Hopefully you're just joking because it's a flawed statement.
The point of getting the Covid vaccine is that you increase the odds of you not being hospitalized, ICU admitted, or Death
in comparison to not being vaccinated.
- In North America (Powell died in North America), most of our Hospitalization, ICU admission, and Deaths have been those not vaccinated.
Also, we all know that vaccines do not have a 100% efficacy. There has never been a vaccine in the history of vaccination with a 100% efficacy nor maintained > 90% effectiveness after 6 months.
- Therefore, there will be and have been breakthrough Covid infections (less than 1%) here in North America that needed hospitalization.
- As of October 12th, we've had 24,717 breakthrough Covid hospitalization for the 187 million fully vaccinated...that's 0.0132% and most do survive in comparison to those not vaccinated / hospitalized.
Powell was the unlucky 1% but only because he had an underlying medical condition that made his vaccination, even more, less effective... the reason why he needed a booster shot but never had a chance to get one.
Thus, as a precaution, if your immune compromise...those that interact with you should be fully vaccinated and/or wear a face mask.
Powell not only had multiple myeloma...he was currently in treatment for it and that would imply his white blood cells were dangerously low. That precaution I mentioned should have been strictly enforced to ensure his safety by those that interacted with him.
- Simply, a damn good veteran / person died because someone that he interacted with either was not vaccinated or did not wear a face mask.
It reminds me of my mom when she had cancer treatments about 25 years ago...she came home and we all had the wear a face mask when we visited her at her condo because she was extremely immune-compromised.
In fact, my sister had a very bad cold...she made the decision to not hug our mom and only talked to her
outside (not indoors)...at that particular time, my sister was just starting your nursing program at college.
It was a very wise decision because a few weeks later my sister was diagnosed with a contagious URI (Upper Respiratory Infection). Had she not been that careful, she'll most likely would have passed that contagious infection to our mom and it could have resulted in a negative outcome for our mom.
Today, we have Covid...something that's much more deadly.
Don't try to weaponize Powell's death...its a shitty behavior.
wrbtrader