Re: Spreadnecks: COVIDIOTS, Anti-Maskers, Anti-Vaxxers, Etc.
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2022 1:12 pm
The Darwin Awards are going to be a bitch to sort out this year.
Falsehoods Unchallenged Only Fester and Grow
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A thought crossed my mind when I read this.Czech Antivaxxers had been placing classified ads for covid-positive people to infect them.
EXACTLY!keith wrote: ↑Sun Jan 16, 2022 11:26 pm
Actually, the Visa was withdrawn because Djokovic was not vaccinated and could not produce a VALID medical exemption according to Australian Immigration law. The rules are well described on Government websites. Djokovic and his team have been coming to Australia (and all over the world) for almost 20 years and know how to ensure they are following the rules.When Mr Djokovic landed in Melbourne on January 5th he was detained for eight hours before officials cancelled his visa on the grounds that he is unvaccinated, and sent him to the Park Hotel to await deportation.
I think the Minister consulted with counsel to find the best legal argument to win the case.This event was what the first court hearing was about - not the merits of Djokovic' case, but whether the Border Force treated him properly according to Australian Law. Djokovic won at that hearing and was released.
However, Australian law gives the Minister of Immigration a final say. After deliberations and the public revelation that Djokovic had in fact lied on his immigration entry form, his behaviour violating Covid-19 isolation protocols after a positive test result, and real doubts about whether he actually did conveniently, at just the right time, contract Covid-19 at all - the Minister decided to withdraw the visa again. I cannot say how much those revelations affected the Ministers decision because he did not cite them in his decision (as far as I know anyway). I suspect he didn't want to out and out officially brand him as a liar, but they certainly fed the anger of the man in the street. He rejected the visa on 'character' grounds, but I would think that his well known anti-vax attitude and his behaviour after a positive test (either he was lying or he was purposely trying to infect school children) must have weighed on the 'character' decision.
Djokovic appealed the Minister's decision - arguing that he had not taken everything into account - and lost.
Recently the French Sports Minister Roxane Maracineanu told Djokovic he'd be welcome at the French Open.Novak Djokovic could be barred from playing in the French Open as things stand now after the Sports Ministry said Monday there would be no exemption from France's new vaccine law.
But even as he flew home, doubts arose over whether Djokovic would be allowed to play at Roland Garros.
France's vaccine pass law, approved by parliament on Sunday, will require people to have a certificate of vaccination to enter public places such as sports venues, restaurants, cafes, cinemas and long-distance trains.
"The rule is simple. The vaccine pass will be imposed, as soon as the law is promulgated, in establishments that were already subject to the health pass," the ministry said.
"This will apply to everyone who is a spectator or a professional sportsperson. And this until further notice.
"Now, as far as Roland Garros is concerned, it's in May. The situation may change between now and then and we hope that it will be more favourable. So we'll see, but clearly there's no exemption."
He is also the defending champion at Wimbledon, which begins in late June. But so far, England has allowed exemptions from various coronavirus regulations for visiting athletes, if they remain at their accommodation when not competing or training. The U.S. Tennis Association, which runs the US Open, has said it will follow government rules on vaccination status.
More than 95% of all of the top 100 men and women in their tours' respective rankings are vaccinated. At least two other men -- American Tennys Sandgren and Frenchman Pierre-Hugues Herbert -- skipped the first major tournament of the year -- the Australian Open -- due to the vaccine requirement.
Asked if Djokovic would face any penalties for flouting his isolation while being infected when he returns to Serbia, Serbian officials said he would not because the country is not in a state of emergency.
Djokovic’s unvaccinated status could be problematic when it comes time for the U.S. Open, a tournament he has won three times. Visitors to the United States must be fully vaccinated if not a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident or traveling to the United States on an immigrant visa.
There are exceptions to this rule, but most of them would not seem to apply to Djokovic. He could claim to have a documented medical contraindication to receiving a coronavirus vaccine or could seek a humanitarian or emergency exception from the U.S. government.
People from countries that have limited coronavirus vaccine availability also may seek an exception to the vaccination requirement, but Djokovic’s home nation of Serbia is not on the list of such countries (nearly all of them are in Africa).
Covid karma.(PROVIDENCE, R.I.)— A Rhode Island man who is believed to have faked his death and fled the U.S. to evade prosecution in Utah and other states has been apprehended in Scotland after being hospitalized with COVID-19, authorities said.
Nicholas Alahverdian was discovered after developing a serious case of the coronavirus and being placed on a ventilator at a hospital in Glasgow, Rhode Island State Police Maj. Robert Creamer told The Providence Journal on Wednesday. Alahverdian, 34, who had been a vocal critic of Rhode Island’s child welfare system in recent years, now faces extradition to the U.S. to face a charge of first-degree rape in Utah.
I'm sure he will. I've listed the countries where Djokovic has competed in the past 10 years.
It may sound like here, now. however, the full article says:“I will stab anyone who comes to my house with..."
This dangerous hostility to immunization teams flared last week after religious hardliners in the city spread false rumors, raising a scare on social media that some children were being poisoned and dying from contaminated ...
This is a 2019 article from Reuters about the resistance to Polio vaccination in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the final two endemic countries (the new cases are mainly in the border area). Our right-wing sounds just like their right-wing. Mentioning how they are doing the same as the hardline Islamic folks probably will not change their mind, sadly.“I will stab anyone who comes to my house with polio drops,” Khan growled, refusing to be filmed or photographed as he shopped in a fly-blown bazaar on the outskirts of Peshawar, a city scarred by years on the frontline of Islamist militancy in Pakistan.
This dangerous hostility to immunization teams flared last week after religious hardliners in the city spread false rumors, raising a scare on social media that some children were being poisoned and dying from contaminated polio vaccines.
The rumors spread like wildfire, triggering mass panic in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Mobs burned a village health center, blocked a highway and pelted cars with stones. Medical workers were harassed and threatened.
Mosques made announcements that children were having cramps, vomiting and diarrhea after they were given “poisonous” polio drops. Word went out on social media that some children had died.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-paki ... SKCN1S9051
https://www.vox.com/first-person/222565 ... ia-programIn the early 2010s, the CIA ran a fake vaccination program in Abbottabad, offering free Hepatitis B vaccines to children in an attempt to collect DNA evidence linking Osama bin Laden to the compound where he was suspected of residing. It is unclear how samples were to be collected or how they would lead to bin Laden, but when news of this scheme broke, it added proof to existing conspiracy theories about vaccinations. As a consequence, many local leaders began urging people not to vaccinate their kids, various districts banned vaccination teams, and the Taliban issued a fatwa against vaccination programs. To this day, local leaders rail against vaccines as Western spying programs.
This guyKendra wrote: ↑Mon Jan 17, 2022 7:36 pm Kinda OT, but I don't know where else to put it.
https://time.com/6139574/faked-death-co ... Q_Bj9raT2s
Covid karma.(PROVIDENCE, R.I.)— A Rhode Island man who is believed to have faked his death and fled the U.S. to evade prosecution in Utah and other states has been apprehended in Scotland after being hospitalized with COVID-19, authorities said.
Nicholas Alahverdian was discovered after developing a serious case of the coronavirus and being placed on a ventilator at a hospital in Glasgow, Rhode Island State Police Maj. Robert Creamer told The Providence Journal on Wednesday. Alahverdian, 34, who had been a vocal critic of Rhode Island’s child welfare system in recent years, now faces extradition to the U.S. to face a charge of first-degree rape in Utah.
A few months old but this article claims the Taliban is now on board with renewing polio immunizations. It also says there'd been only one wild case of polio in 2021 after a couple years of increases, so there's a faint hope of knocking it out in Afghanistan. Faint. You'll also see fears it sterilizes children of Islamic faith--not unlike our own anti-vaxxers' refrain about sterilizations.raison de arizona wrote: ↑Mon Jan 17, 2022 10:56 pm Unfortunately, the CIA screwed up vaccinations in those countries. Their right wing actually has valid things to point to, thanks to us.
https://www.vox.com/first-person/222565 ... ia-programIn the early 2010s, the CIA ran a fake vaccination program in Abbottabad, offering free Hepatitis B vaccines to children in an attempt to collect DNA evidence linking Osama bin Laden to the compound where he was suspected of residing. It is unclear how samples were to be collected or how they would lead to bin Laden, but when news of this scheme broke, it added proof to existing conspiracy theories about vaccinations. As a consequence, many local leaders began urging people not to vaccinate their kids, various districts banned vaccination teams, and the Taliban issued a fatwa against vaccination programs. To this day, local leaders rail against vaccines as Western spying programs.
Looks like a government software built under time pressure and lacking some security feature.Dave from down under wrote: ↑Mon Jan 17, 2022 7:05 pm https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-18/ ... /100763308
The NSW Health Minister says he has been the victim of a fraudulent COVID test report and says those responsible for the "moronic" act will be punished.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/cri ... 447741001/Acting United States Attorney Richard G. Frohling of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on June 8, 2021, Steven R. Brandenburg (age: 46) of Grafton, Wisconsin, was sentenced to 36 months’ imprisonment for tampering with COVID vaccine doses at the hospital at which he worked. Brandenburg will also be required to spend three years on supervised release following his prison sentence and was ordered to pay approximately $83,800 in restitution to the hospital.
Brandenburg pleaded guilty on February 9, 2021, to two counts of attempting to tamper with consumer products with reckless disregard for the risk that another person would be placed in danger of death or bodily injury.
According to court documents, Brandenburg purposefully removed a box of COVID-19 vaccine vials manufactured by Moderna—which must be stored at specific cold temperatures to remain viable—from a hospital refrigeration unit during two successive overnight shifts in late December 2020. According to his plea agreement, Brandenburg stated that he was skeptical of vaccines in general and the Moderna vaccine specifically. Court documents indicate that Brandenburg had communicated his beliefs about vaccines to his co-workers for at least the past two years.
Brandenburg acknowledged that after leaving the vaccines out for several hours each night, he returned the vaccines to the refrigerator to be used in the hospital’s vaccine clinic the following day. Before the full extent of Brandenburg’s conduct was discovered, 57 people received doses of the vaccine from these vials.
ps - Not sure.. with my employer you get the normal sick leave provisions (I have about 2 years of accrued sick leave) plus 20 days special leave (which can be used as a carer plus the usual 5 day a year carers leave).. I'll have a look...RTH10260 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 17, 2022 11:38 pmLooks like a government software built under time pressure and lacking some security feature.Dave from down under wrote: ↑Mon Jan 17, 2022 7:05 pm https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-18/ ... /100763308
The NSW Health Minister says he has been the victim of a fraudulent COVID test report and says those responsible for the "moronic" act will be punished.
PS. when one registers a positive outcome (nobdy comes to check the self-test), will that grant immediate paid medical leae from work like in the UK last year?
IIRC, there was already difficulty with their right-wing on immunizations before the CIA found ways to make it worse.raison de arizona wrote: ↑Mon Jan 17, 2022 10:56 pm Unfortunately, the CIA screwed up vaccinations in those countries. Their right wing actually has valid things to point to, thanks to us.
https://www.vox.com/first-person/222565 ... ia-programIn the early 2010s, the CIA ran a fake vaccination program in Abbottabad, offering free Hepatitis B vaccines to children in an attempt to collect DNA evidence linking Osama bin Laden to the compound where he was suspected of residing. It is unclear how samples were to be collected or how they would lead to bin Laden, but when news of this scheme broke, it added proof to existing conspiracy theories about vaccinations. As a consequence, many local leaders began urging people not to vaccinate their kids, various districts banned vaccination teams, and the Taliban issued a fatwa against vaccination programs. To this day, local leaders rail against vaccines as Western spying programs.
It is a well paid profession. Oh wellpipistrelle wrote: ↑Mon Jan 17, 2022 11:51 pm Pharmacist is not a poorly paid profession from what I recall. Just threw it away.
I found more info. I can't access all of the below info, so I'll share what I can see (paywall).
Both firefighters resigned before being fired. The pharmacist has been fired.On Oct. 18, 2021 a Washington state mandate went into effect that required most state employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19 as a condition of employment. Firefighters were included in this group. Some didn’t want to be forced into receiving the vaccine though. So they found ways around the mandate.
Two of these individuals were Douglas County Firefighter Josh Bollinger and Captain Seth Ellis, according to Douglas County Fire Protection District documents. Both men were district employees – until Oct. 27, 2021.
According to a “Notice of Pre-Discipline Hearing” document, Bollinger admitted to the local union president and Battalion Chief Phillips that he “obtained a forged vaccine card from Walgreens in East Wenatchee.”
“Bollinger was complaining to a crew mate that he did not want the second shot in the series. That crew mate told him to speak with Captain Ellis and stated that Ellis might know someone who could help him,” officials wrote.