“I didn’t wear the mask.”

Joe Lewis confessed on National TV that he had not worn a mask during the height of the COVID pandemic, and greatly regreted his actions as it led to the death of his wife, children and countless others who followed him.. He was being interviewed because he had become famous for his anti-mask crusade. He had been raging ever since the beginning of the COVID pandemic.  He blogged daily on his Facebook page and blog titled.

“The mask conspiracy”

About the evils of forced mask-wearing, and COVID lockdowns. He was constantly being quoted on FOX News.  He became a minor celebrity.  He met with leaders of the far right and became friends with Governor De Santis who hired him as a special consultant and listened to his anti-mask, anti—lockdown, anti-vaccine points of view.

He soon had a band of followers who staged “anti-mask” rallies, burning masks in public and running through a Walmart yelling at people for being sheep and demanding that they take off their masks and breath freely as God had intended.

Then one day he came home and was confronted with his worst nightmare.  His wife and children had contracted COVID and were rushed to the emergency room.  He was denied entry to the hospital because he refused to wear a mask.

His wife and children died of COVID, and he ended up in the ER himself but survived.

He went on TV and announced his confession that he had been wrong and should have not only worn the mask but taken the COVID shots and should have followed public health authorities' advice.  In short, he confessed that he was wrong and apologized to the millions of people who had followed his advice. 

He said,

“People, I didn’t wear the mask and that made all the difference in the world.  People, friends and family, thanks for coming today to attend the funeral of my late wife and two children. They died last week because of COVID. Today, I have a confession to make to all of you. I should have worn the mask, and if I had, perhaps my wife and children would be alive today.

But I didn’t wear the mask and that made all the difference in the world. If I had back when COVID was spreading everywhere, perhaps others might have as well including my wife and my children. But, alas, I listened to the clowns on FOX TV, thought that wearing a mask was somehow unpatriotic, part of the radical left attempts to keep the economy shut down for nefarious reasons, part of the deep state conspiracy that Q and Trump were warning us all about. The more insane the media became about masks and whether to wear them or not, the madder I became, as I drank deeply of the right-wing cool aide, and became an anti-mask zealot, screaming at people who wore masks in public.

On more than one occasion I follow Tucker’s advice called CPS on parents who had their children wearing masks in public for suspected child abuse. At home, I continued to refuse to allow anyone near me to wear a mask. When my company required us to wear a mask or be fired, I gladly took it. I considered early retirement as a badge of honor I considered myself a freedom fighter, and talked about it on Twitter, Facebook, Gab and everywhere I could find urging people to stand up, refuse to wear the mask, and refuse to take the satanic virus designed by the evil Bill Gates to track us all - referencing the number of the beast.

 Then one day, my wife started coughing as did my two teenage children. We all denied it could be COVID which we all knew was a left-wing hoax or a Chinese bioweapon, and we were careful to avoid contact with any Chinese-looking person.

My wife and children got so sick we had to risk going to the ER and joined hundreds of people flooding into the local ER in our town in rural South Dakota.

The doctors told me that my wife and children and I all had COVID, and the prognosis was not good. We went to church to meditate on what we should do and talked to the pastor, still unmasked about our situation.

 He told us to pray, and God would answer our prayers. The pastor came down with COVID and has sadly passed on as well as did ten of the members of the church, all of whom I infected because I didn't wear the mask. Well, in the end, my pastor, ten members of my church, and my wife died, my two children died, and I almost died.

The moral of the story is simply this: I should have gotten the vaccine, and the booster shot and encouraged everyone around us to do the same. But the most important thing is I should have worn the damn mask. That’s all I have to say. Thanks for coming. I appreciate it. May God bless you all.” 

That night, he made his final posting on his blog site and shut down the site.  He was found dead the next day of a gun-assisted suicide.  His passing was not noted on FOX News or right-wing media sites. No one noticed – he was just another dead anti-mask-wearing, anti-covid denier after all.

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