Sad COVIDiocy: Irish Man Died From COVID After Antivaxxers Encouraged Him to Release Himself From Hospital

Irishman Joe McCarron, age 75, passed away at Letterkenny University Hospital on 24-SEP-2021 from COVID. He attracted media attention when a bunch of anti-medicine anti-vax pro-COVID protesters encouraged him to check himself out of the hospital on 12-SEP-2021, even though his doctors told him he needed treatment for his very serious COVID complications. 

Protesters heckled hospital staff both inside and outside the hospital, and convinced McCarron to leave the hospital, by telling him lies like "you'll die if you stay here" and "you don't need the ICU". He was released, despite pleas from his doctors, while yelled at by the protesters. 

A far-right protester Antonio Murredu, aka Antonion Graveliu, a Freeman, among the protesters, claimed "We are saving Joe's Life! Today is a winning day for Ireland!"  Murredu also thanked Dr Dolores Cahill, a famous Irish Antivaxxer, who was dismissed from her teaching position recently. 

McCarron was brought to a hospital a few days after his release and was immediately put on a ventilator. But despite best efforts, he expired. 

His family apologized to the hospital and slammed the "friends". 

Encouraging sick COVID patient to leave the hospital? Can they be charged with manslaughter? 

Don't be a COVIDiot or have COVIDiot friends. They can LITERALLY kill you with their "kindness". 

Crazy COVIDiocy: Man Punches Nurse in Pharmacy Because Wife Vaccinated Without His Permission?!

Sherbrooke Police of Quebec Canada is looking for a man who punched a nurse multiple times, knocking her to the ground, while screaming that his wife did not have his permission to be vaccinated for COVID. 

On September 20th, 2021, a man walked into Brunet Pharmacy in Sherbrooke at 9:15 AM, and was super-rude and aggressive to the nurse, who is in her 40s, accusing her of vaccinating his wife without his consent. Then immediately punched her in the face multiple times. Then the perpetrator ran out of the pharmacy. The nurse was sent to the hospital, and due to her being the only nurse in the pharmacy, the vaccination program had to be suspended. 

Unfortunately, there was no surveillance camera. Sherbrooke police is asking any witnesses with information to come forward. 

And there certainly is no need to ask a husband for permission to be vaccinated. And the guy was too mad to mention his name or his wife's name. And since the pharmacy typically vaccinates 15 people a day, there's really no way to narrow down the suspect. 

Sad COVIDiocy: Daughters Blame Misinformation for their Mom's COVID death in Washington State

 A mother from Western Washington has died of COVID because she got the idea that COVID vaccine is not good for her, despite her daughters' plea for her to be vaccinated for months. 

According to her daughters, mom supposedly caught COVID back at the beginning of pandemic, and mistakenly thought she's immune. She was never checked by a doctor to confirm this. She caught COVID at the beginning of September and died 12 days later, at the age of 57. 

Both daughters blamed "conservative media" for their mother's death. One said their mother believed that news sources are biased and only gets her information from conservative media. The other said their mom refused to listen to facts from everything, including themselves, and made everything political. 

And she's hardly the only one who died from COVID from misinformation. This is playing out across America in various conservative households. 

Don't be this mom. Don't be a COVIDiot. Get vaccinated. Your family will thank you. 

COVIDiocy Denied: Dutch Boy Won Court Battle to Vaccinate Against Father's Wishes

 A 12-year old boy in the Dutch city of Groningen has won a court battle to get the COVID vaccine so he can visit his dying grandma, against his father's wishes. 

His grandma has end-stage lung cancer, and not getting the vaccine would prevent him from spending as much time as he can with grandma. 

The boy's parents are divorced. The mother is pro-vax, while the father is anti-vax, and cited various bogus reasons for not wanting the boy to be vaccinated, like "the vaccine is unproven" or "vaccine affects reproductive health". 

Dutch law states that if the parents do not agree, a judge can decide matters in the best interest of the child. 

And in this case, sanity prevailed, and COVIDiocy is stopped. 

Don't be a COVIDiot. Get #vaxxed. 

COVIDiocy Turnaround: Epiphany for COVID Survivor Who Almost Killed His Mother With COVID

Unvaccinated COVID-denier and ex-councilor in Ireland Andrew Girvin caught COVID in August 2021 and so did 19 of his family members. Both he and his mother had to be put on ventilators. His survival was 50/50, according to doctors. And he was sure his mother caught the virus from him. 

Talking on BBC Radio Ulster, he recounted how his symptoms just got worse and worse and his wife had to call for an ambulance. He was wheeled out of the house on oxygen, barely able to move, and wondered if he will ever see his children again. 

He believes now EVERYONE should take the COVID vaccine. He had a lot of time reflecting on his actions and decisions, with both his and his mum's mortality in question. And he saw that his procrastination, and his trying to straddle both sides that lead to his present situation. And he's telling his story. If his story can save one life, that'd be worth it, even with any "hate that goes along with it". 

Don't be a COVIDiot like Andrew WAS. He learned his lesson, and it was a VERY harsh one, at great cost. 

And you can avoid paying that cost by getting #vaxxed now. Do it for your family and your children. 

MORE COVIDiocy: You Get What You Wished For!

Seems an alt-right COVID denier had caught COVID. 

A far-right conspiracy theorist by the name of Laura Loomer, who also happens to be anti-Muslim and anti-vax, did not believe in COVID, calling it "less serious than food poisoning", and actively posted that she wanted to catch it to prove it wasn't bad. 

In a screenshot of her post on Parlor (alt-right Twitter clone) from last December (2020), she wrote:

I hope I get COVID just so I can prove to people I've had bouts of food poisoning that are more serious and life threantening than a hyped up virus. // Have you ever eaten bad fajitas? // That will kill you faster than COVID. 

Last week, she announced on GETTR, i.e. another Twitter clone for Alt-Right, that she took a self-administered COVID test and it's positive, and she's suffering, but she's going to take medicine that's proven NOT to help COVID (i.e. azithromycin, an antibiotic, and hydroxychloroquine, an anti-parasite drug), as well as some sort of nutritional supplement. 

In another message, she wrote 

I am in so much pain. This is honestly the worst part about it.

Well, it seems Laura, you got your wish. So tell me, is it really better or worse than food poisoning? 

That is, of course, assuming you survive. And I wish you the best. 

Don't be a COVIDiot like Laura. Get #vaxxed and avoid "so much pain". 

Sad COVIDiocy: 37-year old Antimasker died on 4th of July

Richard "Rick" Rose III was was a kind man who survived a US Army deployment to Iraq. Back in April, he posted on Facebook that he doesn't believe the "hype" around COVID and refused to buy a mask. He even attended a large party in June, no mask in sight.

He was diagnosed on July 1st with COVID, and died on July 4th.  

This resulted in this very dark and schadenfreude meme from his own postings:

April 28th: ... I am NOT buying a ****ing mask... 
June 13: It's not that crowded (at a pool party spot)
July 2nd: This COVID **** sucks!
July 4th: Obituary for Richard Rose, III

He made his decision, and he died for it. Let us save the compassion for the living, such as his friends and family he left behind. 

And don't be a COVIDiot like Rick. 

Get vaxxed. Get masked. Stay healthy. 

Sad COVIDiocy: Proud unvaxxed and unmasked Mother of 4 died of COVID

An Escalon (southeast of Stockton, CA) mother, a well-known local antivaxxer, had died of COVID on September 15th, 2021. 

Kristen Lowery, who declared herself "unmasked, unmuzzled, unvaccinated, unafraid -- together we win", left behind 4 school-aged children. 

She proclaimed to be a "free-thinker" and an "ex-vaxxer" on various posts. 

If you won't get vaxxed for yourself, would you do it for your children? 

Don't be a COVIDiot. Get vaxxed is the simplest way to protect yourself. 

COVIDiocy Highlighted; Antivaxxers Jokes Made it onto Jimmy Kimmel Show

The Jimmy Kimmel Show highlighted the hypocrisy of anti-vaxxers doing everything they can to avoid the most studied topic in recent years: the COVID-19 vaccine, that they are going to extreme measures that are MUCH LESS studied for safety or effectiveness than the COVID vaccines. 

We've previously mentioned Ivermectin, an antiparasitic medicine primarily used on animals, but is also available in reduced strength for human use, mainly for people in third-world countries still in danger of catching parasites. Ivermectin has no known antiviral properties, and COVID is caused by a coronavirus. The FDA and the manufacturer have repeatedly pointed out that Ivermectin doesn't work for COVID and has dangerous side effects, yet the QNuts, including some doctors who claimed to be "experts" on Ivermectin use, continue to push it for COVID treatment. 

And because you used to be able to buy Ivermectin at any feed store, some desperados have resorted to buying the large animal version and tried to calculate a dose safe for human use from it, often with disastrous consequences. There were several cases of overdose in New Mexico, as well as an uptick in calls to the Poison Control hotline regarding Ivermectin overdoses. 

As the mania spread through Qnut communities, actual animal lovers can't get the meds for their animals, that feed stores near Las Vegas are requiring that you show a picture of you and your horse before you can buy the large animal Ivermectin. And thus the Jimmy Kimmel joke: they rather spend hours Photoshopping themselves into a horse photo than get the free vaccine you can get at any local pharmacy.  

Ivermectin desperados may have been making do with Heartgard, a heartworm medicine for dogs or cats, which also has Ivermectin as a primary ingredient. There are unverified stories of people going to veterinary clinics and demanding that they be sold Heartgard. 

Then there's the monoclonal antibody treatment, sometimes called Regeneron. Those are made in a lab, costs a LOT of money, it's considered "investigational", not even experimental. In fact, if you're already hospitalized for COVID, you can't get it. And here again, Jimmy Kimmel pointed out the hypocrisy: anti-vaxxers don't trust the most studied item around the entire world in the past two years: two little shots of the COVID vaccine, yet they do trust being pumped full of lab-created antibodies that requires an IV. 

The anti-vaxxers are irrational. And irrational people do crazy things. And guess who's PAYING for all this? The taxpayers. 

Don't be irrational. Don't be a COVIDiot. Get #vaxxed. 

Sad COVIDiocy: Irish Anti-Vaxxers Died of COVID, and Anti-Vax Professor Dismissed from Irish University

Multiple Irish anti-vax residents have died from COVID. 

Paul Hamill, an Irish DUP councilor, who had previously shared many anti-vax posts on Facebook, has died of COVID. He's been called "a genuine good guy in local politics". 

A mother-daughter anti-vax pair died days apart in an Irish hospital. Both were care workers and eligible for the vaccine as first responders back in January 2021. Both refused, and posted online various COVID conspiracies and shared posts from anti-vaxxers around the world. The father lamented that don't they understand how their death burdens those who still live, even if it is their life and their choice. 

In related news, an anti-vax professor at an Irish UCD School of medicine has been dismissed. Dolores Cahill had publicly opposed COVID-related public policies such as lock-down and publicly stated falsehoods such as "nobody is dying [of COVID]" at an anti-vax rally. 

Sad COVIDiocy: Unvaxxed Man Survived 169 Hospitals Rejections, Travelled 1200 Miles for Treatment, Now Pro-Vax

It's the unvaxxed's stubborn selfishness that's keeping COVID around because they refuse to be vaccinated. 

One Florida family found out the hard way: they believed everything had returned to normal, so they did NOT get vaxxed and gathered for July 4th... and they got infected HARD. Lots of family members tested positive for COVID. Some got really sick. 

COVID hit the man so hard, he had to be put on life support, aka an ECMO machine, that does the heart pumping and lung breathing for you. Except there isn't one anywhere near him. This is very dire. Most COVID patients who got intubated this way did not survive. She called 169 hospitals in 3 states. but NONE had an ECMO machine available (being used by prior COVID patients). Lung transplant is even less likely as there's a HUGE waiting list (again, due to COVID). The doctors basically told her that there's nothing to be done. 

Until a doctor in Connecticut, 1200 miles away, with the concurrence of the hospital board, offered up a bed with ECMO support available. 

So her husband made the journey on a special medical transport plane. Then he got on the ECMO machine for 22 days before doctors declared his heart and lungs are healthy enough to support him. During the ordeal, he lost 50 pounds, and the former burly construction worker that went to the gym daily now struggles to stand up. He will need extensive physical therapy to recover. 

But he has made a declaration: ALL visitors, family or not, have to be vaccinated. 

He's not taking ANY chances. 

And can you imagine how much this all costs? 22 days on full life support (figure 5K to 10K a day, probably more since this guy was at death's door), special medical transport plane, physical therapy for weeks if not months, and probably a couple days in ICU. 

And to think all this could have been prevented with two jabs, that are FREE. 

And his extended family and friends certainly got the message, esp. when they realized their "vaccine skeptic" beliefs are irrational. If you are unvaxxed, you can pick up COVID, and even if you only suffer a little, you can pass it on to others... and they may not be so lucky like the guy above, yanked back from death's door. 

So don't be a COVIDiot. Get vaccinated. 

It's not about you, but people around you. 

COVIDiocy Denied: Even the Pope is Questioning Vaccine "Skeptics"

The Catholic Pope, aboard the Papal Plane, said "humanity has a history of friendship with vaccines", and questioned vaccine skeptics, according to AP. 

But vaccine "skeptics" will continue to use the excuse of "religious exemption" to try to get out of being vaccinated when their reasons are NOT religious at all, but anti-science. 

Most who claim religious exemption are lying, according to survey data. They do so because there are no consequences for doing so. People who claim religious exemption are never questioned, yet the vast majority of religious leaders support, or at least not oppose vaccination. 

So don't claim that your religion prevents you from vaccination. It's your personal belief that stopped you from vaccinating. And such beliefs are illogical and not based on facts. The benefits of vaccination far outweigh any risks that you can find. 

You only have yourself to blame for your selfishness. Admit it to yourself and the world instead of hiding behind your "religion". 

Sad COVIDiocy: Kentucky Bride-To-Be and Vaccine Hesitant Died of COVID

A Kentucky bride-to-be had been planning for her wedding for more than two years. She and her fiancee planned to start a family immediately. Unfortunately, the bride-to-be heard some crazy talk about the COVID vaccine can affect her fertility, so she chose to delay her vaccination. But she later changed her mind and made an appointment to be vaccinated. Unfortunately, both caught COVID a week before the appointment. Now, instead of a wedding, the family is planning her funeral. 

Her cousin told the local NBC affiliate, "Misinformation killed her". 

More COVIDiocy: It's the Unvaccinated That's Holding Up the Recovery, and Numbers Prove It

My theory: the primary reason the US economy is suffering and we are not going back to normal is the unvaccinated population. 

Why? Let me lay it out for you. 

A) Cost

It costs at least $20000 to treat each COVID patient in a hospital. Studies show anywhere from just over $20000 to over $24000. And that's not counting any ventilator use. That's a fact. 

B) COVID Vaccine Prevents Hospitalization

Researchers found that vaccines are 92-95% effective at preventing hospitalizations among those who have been vaccinated. 

To project from this, most people in hospitals with COVID are unvaccinated. Indeed, this is verified through various news reports. And the percentage is around 90%. That's right, 90% of COVID cases in hospitals can be prevented. 

So what happens when you combine these two facts? 

The Math Adds Up

Let's do a bit of rounding DOWN. Let's say 84% of unvaccinated hospitalizations for COVID that were preventable. (Read this link to understand how the number was chosen)

Care to guess how many people that would be for the US that would be, from June to August 2021? 

About 287000 people. 

At $20000 each, that's 5.7 BILLION DOLLARS. 

US could have saved $5.7 BILLION dollars if everyone got vaccinated,
according to Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker.

And that's NOT counting ancillary benefits, like very few children have to die from COVID, nobody has to be turned away from ICU because ICU was full, nobody would be overdosing from Ivermectin... 

The sooner the pandemic runs out of victims, whether through death or vaccination, the sooner pandemic will end. That is obvious. 

And it's the unvaccinated who does NOT want to return to normal, despite their rhetoric. They are holding up the recovery, more interested in their "freedom" than doing the right thing. They only want to focus on "you can't tell me what to do!"  

The unvaccianted are COVIDiots. 

Don't be COVIDiots like them. 

More COVIDiocy: Nicki Minaj the Twitter Liar?

 Nicki Minaj made news when she posted why she's "doing my own research" regarding COVID vaccines and chose not to attend the Met gala because it requires all celebrities to be vaccinated. Then she really stepped in it when she tweeted that her cousin's friend had swollen balls from vaccine and his fiance called off the wedding. 

COVID experts all over the world replied "no way", and "my cousin's friend" became the latest meme to hit the Internet. 

Now even her home country (Trinidad) Health Minister came out to refute the story. Yes, they spent a whole day trying to run the story down. It's global news. It even got a hashtag #ballgate

https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1438194219269689352?s=20

Strike one. 

Then Nicki Minaj posted that the White House invited her to have a chat. 

Which was immediately debunked by CNN... Apparently White House offered her a chance to talk to one of their doctors to explain COVID and the COVID vaccine. 

https://twitter.com/donlemon/status/1438296212172640257?s=20

Strike two. 

Now, Nicki claims that she can't Tweet anymore because Twitter had blocked her. A screenshot of what appears to be Instagram was shared. 

There has been no verification from Twitter. However, Vulture reported that a spokesperson for Twitter said "Twitter did not take any enforcement action on the account referenced". 

https://twitter.com/vulture/status/1438291904307806209?s=20

Oh-oh... Strike three. 

What's far more likely is her manager and agent, seeing what sort of PR disaster she had gotten herself into, took away her account access, but that's just a theory. 

Anyone who got on Tucker Carlson Show, without checking what sort of person Tucker Carlson is, is not someone I would follow or respect. Carlson is famous for using his show to tell people "CDC is lying to you" mainly by dumpster-diving VAERS. And guess who got invited to the Carlson show? Yep, Nicki Minaj. The two aligned only because of their COVID vaccine denialism. 

Let's not forget that Carlson believed that #blacklivesmatter was NOT about black lives, but rather an excuse to come after your rights... It lead to such a backlash that a dozen advertising sponsors quit. Carlson was one of the few people who believed that the January 6th Insurrection was a false-flag operation by the FBI. He's basically Alex Jones with half the craziness. Not to mention he believed just about every conspiracy theory that hurts the GOP in some way or makes the Dems look good, of which there are way too many to list. 

But that's enough ranting about two people I don't give a flying f*** about. 

Don't be a COVIDiot, like these two. 

More COVIDiocy: Antivaxxers Dying in Droves, But It Only Encouraged Even Crazier Behavior

Australian news reported that a COVID denier over there caught COVID, and was rushed to hospital while still insisting he merely had a cold. He's now critical (but still hanging on). But that's hardly the crazy story. Back in January, COVID deniers are alleging "empty hospitals", and one tried to remove a critically ill patient from a hospital in Surrey, UK. 

A dark humor subreddit called /r/HermanCainAward (named after former US Congressman Herman Cain, who refused to wear a mask, denied that COVID exists, before succumbing to COVID) has plenty of submissions. 

There is also a website sorryantivaxxers.com that keeps track of news reports based on user submissions. However, it does not provide a count. The Australian news reported that the website can't keep up with submissions, but I was not able to confirm this. 

But even deathbed pleas by antivaxxers dying of COVID may not be enough.

Not when adults jeered at a teenager who supports mask mandate because his grandma had died of COVID.  

But the point is there are so many unvaccinated people infected with COVID clogging up the hospitals that...

States planning to or already rationing care to those who really need it

Idaho has already started rationing care in the northern parts of the state, and Hawaii has passed legislation exempting hospitals and workers from prosecution should they be forced to do so. 

People suffering from OTHER ICU-required conditions are dying 

We've previously reported that a Houston (Texas, USA) veteran died because he was unable to reach a hospital in time. He had gallstone-induced pancreatitis, a pretty simple operation... if ICU was available. By the time an ICU bed was found for him, his bowels had perforated. 

We now have to report on another victim... an Alabama man was turned away by 43 full ICUs across three states for his heart attack before a cardiac ICU bed was found 200 miles away in Mississippi. He died there, far from home. 

To put it plainly, people's refusal to get vaccinated is clogging up hospitals, leading to overloaded ICUs and deaths of people who should otherwise survive. 

So why are people refusing to get vaccinated? Mainly boils down to "you can't tell me what to do!"  Because there is no valid scientific reason to do so. 

The situation was certainly not helped when Nicki Minaj (yes, the singer) tweeted that her cousin's friend got swollen balls from the COVID vaccine so bad that his fiancee called off the wedding. No, I'm not making this up. I have no problem with Nicki not showing up at the Met Gala as she refused to get vaxxed and she doesn't want to show up. But when she tweeted that she's "doing my own research" and started relaying third- or fourth-party hearsay, it's clear that she's a vaccine denier. 

But that's not the weirdest news. According to RollingStone.com, Anti-Vaxxers are gargling iodine hoping to stop COVID. The problem is, Betadine is only for external use. In fact, Betadine is poisonous and can lead to kidney failure if consumed internally. 

Makes you wonder who's coming up with these bogus ingredients for these antivaxxers. 

First it was hydroxychloroquine, which was an anti-parasite drug that's also an immunosuppressant... Something you do NOT need when fighting a virus.  And in fact, can make it worse. 

Then it's ivermectin, which is again, an anti-parasite drug, mostly used for animals. Again, no effect on virus. It's also in a lot of canine and feline anti-parasite meds. 

Now it's betadine (i.e. iodine), which is a topical antiseptic that has, no surprise, no effect on virus. But this is something you can buy in your local pharmacy. 

I wonder if whoever comes up with these bogus recommendations is going for grossness. Would they pick a suppository next? 

But there is no denying the absolute truth:

The pandemic will NOT end until there are no more people to infect. 

That can happen only two ways: you can get vaccinated, or you can stay unvaxxed, and take your chances of getting infected then take your chances of hospitalization then take your chance of dying from COVID. 

Before you choose, I suggest you go back up and read the bits about how COVID has already clogged up hospitals and your local hospital may have no place to put you when you need it. It's already reported that 25% of the ICUs in the entire US are now 95% full. 

Then I suggest you read the news I posted a few days ago, about how a Texas girl died within HOURS of getting a fever. She complained of a fever at 2AM. Her grandma gave her some children's Tylenol and put her to bed. By 7AM she's dead. Autopsy confirmed it was COVID. Kali's mother was isolating at home the day before, from COVID. Kali was only 4 years old. 

And remember that young children cannot be vaccinated against COVID yet, only those 12 and older. While pediatric use may be approved soon, it may not come soon enough. 

So the only way to protect young children is to mask them, and vaccinate older people around them. NOT to ignore the risks and pretend everything is kum-baya. 

Just what reasons are preventing you from getting vaccinated? Think about that, are they REALLY valid reasons? 

So now, make your choice. If not for you, then for the children. 

Don't be a COVIDiot. 

More COVIDiocy: Why Are People, esp. Medical Professionals, Refusing Vaccines?

Evidence is incontrovertible: new COVID cases are almost exclusively of unvaccinated people. People who are not fully vaccinated are at MUCH HIGHER risk of dying. 32x more likely, according to CDC statistics. 

Yes, some vaccinated people have "Breakthru COVID", but the symptoms are vastly reduced and rarely require a hospital stay. And yes, the vaccines work the same on the Delta variant, just a bit less effective. Data in New York suggests vaccine effectiveness against hospitalization was 92% before Delta, and 80% now that Delta is the predominant strain. 

So there's no reason other than entitledness and pettiness (aka "You can't tell me what to do!" "I have rights!") to refuse vaccination. 

Indeed, that's why the alt-right is pushing random drugs that they claim can treat COVID, or want to focus on the breakthru cases and use that to discredit the vaccine, or believe outlandish lies like "there are microchips in the vaccines"... because they refuse to accept the obvious: it is up to the individuals to get vaccinated, in order protect the public at large. 

When did Americans get this SELFISH? 

As the Delta variants get more prevalent, and more people refuse to be vaccinated, the medical system is getting overloaded. At least one state had already instituted "care rationing" due to full ICUs, and several stories have already circulated about how ICUs, already full of COVID patients, are forced to turn away treatable patients for heart attacks, pancreatitis, and so on, resulting in death. 

You'd think that the medical professionals, who were on the forefront of COVID fight, would be the most eager to get the vaccines, but that is not necessarily the case. Some are total holdouts who would rather be fired, than get vaccinated themselves. In June 2021, WebMD / Medscape study shows that "1 in 4 hospital workers with direct contact with patients had not received a single dose of COVID shot as of end of May"

The odds can be even worse: 1 in 3 workers in the largest hospitals in the US are unvaxxed, according to the same report. Some hospitals in Florida have vax rate of 30-40 percent. 

The news is so alarming that some hospital systems, such as Houston Methodist Hospital, instituted their own vaccine mandate, and has a vaccination rate of 99+%.  And in case you were wondering "is that legal", the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission EEOC has greenlit vaccine mandate in May 2021 provided that accommodations are made to people who are exempt. Many cities are already doing so, such as San Francisco, that some have taken to protests. 

Yet if you hear from these protesters, their main beef can be boiled down to "you can't tell me what to do!" Albeit in different forms. One nurse claimed she has a right to choose whether to work with or without the vaccination, another claimed he has a right to choose if he wanted to share his vaccination status with his employer. Both can be summed up as "you can't tell me what to do!"   

In fact, many clinics across the nation are facing labor shortages... Because their staff refused to be vaccinated. Anecdotes from various states indicate that small clinic's staff are quitting when the head of clinic asked employees to be vaccinated to protect the patients. They rather sit at home for their "freedom" than accept responsibility to protect the public at large. Economy? Public health? Who cares about that? You can't tell me what to do! 

The screams are even louder from the Republicans about "Tyrant Biden" and how the new "Federal vaccine mandate" is an "assault on freedom". 

It's not a vaccine mandate. It's a TEST mandate that you get tested WEEKLY, that you can opt-out by getting vaccinated. 

But then again, it comes back down to "You can't tell me what to do!"

We're being told to do all sorts of things by the government all the time. We need to wear seatbelts. We need to have a driver's license. We need to pay taxes. We need to wear helmets when riding bicycles and motorcycles and e-scooters... 

COVID has already taken 659K people from US. Every refusal to vaccinate is a delay to control COVID, which leads to increasing hospitalization and death. 

Is "You can't tell me what to do" more important than not being a COVIDiot? 

COVID wouldn't care what you believe, whether you are "free" or not. 

More COVIDiocy: Simple Proof that Vaccination Stopped Outbreaks

Some antivax "scientists" are just kooky, because they are so convinced of their own righteousness, they no longer recognize that they're using truthiness, not truth (such as their training, actual scientific studies, and so on). And their uneducated followers? Even worse. 

One of the most uneducated opinions was published by a French virologist by the name of Luc Montagnier. He claimed the COVID "variants are the product of and result of the vaccination". He claimed that "breakthrough infections" are creating more dangerous COVID variants, and cited a mechanism called ADE. 

This is utter bullshit, as fact-checked by none other than Reuters itself. There has been NO documented case of ADE with COVID. NONE. With several million dead, and hundreds of millions of cases world-wide, and being studied by EVERY medical organization in the world, you'd think SOMEONE would have found a case of this happening since COVID vaccine was first administered. It has been MONTHS. 

In fact, EVERY delay in vaccine mandate or mask mandate is allowing the virus time to infect an unvaccinated person... and mutate. 

And the only way to stop it is to vaccinate everyone... until herd immunity threshold has been reached... or hope the victims die without infecting more people and still reach herd immunity (by reducing the herd)

Let's take a look at Samoa and the 2019 Measles Outbreak. The islands have a vaccination rate of about 35% before the crisis. The outbreak was detected in September 2019, and fully declared an outbreak in October 2019. In November the government declared a state of emergency and shut down EVERYTHING, including all schools and public meetings, made vaccination mandatory (yes, vaccine mandate!), and in December, declared a curfew, while vaccination teams go from door to door administering vaccines to practically EVERY one of the 200000+ residents in the islands. By year's end, it's estimated that 94% of the eligible population has been vaccinated, and the outbreak ended. 

The nearby islands such as Tonga and Fiji have all declared a state of emergency in 2019, but due to their own high vaccination rate, was not hit hard by the crisis. 

All in all, there were 79 deaths and 5520 cases due to measles, out of 200874 population in Samoa.  33% of cases required hospitalization. That number should be at most, a handful. Measles is a vaccine-preventable disease that we had prevented for decades.  

Why did Samoa's vaccination rate fell to 35%? Because in 2018, a nurse prepared the MMR vaccine wrong (instead of saline, she mixed the vaccine with expired anesthetic). Two children died. The mistakes were quickly identified, but anti-vax organizations touted this as proof of "harmful vaccine" and when the cause was identified, "cover-up for vaccine harm". During the 2019 outbreak, antivaxxers continued to spread misinformation, blaming the deaths on "malnutrition", or "vitamins deficiency", or even "immune deficiency". All of which are debunked, but the misinformation campaign was not stopped. The head antivaxxer declared on Facebook "I'll be here to mop up your mess" and "Enjoy your killing spree". Samoa government arrested the head antivaxxer in December 2019 for inciting against emergency government order. The head antivaxxer was later released on bail and eventually charges were dropped. 

Then 2020 came along, and now it is mainland US's turn. 21 months later, and we have lost 659K people due to COVID (as of 10-SEP-2021)  Sure, we had to start from ZERO, but we've had 9 MONTHS to vaccinate the nation to achieve herd immunity. We're not even close. As of mid-August, barely over half of Americans have had 2 shots. We don't know what the R number for COVID is, but we have to make the worst-case assumption: we need 90-95% vaccination like measles. 

Samoa's outbreak was stopped when the disinformation campaign stopped and the government made the harsh decision to close everything and instituted a vaccine mandate. Outbreak was contained in months. 

We are at 21 months and counting. Sure, we spent 12 months getting the vaccine ready, so let's just count 9 months. And we thought we turned the corner on COVID. 

But with the low as **** vaccination rate, vaccine hesitancy on the rise, the economy barely chugging, and antivaxxers spreading false treatments both in 2020 and 2021... and now the Delta Variant, and maybe the scary Mu variant... 

We are now WORSE than we were in 2020. In fact, US is now the MOST COVID INFECTED COUNTRY IN THE WORLD!!! Worse than Russia, India, Iran, China, Turkey, etc. ! 

This outbreak will end only one way: when it runs out of people to infect. Whether that's by death of said people... or by vaccination of the same people... is purely up to those people. 

Frankly, I'm ready for my third shot, when it's offered. 

And the rest of you who don't want it... 

Just don't infect the rest of us while you practice your "freedom". 

MORE COVIDiocy: 1 DEAD and 1 Critical of Ivermectin Overdose in New Mexico

 New Mexico officials announced 2 ivermectin overdose cases to the public, that one man is dead, and one man is in critical condition. According to New Mexico Human Services Secretary Dr. David Scrase, while the death is "without firm documentation", a full investigation would take WEEKS and he believes that the cause of ivermectin overdose is "reliable" and putting the warning out in the public, and prevent any further deaths from Ivermectin overdose, is more important than getting the cause of death 100% right 4 weeks later. 

So now it's confirmed, folks. Ivermectin can KILL YOU, esp. if you use the veterinary version meant for cows and horses that weigh several times more than you and have VERY different digestive systems. There is absolutely NO benefit for taking them. The manufacturer said so. The FDA said so. There are NO high-quality studies that show positive results using it on COVID. Only a few people without evidence other than their own rhetoric say it works. 

But by all means, it's YOUR choice. 

Don't be a COVIDiot. 

More COVIDiocy: How had we sunk this far?

Today is 9/11, the day when the largest terrorist attack on US soil took 3000+ lives in moments. 

Today also marks a time that it has been more than 20 months since COVID first appeared in the US, and it has claimed 659K lives since then in the US alone (check on Google for latest CDC data). 

In fact, on September 10th alone, CDC recorded 2418 deaths, in the US. And the trend is still upwards. We may see deaths surpassing 3000 daily in a few days. 

US COVID Daily Deaths for 9/10/21 = 2418... and rising

Yet it seems some people are so desperate to go back to normal, they are ignoring the deaths and prefer to tout "right to choose". 

Texas Governor Abbot infamously tweeted that he will defend the Texans' "right to choose" when the Biden administration announced some sweeping vaccine mandates in a few months. How he can tweet that, having signed the anti-abortion law which limits Texas women's "right to choose" not too long ago, signifies the broken Republican moral system, and clearly, his own broken hypocrisy detector. But let's not get into that at the moment. 

It seems a lot of Federal Worker Unions are not going to be onboard the vaccine mandate train, so to speak. Many have carefully worded their response as "workers should have a choice in their own working conditions" or similar verbiage. 

Translation: "You can't tell me what to do!" (Even though it's the right thing to do, like masking up, or getting vaccinated.)

Who says that? Entitled people, i.e. the "Karens" of the world. 

One Florida parent was arrested when he got physical with a student who started filming him without a mask on inside the school. The guy was already warned several times for not wearing a mask despite school policy. So he was basically provoking a reaction. 

In California, a man got into fisticuffs with a teacher who was trying to protect the principal as the man yelled profanities over the school's mask policy. He was arrested for assault and battery. 

In Austin, Texas, several parents started yelling at the teachers who chose to stay masked during a meet-the-teachers meeting. One parent even yanked the mask off a teacher's face. The two cases had shaken the community. (FWIW, Governor Abbot of Texas, whom we mentioned earlier, also signed an order PROHIBITING mask mandates)

Please keep in mind that Florida, Texas, and California are the most populous states in the US, and therefore, COVID hotbeds, with the most cases... and deaths. 

Given that we can't vaccinate the kids yet, at least those under 12 years of age, the only way to protect them was to mask them, and the teachers, and all the school employees, and EVERYONE around them (including the parents, relatives, and so on).  It'd be better they all get vaccinated too, but it takes weeks for the vaccination to reach full potency (the antibodies get made).  Masking is immediate. 

So people opposing the masks are basically saying "my right to NOT cover my face is more important than protecting the kids". 

COVID is not merciful. Given half of US population is fully vaccinated, the new COVID cases are almost exclusively of the unvaccinated, and sadly, that includes children. Infants. Babies. EVEN THE UNBORN. Yes, COVID also causes fetal deaths. And we've earlier covered a case where a 4-year old went from fever to death in mere HOURS. Children are now over 20% of new COVID cases in several different states. 

In 2020, we thought we had survived COVID because we didn't get the huge wave of casualties like China when the entire medical system was overwhelmed in Wuhan. 

It is now 2021, and ICUs across the country are filling up with COVID patients with a good number of them children. Several states have started or are preparing for "rationing care" because they only have so much resources available to fight COVID. First state to do so was Idaho. Care to guess which party is Idaho's governor? You guess it: Republican. It is just so ironic to see how Sarah Palin (Republican) tried to push the narrative of a "death panel" in the 2009 political debate, and it is now forced into practice... 

The Republican party has governors in two out of three most populous (and thus, most COVID) states. DeSantis in Florida, and Abbott in Texas. BOTH have signed mask anti-mandate orders for their state in the name of "freedom for the parents". 

It is no coincidence that many reports of overwhelmed hospitals have surfaced from both Texas and Florida. Texas had run out of ICU space near Houston, and Florida is believed to have less than 10% space left in ICU as of mid-August.

Is freedom really worth THAT much death, esp. of children? 

Or perhaps..

"The needs of the many, outweighs the needs of the few"?

Scary COVID: Texas 4-year old died only HOURS after manifesting fever, later confirmed COVID

UPDATE: Autopsy completed in November says while Kali is indeed sick of COVID, the actual cause of death is undetermined. 

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 The story was simple and heartbreaking: Kali was a vivacious 4-year old girl living her life in Galveston County, Texas. Her mom was anti-vax and did NOT get vaxxed. She tested positive for COVID and was self-isolating at home. And Kali, being 4, can't be vaccinated as the vaccine was not approved for children that young. 

One night, she had a fever at 2AM on Tuesday, the day after her mom was diagnosed with COVID and was self-isolating at home. Kali's grandma gave her some fever reducer and put her to bed. At 7AM, just hours later, grandma went to check on Kali. She was not breathing. Kali would never see her 5th birthday. Post-mortem examination confirmed little Kali died from COVID. 

Mom expressed regret in not getting vaccination sooner. 

“I ended up getting COVID and was diagnosed on Monday,” Harwood (mom) said. “I came home and was isolated. I tried to stay away from her and didn’t want her and my other kids to get it.”

When asked about her vaccination and her thoughts on it:

Harwood said she wasn’t vaccinated.

“I was one of the people that was anti, I was against it,” she said. “Now, I wish I never was.”

 If you won't get vaxxed because you don't believe in it, would you do it for the children? 

More COVIDiocy: When are the "vaccine hesitant" liars going to admit they are liars?

 Remember a few months ago, some "vaccine-hesitant" people claim that they are waiting for FDA approval? At least that's what the polls say, that they are "more likely" to vaccinate if FDA gave full approval to the vaccines. 

Well, FDA approved the Pfizer COVID vaccine on August 23rd, 2021. 

And it's been more than two weeks since then. Did the vaccination rate pick up? 

Unsurprisingly, the answer is "NO!"  They lied. 

TheWhyAxis graphed the "daily vaccine doses administered, 7 day average" from July 10th (start to get really worried about Delta variant) to September 8th, 2021. The vaccination rate actually DROPPED slightly after August 23rd.  Please ignore the drop at the beginning of September as it also corresponds with Labor Day festivities and report pauses. 

So what was the excuse this time from the antivaxxers? 

"The approval was rushed."  It used to be "I'm waiting for approval."

They always have one excuse after another. 

Remember sign #5 of bullshitters? "Always delay the day of reckoning". 

And that's what antivaxxers are doing: bullshitting us. Polluting science discussions with bullshit. 

Don't be a COVIDiot. Get vaxxed. #putkidsfirst

More COVIDiotcy: Mississippi is losing unvaxxed pregnant mothers and kids (that can't be vaxxed) to COVID

The Daily Beast reported that Mississippi recorded its FIRST infant death due to COVID... since the pandemic began. There is also a surge of pediatric deaths, as well as death of eight pregnant women. 

The baby did not even make it to his or her 1st birthday. 

There are EIGHT reports in the past few weeks of pregnant mothers who died, and all are unvaxxed. Doctors are forced to perform C-sections in the ICU to rescue babies as their mothers inched closer to death. Something like this just do NOT happen pre-COVID. 

Mississippi also reported 72 "fetal death" (death in the womb after 20 weeks) among unvaccinated pregnant mothers with COVID. In other words, you may make it, but your baby may not. COVID increased the chances of pregnant mothers losing their babies. 

But wait, there's more. Mississippi also recorded more pediatric deaths in the last six weeks than the first 17 MONTHS of COVID. 

A full 22% of new COVID cases in Mississippi are of children between 5-17. Keep in mind that vaccines are not fully approved for children, only those that are older than 12. So there's no way to protect the younger children yet except mask them up, and get everyone around them vaccinated.  

Don't be a COVIDiot. #putkidsfirst #getvaxxed 

COVIDiocy Denied: Woman Who Harassed Mother/Daughter in Public ID'ed and Job Terminated

Newsweek reported that an anti-mask "Karen" by the name of Janene Hoskovec in Lincoln, Nebraska not only refused to abide by local mask mandate (even for vaxxed folks), she deliberately provoked a mother/daughter pair by calling them "scared" and "sheep", then when she was requested to mask up, deliberate "coughed" on them. The whole thing was caught on camera from multiple angles, which did not deter the Karen. She kept following the mother/daughter group around the store and shouted more taunts. 

This Karen is Type II: Vigilante Karen, out of the four types I've identified. 

Vigilante Karens, for their own reasons, chose to take on someone else's problem, even though there is either no problem or it is none of their business. Vigilante Karens believe they are in the right, despite her horrible behavior, and either cannot see their behavior as horrible, or believe the ends justify the means. 

This one somehow believes that her anti-mask views equate to a moral superiority that gave her "cause" to harass people who chose to obey the law and mask up. It's not okay that only she disobey the law. She felt the need to yell at other people who follow the law because everyone else is wrong and she's right. 

This Karen was quickly identified by name via her own LinkedIn page, and her employer, SAP, apparently terminated her position on Wednesday (9/8/2021). 

Don't be a Karen. 

More COVIDiocy: Multiple States Overwhelmed by COVID Delta due to Unvaxxed

 CBS News reported that near Houston, Texas, hospitals are running out of COVID ICU bed space that transfer time is now several DAYS. The timer for a transfer is usually measured in MINUTES, tens of minutes, and occasionally, hundreds of minutes. But it should never go into THOUSANDS of minutes. Yet a patient more than an hour away from one of the largest concentrations of hospitals (80+ hospitals near Houston) is unable to find an ICU bed to take him for FIVE DAYS. ALL of the hospitals are overflowing with COVID patients. El Campo Hospital's ER has 19 COVID patients and 1 non-COVID patient. And it's been like that "for three weeks", according to Dr. Kakli. On the day Dr. Kakli finally found a bed for the patient in a Houston hospital, 5 NEW COVID patients were admitted. NONE were vaccinated. CBS News had previously reported that a Texas man who got gallstone pancreatitis died because all the other ICU bed spaces were taken up by COVID patients. 

Idaho health officials have enacted "crisis standards of care" in 10 hospitals due to the overwhelming number of COVID cases. Residents are warned that they may NOT get the care they normally expect if they are hospitalized, esp. in northern parts of the state. Hospitals are now allowed to triage and reserve the treatment for the patients most likely to survive. Due to staff shortage, it is simply not possible to have one critical nurse per patient. Now, it's one critical care nurse and two non-critical care nurses watching over up to six patients. And hospitals are quickly turning conferences rooms and classrooms into temporary COVID wards, and many ER patients are left in the lobby or corridors. Rural hospitals are finding it nearly impossible to transfer trauma patients to the larger city hospitals. 

It is worth noting that Idaho BARELY avoided declaring this step last year by ordering a state partial shutdown and slow reactivation. 

Idaho Governor Little has already called in available aid from both the Federal government and the National Guard to help. It may not be enough. Idaho has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the US. 

In other news, Hawaii governor David Ige has signed legislation releasing hospitals and staff from liability should an outbreak force the medical services to triage and ration health care. Despite orders to limit outdoor events to 25 or less, and indoor events to 10 or less, Honolulu police had to break up SEVERAL large events over the labor day weekend. With ICU and ER at capacity, Hawaiian officials fear the worst, as labor day can be another super-spreader event that will finally push the system over the breaking point, and they would be forced to implement care rationing. 

Finally, several Oregon counties are requesting refrigerated trucks because their morgue is at or over capacity due to COVID cases, and the casualties are WORSE in 2021 than 2020. 

In other words, if you are unvaxxed, expect to get sick, expect to NOT get the normal level of care, because all the unvaxxed people are getting sick. And if you died, you may not get buried in a timely manner either. 

Don't be a COVIDiot. Get vaxxed ASAP. 

COVIDiocy Denied: Different Judge Threw Out the Ohio Court Order for Ivermectin Treatment, but Senators Politicize Science

 Previously we reported an Ohio case where a judge agreed with the plaintiff who wanted ivermectin treatment for her husband sick with COVID. The hospital refused. and the wife sued, and won the first round. 

A different judge has reversed the previous court ruling. On Monday, Judge Michael Oster issued an order reversing the earlier decision, citing lack of convincing evidence that the drug could significantly improve the patient's condition. 

What the lawsuit had made clear though:

• the doctor who made the prescription, Fred Wagshul, does NOT have medical privileges at the West Chester Hospital, where the plaintiff's husband is being treated on a ventilator. 
• furthermore, Wagshul, without ever seeing the patient, wrote a prescription for 30 mg of ivermectin for 21 days. For comparison, for deworming a 100 kg human (220 lb) the dosage is a SINGLE 20 mg dose. The medicine has NO demonstratable effect on virus, only on parasites. 

FDA has issued warnings that ivermectin is NOT a valid COVID treatment. But conservative media continued to push it. In fact, two senators went as far as accusing FDA of "being political". Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Senator Rand Paul (R-KY). Mainly because FDA issued warnings about ivermectin when reports surfaced that people are overdosing on ivermectin and ended up calling poison control or visit to the emergency room. 

Johnson reported told NYTimes that he considers FDA stance on approving vaccines and warning about ivermectin to be "all about... the political goal of having mandates", and he claims that he opposes mandates "unless there's some incredibly deadly disease". The only conclusion to be drawn here logically is Johnson does NOT consider COVID to be an "incredibly deadly disease", despite having killed 650K people in the US since 2020 (less than 24 months)

Rand Paul has a similar aversion to inconvenient scientific studies.  According to Paul, FDA doesn't like those who conduct experimental treatments of COVID-19. He basically claimed that ivermectin, similar to hydroxychloroquine, is being ignored because Trump had promoted them and science hates Trump. Given that Paul was once an ophthalmologist, clearly he had forgotten ALL of his medical training, including "do no harm". And since he had claimed that he's keeping an open mind, he must be using "double-speak", where "keeping an open mind" means cherry-picking on what he wants to believe and discarding the inconvenient truths. 

Don't be a COVIDiot. Get vaxxed. 

More COVIDiocy: Missouri Patients Donned Disguises and Vaxxed In Secret Because Antivaxxers

 Apparently, in Missouri, anti-vax sentiments are so public and toxic, people opted for secret vaccinations by donning disguises. 

In an episode of CNN's Anderson Cooper in July 2021, as reported by Vanity Fair, doctors and pharmacists have received requests to keep the patient's identity private. Many have donned disguises so they are not recognized by anti-vaxxers in their lives. 

Apparently, having "common sense" is not a desired quality in the south. 

Many public officials wishing to protect the public with mask mandate or vaccine mandate are openly threatened, often in public meetings.  

COVIDiocy Regret: Vaccine Hesitant 25-yr old lost BOTH lungs to COVID, saved by transplant

A Georgia man by the name of Blake Bargatze was "vaccine hesitant", and basically will NOT take the vaccine "until it's been out ten years", according to his mother. Unfortunately for him, he caught COVID in April, and had to go on a ventilator. In June, he got a new set of lungs, and he lived. He told Insider, "They [the old lungs] were riddled with holes. I was just fortunate enough to not have multiple organ failures." 

He believed he caught COVID from a concert he attended in March, where he was masked, but not vaccinated. 

His message to the "vaccine hesitant"?

"I'm trying to make people become more aware of what realistically can happen with this virus. It's just not worth the risk,"

Yes, he lived, but he's taking 50 pills a day for recovery and anti-rejection for his organs.  

Don't regret NOT getting the vaccine like Blake. He'll have to take the pills FOR LIFE due to the lung transplants. 

Don't be a COVIDiot. Get vaxxed. 

More COVIDiocy: Ivermectin Desperados Threaten Vet Clinics For Heartgard

 This is not on the news, but the relative of a friend. 

Apparently some guy bullied his way into a veterinary clinic's treatment area demanding access to Heartgard, a heartworm medicine for dogs and cats. 

Why? Its primary ingredient is, you guessed it, ivermectin, the nonsense "wonder" ingredient COVIDiots believe can treat COVID. 

The guy allegedly played the race card, "You won't sell me Heartgard because I'm black."

The clinic called 911, and the crazy guy left before the police arrived. 

No, they won't sell you Heartgard because it's meant for DOGS or CATS. 

Is this sign of things to come: robbery, then armed robbery of veterinary clinics? Smash and grab? Looting?

More COVIDiocy: Ivermectin Overdose Cases in Oklahoma Overloaded Hospitals and Ambulances

 KFOR (Oklahoma) heard from an ER doctor that hospitals and ambulances are overloaded with ivermectin overdose cases, causing a delay of service for other trauma patients. 

In case you need a reminder, ivermectin is generally used to deworm horses and cattle. It is approved for human use, but in a vastly reduced dosage for internal worms and parasites. 

Ivermectin was NEVER approved for COVID. Its manufacturer and FDA says it doesn't work on COVID. So far only ONE RETRACTED study says it works on COVID. It wasn't peer-reviewed or replicated. So there is NO evidence that it works on COVID. 

Yet various antivax groups and even a supposed COVID "crisis" doctor group claimed it works wonders on COVID. 

Previously we've covered a judge who ORDERED a hospital to treat a COVID patient with ivermectin in Ohio. 

Now we are getting reports that rural Oklahoma citizens are self-dosing with ivermectin meant for animals, and many overdosed. Harm includes nausea, vomiting, muscle aches, cramps... for the MINOR cases. One had vision loss. 

And we may not have seen the worst. 

You are not a doctor (unless you are, in which case, ignore me). If you take medicine, you should consult a doctor. Only COVIDiots take medicine recommended by someone over the Internet. 

Don't be a COVIDiot. Get Vaxxed. 

COVID + MLM = Superspreader Event, multiple deaths confirmed

 According to news reports, a Colorado woman, who is COVID-19 vaccinated, credited her vaccine for her not catching COVID at a Las Vegas convention for the MLM Paparazzi Jewelry. 

Ms. Baird, who is a nurse in Colorado offering hyperbaric treatment for difficult wounds, went to Las Vegas for a few days and attended the Paparazzi Jewelry convention on the final day. Her group was mostly unvaxxed. While they were wearing masks, they were in pretty close contact with about 20000 other attendees. Upon return, her entire group tested positive for COVID within 24 hours. 

NOTE: While the news story did not identify the specific convention, which was described as a "jewelry event", the photos provided match the Paparazzi Jewelry convention held in early August. Paparazzi's website posted that the convention was held August 2-4 in Las Vegas MGM Grand for their 10th anniversary. 

Social media posts were plenty about attendees diagnosed with COVID upon returning from the convention. People tracking social media posts for the MLM said at least 8 deaths were directly linked to attendees. 

Don't be a COVIDiot. Get vaxxed. 

More COVIDiocy, and Antivaxxers in General

 One of the most common antivaxxer claims is "I've done my research, and I conclude vaccines are unsafe!"

Well, this tweet from Edzard Ernst sums up my position really well:

pic.twitter.com/jbhjbCcghV

— Edzard Ernst (@EdzardErnst) September 3, 2021

To paraphrase: unless you've done or can cite a proper double-blinded peer-reviewed scientific study, all you've demonstrated is you can use Google to feed your own confirmation bias.   

More COVIDiots: Fake vaccine carder, and antimasker decided to show his wee-wee...

 An Illinois COVIDiot decided her Hawaii vacation is reason enough to violate Hawaii's 10-day COVID quarantine should you arrive without proof of vaccination. So she decided to fake her vaccine card. Except she can't spell Moderna. She wrote "Maderna" on her fake card instead. In fact, she claimed to be vaccinated by the national guard in Delaware. But even then, Hawaiian officials checked with her home state of Illinois (vaccinated in Delaware? Really?)... Which replied she has no vaccination records there for COVID. So they arrested her... Yes, it really went down like that. 

A Canadian COVIDiot was told to please wear a mask at Dairy Queen in Port Alberni. Instead of complying, he decided to argue about it. When he can't prove he warrants a medical exemption, he chose to demonstrate his exemption with his weewee and urinated on the counter. Now he has the Mounties (Canadian police) out looking for him. You seriously can't make this **** up. 

In Florida, already with some of the highest COVID rates in the US, some parents are screaming "people are hospitalized wearing masks" and "stifling (children) their education" regarding a school board discussion on mask mandate for school kids. One guy even claimed that you should NOT mask the children because it makes them easier to abduct by child predators. The CNN correspondent Don Lemon was TOTALLY shocked. This is his tweet with the footage from the school meeting. 

Take This: Tempers flare and fists fly over a school mask mandate in Florida’s Lee County. @donlemon has the shocking video from inside and outside the school board meeting. Watch: pic.twitter.com/n38kxLhXbZ

— Don Lemon Tonight (@DonLemonTonight) September 1, 2021