COVIDiots

[Ulysses]

Ivermectin was chosen for clinical testing for legitimate reasons. It’s true, as some detractors have said, that it’s used as a deworming medication for sheep and other farm animals. But it’s also one of the few miracle drugs for humans, having saved hundreds of thousands of people from going blind with onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, or suffering from the limb-swelling disease elephantiasis. The drug’s discoverers won a Nobel Prize in 2015.

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Yeah, but those diseases are both from worms.

Absolutely. Someone did discover that it could kill viruses in the test tube, but as the article states, it would be at drug levels that would be toxic to humans. Again, this may be where Trump got his "like a cleaning" line. I really don't know, but I suppose they were trying anything that *might* work. In the case of ivermectin, sounds like Trump was never given it anyway. I know just enough about biochemistry to be dangerous. Trump knows enough to be a total fool.

[neoplacebo]

I think neoplacebo is the only regular member living in Tennessee. He lives in the far right corner close to Virginia.

Hey, hey, my, my. Neoplacebo is high and dry (in relatively equal parts). We got some big rain and big wind from the vestiges of Fred on Monday and Tuesday I think it was. Power even went out once on each day but for less than a minute.

[neoplacebo]

Just got a new book; "The Plague Year" by Lawrence Wright. It goes into great detail in describing the origin of the virus, the Chinese government's initial efforts to suppress medical experts' warnings (the Chinese government is way more "economy" centered than the most rabid GOP nutjob), and how the virus began to spread out from its origin point. The book also explains how and why vaccines work, the history of vaccine development, the history of the anti vaccination movement, and also details the initial "response" of the trump administration to it. Turns out that at the first serious meeting by trump officials about the virus, Peter Navarro was actually one of the few to recognize how serious it would become. That sort of almost made me change my opinion of Peter just a little bit. But not quite. And Peter was not invited to any of the subsequent meetings. Anyway, I recommend the book.

[Vrede too]

A year and a half after Sweden decided not to lock down, its COVID-19 death rate is up to 10 times higher than its neighbors

... Sweden also didn't fare much better economically, suggesting its gamble didn't pay off....

Opps.

[Vrede too]

Contact form
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Re: An Alabama man who called himself the 'vaccine police' told pharmacists at a Missouri Walmart that they will be 'executed' if they continued giving COVID-19 shots
https://www.yahoo.com/news/alabama-man- ... 43221.html

Dear Greene County, MO Prosecuting Attorney Dan Patterson,

Why hasn't COVIDiot Christopher Key been charged with communicating terrorist threats?

Sincerely,
(Vrede too)

Right Said Fred star still against vaccine despite being admitted to hospital with Covid

I mean essentially none of that is factually accurate, but alright.

If you feel stupid, just remember this guy hit a triple play right here.

That's not how this vaccine works though...

Imagine thinking this is a clever meme.

Facts????, This post is hilarious!

Masks don’t deprive you of oxygen and the vaccines don’t contain any virus, but other than that A+ tweet.

[GoCubsGo]

Jordan is bordering on being a national treasure.

The Daily Show’s’ Jordan Klepper Embarrasses Anti-Vax Protesters in NYC

[Vrede too]

Jordan is bordering on being a national treasure.

The Daily Show’s’ Jordan Klepper Embarrasses Anti-Vax Protesters in NYC

. . . except that he's also pretty depressing.

[GoCubsGo]

Jordan is bordering on being a national treasure.

The Daily Show’s’ Jordan Klepper Embarrasses Anti-Vax Protesters in NYC

. . . except that he's also pretty depressing.

The truth hurts.

[billy.pilgrim]

Jordan is bordering on being a national treasure.

The Daily Show’s’ Jordan Klepper Embarrasses Anti-Vax Protesters in NYC

. . . except that he's also pretty depressing.

The truth hurts.

I never got back into the Daily Show after Jon left. I'm not sure why, the show is as funny and as informative now, as it was then.

First I've heard of the big GW, the winger's main go to guy, he who stands in boats, issued a vaccine Mandate.

Thanks Klepper, you made me look.

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/po ... 456106001/

[Vrede too]

Redcon1 Contact Us
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Re: Arnold Schwarzenegger's 'Screw your freedom' remarks leads to a sponsorship loss
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/arn ... 06881.html

Got it, you think that people should be free to infect others, overwhelm hospitals and wreck the economy. Yuck. Why do you hate America?

(Vrede too), RN

[neoplacebo]

Well, I just sent them my scathing opinion. Hope they like it.

[Vrede too]

Well, I just sent them my scathing opinion. Hope they like it.

So many COVIDiots, so little time.

‘As they’re being intubated, they still don’t believe it.’ The COVID denial won’t die

... Astonishingly, many of those who’ve seen a loved one die still refuse to get vaccinated.

“We discuss it. We try to push it. Our doctors try to push it,” my friend says of efforts to vaccinate the survivors of COVID’s dead and dying. “It seems more often than not they don’t want it.”

Good God, why not?

The nurse says most complain they don’t know what’s in the shot, or they just don’t trust it or the government. Or they say they’ve gone this long without getting it, so they should be fine — unlike their loved one who succumbed to it.

Vaccine hesitancy — which feeds my friend’s hospital with an unending stream of patients from some of the most intractably vaccine-hesitant counties in America — shows up even in the most desperately ill. One man on the cusp of needing intubation told my friend’s nursing colleague she was an idiot for being vaccinated.

“He asked her if she’d had her vaccine, and he was just like, ‘You’re stupid,’” the nurse says. “Just laid into her about how everybody’s falling for what the government says and COVID’s not real and you shouldn’t get the vaccine. While he’s laying in an ICU bed.”

Another man — not the only one, mind you — berated the hospital’s emergency room staff for urging him to be admitted. He walked out, albeit tethered to oxygen, insisting angrily that COVID isn’t real.

“And then we found out that he was at (another hospital) within 12 hours on a ventilator,” the nurse says. “He was, the whole time, just saying, like, ‘COVID’s not real. You guys are stupid.’

“I could tell you that story about every day — that they’re just yelling at us and they leave and then they come back or they go to (another hospital) because they’re worse than when they left. And as they’re being intubated they still don’t believe it.

“We’re all so exhausted we don’t want to beg you to stay, but we do because we know you’re going to leave and die.”

This is the tragedy tucked inside COVID’s calamity. As if our heroes in health care need more on their shoulders, they must deal with hostility toward them and toward the hard-won medicine that could’ve saved even the quarrelsome — and perhaps saved their young children a lifetime of groundless guilt for having brought the virus home that killed daddy.

“If that story doesn’t make you change your mind, I just don’t really care to talk with you at all,” my nurse friend says, matter-of-factly. “If that doesn’t bother you, I don’t know what will.

“It’s mind-blowing to all of us. We just can’t fathom it.”

Still, she and her colleagues work long, incessant hours to save even the belligerent unbelievers, all the while compartmentalizing the monstrous tragedies they endure, just to stay sane and functional. There seems no end to the cruelty, because there seems no end to the unmoved and unvaccinated.

“I think the worst part is knowing that there’s just no end in sight. Even if we get a lull, and maybe the census goes down a little bit, it’s going to keep spiking all winter. And we know that, and it’s just exhausting to think about it.”

Ultimately, the worst part has to be seeing kids who will grow up believing they’ve killed an unvaccinated parent, when in fact stubbornness, ignorance or cynicism did the deed.

"You’re stupid."

Nope, YOU are.

[neoplacebo]

It all provides true insight as to how trump could have become president. A determined cult of lies and ignorance. Incredible.

[GoCubsGo]

‘As they’re being intubated, they still don’t believe it.’ The COVID denial won’t die


"You’re stupid."

Nope, YOU are.

[O Really]

They (the anti-vaxxers) "don't know what's in it"? Dang, these people didn't strike me as some who would scrutinize the ingredients on every beer can or hot dog. But maybe they're thinking about the microchip. Naaa, they couldn't be that stupid. It's too easy to find out what a real microchip device looks like. Idiots.

[Whack9]

[O Really]

Ummm, that wasn''t the CDC. That was Trump's Border Gestapo.

[GoCubsGo]

Omfg.

Maybe Facebook should be outlawed.

[Ulysses]

Omfg.

Maybe Facebook should be outlawed.

[O Really]

Omfg.

Maybe Facebook should be outlawed.

Fun thought, but it would just get replaced by something equally or more toxic. And how to get rid of any social media that spreads bullshit without doing major overhaul of the Constitution? Can't. We're screwed. "Civilization" as we once believed it to be is gone and won't be coming back. Sometimes it's good to be old.