"And then this month, at age 105, Primetta Giacopini’s life ended the way it began — in a pandemic.
“I think my mother would have been around quite a bit longer” if she hadn’t contracted COVID,” her 61-year-old daughter, Dorene Giacopini, said. “She was a fighter. She had a hard life and her attitude always was ... basically, all Americans who were not around for World War II were basically spoiled brats.”
I’m gonna go out on a limb: No, she wouldn’t have.
My grandmother was born in 1919, she caught Covid 2 weeks before her 101 st birthday. She was given hydroxychloroquine and pulled though without any issues. The thing that she could not beat was the isolation of the lockdowns. She was 126 lbs at the start of Covid, and when she passed in Jan of this year she was down to just 70 lbs. This is the unreported toll of the plandemic
Her Mother life began as Fascists were trying to take over the world and she left as Fascists are trying again to take over the world. The "flu" was and is being used to accomplish those goals.
Alex, I welcome your snark and your hard-hitting pieces. Please do not hesitate to send as many substack posts as needed. Truly, some of the best parts of my day.
There is no common sense left anymore anywhere. None. Currently the oldest living people are twins who are 107. A person of 105 is so inherently fragile that blowing on them could knock them over and kill them. We all have a built-in time clock which may vary a bit due to genetic inheritance and just plain luck but we still have this clock. It is in each of our cells in the telomeres. They shorten with each cell replication until at some point they become so short the cell can't replicate any more and death occurs. Not only is there no common sense but there is no basic science knowledge. Didn't schools once teach biology?
We busted my 95 year-old grandfather out of nursing home prison in April 2020. We had a video link to his room and we didn't believe he had gotten out of bed for 4 or 5 days. My aunt was happy to take him in, where he happily lived until mid-January 2021. He would not have lasted another week in the nursing home, but he thrived at my aunt's home (his daughter). Of course he tested positive for Covid 3 weeks before he passed, but it had nothing to do with the two weeks of hospice prior to passing. No fever, no cough, no symptoms. He was ready to go and he went on his own terms. We refused to allow any mention of Covid on his death cert, as we didn't want to give The Party one more number to use to instill fear amongst the sheeple. He was a fantastic man and I only miss him everyday.
I just read yesterday that the US NATIONWIDE only recorded 68 flu deaths last year (as compared to thousands every other year), so I guess everyone really does die of covid (including the guy who fell off a ladder and broke his neck who tested positive).
I know you had said that you wanted to keep us from getting our inboxes flooded, but I like these shorter posts. The long ones are great, but since I work from home and am always fighting distractions, these short punchy commentaries are great for me. Almost like some other platform that I used to see you on.... what was that name?
I think her mother could have been around for longer than she was if she'd been given early treatment. WE HAVE A PANDEMIC OF NO EARLY TREATMENT = DEATH! Sorry for the caps but I feel so badly everytime I see one of these stories. She's missing her mom yoo soon.
People just give me a dead stare when I enlighten them with the fact that the average age of deaths in the US With Covid is 79 and our life expectancy is 78.
I 100% agree that we are all spoiled brats!!! For real!! Child of an immigrant speaking here, and I assure you Americans have no idea how spoiled we are.
My father turn 90 this year, and my mother 87. I joke with my dad that by the law of averages, he's stealing years away from somebody else...lol When he complains, I remind him. Covid, the common flu, a hard fall, his horrible driving (lol). Everyone dies, enjoy everyday. Covid mandates make this much more difficult, especially the elderly. The true tragic result.
My own grandmother died a bit after her 100th birthday, and even though it might’ve been covid, it was listed as cause of death on a presumptive basis, no definitive tests were performed.
She led quite the life and may hold the record for the oldest driver to ever get a DUI. She was 95 and drove without a license for an additional 4 years.
We’re not happy she’s gone, but we’re happy she lived.
When did it become acceptable for people to make a false assumption and then whine their way to the highest pinnacles of self-victimization?
I followed the included link to the AP News article; note that it reports that Primetta and her caregiver and caregiver's husband had all been vaccinated! Another "breakthrough" case!
I am 70 and was vaccinated back in early February (when it was being sold as 95% effective against getting the disease) but I still got "the" covid in July. I took Ivermectin, zinc, vitamin D and got better in a week. It was akin to having a sinus cold. My 100 1/2 year old mother (1/2 years count at that age) also got covid and had no symptoms. She's fine now. Difference is she lives with us and sees people. She told me her biggest fear of catching covid was not the disease, it was dying alone in a hospital. I attribute her strength to eating moldy bread during WWII, eating leftovers that may be a few days to old, and just not worrying about things being perfectly sterile.
The three elderly widows I know are all concerned about only one thing. One lives in her home. One lives in an independent living facility. The third lives in an assisted living facility. None of them have dementia or serious illnesses. They all got vaccinated. None of them got COVID. Thank God!
They all have children and friends who live nearby. They were all alone for many months; having only calls and videos to communicate with loved ones. They are all "free" now. Thank God! They can go out and have visitors. The only thing they now say that they are afraid of is "being forced to isolation again and being all alone"; not COVID. 🙏
No apologies needed for the snark. Sometimes people are complete dipsh*ts, and both of these women sound like they may fit that category. Primetta was 105 for G*d's sake! I know it sounds heartless to say this, but she was a dead woman walking. At her age, it wasn't just waking up each morning that was a blessing, it was every additional breath she took until she passed. She was waaaay beyond any expected lifespan anywhere on this planet at any time in human history. And for Dorene not to get that ... Look, I understand she loved her mother, and misses her terribly. But it was just Primetta's time to go, and while Covid may have been the incidental cause of her death, even a bad cold would have done it at her age.
And that's the thing about Covid: it's almost universally taking the aged and the unhealthy -- people who are the walking dead under the best of circumstances. I see these huge men and women wearing masks, and I think: if you're really that afraid of Covid, the single best thing you could do to make it a relatively minor event in your life is lose weight. Now, Primetta obviously couldn't undo her age (which was a blessing), and she couldn't do much about her death (which was inevitable and coming soon anyway), but Doreen can (if she chose to see this correctly) treat the fact that Primetta lived to be 105 as the near-miracle it was.
But Doreen's thinking is what comes of a society that treats everyone as a victim of one thing or another, and which acts like we can regulate death away if we just impose enough "safety measures".
So we were all going to live forever until covid came along. Okay. I guess if we can make people believe the whole world wearing masks will end all disease than we can convince people of that too.
If John F Kennedy was tested positive for covid in morgue they would say he died from it..even with his brains splattered all over the seat of the Lincoln. This is now a religious cult
The Irish Times has a Covid 'wall' on their website, which 'commemorates' people who died from Covid in Ireland. There are about 800 people featured. I scraped the webpage contents and calculated their average age at death. It wasn't precise because I only had the year of birth and death but it worked out at 82.14 years. A quick search online gives the average life expectancy in Ireland of 82.26 year. All those precious years lost ! My arse.
Mrs. Giacopini might have been around at least a while longer had she received ivermectin as soon as her caretaker began feeling ill. No mention of either trying to prevent or early treat this dear old lady with therapeutics, just hospital > ventilator > gone.
Her 106 year old mother was fortunate. But no, her daughter is a ingrate, the world owes me, victimhood. My grandmother died during the 1918 pandemic, she was 33 years old left and behind 8 bambinos. I was deprived of knowing my grandmother, so there, I one uped her.My Gmother’s certificate of death: “cause of death”- labor pneumonia; “Contributory”- influenza.most people died from bacterial pneumonia in 1918. Today we have antibiotics.
Snark called for on this pure propaganda campaign. Of course use a life well lived to push your agenda. How do so many struggle to see. It’s not even hidden anymore. Feed the sheep
Whoa whoa whoa... We were all going to live forever unless we lost the war against microbes like SARS-CoV-2, and every life lost is a horrendous tragedy at any age, don'tcha know. Unless it's lost to the v#x. Then it didn't happen.
I have a friend that has been so scared for her 95-year-old mother during the pandemic. She just was so nervous waiting for the vaccine because she needed her mom to get it. I was thinking to myself, "She is 95. Her time on this earth is closer to over than ever before." Crazy!
I come for the reporting. I stay for the snark :)
My grandmother was born in 1919, she caught Covid 2 weeks before her 101 st birthday. She was given hydroxychloroquine and pulled though without any issues. The thing that she could not beat was the isolation of the lockdowns. She was 126 lbs at the start of Covid, and when she passed in Jan of this year she was down to just 70 lbs. This is the unreported toll of the plandemic
Her Mother life began as Fascists were trying to take over the world and she left as Fascists are trying again to take over the world. The "flu" was and is being used to accomplish those goals.
Alex, I welcome your snark and your hard-hitting pieces. Please do not hesitate to send as many substack posts as needed. Truly, some of the best parts of my day.
I fail to see how the loss of Snark is an asset? I, for one, need snark like a vital nutrient.
There is no common sense left anymore anywhere. None. Currently the oldest living people are twins who are 107. A person of 105 is so inherently fragile that blowing on them could knock them over and kill them. We all have a built-in time clock which may vary a bit due to genetic inheritance and just plain luck but we still have this clock. It is in each of our cells in the telomeres. They shorten with each cell replication until at some point they become so short the cell can't replicate any more and death occurs. Not only is there no common sense but there is no basic science knowledge. Didn't schools once teach biology?
Um... Yeah, let's go with COVID. Certainly there were no underlying factors here
We busted my 95 year-old grandfather out of nursing home prison in April 2020. We had a video link to his room and we didn't believe he had gotten out of bed for 4 or 5 days. My aunt was happy to take him in, where he happily lived until mid-January 2021. He would not have lasted another week in the nursing home, but he thrived at my aunt's home (his daughter). Of course he tested positive for Covid 3 weeks before he passed, but it had nothing to do with the two weeks of hospice prior to passing. No fever, no cough, no symptoms. He was ready to go and he went on his own terms. We refused to allow any mention of Covid on his death cert, as we didn't want to give The Party one more number to use to instill fear amongst the sheeple. He was a fantastic man and I only miss him everyday.
61 year-old daughter? This woman gave birth at 44 in 1960? That’s an amazing story!
I just read yesterday that the US NATIONWIDE only recorded 68 flu deaths last year (as compared to thousands every other year), so I guess everyone really does die of covid (including the guy who fell off a ladder and broke his neck who tested positive).
Love the snark! It takes the air out of people’s self righteous sanctimony.
I know you had said that you wanted to keep us from getting our inboxes flooded, but I like these shorter posts. The long ones are great, but since I work from home and am always fighting distractions, these short punchy commentaries are great for me. Almost like some other platform that I used to see you on.... what was that name?
I think her mother could have been around for longer than she was if she'd been given early treatment. WE HAVE A PANDEMIC OF NO EARLY TREATMENT = DEATH! Sorry for the caps but I feel so badly everytime I see one of these stories. She's missing her mom yoo soon.
I like the snark. Right now, we need some snark.
People just give me a dead stare when I enlighten them with the fact that the average age of deaths in the US With Covid is 79 and our life expectancy is 78.
BTW - I never asked for less snark 🤔
I 100% agree that we are all spoiled brats!!! For real!! Child of an immigrant speaking here, and I assure you Americans have no idea how spoiled we are.
At 105, you are the lowest hanging fruit when DEATH comes a calling.
She died of COVID? No, she died because SHE'S 105 F***ING YEARS OLD!
My father turn 90 this year, and my mother 87. I joke with my dad that by the law of averages, he's stealing years away from somebody else...lol When he complains, I remind him. Covid, the common flu, a hard fall, his horrible driving (lol). Everyone dies, enjoy everyday. Covid mandates make this much more difficult, especially the elderly. The true tragic result.
Mrs. Giacopini was very wise with an observation of, "basically, all Americans who were not around for World War II were basically spoiled brats.”
This. And then there's the "my Dad's death would have been so much worse if he hadn't taken the vaccine." Yeah.
My own grandmother died a bit after her 100th birthday, and even though it might’ve been covid, it was listed as cause of death on a presumptive basis, no definitive tests were performed.
She led quite the life and may hold the record for the oldest driver to ever get a DUI. She was 95 and drove without a license for an additional 4 years.
We’re not happy she’s gone, but we’re happy she lived.
When did it become acceptable for people to make a false assumption and then whine their way to the highest pinnacles of self-victimization?
I followed the included link to the AP News article; note that it reports that Primetta and her caregiver and caregiver's husband had all been vaccinated! Another "breakthrough" case!
“… all three were vaccinated…” thus achieving the merit badge of the Left on their way to death caused by the heartless anti-vaxxers.
I am 70 and was vaccinated back in early February (when it was being sold as 95% effective against getting the disease) but I still got "the" covid in July. I took Ivermectin, zinc, vitamin D and got better in a week. It was akin to having a sinus cold. My 100 1/2 year old mother (1/2 years count at that age) also got covid and had no symptoms. She's fine now. Difference is she lives with us and sees people. She told me her biggest fear of catching covid was not the disease, it was dying alone in a hospital. I attribute her strength to eating moldy bread during WWII, eating leftovers that may be a few days to old, and just not worrying about things being perfectly sterile.
My heart sank when I saw your promise of “less snark”, please keep it coming.
Cut down in the prime of her life by Corona.....seriously lady 105 is a good run.
I’m having a hard time believing that it was CoVID that killed her but regardless, what a life she led and if I make it to 105 I’ll be blessed.
Somebody wake me when AP starts covering the parents of healthy kids that have been injured by or died from the vaccines.
In the meantime, have some truly deranged fear porn on par with the infamous Daisy ad against Goldwater.
https://twitter.com/charlescwcooke/status/1443541524403396608
The three elderly widows I know are all concerned about only one thing. One lives in her home. One lives in an independent living facility. The third lives in an assisted living facility. None of them have dementia or serious illnesses. They all got vaccinated. None of them got COVID. Thank God!
They all have children and friends who live nearby. They were all alone for many months; having only calls and videos to communicate with loved ones. They are all "free" now. Thank God! They can go out and have visitors. The only thing they now say that they are afraid of is "being forced to isolation again and being all alone"; not COVID. 🙏
No apologies needed for the snark. Sometimes people are complete dipsh*ts, and both of these women sound like they may fit that category. Primetta was 105 for G*d's sake! I know it sounds heartless to say this, but she was a dead woman walking. At her age, it wasn't just waking up each morning that was a blessing, it was every additional breath she took until she passed. She was waaaay beyond any expected lifespan anywhere on this planet at any time in human history. And for Dorene not to get that ... Look, I understand she loved her mother, and misses her terribly. But it was just Primetta's time to go, and while Covid may have been the incidental cause of her death, even a bad cold would have done it at her age.
And that's the thing about Covid: it's almost universally taking the aged and the unhealthy -- people who are the walking dead under the best of circumstances. I see these huge men and women wearing masks, and I think: if you're really that afraid of Covid, the single best thing you could do to make it a relatively minor event in your life is lose weight. Now, Primetta obviously couldn't undo her age (which was a blessing), and she couldn't do much about her death (which was inevitable and coming soon anyway), but Doreen can (if she chose to see this correctly) treat the fact that Primetta lived to be 105 as the near-miracle it was.
But Doreen's thinking is what comes of a society that treats everyone as a victim of one thing or another, and which acts like we can regulate death away if we just impose enough "safety measures".
Yes, Alex's observation is similar to when a famous person, who is 95ish, is reported to have died and the report says the death was UNEXPECTED!
So we were all going to live forever until covid came along. Okay. I guess if we can make people believe the whole world wearing masks will end all disease than we can convince people of that too.
So, the daughter, Dorene, is a spoiled brat? I can see that.
Imagine a vaccine so safe you have to be threatened to take it, for a disease so deadly you have to be tested to know you have it."
Here’s snark…she had LONG passed her expiration date..in fact, her daughter
is fast approaching it
If John F Kennedy was tested positive for covid in morgue they would say he died from it..even with his brains splattered all over the seat of the Lincoln. This is now a religious cult
She did not die of COVID. She died of antiquity. We should all be so blessed to live nearly 30 years past life expectancy.
REALLY - 105??? Keep the snark coming - it keeps us sane. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU ARE DOING!
The Irish Times has a Covid 'wall' on their website, which 'commemorates' people who died from Covid in Ireland. There are about 800 people featured. I scraped the webpage contents and calculated their average age at death. It wasn't precise because I only had the year of birth and death but it worked out at 82.14 years. A quick search online gives the average life expectancy in Ireland of 82.26 year. All those precious years lost ! My arse.
Mrs. Giacopini might have been around at least a while longer had she received ivermectin as soon as her caretaker began feeling ill. No mention of either trying to prevent or early treat this dear old lady with therapeutics, just hospital > ventilator > gone.
P.S. to Alex: I love your snark. Snark away.
Maybe she just had enough of her idiot daughter
Her 106 year old mother was fortunate. But no, her daughter is a ingrate, the world owes me, victimhood. My grandmother died during the 1918 pandemic, she was 33 years old left and behind 8 bambinos. I was deprived of knowing my grandmother, so there, I one uped her.My Gmother’s certificate of death: “cause of death”- labor pneumonia; “Contributory”- influenza.most people died from bacterial pneumonia in 1918. Today we have antibiotics.
Alex, please keep doing what you are doing. You are supported by many!
Snark called for on this pure propaganda campaign. Of course use a life well lived to push your agenda. How do so many struggle to see. It’s not even hidden anymore. Feed the sheep
I'm here for the snark - please don't stop
I like a little snark.
Whoa whoa whoa... We were all going to live forever unless we lost the war against microbes like SARS-CoV-2, and every life lost is a horrendous tragedy at any age, don'tcha know. Unless it's lost to the v#x. Then it didn't happen.
Love the snark. Don’t change just be you Alex. We love it.
Definitely worth the snark.
I have a friend that has been so scared for her 95-year-old mother during the pandemic. She just was so nervous waiting for the vaccine because she needed her mom to get it. I was thinking to myself, "She is 95. Her time on this earth is closer to over than ever before." Crazy!
Humor may have died for late night comedy but MSM have filled the void.