Last fall, Rachel McKibbons got a message from her brother, Peter.

At about midnight, my brother sent me a text that said,

I've been too distraught to tell you, but dad passed away today at 2.42 p.m.

Because of a text? Yeah. A text telling her that her father had been dead for hours.

She figured car accident. She knew he'd been driving a lot, looking for work. She called her brother.

I said, Peter, what is happening? What happened? And he explained that they had gone to a funeral and he said,

I never should have let dad go to the funeral with all those vaxed people. Vaccinated people.

Her brother believed that COVID vaccines weren't just dangerous for people who got the vaccine.

Vaccinated people were dangerous to be around if you were unvaccinated, like him and his

dad. They lived together. They'd been living together for years. On the phone with her brother,

Rachel learned that her father had been sick for over a week, COVID. Not only had Peter not

told her about it, he also hadn't taken their father to the hospital, hadn't called 911.

Then another thought hit her.

I said, Peter, you've been his nurse this whole time.

How do you feel?

And he said, well, I mean, we both probably got sick around the same time, but, you know, I'm

healthier than dad. And I said, Peter, I can forgive you for not taking dad to the hospital.

I can find forgiveness somewhere in me, but I swear to you, if you don't go to the ER right now, I will not forgive you

when you die.

He did go to the hospital, but two days later he checked himself out against medical advice

and lied to Rachel that he was getting better.

Peter died at home, alone, about two weeks after his father.

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