Tag Archives: COVIDIOTS

The Daily Beast reports: When the Missouri state legislature on Wednesday passed a standard-issue licensure bill for physical therapists, few noticed a clandestine provision on its 32nd page banning pharmacists from telling patients about the potential dangers of using unproven drugs touted by conspiracy fringe groups as “forbidden cures” for COVID-19. The measure in the bill, passed unanimously by the …

Mediaite reports: Covid variants are real, and not an invention of an American political party. The omicron variant, for example, was first discovered in South Africa. What’s more, it’s unclear how a new Covid variant that brings more death and dysfunction to the United States helps Democrats — the party currently in power. That said, the conspiracy theory has persisted, …

Reuters reports: On social media, Richard Whitehead [photo] is a warrior for the American right. He has praised extremist groups. He has called for public executions of government officials he sees as disloyal to former President Donald Trump. In a post in 2020, he urged law enforcement officers to disobey COVID-19 public-health orders from “tyrannical governors,” adding: “We are on …

The New York Daily News reports: Surprised by a vaccine mandate that left him unable to play for much of last season, Kyrie Irving described himself as a “martyr” for refusing the COVID-19 shot while facing heavy scrutiny. “I was not expecting a mandate to be brought down in a way where it wasn’t going to let me play at …

Mediaite reports: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) suggested in a recent interview that Covid vaccines “may” give people AIDS, but that more research on the matter is necessary. Johnson sat down with Todd Callender, whom the Wisconsin Examiner described as an anti-vaccine attorney. Callender shared a wild theory with the senator: Covid shots are intentionally spreading HIV/AIDS to people who receive …

The Ohio Capitol Journal reports: A candidate challenging Ohio’s incumbent governor in a Republican primary shared a photo of himself in front of a sign depicting an image of syringes arranged as a swastika — the chosen symbol of Nazi Germany as it waged a systematic slaughter of millions of Jews and others in Europe. Joe Blystone, a cattle farmer …

“I want to thank you for appreciating that I can’t have my camera on tonight. I’ve been struggling with COVID pretty severely lately and I’m just not suitable for cameras. So thank you so much for just letting me speak and then I’ll hand things off to Leo.” – Michele Bachmann, speaking this weekend on a Christian “prayer call” conducted …

“They tried to make a big deal. The event said you had to be vaccinated in order to attend. I know, because I was invited and I didn’t go for many reasons, but that as was one of them. “They tried to call out Fox News and say ‘Look! Fox News is all vaccinated!’ No, that’s not true. He’s not …

Vice News reports: According to the arresting documents, Robert Van Camp, a man from Parker, Washington who was arrested Tuesday, and his well-connected partner were able to get their hands on a blank COVID-19 CDC vaccine card. The two then printed off massive amounts of the cards; they would not just sell them but also fill them out as legitimately …

The Kansas Reflector reports: Rep. Tatum Lee and Sen. Mark Steffen heartily embraced anti-vax activists Monday at the Capitol ahead of the Legislature’s consideration of limited-government policy tied to the COVID-19 pandemic and potential overrides of a cluster of vetoes issued by Gov. Laura Kelly. Lee, a Ness City Republican not averse to criticizing GOP leadership, lauded the group affiliated …

The Daily Beast reports: Organizers tasked with putting on a Jacksonville, Florida conference headlined by COVID-19 truthers Dr. Robert Malone and Dr. Peter McCullough had enough of anti-vaxxer Christopher Key’s shenanigans on Saturday afternoon. So much so that they reported the “Vaccine Police” leader to police as a trespasser, a move which sent him back to jail (again), where he …

NBC New York reports: Multiple NYC Department of Education employees have been placed on leave as of Monday for allegedly submitting fake vaccination cards — but the teachers union is threatening to sue to get its members back on the payroll. The DOE confirmed the suspensions Friday, saying that fewer than 100 employees had been put on unpaid leave. “Fraudulent …

Vice News reports: A leader of a Japanese QAnon group that believes COVID-19 was made up has been arrested for allegedly trespassing into a clinic offering vaccinations for children in Tokyo. Hiroyuki Kuraoka, a 43-year-old anti-vax activist and former actor, was detained on Wednesday after he entered the facility earlier this month and protested the COVID-19 vaccinations it provided. Kuraoka …

Media Matters has the transcript: BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): If you are unsettled, whatever, you have it or have lingering COVID, wear your own mask. Let us make our own decisions. We are done with this. We are finished. We are through. Stop holding on to it. Better yet, you will pay at the ballot box because the American people are …

Courthouse News Service reports: A train engineer was sentenced to three years in prison for intentionally derailing a train near a Navy hospital ship in San Pedro, California, because he believed it was part of a government conspiracy to get rid of healthy, open-minded people. Eduardo Moreno, 46, pleaded guilty this past December to having committed a terrorist attack against …

The Voice Of San Diego reports: Last Saturday, Awaken Church hosted Fox News pundit Tucker Carlson at its San Marcos campus, one of five countywide. Carlson is just the latest right-wing luminary to make the trip. Dennis Prager, Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk have all spoken at the church, and just three weeks ago it hosted a conference that featured …

Media Matters reports: Fox News host Sean Hannity is now pretending that he consistently warned his audience against the use of ivermectin, the antiparasitic drug that a constellation of right-wing personalities and grifters promoted as a COVID-19 treatment that a major study now shows is ineffective. “People wrote this story, by the way, that I had been telling people [to …

Via press release from the FAA: U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposed the largest-ever fines ever against two passengers for alleged unruly behavior. The fines of $81,950 and $77,272, respectively, are part of the approximately $2 million the agency has proposed since Jan. 1, 2022. “If you are on an airplane, don’t be a jerk and don’t …

Nashville’s ABC News affiliate reports: A local lawmaker has co-sponsored a bill that would allow ivermectin to be sold over the counter in Tennessee without a prescription. On Wednesday, the bill co-sponsored by Sen. Rusty Crowe (R-Johnson City) was passed by the state Senate. Senate Bill 2188 was introduced by Sen. Frank Niceley (R-Strawberry Plains) on Jan. 31. Crowe became …

The Associated Press reports: A strategically placed YouTube advertisement that featured former President Donald Trump praising COVID-19 vaccinations spurred a jump of 104,000 shots, a national study showed. Researchers with the Massachusetts-based National Bureau of Economic Research placed 27-second commercials that ran in heavy rotation prior to Fox News segments by popular pro-Trump conservative commentators, such as Tucker Carlson and …