Covidiots

The Hill reports: Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday ripped into the Republican lawmakers threatening a government shutdown over President Biden’s coronavirus vaccine mandate, accusing them of promoting a dual crisis of the economy and public health. “It is yet again, a double sense of irresponsibility: first of all they’d shut down government, and then they’d shut down science,” Pelosi …

Italy’s wire service ANSA reports: The leader of the Treviso branch of Italy’s anti-vax movement has ‘converted’ to believing in COVID science after being hospitalised in the northern city with a nasty bout of the virus, sources said Wednesday. Lorenzo Damiano led protests by anti-vaxxers and COVID deniers in Treviso near Venice against the Green Pass health certificate and stood …

The CBC reports: A North Bay, Ont., mother said there needs to be more protection for families at children’s COVID-19 vaccination clinics, following reported harassment this past weekend. Abby Blaszczyk attended a vaccination clinic on Nov. 28 with her son Nolan, 7, who recently became eligible for a COVID-19 shot. On their way in and out of the appointment, Blaszczyk …

The Huffington Post reports: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) complained about the new coronavirus variant making global headlines by comparing it to what he called the “overhyped” AIDS crisis while appearing on a Fox News host’s podcast Wednesday. Wednesday was World AIDS Day. Without a wisp of tact, Johnson likened the way Dr. Anthony Fauci has issued warnings about the omnicron …

The Detroit Free Press reports: William Hartmann, the Republican member of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers who made national headlines for initially refusing to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election, died Tuesday following a battle with COVID-19. Douglas Reimel, Hartmann’s friend, shared the news on Facebook, and others who knew Hartmann offered their condolences online. Hartmann was …

“We were trying to treat the COVID and pneumonia with the different protocols we use, including the ones we talk about on Daystar. “We used those — I myself used them and had breezed through COVID. His blood sugar spiked and he needed oxygen. “He 100 percent believed in everything we talk about here on Daystar, things that help so …

Posted this afternoon to Franklin Graham’s Facebook page: I was shocked to learn today that Marcus Lamb passed away early this morning from complications due to COVID-19. Marcus was the founder of Daystar Television Network, located outside of Dallas. He will be greatly missed. My prayers are with his wife Joni and their children. For all those who put their …

Religion News Service reports: In recent weeks, friends and supporters had been praying for his recovery from COVID, seeing it as a spiritual attack because of his advocacy against vaccines and push for alternate treatments. “There’s no doubt in my mind that this is a spiritual attack from the enemy,” Lamb’s son, Jonathan, said about his father’s COVID-19 illness on …

First, a reminder from earlier this month: Daystar Television Network, one of the largest Christian television networks in the world and The American Family Association, a nonprofit Christian organization, said in a lawsuit today that a federal vaccine mandate forcing large companies to require their employees to get the COVID-19 vaccinated is a “sin against God’s Holy Word.” AFA and …

Deutsche Welle reports: German police had to close down an unauthorized event billing itself as a vaccination center on Saturday after a doctor began administering COVID-19 vaccine shots he had invented himself, German media reported. The jab, which was developed without any official recognition, was being administered as a vaccination drive at Lübeck airport in the north of Germany. Police …

TVN24 GO reports: One of Austria’s most famous opponents of coronavirus vaccines, Johann Biacsics, has died from COVID-19, local media reports. His condition worsened from October, and he was hospitalized in early November. Despite his breathing difficulties and critical condition, he refused conventional treatment. As the family wrote on the website, Biacsics had been ill since October, and his condition …

“If you haven’t checked in on Tony Fauci lately, you may be a little surprised to discover what he’s become. If you tune in a couple years ago you may recall Fauci as a conventional public health official. “He wore button-down shirts, he gave careful, precise answers that suggested deep medical knowledge. No more. “After two years of being nonstop …

Mediaite reports: Fox Nation host Lara Logan went there during an appearance on Fox News’s Prime Time on Monday night and compared Dr. Anthony Fauci to Nazi doctor Josef Mengele. Or at least, that’s what people are telling her, so she says. “What you see on Dr. Fauci – this is what people say to me: that he doesn’t represent …

Media Matters has the transcript: The virus is mutating because that’s what viruses do, especially when it’s trying to sneak around a vaccine. It gets smarter. But usually when they become more transmissible, the viruses also become less deadly. But only time will tell here. Whatever happens with Omicron, this I know. The same control freaks hate the fact that …

The New Jersey Globe reports: Assembly Republicans are planning to challenge a new rule that would ban lawmakers from entering the statehouse if they can’t provide proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test at their next session on December 2. In a virtual meeting on Wednesday, GOP legislators agreed that if some of their colleagues are blocked from entering …

Uproxx reports: The day after Fox & Friends hosts suggested that Joe Biden is making up new strains to stop from doing his job (or something), South Carolina representative Nancy Mace went on the network to say something even more dangerous: maybe catching a deadly and highly transmissible disease is better than getting a safe, effective, and free vaccine. “One …

Ireland’s Independent reports: Gardaí are recommending criminal charges be brought against anti-vax extremist Antonio Mureddu in connection with Covid patient Joe McCarron’s departure from hospital in Donegal while gravely ill. The 67-year-old Covid patient returned to hospital two days later, but subsequently died. In a video [below] that later went viral, Italian anti-vaccination extremist Mr Mureddu is seen encouraging the …

The Daily Mail reports: An anti-vax nurse will face trial next month for organising three anti-lockdown rallies at the height of the pandemic. Kay Shemirani, also known as Kate Shemirani, 56, is said to have led demonstrations in Trafalgar Square on August 29 and September 19 last year, and Whitehall on September 5. Shemirani, who lost her nursing license, has …

Florida Politics reports: In a nod to the ongoing tug-of-war over the COVID-19 pandemic, a Republican lawmaker wants to bar state regulators from going after doctors even if they tout medically questionable treatments or cures. Republican Rep. Brad Drake [photo] has filed so-called “free speech” legislation that would require the state or its licensing boards to prove by clear and …

The Hill reports: Almost one-quarter of Texans are unwilling or unlikely to get the COVID-19 vaccine, a new poll from The Dallas Morning News and the University of Texas at Tyler found. The poll found 5 percent are unlikely and 18 percent unwilling to get the coronavirus vaccine as vaccine mandates are becoming more popular in the country. The percentage …