Covidiots

Cornwall Live reports: An anti-vaxxer has admitted sending bomb hoaxes to a school and a health centre, and criminal damage to a vaccine clinic so bad that it had to close. Rodney Stuart Peasley, of Scorrier, appeared at Truro Magistrates’ Court charged with four counts of criminal damage to Mount Hawke Medical Practice’s vaccine clinic and three of sending false …

Yahoo News reports: Ryanair removed a man who breached airport security and boarded a flight from London to Dublin on December 15 and yelled anti-vaccine theories at passengers. Footage by passenger Lorna Spaine shows the man ranting from the aisle of the plane as people waited to depart Stansted Airport. In the video the man is heard calling the coronavirus …

Playbook reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is one of the most prominent anti-vaxxers in the country. So it came as a surprise when an invitation to a holiday party at his home in California last week urged attendees to be tested or vaccinated beforehand, two people familiar with the matter told Daniel Lippman. When we called up Kennedy for comment, …

Miami’s NBC News affiliate reports: A Cape Coral man is banned from flying on United Airlines after failing to comply with the federal mask mandate. Adam Jenne wore a red thong as a mask. He was heading to D.C. from the Fort Lauderdale Airport but got kicked off before the flight could take off. “I think the best way to …

The Queens Eagle reports: Half a dozen anti-vaccine protesters were cuffed for staging a “sit in” inside the Cheesecake Factory in Queens Center Mall earlier this week. Six people, two of whom are from Queens, were arrested on Tuesday, Dec. 14, after they blew past the restaurant’s host stand, refused to show proof of vaccination and sat themselves down at …

Court News Ohio reports: The Ohio Supreme Court today rejected a group’s challenge to Gov. Mike DeWine’s “Vax-a-Million” lottery and his pandemic orders, finding the organization failed to meet the requirements to sue in the Supreme Court. A Supreme Court majority ruled Ohio Stands Up! lacked standing to request that the Court prohibit last spring’s series of $1 million giveaways …

The Tallahassee Democrat reports: The Florida Department of Health rejected a complaint alleging that Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo violated state medical laws by publicly casting doubts about the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines and promoting unproven treatments against the disease. “We have determined from our review that we can take no further action because the healthcare provider has not violated any …

Variety reports: “General Hospital” star Ingo Rademacher sued ABC on Monday, arguing that the company’s COVID vaccine mandate is unconstitutional and amounts to religious discrimination. Rademacher, who played Jasper “Jax” Jacks on the soap for nearly 25 years, was fired last month after refusing to get vaccinated. According to his lawsuit, Rademacher sought a religious exemption from the mandate, which …

The York Dispatch reports: A local man whose wife won a court order to treat his COVID-19 infection with ivermectin has died. Keith Smith died Sunday night, his wife Darla told The York Dispatch. Smith had been at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center since about Nov. 19, receiving treatment for COVID-19. As his health declined, Darla Smith fought a legal …

The Washington Post reports: AmazonSmile, a charitable-giving arm that donates a half percent of every purchase from its online store to the nonprofit of a shopper’s choice, gave more than $42,000 to a dozen anti-vaccine nonprofits last year, according a Washington Post analysis of its tax returns. We respect that our customers have a wide variety of viewpoints on this …

Stars & Stripes reports: Cmdr. Lucian Kins was relieved of his duties Friday as second in command of the USS Winston Churchill, a destroyer, by Navy Capt. Ken Anderson, commander of Naval Surface Squadron 14. Officials said Kins was the first naval officer to be fired as a result of a vaccine refusal. A spokesman for the Naval Surface Force …

The Associated Press reports: No information has been made available for weeks about the location or condition of Republican state Sen. Doug Ericksen of Ferndale, since he was reportedly in a Florida hospital being treated for COVID-19. Ericksen wrote to legislative colleagues in November saying he tested positive for COVID-19 in El Salvador and needed monoclonal antibodies. He arranged a …

The Washington Post reports: A slim majority of American adults support religious exemptions to coronavirus vaccine mandates, but most also say that too many people are using their faith as an excuse to avoid immunization, a new survey found. The poll by the Public Religion Research Institute and the Interfaith Youth Core found that 51 percent of adults favor letting …

San Diego’s Fox News affiliate reports: Donning a red and white Santa cap, the woman, who identified herself as “Bridgette,” stepped to the mic during Tuesday’s public comments portion of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors meeting. Her “All I Want For Christmas Is You” variation has a little bit of everything. It namechecks the antiparasitic drug Ivermectin and …

The New York Daily News reports: What a maskhole! A cantankerous customer coldcocked the 68-year-old owner of a Manhattan Army surplus store in a caught-on-camera attack after he was asked to wear a mask inside the store, police said Wednesday. The store owner suffered a bloody bruise and was taken to Lenox Hill Healthplex. The ruffian is a white man …

The Associated Press reports: Nearly 500 Los Angeles Unified School District employees were fired this week for refusing to comply with a mandate that they get vaccinated against COVID-19, while some 34,000 students have not yet been vaccinated as required. The school board voted 7-0 in separate motions on Tuesday to terminate 496 employees, who make up less than 1% …

The Washington Post reports: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) recommended mouthwash as a treatment for the coronavirus during a town hall meeting Wednesday, immediately drawing criticism for suggesting gargling would offer protection. The senator has been criticized for spreading conspiracy theories about the coronavirus and has promoted the use of drugs that have shown little to no evidence that they are …

Media Matters has the transcript: TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): So somebody who knows him told me, and I’d be interested in getting your take on this, that getting COVID emasculated him, it changed him, it feminized him, it weakened him as a man. Do you think that’s — NIGEL FARAGE (GUEST): Well I think he was very seriously ill. CARLSON: Oh, …

Chicago’s NBC News affiliate reports: An Illinois Democratic lawmaker has introduced legislation that would require individuals who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 to pay for their own medical expenses, including hospital bills, if they contract the virus. State Rep. Jonathon Carroll filed HB 4259 on Monday in Springfield. The legislation would impact those residents who choose not to receive …

The Tennessean reports: Tennessee’s medical licensing board voted Tuesday to delete a policy opposing coronavirus misinformation from its website due to fears a powerful conservative lawmaker would otherwise dissolve the board and replace its members. The deletion was spurred by Rep. John Ragan, R-Oak Ridge, a co-chair of the Joint Government Operations Committee, who insisted board members don’t have the …