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NY Times today takes a serious look at web sites like SorryAntiVaxxer
This may or may not be behind the Times' paywall:



https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/27/style/anti-vaccine-deaths-social-media.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuonUktbfqohlSVUZBCbOQckjo1qPg-TOhaI1jXT_KiXQRTtL0-QORpOH8EbEYe9matcy1nKbWNpFevcJdcBF89V-bQZrWhX65dyNgogEKCE47ty-
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[Headlines]

They Died From Covid.

Then the Online Attacks Started.

The social media profiles of anti-vaccine victims of the pandemic have
made them and their families targets of trolling, even after their deaths.

[opening paragraphs]
By Dan Levin

Nov. 27, 2021

Before he died of Covid-19 in September, Nick Bledsoe was not shy about
publicly sharing his opposition to masks and vaccines on Facebook. In
April, Mr. Bledsoe, an auto mechanic from Opelika, Ala., added a frame declaring “I don’t care if you’ve had your vaccine” to his profile photo
and urged his father not to get the shot.
During the summer, he posted a petition against school mask
requirements, cursed President “Biden and his vaccine,” and in his
final post, shared a video casting doubt on the safety of vaccination
against the coronavirus.


Then, with his last words before being placed on a ventilator, Mr.
Bledsoe agreed to get vaccinated once he recuperated, according to his
father. But he never left the hospital, dying at the age of 41 and
leaving behind a wife and four children. The day after Mr. Bledsoe
died, his father started urging those who were unvaccinated to get the
shots.
The details of Mr. Bledsoe’s death and desperation-fueled change of
heart stayed largely confined to his Facebook page. That is, until they
appeared in screen-shotted detail the following week on a website that
compiles the coronavirus deaths of vocal vaccine opponents.

Almost immediately, strangers began barraging the dead man’s Facebook
page with insults and mockery.

“They were making comments that he should have died, that he deserved to die,” said his father, Hal Bledsoe. “It hurt.”

These and many other losses fill a host of websites that claim to be educational, but are fueled by schadenfreude at the deaths of the
unvaccinated whose social media posts included Trump memes and
conservative conspiracy theories. An exhortation on one such site reads:
“Everyone listed on this site helped spread Covid-19 misinformation
and then paid the price for their views. Share to stop others from
making the same mistake.”

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