High school teacher. TLDR a coworker recently lost her husband. He was in his early 50s and had an "extremely aggressive cancer". Months within diagnosis, he was dead.
Caught her completely off guard, etc etc etc, nothing to do, "ultra-fast spreading cancer," "he was in perfect health before," etc etc etc.
So anyway, funeral has just concluded last week-end, and she's telling her sob stories in the teacher lounge.
I turn around and ask:
"Did he get vaccinated against Covid?"
She replies right away: "Yes, he had all his doses, plus the boosters..."
Then... I smirk. Not smile, just a tiny, tiny smile on the bottom of my right lip. In my mind, I thought "mystery solved."
So anyway, she... I don't know, she completely flips out, starts screaming, "why are you asking me this, what is your problem" typical pre-menopause hysteria, etc.
Well apparently she filed a complaint with HR against me, and now I have to meet HR to discuss "something." Union rep will be with me LOL okay.
Did I really go too far? I mean, I just asked ONE question...
This situation remains of the sudden death of YouTuber "Camping With Steve" Wallis when his "Beautiful Wife" Jess in her 30s IIRC died in her sleep a few years back. She was a (?music?) teacher as well I believe.
This was in the midst of a lot of other "died suddenly" high profile cases during the vax booster push.
Wallis was understandably devastated, but also remained deeply in denial. He lived in Alberta, Canada and had bought a rural bank repo'd cabin that he was renovating with her. He was known for his urban stealth camping vids, doing overnight stays in Western Canada in drain pipes, behind town Welcome signs, in the woods behind big box stores, etc.
Steve stopped posting for months after the sudden death. It led to some speculation over her jab status as well. There were even a few small heterodox YouTubers suggesting that it could be the jab or even foul play that he had killed his wife.
Wallis eventually returned, but was a changed man. He was weepy & weak. He openly called out the haters & wrongthinkers speculating at the cause of his wife's tragic death. He kept sporadically posting half-hearted vids for years, but never to my knowledge ever addressed the cause. He eventually started dating a woman/fan from the US last I checked.
His community on YT & Reddit were ferocious in sweeping up any questions or speculation related to her death. They mass reported any other small YTubers who made vids about the topic. IIRC, Wallis himself also somehow got a Swedisn YouTuber served with a cease & desist to stop producing any content about the matter.