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NEWSMAX: Twitter users from both sides of the vaccination debate blasted Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik on Monday after he published an unsympathetic take on those who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19, mocking a local Republican who recently died after contracting the disease.
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”How does a piece laughing at COVID deaths, and thus the pain their loved ones go through, make it through the @LA Times editing process?” former CNN employee Doug Heye posted on Twitter. ”Awful.”
The social media vitriol came swiftly and from all sides of the vaccine question as Hiltzik took aim at Kelly Ernby, an Orange County deputy district attorney and anti-vaccination activist who died of complications due to the virus.
”It may be not a little ghoulish to celebrate or exult in the deaths of vaccine opponents. And it may be proper to express sympathy and solicitude to those they leave behind,” Hiltzik penned in his Monday column , using Ernby’s death as a cudgel to those opposing government vaccination mandates.
”But mockery is not necessarily the wrong reaction to those who publicly mocked anti-COVID measures and encouraged others to follow suit before they perished of the disease the dangers of which they belittled.
”Nor is it wrong to deny them our sympathy and solicitude, or to make sure it’s known when their deaths are marked that they had stood fast against measures that might have protected others from the fate they succumbed to themselves. There may be no other way to make sure that the lessons of these teachable moments are heard,” he wrote.
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