Texas Anti-Mask 'Freedom Rally' Organizer Fighting For His Life With COVID-19 …. Because of course.
A Texas man who helped organize protests against pandemic restrictions is fighting for his life after being hospitalized for nearly a month with COVID-19, the
San Angelo Standard-Times reported.
His wife, Jessica Wallace, wrote Wednesday on Facebook that she had a “heartbreaking update” about her husband, Caleb.
“He’s not doing good. It’s not looking in our favor,” she said. “His lungs are stiff due to the fibrosis.
They called and said they’ve run out of options for him and asked if I would consent to a do not resuscitate. And it would be up to us when to stop treatments.”
“My heart just can’t. I can’t imagine my life without him.”
Caleb Wallace, a 30-year-old father of three, has been unconscious, ventilated and heavily sedated in the ICU at Shannon Medical Center in San Angelo since Aug. 8, the Standard-Times reported. His wife said on
a GoFundMe pagefor household and medical bills that he was was intubated multiple times, had high fevers, infection and bleeding in his chest.
When he first felt symptoms on July 26, his wife told the Standard-Times,
he refused to get tested or seek medical care. He instead began treating himself with a cocktail of Vitamin C, zinc, aspirin and
ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug that has been
falsely promoted as an effective treatment for COVID-19 by conservative media. He was taken to the hospital on July 30.
Jessica Wallace told the Standard-Times that she was “less conservative” than her husband and personally wears a mask.
“Caleb would tell me, ‘You know masks aren’t going to save you,’ but he understood I wanted to wear them,” she said. “It gives me comfort to know that maybe, just maybe, I’m either protecting someone or avoiding it myself.”