The Daily Populous Monday August 23rd, 2021 day edition
Authored by businessinsider.com and submitted by Europa1

The leader of a South Carolina GOP group died from COVID-19 after making fun of masks.

Pressley Stutts also cheered on unvaccinated doctors and criticized vaccine mandates.

Then after landing in the ICU for treatment, Stutts called the coronavirus "hell on earth."

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The GOP leader of a South Carolina county died from COVID-19 after pushing false statements about the disease and downplaying restrictions like mask-wearing.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, Pressley Stutts, chair of the Greenville Tea Party, had been a vocal skeptic of coronavirus-related guidance and safety ordinances released by national health agencies. Last year, he called face masks an "illusion" in a Facebook post and falsely claimed the people in the US "have a 99.999% of not dying from the Wuhan virus."

He also cheered on unvaccinated doctors and nurses and criticized vaccination mandates. "Mandates and coercions DO NOT WORK especially when they come to us from a government that has repeatedly lied to the American People time and time again," he wrote.

Pressley — from an ICU hospital bed — continued to downplay the coronavirus. After being admitted into the hospital in early August, he wrote in a Facebook post that "COVID is nothing to fool with and in as much as possible, it is up to you to take the best precautions for you and your family to avoid getting it."

About two weeks later, Pressley called the virus "hell on earth" in another post.

"When you have to take every single ounce just to get your next breath, you know you are in the battle for your life!" he wrote in that Facebook post. "I IMPLORE YOU....PLEASE PRAY THAT GOD MOVES MIGHTILY IN MY BODY. ISOLATED. DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH LONGER I CAN ENDURE WITHOUT YOUR PRAYERS. SERIOUSLY!"

Pressley's final Facebook post, published on August 13 just days before his death, said he was going on a ventilator. He also promised to "wake up from this short rest and be back in the game soon."

boomshiz on August 23rd, 2021 at 02:44 UTC »

Pressley Stutts, who claimed people "have a 99.999% of not dying from the Wuhan virus." So he is was part of the .001%? What an elitist.

LJVondecreft on August 23rd, 2021 at 00:37 UTC »

Do they realize at this rate they’re going to pretty directly extinguish their point of view from the face of the planet? On second thought… carry on #ownedlibs

Xero_space on August 22nd, 2021 at 23:55 UTC »

He died how he lived. Owning the libs. I'll never recover.