Covidiots

The Cincinnati Enquirer reports: Hatred of former President Donald Trump has kept researchers from looking into the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin and other drugs to treat COVID-19, Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul told constituents on Friday. “The hatred for Trump deranged these people so much, that they’re unwilling to objectively study it,” Paul said to the 60 people squeezed into the …

The New York Daily News reports: A Brooklyn preacher’s blessing is a pox upon his flock. The Rev. Kevin McCall is vowing to give COVID inoculation exemptions to members of his church trying to avoid vaccine mandates — and is even offering the letters as an enticement so people will join. McCall told the Daily News on Friday that about …

Religion News Service reports: The spokesman for a major evangelical nonprofit was fired for promoting vaccines on the MSNBC “Morning Joe” cable news show, Religion News Service has learned. Daniel Darling, senior vice president of communications for the National Religious Broadcasters, was fired Friday (Aug. 27) after refusing to recant his pro-vaccine statements, according to a source authorized to speak …

Hartford’s CBS News affiliate reports: A group of parents screaming for the governor to “unmask our children” interrupted a school meeting in Cheshire. Gov. Ned Lamont joined educators and public health officials on Wednesday for a discussion about the new school year. Last week, Lamont announced that there would be mask mandate at schools until Sept. 30 because of the …

Savannah’s CBS News affiliate reports: A longtime member of the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office has died after a short battle with COVID-19, according to Sheriff Chuck Moseley. Capt. Joe Manning died Wednesday at the age of 57, Moseley announced. Manning’s 31-year career with the sheriff’s office began at the Wayne County Jail. In 1990, he started as a detention officer …

“I’m going to tell you what God told me to tell you. They’ve got variants coming that ain’t no vaccine going to work for. This nation is under the judgment of God. “They’re already admitting that the vaccine is alarmingly not working. Alarmingly! They’re alarmed at what they’re seeing. Do you know why? Because America, you’re making a huge mistake. …

NBC News reports: When users visit the telemedicine website SpeakWithAnMD.com, they are immediately hit with a warning: “Due to overwhelming demand, we are experiencing longer than usual wait times.” The demand is for ivermectin. And the website, in partnership with the organization America’s Frontline Doctors, whose founder stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, has become well-known in the Facebook …

Media Matters has the transcript: GRANT STINCHFIELD (HOST): We know that one of the key components to enacting socialism in America is not just gun control, but gun confiscation. I have told you that much of the tyrannical response to the China virus is about the left’s quest to control you. Well, quietly, a plan is now underway to use …

The San Angelo Standard-Times reports: The battle between public health and personal freedom is a familiar one in Tom Green County, of which San Angelo resident Caleb Wallace took an active role. On July 4, 2020, Caleb helped organize “The Freedom Rally.” A flyer for the event called it a peaceful protest by people “sick of the government being in …

“Be very careful about this vaccine. If I were you, I would not touch it with a 10-foot pole. And I never will because it leads to complications. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say what needs to be said. “I need you to pray for me as I take this bold and courageous step. I …

McClatchy News reports: The Texas Poison Center Network has received dozens of calls this month about people exposed to ivermectin, an animal dewormer some are using for COVID-19 treatment. But the drug, which is flying off the shelves in many parts of the United States, is not a suitable treatment and health organizations are warning against its improper use. “Patients …

“I have a problem because I have a show there in Madison Square Garden in October, and I’ve already sold 13,000 tickets. And now they say that everybody has to be vaccinated and I want everybody to know that you can get your money back. “If someone has an ideological or physiological reason for not getting vaccinated, I don’t want …

The Tallahassee Democrat reports: An emergency room physician who charged $50 for opt-out letters to Leon County parents who don’t want their kids to wear masks in school has been removed from Capital Regional Medical Center following a social media outcry for his ouster. As a stricter mask mandate requiring a medical excuse took hold Sunday in Florida’s capital county, …

Miami’s CBS News affiliate reports: A Fort Lauderdale father was arrested in front of Ft Lauderdale High School on Wednesday. For the fifth time since Broward Schools resumed in-person learning, Dan Bauman, 50, walked his daughter, Isabel, to school. Isabel is a 10th grader in her first year at Ft Lauderdale High. She has refused to wear a mask and …

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports: Washington County Sheriff Tim Helder on Tuesday confirmed that the medical provider for the Detention Center has been prescribing ivermectin to detainees to treat them for the covid-19 virus. The question was raised at a meeting of the Quorum Court’s Finance & Budget Committee during a discussion of the proposed 2022 budget for the Detention Center. …

The Associated Press reports: A Pennsylvania woman who pleaded guilty to coughing and spitting on food at a supermarket in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic was sentenced Tuesday to at least a year in jail. Margaret Ann Cirko, 37, pleaded guilty in June to a felony count of making bomb threats. Authorities said Cirko entered a Gerrity’s Supermarket …

Posted to Franklin Graham’s Facebook page: Some good news on the vaccine front Pfizer received full FDA approval for their COVID-19 vaccine. Some people have expressed concern about only having emergency-use approval, so I hope this will relieve those concerns. I’m thankful for the doctors and scientists who have worked diligently to develop a vaccine that can help save lives …

Greenville, South Carolina’s NBC News affiliate reports: Some parents in Greenville County are frustrated and say they want masks mandated. Others say they’re glad it’s an option. The Greenville County School board voted unanimously at a meeting Tuesday to pass a motion allocating 5.5 million dollars in federal funding. The district will allocate $3.3 million for 80 hours of COVID-19-related …

The Detroit Metro Times reports: Paul Marcum, who witnesses say flashed a Nazi salute and chanted “Heil Hitler” at a raucous Birmingham Board of Education meeting last week, has lost his job as a tennis instructor at the Sports Club of West Bloomfield. Police are investigating Marcum after witnesses said he flashed the Nazi salute and repeated “Heil Hitler” Wednesday …

“Why should doctors be any better than lawyers, or professors, or any other group that has disgraced itself in American life? There’s no reason. Doctors have the same degree of wisdom as gender studies professors. The issue isn’t medical knowledge. The issue is wisdom and courage “Your doctor knows nothing about COVID, nothing. All they know is how the virus …