A week of Kid Rock Karma as his band got COVID from their Sturgis gig and more anti-vaxx radio hosts have died , this time in Florida, as DeathSantis now blames Biden for not ending COVID. This resembles the current state of GOP disinformation about the Afghanistan withdrawal.
A conservative Florida radio host who dubbed himself "Mr. Anti-Vax" and criticized the COVID-19 vaccine died of the coronavirus on Saturday.
In a statement posted to Twitter, radio station News Daytona Beach WNDB confirmed Marc Bernier's death, writing that he "informed and entertained listeners on WNDB for over 30 years."
It continued, "We kindly ask that privacy is given to Marc’s family during this time of grief."
Bernier, 65, succumbed to the disease three weeks after becoming infected, according to The Daytona Beach News-Journal.
Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood, who appeared several times on Bernier's show, referred to the news as a "death in the family."
"I'm numb," he said, noting that while he and Bernier didn't always agree, they remained friends over the years, according to the News-Journal.
Bernier's death comes months after he vowed on the air that he would never get the coronavirus vaccine.
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Local school boards are defying his executive order banning mask mandates, despite the governor’s threats to withhold funding, and a federal judge upheld Norwegian Cruise Line’s requirement that passengers show proof of vaccination after DeSantis threatened Norwegian with a $5,000 fine per passenger, a bill for a public health measure that would have cost millions and was correctly seen as a bully’s overreach into an industry that is the lifeblood of South Florida.
DeSantis was elected governor in 2018 with a margin of victory of just 0.4 percent, or 32,000 votes. Florida’s official COVID death count is now 39,695, a chilling reminder about the public health impact of DeSantis’ policies, and the fact that politics is about addition, not subtraction.
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