Another Fauci (and Trump) Senseless Death
Old people died from Covid. Young people were killed by the lockdowns.
Covid almost exclusively killed old people — often just a few months sooner than they would have died anyway. Young people died from the cruel and inhumane lockdowns forced on us by narcissistic power-hungry lunatics, like Anthony Fauci, Andrew Cuomo, Gavin Newsom and - sorry kids - Donald Trump.
Here’s the horrible story of one lockdown death.
By Dan Barry in The New York Times
May 19, 2024
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THE STRUGGLES OF TOMMY RATH are freeze-framed in family photographs. Here he is, a strapping 190 pounds, beaming as he holds his baby daughter. And here, just a couple of years later but 50 pounds thinner, awkward in someone else’s clothes.
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Mr. Rath managed, mostly. He joined his father’s business, which specialized in building hotels and restaurants. A meticulous worker — “a perfectionist,” the elder Rath said — he became a supervisor for a Rochester construction firm, entrusted with a company truck. He also developed a romance with an old friend, a dental assistant named Jamie Stevens.
By late 2020, Mr. Rath and Ms. Stevens were living with their 3-year-old daughter in a house they planned to buy. But their already-turbulent relationship was being further tested by Covid’s disruption of the construction trade.
Anxious and irrational, Mr. Rath began furtively smoking methamphetamine in the garage. He provoked a police standoff while high by threatening suicide, was briefly taken to a psychiatric facility and did 30 days in rehab. It didn’t take.
[M]eth, a highly addictive stimulant that nurtures psychoses, was so utterly transforming him that Ms. Stevens collected their daughter and left.
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Then, several people later said, Mr. Rath was tortured while others were forced to watch. The scraping of a hatchet over his head was the least of what was done to the man, whose eyes were swollen and whose face was so battered that his jaw appeared to be broken.
“Joe definitely looked like he was enjoying it,” one witness, Jack Benjamin, later said of Mr. Howell. “The others kind of looked like they were following suit.”
The brutality, so horrific that one witness wept, was recorded and shared. Tammy Vorrasi, Brelynn’s mother, later said Mr. Howell sent her a video of a handcuffed Mr. Rath with a profane message asking whether she had anything to say to the man. She quickly hit delete.
The cruelty lasted for hours. Then someone concocted a scheme to force Mr. Rath to break into the home of a well-armed drug dealer who, it was hoped, would shoot and kill the intruder.
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For more than two months, Mr. Hines kept quiet. For more than two months, he told investigators, he was “hurting on the inside,” a pain that intensified when he recognized the missing person in a photograph circulated by the police. …
The NYTs article you cite is behind a paywall. Are you now a marketing rep for the NYTs?
My professional observation is that rampant drug use was going on nationally before and after Donald Trump. It'll be far worse if "Biden" (or whoever is running the country into the ground) gets another 4.
I obviously am a big fan of Ann’s but I don’t understand this story. The guy became a meth user. Because of the lock downs I guess is the point. Got caught by some terrible people. Not sure because we have to go and pay the New York Times to read the whole story. I guess Ann is reminding us that Trump was the first to push Fauci. Yep. This was a big mistake. But I still give Trump a pass because he was the one first handed the bomb and told to fix it. I believe he did the best he knew how to do. At that time. Drugs in times of extreme circumstances have a history of good intentions creating more harm than good.