51-year old David Kesler of Dauphin, Pennsylvania died on November 16 after a battle with COVID-19.
Known affectionately to his team as “Coach Dino,” Kesler was the coach of the Dauphin Dolphins swim team in central Pennsylvania.
He was also a Tae Kwon Do instructor (and 2nd-degree blackbelt), and the president of Homeland Shield and ENACT, a volunteer-based organization that provides security and organizes disaster relief supplies and support.
He was hospitalized on October 31 and died just over two weeks later. Kesler was one of 72 deaths related to COVID-19 in the state of Pennsylvania on November 16, according to data compiled by the New York Times.
Pennsylvania, like most of the U.S., has begun to see a new wave of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths as colder, wetter weather pushes people back indoors.
No information about Kesler’s vaccination status was available, though state data reports that about 53% of residents in Dauphin County are fully vaccinated. Dauphin is currently reporting about 41 new cases per 100,000 residents daily, with a 12% test positivity rate. That’s a rate more than double the average rate on November 1.
Kesler was also an avid motorcyclist and according to his obituary, he was a former president and original member of the Maulitia Motorcycle Club. The Maulitia Motorcycle Club says on their website that “We are made up of patriotic citizens who love their country, their freedoms, and their liberty. We are committed to standing against and exposing corruption and injustice.” The club also identifies themselves as a part of the 3 Percenters movement, a far-right, anti-government militia movement in the United States and Canada. The 3 Percenters movement, which has been labeled a terrorist entity by the government of Canada, formally dissolved after the 2021 United States Capitol attack, though local independent groups still operate.
In 1996, he opened Stoney Creek Cycles, where he maintained, repaired, and built motorcycles.
Just checked out his motor cycle club’s website and wow! No 3%er has any business coaching the sport I love. Sickening.
2021 and people still arguing politics on social media. If there was ever an argument to change someone’s political stance, this ain’t it.
During the funeral procession one of the pallbearers on a motorcycle was killed by a logging truck
https://dailyvoice.com/pennsylvania/dauphin/police-fire/fatal-crash-near-funeral-procession-along-us-22-penndot/820716/
When it rains it pours, damn.
“Killed in a funeral procession” is a hell of a way to go.
Wow.
Just in case it God wasn’t clear in his initial smiting.
Some of y’all need to grow up. A colleague in the sport passed away and you’re too busy worrying about his jab status and what groups he was affiliated politically.
His political ideology cost him his life.
people of all political parties have gotten the shot. Don’t demean someone because of personal choices.
He and all of the other selfish head in the sand anti vaxxers are why we couldn’t beat this and why our hospitals are overflowing. They just can’t die fast enough.
Not really , at 52 he’s lived most of it .
LOL! Sheesh…says a 66 yo who still loves swimming ‘fly!
Coach went down fighting until his last words…” Don’t give up…..keep riding, and be sure the libs don’t win this fight, they took the election from us, and now they want to jab us with lies”
A proud Herman Cain Award recipient
Well, he sure owned the libs didn’t he.
To quote the new German health minister, “when this pandemic is over the population will include only the vaccinate, the recovered, and the dead”.
In Germany this is considered an upbeat peptalk, but it is a bit dark for my taste, however true.
I cannot understand a statewide vaccination rate of only 53%. Some people need to read more books (rather than burn them).
53% is the county.
Statewide, about 57% are fully vaccinated and about 81% have received almost one dose. Like many states, Pennsylvania has seen a pretty significant uptick in doses over the last month, so many of that 80% are just waiting their 3 or 4 weeks for a 2nd dose.
That’s a surprising gap between partially and fully vaccinated, given how long they’ve been available to everyone in the US.
Oddly optimistic that the partial percentage is tipping up, though!
And the amount of doctors, vaccinated and not, who blasted him for this ignorant comment was profound. Just because someone says it doesn’t make it true.