Heartbreaking final text from dad who died of Covid after refusing vaccine – Metro.co.uk

Fit and healthy John Eyers died of Covid after refusing to get the vaccine (Picture: Jenny Mccann)

A heartbroken sister has revealed the final text message her fit and healthy brother sent before dying from Covid after refusing the vaccine.

Bodybuilder John Eyers, 42, thought he would only suffer from a mild illness if he caught the virus and had a belief in his own immortality, his twin Jenny McCann said.

The construction expert from Southport, Merseyside, died within a month of testing positive after suffering from an infection and organ failure, leaving behind a daughter aged 19.

Jenny spoke to him on the phone before he was induced into a coma and told him she loved him.

She said he was not well enough to reply but sent her a text afterwards which read: Dont let them give up on me.

Tragically, that was the last message she received from John.

He died on July 27, moments before his family arrived at his bedside.

Jenny said that in his final days, John expressed his regret that he didnt get the Covid vaccine.

She said her brother was the was the fittest, healthiest person she knew and believed he would be ok if he caught the virus.

He was climbing Welsh mountains and wild camping four weeks before his death, she wrote in a series of tweets.

The only pre-existing health condition he had was the belief in his own immortality.

He thought if he contracted Covid-19 he would be OK. He thought he would have a mild illness. He didnt want to put a vaccine on his body. His was pumped full of every drug in the hospital.

They threw everything at him. But eventually the bedfellow of Covid-19, infection and organ failure, claimed his life.

Before he was ventilated he told his consultant that he wished he had been vaccinated. That he wished he had listened. His death is a tragedy.

Jenny said she wanted to share Johns story in the hope it would save another life.

Speaking to The Guardian, she described John as a staunch anti-vaxxer and said the family had all fallen out with him over his stance.

She said even when he was presented with the facts that vaccines are safe and effective, there was no reasoning with him.

Jenny said: John started saying really crazy things that didnt make senseabout how people were only getting the vaccine for free McDonalds, and there was formaldehyde in it.

The rest of the family remonstrated with him, pulling out their phones to factcheck what he was saying. But John was unmoving.

He kept saying: I wont be a guinea pig.

Jenny described her bother as a fun uncle and much loved and much needed dad.

Tributes poured in for the fitness fanatic following his death.

Johns daughter, Macey May Curran, 19, paid tribute back in August.

Macey said: RIP my real-life superhero, my best friend, my dad.

Please, please, please get your vaccine, I was one of them young girls who only got the vaccine to go on holidays but now Ive seen the reality of what Covid actually does to us.

Standing beside a hospital bed watching my dad and him not knowing Im by his side kills me.

RIP my hero, I love and miss you always dad.

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