"Cameron County has received confirmation of the second community COVID-19 related death of a Cameron County resident. Cameron County has received confirmation of the second community COVID-19 related death of a Cameron County resident. The resident was an 82-year old male from Brownsville and passed away at Solara Hospital in Brownsville. He was a previously reported case. This raises the number of COVID-19 related deaths to twenty (20)."
Facebook post: "Fucking get over it... you either live or die."
One of the great things about the Internet is the ability to express yourself with no one to censor you except for you exercising your own responsibility on the content of that expression.
But if you were the son, daughter, wife, niece or nephew, grandchild, relative or friend of the 82-year-old Brownsville man who is the last fatality in Brownsville of the COVID-19 plague, is this really something you would want to hear?
You have the freedom to speak, but it includes the freedom not to speak, at least not so unfeelingly. We send our condolences to the family of the last fatality (and to the families of the other 19) and warn our seven readers that the virus is still swirling all around us. And to the unfeeling poster who didn't care about the feelings of the family of the deceased we pray that he or she never has this happen to them or to anyone that they love.