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teach1st

(5,969 posts)
Tue Aug 31, 2021, 07:57 PM Aug 2021

Widow urges vaccination at funeral of St. Petersburg officer who died of COVID

Widow urges vaccination at funeral of St. Petersburg officer who died of COVID
Tampa Bay Times, 8/31/2021

Standing in front of roughly 100 family members and officers in The Coliseum, the police officer’s widow offered a warning at her husband’s funeral Tuesday.

“I promise you,” Karen Weiskopf said of the coronavirus, “it’s grueling, dangerous — and it will destroy you.”

Her husband, St. Petersburg police Officer Michael Weiskopf, died Aug. 27 after about a month of battling COVID-19. He was 52.

“This was not Mike’s time,” Karen Weiskopf said. “He made a risky decision not to vaccinate.”


More: https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2021/08/31/vaccines-offered-in-memory-of-st-petersburg-officer-who-rejected-them/

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Widow urges vaccination at funeral of St. Petersburg officer who died of COVID (Original Post) teach1st Aug 2021 OP
Decisions have consequences....and it has nothing to do with your personal choice. OAITW r.2.0 Aug 2021 #1
That was gracious of her More_Cowbell Aug 2021 #2

OAITW r.2.0

(28,667 posts)
1. Decisions have consequences....and it has nothing to do with your personal choice.
Tue Aug 31, 2021, 08:05 PM
Aug 2021

Do it for your family, fer crissake.

More_Cowbell

(2,206 posts)
2. That was gracious of her
Tue Aug 31, 2021, 09:28 PM
Aug 2021

To be able to think of other people in her time of sorrow. Good for her.

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