Covidiots

ESPN reports: Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers has tested positive for COVID-19 and will not play against the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday, a source confirmed to ESPN. The NFL has considered Rodgers as unvaccinated since the start of the season. Under league protocol, if Rodgers tests positive and is unvaccinated, he must quarantine for a minimum of 10 …

The Times Of San Diego reports: The county Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 Tuesday to keep a vaccine mandate for new employees in place, following a lengthy and occasionally explicative-laced public hearing. In August, the county adopted a policy requiring existing employees to either be fully vaccinated or take weekly COVID-19 tests. The mandate for vaccines applies to new county …

USA Today reports: A Southwest Airlines pilot was cited for alleged assault and battery after a mask dispute with a flight attendant at a California hotel amid pandemic political discord at the nation’s largest domestic carrier. The incident happened Oct. 18 at a hotel bar in San Jose, California, where the crew spent the night after a flight, according to …

The New York Daily News reports: The number of unvaccinated NYPD cops sent home without pay due to COVID mandates has doubled, Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said Tuesday. By Tuesday morning 89 cops had been shown the door for not receiving the coronavirus vaccine, Shea told on NY1. The number was up from 34 the day before, although Shea does …

San Francisco’s NBC News affiliate reports: Indoor dining will not be offered at In-N-Out restaurants in Contra Costa County due to the county’s vaccine mandate. On Thursday, the county confirmed that restaurants will only be doing takeout and drive-thru, which do not require vaccine verification. Pleasant Hill’s permit was the only one suspended by the health department, but In-N-Out told …

“I am being escorted out of Kaiser Permanente hospital for my religious beliefs because I don’t want to get the jab. “And I asked all day for someone to explain to me why my sincerely held religious beliefs are not good enough for Kaiser. “And no one was able to do that for me. So now they’re escorting me out …

“I’m just wondering if we’re attending a clown show. This is ridiculous. You know how ridiculous you guys look with all these masks on? Satanic, OK? “You know, Satan’s agenda is behind all of this. And I want to address what is actually behind this agenda. The fear-mongering. Masks don’t work and neither does vaccines. It’s destroying and it’s killing. …

The Daily Mail reports: A New York realtor was fired a day after he posted video of himself chasing young children down the street as they left school and telling them they had been abused because they were being forced to wear masks by teachers and parents. Curtis Goldstein, who also goes by the name Curtis Orwell, worked for R …

“I’m a cloning expert with 35 years experience. And I was a consultant to the CDC. I’ve owned a pharmacy. I wanna tell you that this vaccine, this COVID vaccine is a deadly poison. That’s it. I’m just gonna tell you that. “Everybody that takes it is damaging their immune system and they’re talking about this being given to children …

Blog Toronto reports: Anti-vaccine dude-bro Chris “Sky” Saccoccia is apparently still pissed off about everything, and is riling up his legions of bumper-stickered minions to bring their unmasked, unvaccinated face holes to a public transit line near you. Gross. But you want to know what’s even more outrageously disgusting? He’s calling his quest to make your Oct. 30 commute a …

Blog Toronto reports: Self-described Jesus lover, police wife and former Lingerie Football League player Krista Ford Haynes apparently refuses to give up her anti-vax/anti-mask stance or, more importantly, to stop preaching about it on social media despite her father’s position and sentiments on the highly politicized issue. The 30-year-old has many times now posted anti-vax rhetoric to her private Instagram, …

West Palm Beach’s CBS News affiliate reports: Boca Raton State Senator Tina Polsky says she’s receiving death threats and says it’s “absurd” that Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo isn’t able to communicate clearly while wearing a mask. On Wednesday, the public spat between Polsky and Ladapo took a new turn, one day after Polsky called the surgeon general nominee “unprofessional,” …

First, a reminder from Alaska Landmine: Mayor Dave Bronson and members of his administration encouraged their supporters who were opposed to the mask mandate. Four people were arrested on Wednesday, including a man who did not disclose he had a concealed handgun until after he was in handcuffs. Paul Kendall, long known as a gadfly at public meetings, called Assembly …

Los Angeles’s CBS News affiliate reports: An American Airlines flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on its way to John Wayne Airport diverted to Denver International after a passenger assaulted a female flight attendant over what witnesses said was a dispute about wearing a mask. Mackenzie Rose, another passenger on the flight, told CBSLA that the …

The Daily Beast reports: A U.K.-based New Age spiritualist who refers to coronavirus vaccines as poisoned “apple pie” and “apple juice” has been hospitalized with COVID-19. Magenta Pixie, who claims she is the host to a divine intelligence known as The White Winged Collective Consciousness of Nine, has 137,000 YouTube followers and 22,000 subscribers on Telegram. Pixie had been vocal …

Portland, Oregon’s CBS News affiliate reports: Protesters against student vaccine mandates, along with anti-maskers, forced a Portland Public School Board meeting to take place virtually, as the board was set to discuss a possible COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students 12-and-older. The meeting drew a crowd of at least 100 parents and students when the Board Chair decided to move it …

Mediaite reports: After recovering from his bout with Covid-19, Neil Cavuto returned to Fox by looking at the comments left by viewers, some of whom … didn’t exactly offer the warmest of well wishes. Cavuto brought in his production assistant, Mike Lotito, and he asked if the viewers missed him. The kindest reply Lotito could offer: “They missed you, many …

Media Matters has the transcript: TOMI LAHREN: We’ve got Americans, law-abiding Americans, decent hard-working Americans, who have been going to work for two years during a pandemic, dealing with health risks, safety risks and doing it because they needed to do their job to put food on table for their families. Those decent, law-abiding, hardworking Americans, are now being treated …

Canada’s Global News reports: Former Saskatoon PPC candidate and well-known critic of COVID-19 restrictions Mark Friesen is in a Toronto hospital with COVID-19, one of his supporters said in a video. The video is titled “How Long Will Canada Remain Docile?” and was posted on Rumble. “Many of you are following what is happening with Mark Friesen. I love this …

The BBC reports: Councils should be able to stop anti-vaccination protesters from demonstrating outside schools by using exclusion orders, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said. Sir Keir said it was “sickening” that protesters were spreading “dangerous misinformation” to children. He urged the government to “urgently” update the law so exclusion zones can be rapidly set up around school gates. …