Son Decries Anti-Maskers In Obit For Father Who Died From COVID-19

In an obituary that puts a human face on the widespread devastation inflicted by the pandemic, a man from Scott City, Kansas, rebuked those who refuse to wear masks in an obituary he wrote for his father, Marvin Farr, after he died from COVID-19 earlier this week.


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Such brilliant eloquence Thatā€™s love.

Cutting onions here.

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This should go viral. This man spent his LIFE believing in the United States of America only to be abandoned by POLITICS in his old age. What a travesty!

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"He died in isolation with an infectious disease that is causing a national crisis,ā€ he stated. ā€œTo pretend otherwise or to obfuscate is also a political decision.ā€

This! Selfishness and an unwillingness to help oneā€™s neighbor are core GOP values, but they justify it as only the exercise of ā€œfreedomā€ or personal choice. They remain deliberately obtuse about it in an effort to hold onto their privilege, even while dragging the country down with them.

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Exactly. The refusal to wear a mask is as explicitly political as it gets because it has no basis in anything other than ideology and tribal loyalty.

Demanding mask wearing arguably has the support of evidence and research independent of political belief; the same cannot be said of refusal to do so much less declare the disease a ā€˜hoax.ā€™

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One can only admire a family in the midst of their grief offering such an eloquent, loving, and honorific obituary of their loved one, contrasted against our sorry state of affairs in the leadership of this country and their enablers.

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ā€œHe died in a world where many of his fellow Americans refuse to wear a piece of cloth on their face to protect one another.ā€

75 million people died from gas chambers, air raids, disease, starvation, death marches, and storming the beaches at Normandy to save Democracy.

But, sure, wearing a mask for a little while is a real hardship.

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This is great, and weā€™ll be seeing a lot more of it.

Unfortunately, the anti-maskers donā€™t like to have the finger pointed.

Not until we get obits like this from the families of anti-maskers who have died, will we know weā€™re making progress.

Or death-bed conversions.

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Sadly, this is happening all over the country. Wearing a mask isnā€™t even close to the sacrifice made by our parents during the great depression and WWII. Hubris + entitlement + no leadership from the WH and we have a humanitarian disaster happening every single day in this country.

ā€œAmericans would be asked to ration essential supplies and send their children around the world to fight and die in wars of unfathomable destruction,ā€ he wrote. ā€œHe died in a world where many of his fellow Americans refuse to wear a piece of cloth on their face to protect one another.ā€

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I can understand the public resistance, but that could have been handled from the start with real leadership. I do not understand the GOP at all. I donā€™t get why they bought into the lies and the politicization of this crisis and I really donā€™t understand how they can all stand around now and say and do nothing while so many Americans die. I do not get it. How did they get reelected?

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I am right at the edge of my tolerance for people who insist that COVID isnā€™t a big deal and everyone should just go live their lives. I am now actively wishing for every single one of them to get a serious caseā€¦they donā€™t need to die, but I want them punished for their selfishness that is endangering everyone else.

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Careless, mindless, selfish behavior from townfolk. Sad, enraged. Shake the head, mutter under my breath, walk away. Such pain and suffering caused by normally good people. Our leadership has cruelly set this up.

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Itā€™s the biggest failure of leadership in our entire history.

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" In another Facebook post published the next day, Farr addressed criticism accusing him of making his fatherā€™s obit political."

The folks that accuse others of making things political are usually the ones that made them political in the first place. Looking at you, republicans.

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ā€œTo pretend otherwise or to obfuscate is also a political decision.ā€

In the end, the people who masked, who took precautions and concern for people they meet, will have the high ground. All anti-maskers will have to stand and be judged by all of us and they will not have a single defense for their willful stupidity. The inexcusable, expanding tragedy of their actions, resulting in so many losses and the maiming of a population will make them absolutely unworthy of saying a single word.

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Agreed. I think there needs to be a lot more finger pointing for the scum who refuse to work with society rather than against it. Call people out who are participating in making it possible for thousands more people to die.

I dont think this is a matter for ā€œeducatingā€ people; anyone with an IQ over that of root vegetables gets it. Itā€™s more an issue that they will ONLY listen to the Rethug and feral trumper propagandists.

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As I said earlier, each day the American Covid death toll is now equal to the number who died on 9/11 - everyday!

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Digby links to this speech by the provincial premier of Manitoba ā€“ it is pretty good as far as personality politics goes. Iā€™d love to see Murthy embrace the ā€œbad guyā€ role, but Iā€™m not sure it is in his repertoire.

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