New Zealand has their version of redhats also. Well we already know how these stories end.
Popular journalist and staunch anti-vaxxer dies of Covid-19
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/he...nalist-and-staunch-antivaxxer-dies-of-covid19
A well-known Pukekohe newspaper editor who steadfastly refused to get vaccinated has
died of Covid-19.
Rex Warwood, 80, succumbed to the virus in Auckland’s North Shore Hospital on Saturday.
Warwood was for many years a reporter and editor for the
Franklin County News in Pukekohe and later the owner of the
Franklin Life, where he is remembered fondly by many in the community.
His long-time colleague and friend Steve Burr spoke to
Stuff on Monday evening to pay tribute to Warwood.
Burr said
Warwood had latterly become steadfastly opposed to vaccination and had downplayed the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
“He was a lively soul.
“Basically, Rex was a very stubborn, very opinionated man, and unfortunately for Rex one of the things he was very, very vocal on, and if you search Facebook you can find this ...but he actually said, ‘I don’t know why everyone’s pandering to this pandemic, what pandemic?’
"That was his view point, his was very much a stance of anti-vax.”
Burr rang Warwood on November 8 to wish him a happy 80th birthday.
“It never ceased to amaze me that at 79, 80 years old you would never have picked him for being that age.
“He was driving from Northcote down to Pukekohe and Frankin, [to see friends] he’d do that trip three or four times per week.
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