Covidiots

Newsweek reports: A doctor in Oregon has had his license revoked for continually refusing to follow COVID-19 guidelines when dealing with patients and spreading misinformation about face masks. The Oregon Medical Board issued a final order against Steven Arthur LaTulippe for “dishonorable or unprofessional conduct; repeated negligence in the practice of medicine; and gross negligence in the practice of medicine.” …

The New York Daily News reports: Three Texas women beat up a hostess at an Upper West Side restaurant after she questioned the legitimacy of their COVID-19 vaccination cards, police said Friday. The violence broke out around 4:50 p.m. Thursday when the trio asked to be seated inside Carmine’s on Broadway near W. 91st St. The hostess believed their vaccine …

Mediaite reports: Appearing on Gutfeld! Thursday, the former Alaska governor argued that she is making the scientifically sound decision by rejecting the inoculation received by, as of June, more than 96 percent of U.S. doctors. “I believe in the science and I have not taken the shot,” Palin said. The 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate invoked Dr. Anthony Fauci as …

The BBC reports: The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, says he will address the United Nations General Assembly in New York next week, despite not having been vaccinated. The New York mayor’s office said all those attending will have to show proof of vaccination to enter the debate hall because it is classified as a convention centre. UN Secretary General …

Ars Technica reports: A hospital system in Arkansas is making it a bit more difficult for staff to receive a religious exemption from its COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The hospital is now requiring staff to also swear off extremely common medicines, such as Tylenol, Tums, and even Preparation H, to get the exemption.Conway Regional Health System noted an unusual uptick in …

The Arizona Republic reports: Arizona’s largest health system is warning the public against using the antiparasitic drug ivermectin to treat or prevent COVID-19. Misuse of ivermectin has led to 30 calls managed by Banner Health’s Poison and Drug Information Center this year, including 10 cases in August, according to data from the Phoenix-based nonprofit health system. At least seven cases …

Louisville’s NBC News affiliate reports: A woman’s emergency order request for a Louisville hospital to treat her husband, who is suffering from COVID, with ivermectin, has been denied by a judge. Angela Underwood said in a lawsuit that Norton Brownsboro refused to give the treatment to her husband, Lonnie, without a court order and supervision by a doctor who has …

The Associated Press reports: Idaho public health leaders on Thursday expanded health care rationing statewide amid a massive increase in the number of coronavirus patients requiring hospitalization. The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare made the announcement after St. Luke’s Health System, Idaho’s largest hospital network, on Wednesday asked state health leaders to allow “crisis standards of care” because the …

Forbes reports: On Tuesday, a Florida county Republican committee that had opposed measures to prevent Covid-19 informed the Federal Election Commission that the group may not be able to submit a filing because its bookkeeper died from the virus. “For several years we have been submitting the reports electronically, and for over a year we have done this with software …

The Daily Beast reports: One Nicki Minaj tweet after another is being debunked this week. The pop star said Wednesday that she had been invited to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to discuss her recent tweets about coronavirus vaccines, but the White House responded that it had just offered her a phone call. After she said she had been locked out of …

Vice News reports: The term “pureblood” doesn’t exactly have the best connotations. But now unvaccinated people on TikTok are, er, trying to reclaim the term as a way to tout their “superiority” over their jabbed fellow citizens. The phrase was popularized by J.K. Rowling’s villain Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter series as a way to distinguish between those with …

The Huffington Post reports: Tucker Carlson wants the supposedly swollen-testicled friend of Nicki Minaj’s cousin to come on his show. The Fox News personality on Tuesday issued an on-air plea to talk to the man in Trinidad who the unvaccinated hip hop star this week claimed, in a hotly-contested viral tweet, had suffered enlarged genitals and become impotent after receiving …

Politico Europe reports: The British prime minister and his chief medical officer probably didn’t expect to be discussing the alleged testicular misfortune of the rapper Nicki Minaj’s cousin’s friend during a Downing Street news conference. But that’s exactly what happened. Top doc Chris Whitty used his public platform to criticize Minaj for implying in a tweet that COVID vaccines could …

A quote to remind you who Greg Locke is: When y’all going to get the memo that I didn’t get it wrong? Trump ain’t never went nowhere, he ain’t back, he’s always been around. He is the legitimate president of the United States of America. I don’t care if you stand up and clap or not. I’m telling you, Donald …

ABC News reports: A federal judge temporarily blocked the state of New York on Tuesday from forcing medical workers to be vaccinated after a group of health care workers sued, saying their Constitutional rights were violated because the state’s mandate disallowed religious exemptions. Judge David Hurd in Utica issued the order after 17 health professionals, including doctors and nurses, claimed …

The New York Times reports: New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to extend a $500,000 death benefit to its employees who die of Covid-related causes through the end of 2021, a senior authority official said Monday. But the benefit will remain unavailable to those who decline to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. The authority, which runs New York City’s subways, …

Mediaite reports: Tucker Carlson took a moment during his Monday night show to tout Nicki Minaj’s comments about the covid-19 vaccines. Carlson started off by remarking, “So Nicki Minaj is a huge rap artist. Not sure there’s much overlap between her audience and this one, but our producers assure us she’s one of the biggest in the world.” He then …

The Jerusalem Post reports: Hai Shaulian, a well-known activist against coronavirus vaccines, died on Monday morning at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon due to the coronavirus. Shaulian called on his followers on social media not to get vaccinated against the virus under the headline: “There is no epidemic – the vaccine is unnecessary and dangerous.” Shaulian uploaded a video to …

From my post earlier this month: Denver Bible Church pastor Bob Enyart, a longtime Denver media personality who remains an active podcaster, made headlines last October when a lawsuit he filed prompted a U.S. District Court judge appointed by President Donald Trump to grant a temporary restraining order against the Colorado public-health order regarding COVID-19 and mask use at religious …

The Tampa Bay Times reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis said Florida will fine local governments $5,000 for each employee who is required to be vaccinated, threatening some cities and counties with millions of dollars in penalties for adopting strict vaccine “mandates.” In Gainesville, more than 200 employees, including police and firefighters, have sued the city. Some of those employees said Monday …