Edgar Ramirez has been on my radar for years because he’s so attractive. Like, insanely hot. He was born and raised in Venezuela and he’s worked mostly in American television and films for years now, playing a wide variety of characters with a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds. I think he lives full-time in America, but most of his family still lives back in Venezuela. South American countries were hit hard by the pandemic last year, and the Delta variant is racing through South America still. Throughout it all, many South American countries don’t have much access to any of the Covid vaccines. Well, Edgar has just shared a heart-wrenching story about how his beloved aunt and uncle just passed away from Covid within a few days of each other.
The “Jungle Cruise” actor shared that both his aunt and uncle died after contracting the virus following the death of his grandmother, who also passed away from COVID-19.
“Unfortunately the miracle didn’t happen. After a gruesome agony my aunt Lucy died on Saturday. And after being stabilized for a few days and in only a matter of hours, my uncle Guillermo collapsed and died on Sunday,” Ramirez shared on Instagram on Wednesday. “In less than 24 hours, COVID had taken both of their lives. We had not yet collected my aunt’s ashes when we were due to incinerate my uncle’s body.”
Ramirez, 44, said that the heartbreaking news comes after his other aunt’s brother-in-law, his grandmother, and his agent all died from COVID within the past few months.
“My heart can’t just take more pain. I am sad, I am frustrated, I am devastated,” he wrote. “It’s been weeks and weeks of my family being played, tortured and jerked around by this cruel, treacherous and violent disease which mercilessly ended up killing them all. I can’t stand this void in my chest, this metallic taste in my mouth, this crippling headache that doesn’t seem to sooth. These waves of hopelessness that I refuse to let take root in my soul.”
He said all of the people he lost had not been vaccinated because they had no access to the shot in Venezuela. “Meanwhile, tens of thousands of vaccines are being thrown away in the United States because a large number of people don’t want them,” he wrote. “It breaks my heart that so many people in this country are willing to snub the very vaccine my family would have taken in an instant.”
He urged those who had access to the vaccine to get vaccinated immediately. “Don’t do it for yourself. Do it to protect those who are vulnerable, those with immune deficiencies, and all others who can get very sick if infected,” he wrote.
I’m including his Instagram below so you can read the whole thing. He’s not wrong about how thousands of vaccine doses are being tossed because Americans refuse to take them. We’re almost in September, there have been widespread vaccination programs in every state since March, and this country only has 51.1% of the population fully vaxxed. In Venezuela, only about 8.2% of the population is vaccinated. Because they don’t have the vaccines, nor does the country have the infrastructure to administer a fast and widespread vaccination program.
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That’s really sad. I think it’s grotesque that there are countries that are talking about booster vaccinations for people so they can go out and socialise (and I live in one) before people in many other counties have even had the chance of getting their very first vaccination.
@ Jane, it’s truly disgusting that so many Americans are actively turning their backs on a vaccine that could save so many lives, while so many countries around the world are BEGGING for vaccines. The fact that many of these countries around the world may not have access to vaccines until 2022, but we refuse to do OUR part to help eliminate coronavirus.
Thousands of people are dying everyday as they lose so many members of their families, from multiple generations from the coronavirus, but we too selfish, ignorant, and stupid to do OUR part.
We are throwing away valuable vaccinations and the chance of using these doses to send to other countries because we can’t see past our OWN selfishness, but f#ck everyone else, right ????
I’m currently working in Saudi Arabia and was told by an American here that the US State Department was warning people not to go to Saudi because of covid here. It’s ironic because I wasn’t allowed to even board a plane for Saudi until I showed proof of being fully vaccinated AND having a negative covid test. And you can’t get into a store or office here without a temperature check and showing the national app that confirms you’re vaccinated. And the US throws away vaccine because people won’t take them. I don’t know how to make sense of that.
I bet a decent number of Republicans could be convinced to get vaccinated through reverse psychology with stories like this. After all, for so many of them, their entire self-worth revolves around “owning the libs”. Just tell them that it would really stick it to those pinko bastards in Venezuela to see a fully vaccinated America. I think they’re stupid, petty, selfish, and xenophobic enough to fall for it.
I live in an extremely red part of Virginia, and only 36% of my county is vaccinated. The stupidity and selfishness here are overwhelming. And the two state health systems nearby aren’t mandating vaccinations for their employees. It’s just insane.
My mom almost died from Covid last year (she caught it at work), so I have absolutely no patience for anyone who refuses to get vaccinated because of their “freedoms.”
Mexico has been getting America leftovers vaccines and Mexicans are rushing to get their shot. In Mexico in some areas people in their twenties were about to start a riot demanding their vaccine after camping outside the vaccination centers and being denied the shot. In the meantime vaccines in America are being destroyed/discarded because they have reached their expiration date. That is really infuriating and heartbreaking at the same time. Those vaccines could have saved someone’s life in another country.
Btw, Edgar Ramirez is really a gorgeous man.
Not to discount the important conversations being had about vaxxing, but I find him so SMOLDERINGLY attractive it’s insane. He was in that Jen Garner/kids movie “yes day,” and honestly, it’s the first time I’ve found an onscreen dad smoking hot.
@susan he is hotter in person. I met him before as he is a ver good friend of a friend. He was kind, smart and fun.
I hope we can help not just Venezuela but many other Latin American countries.
I can’t understand why people refuse to vaccinate… it’s safe and the best thing to keep ourselves, our loved ones and everyone safe. I have been fully vaccinated and thankfully the only side effect was tiredness , headache and soreness at injection point. Better than to end up dead or in a ventilator.
Keep safe everyone !
Felt so sad for him and his family after reading his post. It is absolutely ridiculous that we have so many vaccines going unused when there are people in other countries who want and need it and don’t have access to it. We need to do even more than we are doing. But I’m not sure Venezuela would accept any from us considering our fraught relationship.
Edgar is a gorgeous man.
I waited to get vaccinated. I have a chronic form of leukemia and with the advice of my oncologist, waited until we knew this was a safe option for me. Once we knew everything was good, I got it. I want to live and want the people around me to be safe. I say that to point out that not everyone who isn’t vaccinated is the devil. There are some who have legitimate concerns.
For everyone else, you are just selfish. I think this country has lost touch with reality. While I do believe health care should be a basic right, I’m also aware enough to know it’s a privilege that most of this world will never be able to afford. While people here are “choosing to take a stand” or “rebelling” against our awful government, other countries are watching bodies pile up because they can’t afford basic healthcare, let alone a vaccine. I’m sorry to go on a rant but it just really makes me sick. I believe you have freedom but your freedom doesn’t trump someone else’s right to live.
I had to travel to the US to get my vaccine. I spent a lot of money I thakfully have, just to get a shot. Thankfully my family are fully vaccinated, although with the russian and chinese vaccines, because our government went with ideology and not common sense. Pfizer was ready to send us 15 million doses but they refused the deal back in JULY 2020. Over 100.000 argentines have died of COVID, while many more have died to COVID related issues.
My brother just graduated from med school and he’s one dose short from being fully vaccinated yet he’s already working in the front lines. Many people have had their 2nd dose 3 to 4 months after the 1st one, so who knows how effective it is?
We keep thinking like individuals when this is a global problem. The whole world has to be fully vaccinated if we hope to see this end.
I am from Costa Rica, and I am really grateful for the support the USA has given to my country. In May, I traveled to Miami to be vaccinated as soon as you open the process to everybody (several friends and colleagues also traveled). Not all of my fellow citizens have the money or access to do that, so the USA government donated millions of vaccines for Costa Rican and all Central American countries . So, I just would like to say: Thank you, thank you, thank you. 🤗
Hola fellow tica! I am actually due for my second dose on monday through the CCSS and I am so excited. My mom has been fully vaccinated for a while. I am also really grateful to our health system as well
It is true what he said, and what is worse is not only the difficult access to vaccines but the government rejected earlier this year the Astra Zeneca that the Covax mechanism offered and have proven to be good; they have politicized everything being them and their allies the first to receive vaccines: yes, there is no vaccination plan and the first to be vaccinated were the members of the government and their family.
There are only two available: Sinophram and Sputnik (no second dose available) and they are insufficient for the population. Due to strained relations, access to vaccines produced in the U.S. has been denied, although they have been donated to allied countries in the region. As long as the world population is not vaccinated, variants will continue to appear which will make it impossible for the virus to disappear and will affect everyone.
Many people in the country (many from vulnerable groups like the elderly, and in small cities) are waiting for an appointment to get vaccinated and those who received the Sptunik vaccine cannot complete the process due to the lack of second doses. Add to this an almost non-existent public health system and an inaccessible private one and you will understand the problem.
Edgar, is not only a handsome man and good actor (don’t miss “Carlos” by Assayas) he is also a very intelligent man with a big heart.
If we have shots that are reaching their expiration date in the next few weeks, it should be a no-brainer to ship it to a country in need before the date runs out. How disgusting to just throw away vaccines when so many people desperately need them.
I know someone who is a nurse in North Dakota who has spoken about having to throw out hundreds to thousands of vials of vaccine because they were expired. We definitely need to share this vaccine with the rest of the world! It will slow down further variants as well.
Venezuelan here! I literally got vaccinated yesterday. There IS a vaccination plan. The main issue is that there are not enough vaccines. Believe it or not, the government is trying.
Our government is corrupt, no doubt. Corruption is the main political evil of all Latin America. But let’s not wash US and their allies’ hands off this. The least the US could do is sent us Pfeizer or Moderna vaccines, instead of letting them perish because their population is afraid of microchips and Chinese mind control thru 5G towers.
Honestly, celebitchy is supposedly liberal, but I see the same lies that US Republicans spread about Venezuela and other US “enemies” all the time. Don’t believe everything you read. I’m disappointed by some comment sections here.