Bending Reality to the Extreme
We’ve talked at length about QAnon adherents bending reality, believing wild conspiracy theories, being anti-vaxxers, anti-mask, anti-science, and anti-common sense. Most amazing about this phenomenon, though, is there absolute devotion to their delusion to the point of dying for it. To wit, I give you Veronica Wolski, a high profile QAnon advocate from Chicago, who publicly protested against masks, vaccines, and against all things not Trump and who died of COVID this week. Her dying is not the story, though; the story was that Lin Wood (yes, THAT Lin Wood) whipped up a QAnon protest last week in an attempt to force the hospital she was in to administer Ivermectin, the horse de-wormer, as treatment for COVID. He has now declared that the hospital, Amita Health Resurrection Medical Center, caused her death through…wait for it…malpractice. He’s also made the same claim against the hospitals where Herman Cain died and another right wing activist and GOP party operative Presley Stutts. Of course, Cain and Stutts died after being infected while not practicing normal masking and distancing protocols. In fact, it’s likely that Cain was infected at the Trump campaign rally in Tulsa.
In an unrelated story, the fifth hate radio talker died this week. He was Bob Enyart, an anti-science talking head and bible thumping preacher. He was a charming fellow who made his career by bashing AIDS patients, calling for the death penalty for women who received abortions, and spreading the lie that the vaccines were made from aborted fetal tissue. The irony is so thick you can cut it with a knife.
The stupidity of these people wouldn’t be so bad if they were only killing themselves, but they’re risking the lives of many other people AND stressing the medical staffs who are having to risk their own lives to treat these self destructive idiots.
Jesus. Literally.
Looks like they have created their own “death panel”, and without any help from Obamacare
1Just in my everyday life I come in contact (within6 feet) of a dozen or more people. I’ve had the vaccine but still worry that I might get a breakthrough case. It makes me angry that I’ve done the right thing, yet I’m still having to be so wary because these nimrods are encouraging bad behavior. I don’t wish death on people, but, as they say, Karma is a bitch.
2I read that Pastor Bob Enyart on his radio program would gloat over the deaths of Aids patients to the tune of “Another One Bites The Dust.”
WWJD? Probably not that.
3Although I’m sure everyone here has gotten their vaccination, go to El Jefe’s first link and space down to see the side-by-side photos of Wolski.
On the left, her bloviating some crank nonsense. On the right, her bruised-looking and intubated face as she is dying.
I wonder if some of the Qidiots will have a come-to-Jesus moment after seeing that?
4Today I saw that Betadine was trending on Twitter, so I checked it out. Sure enough, some of the loonyquacks have decided that gargling or ingesting Betadine would keep the COVID away. Well, why not? It worked for bleach, after all…
Next thing you know, they’ll decide to give toilet bowl cleaner a try. I’d suggest the Clorox brand, because it has bleach in it.
5For some reason I keep thinking of the Rev. Jim Jones and the purple Kool Aid. That was 1978. Over 900 dead. Here’s a refresher for those who don’t remember.
https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/jonestown-13-things-you-should-know-about-cult-massacre-121974/
“Drink, children, drink.”
6RE 4 & 5 — Betadine? What’s next, gargling arsenic?!
What Would Jesus Do (WWJD? or W.W.J.D.)? Consider other’s health? Seems likely.
BTW, the origin story of WWJD is quite ironic as well!
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/06/origin-jesus-slogan/
7If the dewormer is the cure WHY did they go to a hospital. Just stay home and drink it down…hypocrites
8Come on GOP, you can do better than a mere five. With your lack of morality and empathy and hatred of science, it’s amazing the count isn’t much higher.
9I’m just glad Limbaugh went slow and painful.
Could someone explain difference between Q-anon beliefs and belief in celestial beings?
I prefer facts.
10I keep telling y’all, we are drowning in a rising tide of stupid!!!
11Once again: one-time annually 12 mg pill of Ivermectin is a standard dose for people dewormer, a boon to people in wormy locales, worth a Nobel Prize! It’s also used as a skin cream for rosacea, a skin condition. Which I have.
Horse dewormer is the kind of stupid over-simplifying that doesn’t say much for your intellect.
12It’s not stupidity, it’s addiction. Addiction is the only thing that can (and usually does) override the instinct to survive. In this case, it is an addiction to ideology.
13Re Betadine and COVID…
Here is a very small study. I would imagine if it were very helpful against COVID, it would receive so much more attention.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaotolaryngology/fullarticle/2775984
14Give them their ivermectin, make them sign a liability waiver and send em home. Open up the beds to people that need them but couldn’t get into a hospital and will follow the science. Had the anti vaxxers followed the science before, the odds were in their favor not to be in the hospital in the first place.
15I kind of wish trumpf had been treated with only ivermectin, and as much as he wanted.
And as for linn wood, the disgraced attorney is now an ambulance chaser. Sees $$ signs.
Hopefully, the hospital will seek sanctions against Lin Wood. Malpractice requires a showing that treatment was outside the standard of care. Ivermectin is outside the standard of care. Although hospitals could be sued for dispensing Ivermectin for an off-label use, there’s no way failing to dispense a drug for an off-label use meets the definition of malpractice.
On a side note – who was the doctor that prescribed the Ivermectin? If Lin Wood was the only person ordering the hospital to dispense Ivermectin, wouldn’t that mean he’s practicing medicine without a license?
Add another line to the complaint to the state bar…
16I referenced Betadine in my last piece. There is a difference in horse dewormer and the human form of Ivermectin. However, some people are not seeing the difference and going to feed stores.
17And they’re trying to get veterinarians to prescribe ivermectin to them. If there’s a difference between the human and animal version, they’ve already proven they’re to stupid to actually “do the research” by listening to the anti vaccine “experts” on right wing “news” and social media.
18Ormond: I think we use “horse dewormer” because it’s easier to spell than “Ivermectin”. Plus it’s more fun to refer to as such, although I would go with “large animal dewormer” to also include humans. It also provides the usual jokes (X dies the way he would have wanted to, gasping for breath and worm-free).
And thanks for the tip! My wife had rosacea some years ago, and I just checked our supply of old medicine waiting for a trip to the chemistry department incinerator. And sure enough, some off-brand of Ivermectin is in the pile. I’ll give you 10% of whatever it brings on Ebay, for pointing it out.
19But Lin, the NEW COVID treatment is now Betadine – which still will not work . Sadz .
20Slipstream at #6 makes the comparison to Jim Jones’s cult.
The comparison is not accurate though. They, Heaven’s Gate, and other such groups were suicide cults.
The Republican Party is turning into a homicide cult. They want to kill you, too.
A similar action would be if Jim Jones sent out people to force locals in Guyana to drink his Flavor-Aid / cyanide concoction.
21How on earth does Lin Wood still have a license to practice law–in ANY state?
22T’s & P’s:
https://images.dailykos.com/images/986705/large/tp.png
23RE: 22 Good question. And part of a larger question of institutional rot and failure of checks and balances throughout the US, starting with “why is “Individual Number 1” still facing relatively no penalties for arguably illegal behavior? Then go down the line and add names to this “why?” list: Mike Pence, Rudy G., Lindsey G., Brett Kavanaugh, Roger Stone, on and on.
The 1960s – 1970s expression “don’t do the crime if you cant do the time” seems ironic nowadays in many instances.
24No hospital is guilty of malpractice for following FDA guidelines. Lin Wood is certifiable.
I just saw a commercial for Lysol which made the claim that it kills the coronavirus (on countertops), which may be true. Bet you a dollar the “you won’t put that vaccine in my body” crowd are swigging it by next week.
25It’s possible that, for at least some of the Q-True Believers, the light might, just maybe, perhaps, be beginning to dawn.
Farron Cousins of Ring of Fire has reported that, after NONE of the Q predictions have come to pass over the past year or so, a few people are beginning to rub their eyes and say, “Wait, what? Has Q been pulling a fast on on us?”
Not many, to be sure, but a few have begun questioning The Omnipotent Q.
These are strange days, my friends.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzqBq7C4M74&ab_channel=TheRingofFire
26Buttermilk Sky @ 25:
27Lysol had better have put a warning in that commercial or at least on the bottle not to drink their product — or brace themselves for the inevitable lawsuits.
OK, just got to share a conversation I had with my older sister in Idaho (and yes, fux news is where she gets her info). She’s complaining that hospitals in the Boise area are prioritizing who gets admitted because they’re so slammed with covid patients. I just had my 3rd Moderna vaccine today (because of RA meds I take) and she’s refusing to get one. My other sibling lives in Boise, too, and refused his 2nd dose. She says it’s because there’s just not enough evidence they work and aren’t harmful. My response was 100’s of millions of people have taken the vaccines safely and are not the ones slamming the hospitals she’s complaining about. It’s the unvaccinated. I said if all those people had been vaccinated, the hospitalizations would be over 80% less. We live in 2 different realities. Glad I moved away from there 33 years ago.
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