it depends on who was driving it.

What's worse – denouncing science or parents applauding?

Arizona Anti-Masker Tells School Board ‘The Science Is Ridiculous’ and Declares ‘This Is America’ – Parents Applaud
David Badash

A woman who says she is the parent of three children in Gilbert, Arizona blasted the school board in a public meeting last week, declaring that “this is America” and she has the “freedom” to send her kids to school without masks.

“If you guys can’t figure out by now, the science is ridiculous, then you’re probably driving around in your car with a mask on by yourself and I can’t help you at this point, nor do I want to, it’s not my job,” said the woman, who gave her name as Carrie Ware. ” I appreciate what you want to do for you and your family, I would appreciate it if you respected what I did for me and my family, because that’s where we live, the United States of America. God bless America. The end. Thank you.”

When she was done with her three-minute diatribe the audience applauded.

The video (below) has been viewed over 335,000 times in under 12 hours.

She began her speech to the board by ...

https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.c ... s-applaud/

Florida Judge Shreds Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Executive Order Banning Mask Mandates: CDC Is ‘Gold Standard’
David Badash

Florida state circuit court Judge John C. Cooper has just ruled from the bench that Gov. Ron DeSantis‘ executive order banning mask mandates and blocking local school boards from implementing those protective measures is “without legal authority” and is “arbitrary and capricious.” A group of parents supporting mask mandates sued the Republican governor, believing his order violates the state’s constitution.

DeSantis exceeded his authority in signing the executive order, Judge Cooper ruled.

“The Parents’ Bill of Rights does not authorize the governor, the state board of education, or the department of education to tell school boards you cannot institute a mask mandate,” Cooper declared.

DeSantis signed that bill earlier this year, and has repeatedly pointed to that new law when claiming school boards enacting face mask mandates are acting illegally. The judge says that’s wrong.

“Parents’ rights are very important, I’m a parent,” Cooper says, “but they’re not without some reasonable limitations.”

Florida law “does not support a statewide order, or any action interfering with the constitutionally provided authority of local school districts to ...

https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.c ... -standard/

Public health officials in California say an unvaccinated elementary school teacher who took off their mask to read to students ended up infecting more than half of them.

CDC: Unvaccinated, unmasked teacher infected majority of students in Calif. class with COVID-19
Maggie Fox

An unvaccinated elementary school teacher who took off their mask to read to students ended up infecting more than half of them last May -- and they went on to infect other students, family members and community members, California public health officials reported Friday.

It's a prime example of how easy it is to undermine efforts to protect children too young to be vaccinated, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said.

The teacher came to work even though they had COVID-19 symptoms and then took off their mask to read to the young students, a team at Marin County Public Health reported in the CDC's weekly report on death and disease. The teacher assumed ...

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavir ... -1.5564360

#1206 and #1207

Pity.

Judge orders Cinci hospital to treat COVID-19 patient with Ivermectin, despite CDC warnings
Doc calls Ivermectin’s advocates “snake oil salesmen”
BY: JAKE ZUCKERMAN

A Butler County judge ruled in favor of a woman last week who sought to force a hospital to administer Ivermectin — an animal dewormer that federal regulators have warned against using in COVID-19 patients — to her husband after several weeks in the ICU with the disease.

Butler County Common Pleas Judge Gregory Howard ordered West Chester Hospital, part of the University of Cincinnati network, to treat Jeffrey Smith, 51, with Ivermectin. The order, filed Aug. 23, compels the hospital to provide Smith with 30mg of Ivermectin daily for three weeks.

The drug was originally developed to deworm livestock animals before doctors began using it against parasitic diseases among humans. Several researchers won a Nobel Prize in 2015 for establishing its efficacy in humans. It’s used to treat head lice, onchocerciasis (river blindness) and others.

Both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have warned Americans against the use of Ivermectin to treat COVID-19, a viral disease. It’s unproven as a treatment, they say, and large doses of it can be dangerous and cause serious harm. A review of available literature conducted earlier this month by the journal Nature found there’s no certainty in the available data on potential benefits of Ivermectin.

The drug has grown in popularity among conservatives, fueled by endorsements from allies of ...

https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2021/08/ ... -warnings/

so, he has worms?

#1209

At least the hospital has court protectionif the patient dies or something.

From the article in #1209

Interestingly enough, there are a number of studies that appear to show that the use of Ivermectin is actually beneficial. I went looking after a friend (who is admittedly so far down the Trump rabbit hole that it's not easy to find him) posted something about a study that praised the use of that drug. And he's right in that there are a lot of studies out there that appear to show the drug works and does something other than give people diarrhea. For example, this from the American Journal or Therapeutics

https://journals.lww.com/americantherap ... _of.7.aspx

and this



But on the other hand we see articles like this



And any number of others.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ivermec ... e&ie=UTF-8

No, Ivermectin Is Not Making People Poop Out "Rope Worms". The Truth Is Much Worse



The data is in: being double vaccinated reduces your risk of catching COVID-19 by up to 60 percent and your risk of dying by more than 85 percent. And so naturally tens of thousands of people have done the sensible thing and ... totally rejected the vaccine in favor of scarfing down obscene quantities of foul-tasting goo designed to kill parasitic worms inside horses.

Thousands of conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers have gone to extreme lengths in recent months to get hold of ivermectin, a medication for diseases caused by parasites in horses. The idea is that this will ...

https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-m ... uch-worse/

The wonders of modern self-medication.

God told her to sue ...

Horribly Discriminated Against’ Christian Says God Told Her to Sue Krispy Kreme Over Mask Policy
David Badash



An Indiana woman has filed a 380-page First Amendment freedom of speech and religion lawsuit in federal court against Krispy Kreme, the CDC, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the FDA, Sephora, and others over mask policies and mandates, claiming she has a medical condition that prevents her from being able to don a face covering. Jennifer Reinoehl says God told her to sue the 16 defendants.

“I’ve been horribly discriminated against,” Reinoehl told Insider, claiming she ...

https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.c ... sk-policy/

“In a nation where police themselves argue that defiance of their directives can justify fatal force, it is more than a little bizarre to hear police officers analogizing vaccine requirements to Nazi Germany or insisting that the state cannot dictate their behavior,” Adam Serwer writes. “The police are an arm of the state; their job largely consists of using their authority to force people to do things in the name of public safety. That is also the goal of vaccine mandates, which, unlike policing, do not bear the same risk of potential physical harm to the public. Vaccination is not a ‘personal decision,’ because eschewing vaccination puts others at risk. I cannot catch your bad haircut or your ugly tattoo. Your preference for Game of Thrones’ final season or the Atkins diet are not contagious. Another person’s devout adherence to a different faith does not prevent me from committing to my own.”

“If officers want to sacrifice their salary and pension because they’d rather indulge their politics than take a basic measure—one that 200 million other Americans have already taken—to protect the public they are sworn to serve, they should find a different line of work.”

The Absurdity of Police Comparing Vaccine Mandates to Nazi Germany
Law-enforcement officers’ unions are rebelling against the possibility of required vaccinations in a way that reflects their own distorted view of their power in society.
By Adam Serwer

It was after Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced that she would pursue a COVID-19 vaccination mandate for all city employees that the local Fraternal Order of Police president, John Catanzara, finally understood what it was like to be a Jew in Hitler’s Germany.

“We’re in America, G-ddamn it. We don’t want to be forced to do anything. Period,” Catanzara said, as transcribed by the Chicago Sun-Times. “This ain’t Nazi f---ing Germany, [where they say], ‘Step into the f---ing showers. The pills won’t hurt you.’ What the fuck?”

A few tiny holes weaken this metaphor. Public employees being compelled to take a lifesaving vaccine that will prevent them from spreading a deadly virus is not quite the same as being subject to genocide. The comparison manages to be even more strained than the one in ...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archi ... ce/619899/

what the fuck is right.

This Is the Moment the Anti-Vaccine Movement Has Been Waiting For
By Tara Haelle



As the coronavirus began pushing the nation into lockdown in March 2020, Joshua Coleman, an anti-vaccine campaigner who organizes anti-vaccine rallies, went on Facebook Live to give his followers a rallying speech. He laid out what he thought the pandemic really was: an opportunity.

“This is the one time in human history where every single human being across this country, possibly across the planet, but especially in this country, are all going to have an interest in vaccination and vaccines,” he said. “So it’s time for us to educate.”

By “educate,” he meant to spread misinformation about vaccines.

The approach that Mr. Coleman displayed in his nearly 10-minute-long appearance — turning any negative event into a marketing opportunity — is characteristic of anti-vaccine activists. Their versatility and ability to read and assimilate the language and culture of different social groups have been key to their success. But Mr. Coleman’s speech also encapsulated a yearslong campaign during which the anti-vaccine movement has maneuvered itself to exploit what Mr. Coleman called “a very unique position in this moment in time.”

Over the last six years, anti-vaccine groups and leaders have begun to organize politically at a level like never before. They’ve founded state political action committees, formed coalitions with other constituencies, and built a vast network that is now the foundation of vaccination opposition by conservative groups and legislators across the country. They have taken common-sense concepts — that parents should be able to raise their children as they see fit, and that medical decisions should be autonomous and private — and warped them in ways that have set back decades of ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/31/opin ... ement.html

You're free to not get the vaccine.
I'm free to prevent you from entering my premises without proof of vaccination. You're fired!

Only weeks after Arizona’s students went back to school, coronavirus infections are forcing thousands of children and teachers into quarantine. School outbreaks around Phoenix are surging. In one district, so many drivers are sick that school buses are running 90 minutes late.

All this in a state that ignored CDC recommendations and banned school mask mandates weeks before classes resumed.

Arizona Banned School Mask Mandates. Now Some Kids Are Sick and Parents Are Angry.
Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican who is not allowing schools to impose mask mandates but is a vocal supporter of Covid vaccinations, has been battered from all political sides.
Jack Healy

Only weeks after Arizona’s students went back to school, coronavirus infections are forcing thousands of children and teachers into quarantine. Outbreaks around Phoenix are surging. In one suburban district, so many drivers are sick that school buses are running 90 minutes late.

All this in a state that ignored C.D.C. recommendations and banned school mask mandates weeks before classes resumed.

Now the back-to-school turmoil has cascaded far beyond Arizona’s classrooms, igniting a political uproar for Gov. Doug Ducey and other Republican leaders in this fast-changing desert battleground. The tumult underscores the perilous decisions facing governors in swing states where voters are divided over Covid-19 safety measures and personal freedoms.

Mr. Ducey, a business-minded Republican, spent much of the past year getting attacked by conservatives angry about pandemic restrictions and his defense of the 2020 election results. But he has since doubled down on ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/us/a ... Position=1

Unvaccinated active-duty sailors and Marines have 90 days to get the COVID-19 vaccine
By Geoff Ziezulewicz

Sailors and Marines will need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in the next 90 days or risk disobeying a lawful order and facing “punitive or administrative action or both,” according to two Big Navy messages sent to the fleet this week.

Reserve members will have 120 days to get vaccinated, according to a message from Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro.

“The Chief of Naval Operations and Commandant of the Marine Corps have authority to exercise the full range of administrative and disciplinary actions to hold non-exempt Service Members appropriately accountable,” Del Toro’s message states. “This may include, but is not limited to, removal of qualification for advancement, promotions, reenlistment, or continuation, consistent with existing regulations, or otherwise considering vaccination status in personnel actions as appropriate.”

His message also notes that refusing the vaccine without a valid exemption constitutes a failure to obey an order or regulation under Article 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

“As the faithful maritime protectors of our country in peacetime and war, each of us must take ownership of our readiness to preserve and protect the force, and ensure the success of our mission,” the SECNAV’s message states.

The Navy and Marine Corps guidance follows the signing of a memo Aug. 24 by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin mandating that all servicemembers get vaccinated and leaving it up to the services to figure out how.

The day before Austin signed that memo, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted full approval of the Pfizer vaccine, sparking the effort to fully vaccinate more than two million servicemembers.

Just less than 60 percent of the force has been vaccinated.

Roughly 64 percent of Marines and 86 percent of sailors are already fully vaccinated, according to the latest Pentagon numbers.

Disease modeling forecasts show that the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 “will continue to spread throughout the remainder of 2021,” according to a message to the fleet sent Tuesday by Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday.

Data and modeling indicate that ...

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your ... 9-vaccine/