Covidiots

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Right-wing anti-vaccine activist Sherri Tenpenny was among the gaggle of conspiracy theorists who graced the stage at the ReAwaken America rally held last weekend at right-wing pastor John Hagee’s Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas. Addressing the crowd on Sunday, Tenpenny declared that requiring non-vaccinated individuals to undergo regular COVID-19 testing is “torture” …

ABC News reports: A 47-year-old Florida teacher hospitalized with COVID-19 has died after her husband sued in an unsuccessful effort to force doctors to treat her with ivermectin. Tamara Drock died Friday, 12 weeks after being admitted to Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center, Ryan Drock told the Palm Beach Post. He sued the hospital last month in an attempt to …

“What I tell people is we have to love our freedom more than we fear a germ. We have to. And I would even remind people that even if this was the deadly disease that they say it is, there’s worse things than death. This may sound cold and people get mad at me for saying it, but we’re lucky …

The New York Times reports: Several dozen New York City workers have been suspended without pay as a part of an investigation into the use of fake vaccine cards at the Department of Sanitation, a city official with knowledge of the investigation said. The Department of Sanitation garnered particular attention for a single-day increase of nine percentage points — taking …

The Independent reports: Tesco is the latest supermarket to release its 2021 Christmas advert – and because of the inclusion of a double-jabbed Santa showing off his Covid vaccine pass, it’s definitely wound up anti-vaxxers. The ad called: “This Christmas, Nothing’s Stopping Us,” shows Brits making the most of this festive season after lockdown restrictions last year meant that loved …

The Seattle Times reports:  State Sen. Doug Ericksen is stranded in El Salvador after testing positive for COVID-19 there, and he has sought help from fellow Republican lawmakers to send him monoclonal antibody treatments. Ericksen told KIRO radio he was “fighting a bad bout” with the virus. A fierce critic of Gov. Jay Inslee’s emergency pandemic orders — including the …

CNN Sports reports: Green Bay Packers star quarterback Aaron Rodgers has been activated off the NFL’s reserve/Covid-19 list, the team confirmed Saturday. Rodgers, who missed the team’s Week 9 game against the Kansas City Chiefs due to Covid-19 protocols, will return after finishing the mandatory 10-day quarantine period required for unvaccinated players who test positive for the virus. He is …

The New York Post reports: He’s no ordinary Joe Blow! Joe Rogan says he’s so flexible he is capable of performing oral sex on himself. The controversial podcaster, 54, made the crude claim during a new episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” declaring: “I could suck my own d–k if I wanted to!” The autoerotic assertion came amid a bizarre …

Mediaite reports: In an excerpt from Jonathan Karl’s upcoming book — Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show — published in Vanity Fair Thursday, the ABC News chief White House correspondent reported that many of the president’s campaign staffers blamed themselves for Herman Cain’s death. “We were all trying to figure out who’s testing positive, because we were all …

NBC News reports: In a TikTok video that has garnered hundreds of thousands of views, Dr. Carrie Madej outlined the ingredients for a bath she said will “detox the vaxx” for people who have given into Covid-19 vaccine mandates. The ingredients in the bath are mostly not harmful, although the supposed benefits attached to them are entirely fictional. Baking soda …

PolitiFact reports: Dennis Prager, a conservative commentator, said in a Nov. 8 interview with Newsmax that it was “inconceivable” that gay men would have been seen as “pariahs” during the AIDS crisis. Prager said, “During the AIDS crisis, can you imagine if gay men and intravenous drug users … had they been pariahs the way the non-vaccinated are? But it …

NBC News reports: Five people were injured, including two California Highway Patrol officers, in a chain-reaction crash Thursday at an anti-vaccination protest in San Francisco, authorities said. The crash occurred shortly before 6 p.m. at the San Francisco entrance to the Golden Gate Bridge, where there was a protest billed as a “nationwide walkout” against government-mandated vaccinations against Covid-19, California …

NBC News reports: Ten passengers have been hit with fines totaling $225,287 due to alleged unruly behavior on flights, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The agency announced the civil penalties in a Wednesday news release, outlining 10 new cases where passengers shoved flight attendants, used expletives, threw fits and refused to comply with the FAA requirement for face masks. …

Minnesota Public Radio reports: In blog posts over the past year, Dr. Christopher Foley wrote on his practice’s website that it was dangerous to wear masks and that the drug ivermectin was a proven treatment against COVID-19 — a drug he prescribed for patients even though the Food and Drug Administration warns against it. He reposted false claims about the …

Publishers Weekly reports: A group of authors and publisher Chelsea Green filed suit against Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren this week, alleging that a letter she sent to Amazon expressing concern over their role in spreading Covid-19 misinformation violates their First Amendment rights. The suit revolves around controversial claims repeated in the book The Truth About COVID-19: Exposing the Great Reset, …

Yahoo Sports reports: The Green Bay Packers are paying the price of allowing Aaron Rodgers and potentially others to openly violate COVID-19 protocols. The NFL fined the Packers $300,000 on Tuesday after reviewing the team’s COVID-19 protocols, according to ESPN’s Rob Demovsky. The league is also reportedly fining Rodgers and wide receiver Allen Lazard $14,560 each. The NFL’s review found …

Mediaite reports: Newsmax White House Correspondent Emerald Robinson is not enjoying a good week. She has recently been benched by the right-wing cable news network, and after a brief suspension, resurfaced on Twitter Tuesday continuing to push nonsense about the Covid-19 vaccines. But Robinson immediately received another suspension by the social media platform again, and now it appears that her …

Yahoo Sports reports: Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers made his second appearance on the “The Pat McAfee Show” in the last five days on Tuesday and said it would be his final stint on the show where he discusses his vaccination status. “I made some comments that people might have felt were misleading,” Rodgers expressed on the show. “I …

Florida Politics reports: Florida’s new Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo did not treat COVID-19 patients at UCLA as he has asserted, charges a report that aired Monday night on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show. The 12-minute segment began with Maddow recapping the controversies surrounding the right-wing “America’s Frontline Doctors” group, of which Ladapo was a member, as well as some …

Los Angeles’s ABC News affiliate reports: Thousands gather outside Los Angeles City Hall Monday to protest the mandate for all city workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 by Dec. 18. The vaccine requirements for city workers are meant to increase vaccination rates and stave off another deadly COVID-19 surge as the virus continues to circulate and the more-transmissible delta variant …