Carsyn Leigh Davis turned 17 years old two days before her death. Photos courtesy of the News-Press.
There’s a lot of grief to unpack with Carsyn’s death, and some of it is angering, controversial and even political.
This is your trigger warning.
Let’s start with who Carsyn Leigh Davis was and the life that she was grateful to live.
She was a high schooler at Cypress Lake High in Lee County, where she loved photography and bowling.
Her mother, Carole Brunton Davis, told the Fort Myers News-Press:
“Davis, understanding what it is like to have special needs, served as an aide to the special needs classroom and volunteered for Special Olympics and the Be A Buddy Program, Brunton Davis said.”
She had survived cancer, her mom reported, and was a caring and giving person. She was known for her huge heart and good nature, despite all of her health problems. She had nearly died as a child, but developed a strength and love of life that made everyone around her smile.
So then why in God’s name did her mother take her to a “COVID Party” at their church on June 10 to intentionally expose her immuno-compromised daughter to this virus?
With all the public articles relating to this poor girl’s death on June 23, and all the interviews done with Carsyn’s mother, why did so many fail to ask her why and how Carsyn got sick?
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement detailed the last two weeks of Carsyn’s life in a public Medical Examiner’s report.
On June 10, Carysn’s mom, Carole, took Carsyn, a 16-year-old girl who was immuno-compromised with a history of health issues (including cancer), to a “COVID party” at her church, where more than 100 children without masks were in attendance.
Her mom, who is not a doctor, then prescribed her daughter azithromycin, an anti-bacterial drug with no known benefits for fighting COVID-19, for several days. During that “treatment period,” Carsyn developed headaches, sinus pressure and a cough.
A few days later, without taking her to a doctor, her mother would later report that her daughter “looked gray” on June 19, so she put Carsyn on her grandfather’s oxygen machine.
When that still did nothing to combat the cough, the headaches, the sinus infection, the fever, her mother started giving her hydroxychloroquine – a dangerous drug that clinical studies have shown makes a person MORE likely to die of COVID, but was recklessly touted by President Trump for months as a supposed “cure.”
The dangers of using hydroxychloroquine have been known and made public since April.
Carsyn immediately worsened and was finally taken to medical professionals where she admitted to the Pediatric ICU.
When she couldn’t breathe on her own, her mother declined intubation.
The hospital began plasma therapy on June 20-21, but the damage to Carsyn’s cardio-respiratory system was too severe and she was ordered to be intubated on June 22. She died the next day.
She spent her 17th birthday doing plasma therapy in the pediatric ICU, unable to breathe without coughing, in constant pain from the damage COVID-19 was doing her body.
And none of this had to happen.
So far, rumors of contagion-parties (similar to dangerous pox and measles parties) have been just that – rumors.
But here is a story about a girl who actually died from one of these events, and every article written about her death is just Carsyn’s mother talking about how “patriotic” her daughter was. Interview after interview with Carsyn’s mother — who had as much to do with the girl’s death (if not more) as the virus itself — and not one sentence about the absolutely terrible things she did to her own daughter.
First, the large event at the church, with more than 100 unmasked children.
Then, the inappropriate prescription for an anti-bacterial drug.
Then, refusing to take her daughter to the doctor when she couldn’t breathe, opting instead to put her on Carsyn’s grandfather’s oxygen machine.
Then — and this may very well be the thing that killed her – somehow getting her hands on and forcing her daughter to take a drug so dangerous that clinical trials had to be stopped within weeks of starting.
But why? Why would someone be so reckless with their own child’s life?
Carole keeps a public facebook profile that is filled with conspiracy theories about underground governmental networks and mind-control. She’s a devout follower of the alt-right terrorist and conspiracy group QAnon, and frequently reposts stories from other alt-right websites like The Federalist.
She’s an anti-vaxxer, too.
Not even two months before her daughter died, she posted this on Facebook:
Her mom has managed to raise about $25,000 through various fundraisers, having set a $55,000 goal to cover expenses for her “Celebration of Life” for which a date has yet to be set.
I am so saddened for this girl and the loss of life.
I am so angered by the danger of anti-science conspiracy theories and the people those altered-mindsets put in harm’s way.
Every death on this website is heartbreaking. Every minute lost in someone’s life is a tragedy.
But this one will stick with me long after this virus has torn through our communities.
Rest in peace, Carsyn.