Tag Archives: COVIDIOTS

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 sports site Yardbarker reports: NBA players may not be able to play in certain games this season if they choose not to get the COVID-19 vaccine. According to the league, players who are unable to play due to vaccination status will not receive their game checks. Many have been wondering what will happen in New York City and San …

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 New York Daily News reports: On the same day Fox News announced Geraldo Rivera had signed a multiyear deal to stay with the network he’s called home for 20 years, the mustachioed correspondent — who will also usher in Fox Nation’s return of the program “Cops” — laid down the law for Republicans who aren’t getting with the program …

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 …

Media Matters has the transcript: LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): The politicians and the public health officials who ordered us, begged us to stay home, to wear masks, to cancel church, sports, forego weddings, all the other things you like to do in order to save the healthcare system, they are now the ones actively sabotaging the healthcare system. It kind of …

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 …

From the Connecticut Department of Public Health: The Connecticut Medical Examining Board, per a request from the Connecticut Department of Public Health, has suspended the Connecticut physician and surgeon license of retired physician Sue Mcintosh, MD, of Durham. The unanimous decision to suspend Dr. Mcintosh’s license took place at an emergency meeting of the Medical Examining Board on Friday morning. …

The Associated Press reports: A high-ranking Roman Catholic cardinal who was placed on a ventilator after contracting COVID-19 said he has moved into a house but is still struggling to recover from the disease. Cardinal Raymond Burke, 73, one of the church’s most outspoken conservatives and a vaccine skeptic, posted a letter on his website Saturday saying he left the …

From right wing commentator Dennis Prager: There is something about most Jews that few non-Jews know: We Jews often ask ourselves if a non-Jew in our lives would hide us in the event of a Nazi-like outbreak. I don’t know if young Jews think about this, but nearly all Jews who grew up in the decades following the Holocaust often …

Canada’s Global News reports: Controversial pastor Artur Pawlowski was arrested on the tarmac at the Calgary International Airport on Monday afternoon. Artur’s lawyer Sarah Miller confirmed her client was taken into custody and charged with contempt of court for an alleged offence on June 5, Artur and his brother Dawid Pawlowski were arrested in May for organizing an illegal gathering …

The Orlando Sentinel reports: Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings, who in July mandated county employees to get vaccinated for COVID-19 by Sept. 30, now expects a court fight with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration over the order. At a press briefing, Demings said he received a letter Friday from the state Department of Health, threatening the county with hefty fines …

The Hill reports: Dozens of state troopers in Massachusetts have resigned as a result of the state’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate, a key union said Monday. State Police Association President Michael Cherven made the announcement in a statement, adding that some troopers had intentions of moving to departments that offered “reasonable alternatives such as mask wearing and regular testing.” In August, …

The New York Times reports: A wave of misinformation touting the deworming drug ivermectin as a Covid treatment appears to be showing no signs of abating, with calls about the drug to poison control centers surging, and officials in New Mexico saying misuse of the medication contributed to at least two deaths. Federal health authorities have repeatedly warned Covid patients …

The Toronto City News reports: Two people have been arrested following an anti-vaccine, anti-mask protest outside the Eaton Centre on Saturday. Police say a group of protesters attempted to enter the mall but were denied access by security guards. A video posted to social media by lawyer Caryma Sa’d shows the mob trying to forcibly push its way into the …

Gizmodo reports: Ben Garrison, a right-wing cartoonist known for his opposition to vaccines and his extremely flattering drawings of former President Donald Trump, told Gizmodo late Sunday that he contracted covid-19 and has been sick for about two weeks. But allegedly getting covid hasn’t changed Garrison’s mind about modern medical science. “We’re taking Ivermectin and various vitamins including a lot …

The Orlando Sentinel reports: Florida’s new surgeon general received a pay raise of 72% compared with his predecessor, as leaders of several state agencies under Gov. Ron DeSantis saw their paychecks grow this week under a hike approved by the Legislature this year. The biggest increase was for Dr. Joseph Ladapo, the new surgeon general who also runs the Department …

The Hill reports: Coronavirus patients are flooding and straining hospitals across the U.S., particularly in western states where administrators are put in positions of needing to ration care as their facilities are pushed to their breaking point by the delta variant. Alaska this past week joined Idaho in adopting statewide crisis standards of care that provide guidance to health care …