Legal COVIDiocy Denied: Anti-Masker Got His Day In Court. Got Glorious Federal Judge Smackdown

There is a saying, "a lawyer who represents himself in court has a fool for a client". So when a civilian (read: non-lawyer), probably goaded on by antivaxxers, decided to sue Whole Foods for enforcing a local (Dedham, Massachusetts) mask mandate on January 4th, 2021 and going in "pro se" (without a lawyer, only as himself), you know things will get ugly... for the civilian. But let's lay out the case. 

Ryan Manning went to Whole Foods in Dedham, Massachusetts on Jan 4, 2021, without a mask. He was stopped by staff who asked him to mask up, and he refused. It was escalated to both the manager and head manager, both of whom told him he needs to mask up. Instead of complying, he left the premises  to call the police, alleged that his civil rights were being violated, then returned to the store with the police. The manager tried to offer him compromises, like doing the shopping for him, or giving him a health screening and a temperature check. Manning refused both. (It's obvious he's looking for a fight.) Why he won't wear a mask? He believes masks are used for satanic rituals so he won't wear one, and he refuses to "slowly commit suicide by lowering his immune system and depriving himself of oxygen". He eventually left. He filed the lawsuit in May 2021, with no less than EIGHT alleged violations of law:

1) Violated his first amendment rights to freedom of speech and religion (42 USC 1983)

2) Violated 18 USC 242 

3) Discriminated against him in public and violated 42 USC 2000a in two instances (counts as 2)

4) Conspiracy to interfere with his civil rights violating 42 USC 1985

5) Engaged in "unauthorized practice of medicine" against MA general laws CH 112 / 6

6) Harassed him

7) Falsely imprisoned him. 

Let's just say the judge eviscerated him in every count. 

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 

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.  

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