aged man with a Trump fetish and a bent for disliking political correctness. He called himself Superman. This attitude may be why he thought he was impervious to the virus.
He couched wokeness as fake superiority. He liked BBQ. He posted garbage, out of context and inaccurate, like this:
Of course, he went to what is called, “The School of Hard Knocks.” This is what proud middle aged, and mostly white men like to call their education, making them seem somehow more valuable and important than someone who got a degree. His cultural preferences are predictable, and while i don’t like to generalize, I have seen the same type of attitudes over and over.
I rarely see open minded, warm-hearted, thoughtful anti-vaxxers. I see flags, motorcycles, football, BBQ, large trucks, guns, and scantily clad young women on Facebooks, and i have studied 100’s of profiles to try to figure out what went wrong. Again, not all persons who like elements of the above are one way, but there does seem to be predictable cultural preferences among the Trumpers.
The picture I found of these two brothers showed they were morbidly obese, but I won’t repost it without permission.
But Lisa is now advocating to take the vaccines, which is good on her, as she did take it, and credits it for her being alive. Her Facebook looks to show a more laid back, religious Christian, a Bernie supporter and solid Democrat. She is into human kindness and 60’s culture. Maybe a bit of a “flower child” as was the term applied when i was growing up. She seems to be a genuinely warm person although I have not looked all the way through her posts.
What the pandemic has shown us, in my opinion, is that what Trump managed to do was attach himself to the insecure male’s masculinity and toxicity and press the buttons to both tear down, and build up his supporters in his image. He made a certain type of male feel powerful, and encouraged these males to label other more genteel men as sissies, or ineffectual.
The manly man syndrome.
Now there are a lot of dead manly men. More every day.
And none of them are Superman.
-ROC
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