One thing everyone agrees on is that Stephanie didn’t have to die. Her family wanted to share what happened to her in the hope their story can help others.
if individuals had gotten vaccinated.
Parking in the Bronx was always tricky, Arnold quips. “So I said, ‘You know, this isn’t bad — she’s very attractive, she’s pleasant to be with — maybe I’ll start dating her and I won’t lose my parking spot.” When the daughters reached high school, Stephanie began to get into astrology and tarot. She did readings to advise people about things like houses, kids and jobs. It was quirky, but Laurie says that Stephanie brought a lot of positivity and optimism to her sessions.
Then, just before the pandemic began, there was a change in Stephanie. Nobody can exactly pinpoint when it happened. Part of it was physical. Throughout her life, she had played tennis. But it had taken a toll on her knees. She was finding it hard to walk and had to have a stair lift installed in her house.
“She called me up one day and was like, ‘All right, have you been watching these videos that Mom is sending us?'” “We just stopped seeing each other as a family,” Laurie says. “We didn’t do Thanksgiving that first year.” When the COVID vaccines came along, Stephanie absolutely refused to get one because she falsely thought the shots contained tiny microchips. Moreover, she began avoiding her daughters, who had gotten vaccinated, because she believed false information that the vaccines were being used to somehow spread COVID.The family felt stuck. They didn’t know how to shake Stephanie out of her beliefs. And they are hardly alone.
While it’s impossible to say exactly what drove Stephanie, her daughters identify several things that seem to roughly correspond to those broad categories of motivations. First, they say Stephanie suffered from a lot of anxiety throughout her life. With her tennis days behind her, much of her self-esteem now lay with her astrology work and her spiritual group. And that group was clearly playing the role of echo chamber, reinforcing her ideas and beliefs.
Stephanie’s interest in star charts, numerology, tarot and singing bowls were quirky but her sessions gave people a lot of hope and positivity, Laurie says. It was a strategy Stephanie’s family said they tried a few times. But even then, van der Linden says, these interventions take time. People can’t change their thinking instantly, and often will backslide as they talk again to their fellow conspiracy theorists.Unfortunately for Stephanie, she did not have time. In November of 2021, just before Thanksgiving, Arnold and Stephanie met two other couples for dinner at a popular local restaurant.But she refused to get tested.
Stephanie still didn’t want to go, but after hearing she could die, she eventually gave in. Arnold drove her to the hospital. Meanwhile, Arnold had developed symptoms and was getting sicker and weaker. He eventually asked his daughters for help. “Patients at that point feel like they’re suffocating, they’re drowning,” El Shanawany says. “It’s a horrible way to die.”
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