Covidiots

The Daily Beast reports: Organizers tasked with putting on a Jacksonville, Florida conference headlined by COVID-19 truthers Dr. Robert Malone and Dr. Peter McCullough had enough of anti-vaxxer Christopher Key’s shenanigans on Saturday afternoon. So much so that they reported the “Vaccine Police” leader to police as a trespasser, a move which sent him back to jail (again), where he …

The Hollywood Reporter reports: Joe Rogan says his recent controversy has given his Spotify podcast even more horsepower. The podcaster claims the media frenzy over anti-vax conspiracy theorist guests and his past use of the N-word has netted him two million additional subscribers. “It’s interesting, my subscriptions went up massively — that’s what’s crazy. During the height of it all, …

NBC New York reports: Multiple NYC Department of Education employees have been placed on leave as of Monday for allegedly submitting fake vaccination cards — but the teachers union is threatening to sue to get its members back on the payroll. The DOE confirmed the suspensions Friday, saying that fewer than 100 employees had been put on unpaid leave. “Fraudulent …

Vice News reports: A leader of a Japanese QAnon group that believes COVID-19 was made up has been arrested for allegedly trespassing into a clinic offering vaccinations for children in Tokyo. Hiroyuki Kuraoka, a 43-year-old anti-vax activist and former actor, was detained on Wednesday after he entered the facility earlier this month and protested the COVID-19 vaccinations it provided. Kuraoka …

Media Matters has the transcript: BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): If you are unsettled, whatever, you have it or have lingering COVID, wear your own mask. Let us make our own decisions. We are done with this. We are finished. We are through. Stop holding on to it. Better yet, you will pay at the ballot box because the American people are …

Deutsche Welle reports: Investigators in the western German state of Rhineland-Palatinate said on Thursday they had arrested four members of a right-wing extremist chat group that was seeking to bring down Germany’s democracy. Those arrested were German nationals linked to the COVID-denier protest scene and the “Reichsbürger” movement, the investigators said. State prosecutors in Koblenz and the State Criminal Police …

Courthouse News Service reports: A train engineer was sentenced to three years in prison for intentionally derailing a train near a Navy hospital ship in San Pedro, California, because he believed it was part of a government conspiracy to get rid of healthy, open-minded people. Eduardo Moreno, 46, pleaded guilty this past December to having committed a terrorist attack against …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: For weeks, extremist right-wing broadcaster and radical COVID-19 conspiracy theorist Stew Peters has been hyping the release of an “explosive” documentary that he claimed would finally reveal the “truth” behind the COVID-19 pandemic. After some delays, that documentary, called “Watch The Water,” was finally released Monday night. Peters, who regularly hosts far-right activists, …

The Voice Of San Diego reports: Last Saturday, Awaken Church hosted Fox News pundit Tucker Carlson at its San Marcos campus, one of five countywide. Carlson is just the latest right-wing luminary to make the trip. Dennis Prager, Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk have all spoken at the church, and just three weeks ago it hosted a conference that featured …

“I made this choice, and I thought I could keep it to myself, I can keep it private, but people are always gonna wonder why. I was raised in a holistic household where anti-vax is not like a term that was ever used. “It’s a weird term that’s kind of been thrown around just to label people. We grew up …

Nashville’s ABC News affiliate reports: A local lawmaker has co-sponsored a bill that would allow ivermectin to be sold over the counter in Tennessee without a prescription. On Wednesday, the bill co-sponsored by Sen. Rusty Crowe (R-Johnson City) was passed by the state Senate. Senate Bill 2188 was introduced by Sen. Frank Niceley (R-Strawberry Plains) on Jan. 31. Crowe became …

The Kansas Reflector reports: Kansas Sen. Mark Steffen bragged about the attention he received for sending a threatening letter to doctors encouraging the use of ivermectin for early treatment of COVID-19 based on a law the Legislature didn’t pass. In a Facebook post from his personal account, Steffen said he sent the letter — dated March 31 and written on …

The New York Daily News reports: Daniela Jampel has worked for the Law Department since 2016, according to city payroll records and her LinkedIn profile. She has also become a prominent figure in parent-led protests since 2020 to expand access to in-person schooling and relax mask rules for kids. On Monday morning, Jampel got access to Adams press conference by …

Duke University Today reports: Curious about why some people have been so passionately, often angrily, opposed to vaccination against the COVID-19 virus, a team of researchers with access to rare and unusual insights into the childhood forces that shape our adult lives thought they’d try to find out. The Dunedin data showed that 40 years ago in childhood, many of …

The WeHo Times reports: “We got the joy of the Holy Ghost!” chanted a group of Jesus lovers as they made their way up and down Santa Monica Boulevard in the heart of West Hollywood’s LGBT Rainbow District as part of a Jesus March pop-up led by Sean Feucht. The crowd, which also included small children, waved flags bearing Jesus’ …

Deutsche Welle reports: A German man is under investigation after authorities discovered he’d received the coronavirus vaccine at least 87 times. The man is believed to have gotten the jab up to three times a day at different jab sites — logging 87 coronavirus vaccinations in the state of Saxony alone. A staff member at a center in the city …

The Liverpool Echo reports: CCTV images have been released after the door locks of a vaccination centre were sealed to prevent access. A man was reportedly seen filling the locks of a vaccination centre in Ainsdale, which prevented staff from opening the building and delaying appointments. Merseyside Police said officers have been made aware of three other similar incidents at …

Media Matters has the transcript: A new report from the U.K. proves the phony fact about how the majority of COVID deaths are among the unvaccinated is totally false. Now, it may be hard for branch COVID-ian cultists to hear, but according to an official government report from the U.K.’s health security agency, nine out of 10 China virus deaths …

The Insider reports: Elon Musk said Monday he appears to have caught COVID-19 “again.”  He said in November 2020 he’d received a positive COVID-19 test. Before then, he spent months criticizing public health measures aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus, promoting misinformation about COVID-19 such as insisting it wasn’t very deadly, and baselessly casting doubt on the effectiveness …

ABC News reports: Cumulative death data from the C.D.C., from over the last 10 months, illustrates the implications of political polarization of the COVID-19 vaccines. An ABC News analysis of federal data found that on average, the death rates in states that voted for Trump were more than 38% higher than in states that voted for Biden, post widespread vaccine …