In countries where coronavirus vaccinations and booster shots are readily available, for free! to anyone who wants the them, we are experiencing a pandemic being unnecessarily prolonged by the aggressively, willfully ignorant. Many of whom are making a political statement by refusing to be vaccinated, but—once they dO become sick with COVID—will demand priority for strained healthcare resources, in already overwhelmed, understaffed and underfunded hospitals.
Funny how conservatives suddenly have big probs with the “free market” when their batshit crazy ideas get rejected. LOL. Look dude, the market has decided. Get over it, right?
Rand Paul was spreading anti-mask and vaccine misinformation. And he’s allegedly a “doctor”. One who voted against coronavirus funding. Who tf needs Russian bots when we have Republicans devoted to wreaking havoc in America?
PLEASE do not get me wrong here: YouTube is no saint by any stretch of the imagination. They’re a cold-blooded, capitalistic, profit motivated, multinational. But this one time? They got this one right. They should just fast forward and permanently ban him.
Oh, and remember: it’s not censorship unless the government is the one banning your free speech. YouTube is a privately owned company. So in conclusion, fuck Donald Trump, fuck Rand Paul and fuck Marjorie Taylor Greene. 😊
Republican governors in southern states seem to be in a rush to kill off their conservative, anti-vax, mask-hating constituents. Which, tbh I wouldn’t have a problem with ….if it was just them affected by their willfully aggressive ignorance. But their obstinate refusal to wear face masks and get vaccinated is putting a lot of innocent people at risk. Needlessly. Foolishly. And selfishly.
Federal investigators have learned that white supremacists discussed plans to use the coronavirus as a bioweapon, Yahoo News reported, citing a weekly intelligence brief from a division of the Department of Homeland Security.
"White Racially Motivated Violent Extremists have recently commented on the coronavirus stating that it is an 'OBLIGATION' to spread it should any of them contract the virus," the document said.
White supremacists suggested targeting law enforcement and "nonwhite" people in particular.
They floated options like leaving "saliva on door handles" at local FBI offices, spitting on elevator buttons, spreading the virus in "nonwhite neighborhoods," and being in public with their perceived enemies.
The brief covered the week of February 17-24 and was written by the Federal Protective Service.
It said violent extremists "continue to make bioterrorism a popular topic among themselves," adding: "White Racially Motivated Violent Extremists have recently commented on the coronavirus stating that it is an 'OBLIGATION' to spread it should any of them contract the virus."
The World Health Organization designated the novel coronavirus, which causes the disease COVID-19, a pandemic on March 11. To date, the disease has infected 311,989 people worldwide and killed 13,407. In the US there are 26,747 confirmed cases and 340 people have died.
A Texas man who thought vaccines were "poison" died from COVID-19 after spending 17 days in hospital on a ventilator.
Alan Scott Lanoix, a father of three boys from Katy, Texas, was too afraid to get a coronavirus shot and believed he had some level of immunity after he was exposed to the virus at work, according to 4WWL TV.
The 54-year-old tested positive in late May and became very unwell with COVID-19 and eventually died on June 9. His sons had to bury him on Father's Day, the local broadcaster reported.
His sister, Lisa Adler, is now urging others who are also "on the fence" about getting vaccinated to get a shot in her brother's memory, she told the local broadcaster.
WASHINGTON — Just three states are now driving the pandemic in the United States, as the divide between vaccinated and unvaccinated regions of the country becomes ever more stark, as the more transmissible Delta variant of the coronavirus spreads.
Forty percent of all new cases this week have been recorded in Florida, Texas and Missouri, White House pandemic response coordinator Jeff Zients revealed at a press briefing Thursday.
Florida alone accounts for 20 percent of all new cases nationally, Zients pointed out, a trend that has stretched into its second week.
Zients added that “virtually all” hospitalizations and deaths — a full 97 percent — are among unvaccinated people. “The threat is now predominantly only to the unvaccinated,” he said. A few vaccinated people do experience so-called breakthrough infections, but they tend to experience only mild COVID-19 illness, or no illness at all.