Death of longtime mayor from COVID-19 stuns Alabama town
CLANTON, Ala. (AP) — It seemed like Billy Joe Driver, 84, was always around in this Alabama city after 36 years as mayor.
Most weekdays you’d find Driver working at a first-floor conference table at Clanton City Hall, and many nights he’d eat at Green’s Small Town Diner with friends. On Fridays it was lunch at the local senior center, and Wednesday night and Sunday meant worship at his church, Temple Assembly of God.
All that visibility meant people noticed when Driver disappeared from public in June, and friends bowed in prayer when word got out he was sick with what many had assumed was a big-city disease, COVID-19. Driver died of the illness in July, forcing a reckoning that’s still rippling through the community.
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A lot of close associations. Wonder if he wore a mask?
Death of longtime mayor from COVID-19 stuns Alabama town
CLANTON, Ala. (AP) — It seemed like Billy Joe Driver, 84, was always around in this Alabama city after 36 years as mayor.
Most weekdays you’d find Driver working at a first-floor conference table at Clanton City Hall, and many nights he’d eat at Green’s Small Town Diner with friends. On Fridays it was lunch at the local senior center, and Wednesday night and Sunday meant worship at his church, Temple Assembly of God.
All that visibility meant people noticed when Driver disappeared from public in June, and friends bowed in prayer when word got out he was sick with what many had assumed was a big-city disease, COVID-19. Driver died of the illness in July, forcing a reckoning that’s still rippling through the community.
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A lot of close associations. Wonder if he wore a mask?
Unless I am grossly mistaken, and from everything I have read up until this point, it would not have mattered if he did wear a mask unless he had PPE equipment to go along with it.
The mask only helps to protect others from you if you are infected. It does not protect you from contracting COVID-19.
And unfortunately he was of the age group most vulnerable to this disease.
It seems like he lived a full life. I’m sure he knew that something would eventually end his life. Personally, I’d prefer to be remembered for what I did that what I died of.
Hell, at 84 opening your eyes in the morning is a surprise!
Always with the deflection.
In this case, what he died of does matter. It showed people not taking this seriously enough that it is quite serious. "But old people might die of some other thing" is no response.
“People had gotten lax on trying to protect everyone else. They weren’t wearing their masks like they ought to,” she said. “I think with Mayor Driver’s death, it opened people’s eyes and they realized, ‘I could be next with this.”’ Vanessa McKinney said Driver’s death “devastated our community.” “We were taking it serious before, but after that, it really shook us to the core,” said McKinney, who runs Chilton Senior Connections, the senior center that Driver helped create in an old store and visited regularly.
Death of longtime mayor from COVID-19 stuns Alabama town
How many more people have to die for Trumpists to stop accusing the left of hoaxing, to stop claiming that mask requirements, distancing requirements, controls on businesses, are not actually some secret plot by liberals to take your freedoms? Does every Trumpist have to lose a beloved family member before you listen? Will you not even listen then?
Always with the deflection.
In this case, what he died of does matter. It showed people not taking this seriously enough that it is quite serious. "But old people might die of some other thing" is no response.
“People had gotten lax on trying to protect everyone else. They weren’t wearing their masks like they ought to,” she said. “I think with Mayor Driver’s death, it opened people’s eyes and they realized, ‘I could be next with this.”’ Vanessa McKinney said Driver’s death “devastated our community.” “We were taking it serious before, but after that, it really shook us to the core,” said McKinney, who runs Chilton Senior Connections, the senior center that Driver helped create in an old store and visited regularly.
Death of longtime mayor from COVID-19 stuns Alabama town
How many more people have to die for Trumpists to stop accusing the left of hoaxing, to stop claiming that mask requirements, distancing requirements, controls on businesses, are not actually some secret plot by liberals to take your freedoms? Does every Trumpist have to lose a beloved family member before you listen? Will you not even listen then?
From what I gather, not quite.
It's not that masks provide no protection whatsoever. They provide some, in regards to inhaled droplets containing the virus. Just not so much overall, since that protection is imperfect and there are many other ways to contract it that a mask has nothing to do with. But the main point is indeed protecting others from you if you are carrying COVID.
From what I gather, not quite.
It's not that masks provide no protection whatsoever. They provide some, in regards to inhaled droplets containing the virus. Just not so much overall, since that protection is imperfect and there are many other ways to contract it that a mask has nothing to do with. But the main point is indeed protecting others from you if you are carrying COVID.
Indeed; masks aren't the solution, but they are a part of the solution in preventing transmission. This is a childishly simple concept anti-maskers seem to have trouble grasping.
Masks don't work. Our ever expanding caseload shows that. People who never learned childishly simple math have trouble grasping it.
Unless I am grossly mistaken, and from everything I have read up until this point, it would not have mattered if he did wear a mask unless he had PPE equipment to go along with it.
The mask only helps to protect others from you if you are infected. It does not protect you from contracting COVID-19.
And unfortunately he was of the age group most vulnerable to this disease.
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