Spreadnecks: COVIDIOTS, Anti-Maskers, Anti-Vaxxers, Etc.

[filly]

He exercised his FREEDUMB not to get a vaccine. That worked out well.

[Frater I*I]

He exercised his FREEDUMB not to get a vaccine. That worked out well.

For society at least

[filly]

Both are vaccine refuseniks. Why is her heart saddened when Jesus welcomed him into heaven? Thoughts, prayers and FREEDUMB.

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

I wonder how people would react if they were asked to sign a document stating they agree to forego all medical treatment for COVID. They likely would sign it then get COVID and beg for medical treatment.

[MN-Skeptic]

I wonder how people would react if they were asked to sign a document stating they agree to forego all medical treatment for COVID. They likely would sign it then get COVID and beg for medical treatment.

Ahh... but it's NOT Covid! There are doctors and nurses who report that some patients dying of Covid refuse to believe that it is Covid which is killing them. Covid is no worse than a cold!

[Frater I*I]

Both are vaccine refuseniks. Why is her heart saddened when Jesus welcomed him into heaven? Thoughts, prayers and FREEDUMB.

More importantly how does she "know" he's resting comfortably in the arms of Jesus? I bet he's standing before Zeus right now trying to explain his heresy...

[RTH10260]

Jesus must have his hands full of anti-vaxxers succumbed to covid that claim better rights than other believers. Is death by covid now replacing death on the cross?

[sugar magnolia]

Jesus must have his hands full of anti-vaxxers succumbed to covid that claim better rights than other believers. Is death by covid now replacing death on the cross?

I'm not convinced they're anywhere near Jesus. Didn't he have something to say about taking care of each other and not killing people?

[Frater I*I]

I'm not convinced they're anywhere near Jesus. Didn't he have something to say about taking care of each other and not killing people?

Not Republican Jesus, he's different from that Socialist Hippie Jesus....


I'll see myself out...

[Kendra]

I am so glad Governor Inslee is bringing back the mandatory mask mandate. One of my not-vaccinated coworkers who always drops the mask when the boss isn't in the building -- I have to walk past the sales desk to get the mail, and what do I find? A father and his too-young-to-be-vaccinated son just leaving after completing their purchase and there was the effing unvaccinated employee who just helped them without his effing mask on.

[tencats]

Today at 6:32 a.m. EDT
Self-proclaimed ‘Vaccine Police’ tells Walmart pharmacists they ‘could be executed’ for administering shots
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2 ... i-vaccine/

Christopher Key and his half-dozen followers reached the Springfield, Mo., Walmart pharmacy counter on Monday evening, the metal shutters were nearly fully drawn.

An Alabama-based anti-vaxxer who has gained a following online — where he spreads false information about the coronavirus pandemic, Key was on a mission to give the pharmacists inoculating shoppers a warning.

“What they’re doing is crimes against humanity,” he said in a live stream on Facebook. “And if they do not stand down immediately, then they could be executed. They can be hung in the state.”

The stunts in Missouri come as the state remains a covid hot spot. Its death rate is among the worst in the country.

About 51 percent of Missourians are fully vaccinated, The Post’s vaccine tracker shows, which matches the national rate. Last month, Missouri joined a handful of other states seeing a notable uptick in vaccinations as the highly contagious delta variant continues to ravage communities, The Post reported. But many residents — specifically in Springfield — are still wary of the vaccine.

Key has a history of making discredited medical claims. A 2013 Sports Illustrated feature chronicled his sports supplements business, which sold deer antler spray to several high-profile athletes as a remedy for injuries and “concussion caps,” which were essentially beanies, to pro football leagues.

Key went on to claim that the pharmacists were violating the Nuremberg Code, a set of medical ethics rules established after World War II that led to the prosecution and execution of several Nazi doctors who carried out medical experiments on victims in concentration camps. Key’s comparisons are inaccurate, experts say, because the coronavirus vaccine is not experimental.

“If you allow one more shot in one more person’s body, you yourself will be executed in violation of the Nuremberg Code,” he said as he pointed to a Walmart employee standing nearby. “We don’t want that to happen to any of you guys at all. We love you guys. We want to keep you safe.

Key repeated false information about the vaccine, saying that it is “experimental” and referencing an affidavit from America’s Frontline Doctors — a group known for spreading misinformation about covid — that alleges some 45,000 people died days after getting the shot.

In a live stream on Wednesday, as Key drove out of Missouri, he falsely warned his viewers that the reports of fully occupied beds in intensive care units in Alabama hospitals were a lie. “If you’ve got the common cold … they are putting people in comas and putting [them on] ventilators,” he said. He also claimed the state was “trying to blame” the surge on people who are unvaccinated. “We know the only people that are getting sick for the most part are those that are vaccinated,” he said.

There's a paywall but you can read it all at https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2 ... i-vaccine/

Christopher Key AKA #vaccinepolice needs help


Christopher Key AKA #vaccinepolice denied the ability to travel by Delta airlines

[raison de arizona]

[ZinWhit]

Many of the doctors and nurses here in Roseburg, Oregon refuse to be vaccinated, are anti-mask and believe in natural herd immunity - some board members of CHI-Mercy Hospital. They've passed this advice to area residents, behaviors and numbers reflecting.

Yes: Their God needs to pause when holding them accountable.

“This moment, we pause.
A COVID positive patient was in our Emergency Department, within our four walls, waiting for an open Intensive Care Unit bed to receive life-saving care.
It had been several hours because other COVID positive patients had filled those beds.
Even after expanding ICU care onto other floors, there weren't any beds available for this patient.
We didn't have enough.
This patient died in the Emergency Department waiting for an Intensive Care Unit bed.
This is very real to our physicians, clinicians, housekeepers, and each member of our Mercy family.
Today, we paused, we reset and we tried to move forward mentally and physically for our own well-being and serving our most vulnerable, sick patients within our four walls.
We need your help, grace and kindness.”
- CHI Mercy Health Staff

https://kpic.com/news/local/douglas-cou ... d-kindness

[raison de arizona]

What really hurts is that in that whole entire article, and in all the quotes it contains, not once are people encouraged to get vaccinated or wear masks.

[pdt97801]

Roseburg and Douglas county are still waiting for the good old days of logging and sawmills. Where you didn't even need a high school degree to make a living.

[Foggy]

I rarely suggest a change in the title of a thread - I leave that to others, 99% of the time - but I found this newly coined label on the Twitter machine today, and since it combines anti-maskers and anti-vaxers in one super-clever, convenient bucket of worms, I respectfully suggest:

Spreadnecks: Coronavirus Anti-Maskers, Anti-Vaxxers, Etc.

Have I mentioned that I love the word spreadnecks? They're rednecks who spread the virus!

[AndyinPA]

Ask and ye shall receive.

[Kendra]

Ask and ye shall receive.

Change approved by me

[sugar magnolia]

I rarely suggest a change in the title of a thread - I leave that to others, 99% of the time - but I found this newly coined label on the Twitter machine today, and since it combines anti-maskers and anti-vaxers in one super-clever, convenient bucket of worms, I respectfully suggest:

Spreadnecks: Coronavirus Anti-Maskers, Anti-Vaxxers, Etc.

Have I mentioned that I love the word spreadnecks? They're rednecks who spread the virus!

You're over a week late.
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[Foggy]

Oh, ouchy. And the worst part is, I probably read it too fast and didn't see it.

[bill_g]

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Whoa. I would say she has spent a lot of time "doing her own research" in all the wrong places. She was reading her statement off her phone, and she had practiced the main points. She's committed, she's a devotee, and she's not coming down out of that tree.

[raison de arizona]

Good news! Let them unvaxxed Covid sufferers pay! I wish they would differentiate between those and breakthrough cases though.

Most private insurers are no longer waiving cost-sharing for COVID-19 treatment

Federal law requires all private insurance plans to cover the entire cost associated with approved COVID-19 testing so long as the test is deemed medically appropriate. Additionally, the U.S. government pre-paid for COVID-19 vaccines and required COVID-19 vaccines be made available at no out-of-pocket costs regardless of whether the vaccine recipient is insured. However, while a handful of states required or created agreements with insurers to waive COVID-19 out-of-pocket treatment costs for their fully-insured plan enrollees, there is no federal mandate requiring insurers to do so.

Earlier in the pandemic, we found that the vast majority (88%) of people enrolled in fully-insured private health plans nonetheless would have had their out-of-pocket costs waived if they were hospitalized with COVID-19. At the time, health insurers were highly profitable due to lower-than-expected health care use, while hospitals and health care workers were overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients. Insurers may have also wanted to be sympathetic toward COVID-19 patients, and some may have also feared the possibility of a federal mandate to provide care free-of-charge to COVID-19 patients, so they voluntarily waived these costs for at least some period of time during the pandemic. Our subsequent analysis found that several of these insurers were starting to phase out COVID-19 cost-sharing waivers by November 2020.

In the last few months, the environment has shifted with safe and highly effective vaccines now widely available. In this brief, we once again review how many private insurers are continuing to waive patient cost sharing for COVID-19 treatment. We find that 72% of the two largest insurers in each state and DC (102 health plans) are no longer waiving these costs, and another 10% of plans are phasing out waivers by the end of October.

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/bri ... treatment/

[Notaperson]

The Greenville News article about the South Carolina GOP leader (at bottom of the previous page) was relatively nice, being aimed at the locals. Today the Huffington Post tells us a little more about Pressley Stutts.

Stutts, a 64-year-old veteran, frequently shared conspiracy theories about the virus, the vaccines and the 2020 election on Facebook, including in posts made from his ICU bed.

On Aug. 1 ― the day he went into the ICU ― Stutts insisted he had “always contended that COVID was very real” and called it “a deadly bio-weapon perpetrated upon the people of the world by enemies foreign, and perhaps domestic.”

He also posted conspiracy theories about the virus online. Last year, he dismissed masks as an “illusion,” claimed in December that there had been no increase in deaths in 2020, and said, “the American public has been gaslighted by the medical industrial complex.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pressley ... WHF0_QMyfs

[Dave from down under]

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2021-08- ... /100396458

Police say 218 people were arrested and six officers were hospitalised after today's violent anti-lockdown protests in Melbourne.

Key points:

Flares were let off as largely maskless protesters moved through Melbourne's CBD
Police warned anyone apprehended or identified as having attended the protest would be fined more than $5,000
Smaller demonstrations took place elsewhere in the country

[Dave from down under]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-21/ ... /100396384

Police made dozens of arrests and issued more than 250 fines to people breaching the state's COVID-19 public health orders on Saturday, after a crackdown on anti-lockdown protesters in central Sydney.

Key points:

NSW Police significantly outnumbered protesters at the Sydney CBD
Police said the the protest "seriously compromised the public's safety"
The protest lost momentum after one of its key organisers was jailed yesterday
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The demonstration — scheduled to start at Victoria Park, on Broadway, at midday — was thwarted before it began after more than 1,500 police officers made their presence felt across the city throughout the morning.

Police said they had issued 261 fines, and made 47 arrests for COVID-19 breaches around NSW on Saturday, most of which were connected with the protest.