Covidiots

Cincinnati’s NBC News affiliate reports: Jeffrey Smith has died following a lengthy battle with COVID-19. The 51-year-old Fairfield Township man had been in an intensive care unit for months. Smith was diagnosed with COVID-19 on July 9. He was admitted into the hospital six days later and has been on a ventilator for several weeks. Smith’s case made national headlines, …

The Seattle Times reports: As deadlines draw near for tens of thousands of state workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19, some Washington agencies have started sending separation notices to employees who have not shown they are vaccinated. Meanwhile, other large agencies — like the Washington State Patrol, Department of Corrections, and the Department of Social and Health Services — are …

Axios reports: NIAID director Anthony Fauci said Sunday it is a “false narrative” to think that the coronavirus vaccines would become unnecessary if an antiviral drug announced by Merck receives federal approval. Fauci’s remarks on ABC’s “This Week,” come on the heels of the pharmaceutical company’s announcement on Friday that an oral antiviral treatment it is developing might reduce the …

The Indianapolis Star reports: A woman is suing Ascension St. Vincent hospital because doctors are refusing to administer a controversial COVID-19 treatment to her dying mother. Megan Bournique’s mother Kimberly Eliot faces “very little chance of survival” as she struggles with the virus in the hospital’s intensive care unit, according to the lawsuit. Bournique wants doctors there to give her …

“We have to believe in science. We have to follow the data. And the data is clear. Children are not great threats to themselves or anyone else when it comes to COVID. It’s simply backed up by every piece of data that we have. “In fact, we know from VAERS reporting — Vaccine Adverse Effects Reporting — and although it’s …

“This is all such a scam. We could repurpose ivermectin for so cheap. None of this is about public health, it’s about cashing in or paying in favors for Big Pharma.” – Fox News host Lisa Boothe, responding to the news that Merck is seeking authorization for an oral COVID treatment. From a February 2021 statement by Merck, the North …

The Washington Post reports: Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) gave an impassioned speech Friday on how Alaska’s topping the list of growing infection rates for the coronavirus has strained the state in unforeseen ways, and she decried protesters comparing mask mandates to actions by the Nazis. “We have had some just horrible, horrible confrontations in our public meetings in Anchorage,” Murkowski …

The Washington Post reports: As residents filed into the Anchorage Assembly meeting to debate a mask mandate on Wednesday night, a community member stood by the entrance and handed out yellow Stars of David adorned with the phrase “Do not comply.” The stars — references to those imposed on Jews by the Nazis — symbolized the consequences of forcing people …

“They’ve obliterated the sovereignty of this nation. They are implementing an open border policy. They are literally implementing the ideology of the Open Society Foundation, and nobody wants to talk about that. “It’s the big elephant in the room, but they have advisors from that organization who are advising the Biden administration. This is their policy of safe, orderly, legal …

The Anchorage Daily News reports: Opponents of a mask ordinance wore yellow Stars of David and shouted at Anchorage Assembly members, and four people were arrested during a second night of heated public testimony on a proposed mask ordinance for the city. The testimony stretched until midnight and the Assembly did not vote on the ordinance. Many spoke out against …

Media Matters has the transcript: JOE ROGAN (HOST): Do you think [Joe Biden] got a booster? Do you think that was a real booster? MIKE BAKER (FORMER CIA OFFICER): You mentioned that before — before we started talking, and I hadn’t thought about it before. But you know what, when I watched it on TV, when I watched, you know, …

Media Matters has the transcript: MEGAN RAFALSKI (LOUDOUN COUNTY PARENT):  I tried to boil it down to three major points, and really there’s a sign of submission with them, and just for us to go along with everything. It’s depriving the children of oxygen and their brain to be able to develop properly. And kids need to be able to …

From the National School Boards Association: Dear Mr. President: America’s public schools and its education leaders are under an immediate threat. The National School Boards Association (NSBA) respectfully asks for federal law enforcement and other assistance to deal with the growing number of threats of violence and acts of intimidation occurring across the nation. Local school board members want to …

The Daily Beast reports: The MAGA medical group that spent the pandemic pushing horse paste and malaria meds as quack COVID cures has a new crusade: suing the Pentagon to stop its vaccine mandate. The lawsuit, first filed on behalf of Army and Marine Corps staff sergeants, has since enlisted the support of an Army lieutenant colonel and flight surgeon …

Rep. Louie Gohmert writes at American Greatness: Just as we saw with hydroxychloroquine last summer, government alphabet agencies, the medical industrial complex, and their willing accomplices in the media have recently made it clear that there is yet another safe, effective treatment for COVID-19 they wish to torpedo. It’s the latest naughty word which will get you censored on social …

Mediaite reports: Anti-vaccine mandate protesters disrupted an Executive Council meeting in New Hampshire, and officials had to be escorted out over safety concerns. The meeting at Saint Anselm College was going to be voting on contracts to help boost vaccination efforts in the state. According to WMUR, there were hundreds of protesters outside the building, and a number of them …

The Insider reports: Last Saturday, Canadian conspiracy theorist Christopher Saccoccia, also known by the pseudonym Chris Sky, gave out his phone number during the “Just Say No” anti-vax rally at Toronto’s Eaton Centre where he repeatedly compared vaccine passports to slavery. Saccoccia gave out his phone number in an attempt to organize anti-vax protests with “substance,” which he defined as …

The Washington Post reports: YouTube is taking down several video channels associated with high-profile anti-vaccine activists including Joseph Mercola [photo] and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who experts say are partially responsible for helping seed the skepticism that’s contributed to slowing vaccination rates across the country. As part of a new set of policies aimed at cutting down on anti-vaccine content …

The Associated Press reports: Nurses and hundreds of other staff members will soon begin wearing panic buttons at a Missouri hospital where assaults on workers tripled after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Cox Medical Center Branson is using grant money to add buttons to identification badges worn by up to 400 employees who work in the emergency room and …

The Washington Post reports: A North Carolina-based hospital system announced Monday that roughly 175 unvaccinated employees were fired for failing to comply with the organization’s mandatory coronavirus vaccination policy, the latest in a series of health-care dismissals over coronavirus immunization. Novant Health said last week that 375 unvaccinated workers — across 15 hospitals and 800 clinics — had been suspended …