N.B. man speaks out against COVID misinformation as family battles the virus
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Joe Gee says because of misinformation being spread in his community about COVID-19 vaccination, he's been left to care for family members who have become seriously ill.
Joe Gee knows the impact of COVID-19 denial on a family.
At least 10 members of Gee’s family have contracted the virus after downplaying its severity and refusing to get vaccinated due to misinformation circulating about the efficacy of the shot.
Some of those family members have ended up in the hospital, even the ICU.
“There is a lot of misinformation out there,” said Gee, who lives in a rural area outside of Perth-Andover, N.B.
He said his family refused to get vaccinated because they thought it was poison. Despite his family’s stance, he tried to encourage them to take it seriously. He and his fiancée Tracy are fully vaccinated.
“It’s like beating a dead horse,” he said of his attempts to convince relatives to roll up their sleeves.
“People’s ideas of what was going on kept changing and evolving — it kept getting bigger and closer to home — and then it became ‘OK, we accept that the pandemic is real but vaccines, they’re bad.'”
Slowly, infections took hold of his relatives and he was bouncing between three houses caring for loved ones struggling to battle COVID-19 infections. For him, it was scary.
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