he said it was better if he didn t, but he always said i wish i could tell you. reporter: this is one of the last text messages isaac sent his mother, october 4th, 2020. a photo of a giant fish he d caught. his family never heard from him again. they would learn later from slchs investigators that he connected with matthew mellow, who d arranged for a couple of boat captains to sail him and his recruits to the south pacific, where covid hadn t taken hold. isaac and another man from rochester, new york, would go in captain mike schmidt s boat, while mellow left days later in another boat. they had a really good time, these two. we caught a lot of fish. awesome. reporter: the trip took a dark turn when, after almost two months at sea, captain schmidt approached the island of wallace, a french territory between hawaii and new zealand. schmidt said when he alerted local authorities about their arrival, isaac and abdul rashad
inflation in the 70s either but it didn t work out well. that s what i mean. we re just talking about the truth of it. we re trying to get to the truth here, john heilemann. i think with the biden administration, they d say in response, and steve would agree with this, at the time, it seemed to be overkill, given the persistence of covid thereafter, given the delta surge, the omicron surge, now maybe another 100 million cases coming this fall, you know, which doesn t take away steve s point about that you can contribute some some percentage of inflation to the bill, but there is another argument. looked like overkill in april of 2021. as we sit heading into the fall of 2022 with successive waves of covid still hitting the country, you could make a policy argument that, you know, it was necessary. covid hadn t come to an end in the spring of last year. it s still rolling out and hitting country now. you can make the argument. as a policy matter, it is not a very strong argume
covid-19 vaccines, but did not live long enough or are too sick to tell their public just how much they regret it. i didn t want to be a guinea pig. he didn t want to be a guinea pig. reporter: amy lee hair is talking about her friend, florida conservative radio show host dic ferrell. he repeatedly told people not to trust the vaccine. why get a vax promoted by people who lied to you, he posted, and, vaccine bogus bull . that was early july. a few weeks later he was in the hospital, dying from covid-19. he told me this pandemic ain t no joke, and he said, you need to get the shot. he told me he wished he had. reporter: the statistics that more than 600,000 americans have died from covid hadn t swayed him or her. why did it take dick ferrell dying from covid for you to say, i m taking it? there s a pandemic of misinformation out there. and i think there s no truer thing ever said.
reporter: the statistics that more than 600,000 americans have died from covid hadn t swayed him or her. why did it take dick farrell dying from covid for you to say, i m taking it? there s a pandemic of misinformation out there and i think no truer thing ever has been said? and didn t dick farrell add to that information? oh, yeah, he he did. reporter: but she s sharing his last words to her that she hopes resonates. there s a bunch of people who said, because of dick, i went and got it. so hopefully he did some good in the end. reporter: two weeks after his death, conservative radio talk show host and skeptic phil valentyn also died of covid-19. before he got sick, he wrote a song mocking the push to get vaccinated. and i don t care if you want green reporter: changing the
the right. do not be vaccinated. you must survive the genocide. reporter: there is a growing number of conservatives who have used their platforms to bad mouth covid-19 vaccines but did not live long enough or are too sick to tell their public just how much they regret it. i didn t want to be a guinea pig. he didn t want to be a guinea pig. reporter: amy lee hare is talking about her friend florida conservative radio show host dig ferrell who repeatedly told people not to trust the vaccine. why get a vax promoted by people who lied to you he posted. and vaccine bogus bull he proclaimed. that was early july. a few weeks later he was in the hospital dying from covid-19. they told me this pandemic ain t no joke and he said you need to get the shot and he told me he wished he had. reporter: the statistics that more than 600,000 americans have died from covid hadn t swayed