John Cole

Nobody knows if a syringe full of heroin will cure covid, just jab it in your eye pic.twitter.com/NdvwjUBOtJ

— jesse taylor (@jesseltaylor) September 2, 2021

Not to drag Bruenig (although you can if you want, she’s an adult and can handle it), this is just the tweet I saw most recently, but what gets me about these kinds of takes is just the fucking arrogance and blinking idiocy of it all. Now obviously, there are moments when a person out there doing their own thing, independent of any institution and without tons of accolades or degrees, discovers something earth shattering or revelatory that can lead to a major breakthrough or paradigm shift. Genius exists everywhere, and these things do happen, so never rule anything out.

But with shit like this, it is HIGHLY fucking unlikely and therefore not good policy to have tens of thousands of people experimenting with dangerous chemicals in doses designed for animals shitting their guts out and in instances literally ripping out the lining of their intestines. But it’s the arrogance of it all. There are millions of doctors in the world. Millions of scientists. Millions of nurses and pharmacists. Just absolute loads of people with scientific training who understand protocols and things like biochemistry and pharmaceuticals and drug interactions and synergistic effects and all sorts of stuff that your average person does not. And with the doctors and nurses and scientists working 80-100 hours a week since the pandemic started, it’s just the fucking height of arrogance and ignorance to think they would not use everything they could and then some to save lives.

They’re not hiding ivermectin because they are in the pocket of big pharma. They’re not stooges for Fauci. They’re not using refusing to use it because they are embarrassed that Clyde at the feed shop thought of it first.

They’re not using it because not only does it not fucking cure covid but because it’s fucking dangerous and hurts you. They’re not doing LOTS OF THINGS to cure covid just to see if it works. They haven’t waterboarded anyone, chucked them out of a plane, or hooked their testicles up to a car battery. They haven’t suggested using thallium or arsenic. They haven’t been giving coffee enemas or using healing crystals or all sorts of other shit. They aren’t pulling teeth or putting people in casts or other treatments for shit. And it’s not because they didn’t think of it or because they are ashamed some hilljack thought of it first.

It’s because they aren’t fucking idiots, they understand virology and how viruses work, and they know that killing someone with a drug to save them from dying of covid makes no fucking sense. Jesus christ, ivermectin isn’t even for viruses, it’s for parasites.

This country needs to get back to a couple of things, one of which is minding your own fucking business and the other is staying in your god damned lane.

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One less imbecile:

Robert David Steele, a former CIA officer turned conspiracy theorist who claimed to be the first person to call COVID-19 a hoax, has died from COVID-19.

Steele, who was among the earliest QAnon promoters and helped the conspiracy theory move from the fringes of the internet into the mainstream, was hospitalized with symptoms of COVID-19 earlier this month. But he continued to spread anti-vaccine and COVID-denial conspiracy theories until the end.

“I will not take the vaccination, though I did test positive for whatever they’re calling ‘COVID’ today, but the bottom line is that my lungs are not functioning,” Steele wrote in his final blog post on August 17, accompanied by a picture of him hooked up to what appears to be a ventilator.

“We will never be the same because now we know that we’ve all been lied to about everything,” Steele added. “But, now we also know that we can trust each other. I’m alive today because I had a network that put me into a good hospital in Florida.”

In the not so distant past, I wondered to myself if I needed to buy some fire-arms (mainly a shotgun and perhaps a nice long rifle) to protect myself if the shit went down. This was when all the right-wingers were objectively being scary, and fortunately that concern passed for me. However, since the ‘rona virus, I’m even happier I did not buy any firearms, because I won’t need to.

If my hunches are correct, there is a significant overlap with anti-vax nutters and gun owners, so if the shit really does go down, I’ll be fine. I read the Stand. I’ve seen the Walking Dead. I’ve played all the Wastelands. I’ll just put on a mask and some gloves, walk on over to these idiots’ houses, and just take the shit they have been stockpiling.

I’ll take your potable water and filters, I’ll take your 250 lbs of dehydrated macaroni and cheese, the seeds that Glenn Beck sold you and the vitamins Alex Jones sold you. I’ll rummage around for the gold and silver you bought from Fox news infomercials, and then, when I am done scavenging, I will saunter on over and take your fucking guns from your cold dead hands.

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After months of persuasion, attempted bribery, empty threats, appeals to emotion, logical appeals, and everything else, I have successfully convinced Gerald to get vaccinated and he went and got the J&J one and done today. His whole family had it, and Breyana and his wife were hassling him daily, but I think I finally outstubborned the bastard when I told him point blank that he’s the only male friend I have in meatspace and I can’t have him dying on me.

I am counting this as a win.

In other news, super religious people are still nucking futz:

Mississippi’s Republican Governor Tate Reeves said southerners are “a little less scared” of Covid-19 because they “believe in eternal life.”

“I’m often asked by some of my friends on the other side of the aisle about Covid… and why does it seem like folks in Mississippi and maybe in the Mid-South are a little less scared, shall we say,” Reeves said.

“When you believe in eternal life — when you believe that living on this earth is but a blip on the screen, then you don’t have to be so scared of things,” the governor told the crowd during a Republican Party fundraiser in Tennessee this week.

So why you all taking metformin and insulin? Getting cancer screenings and chemo? Hell, why have ambulances and hospitals? Getting vaccinated is easier than all of that shit, you fucking weirdos.

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Aww, that’s too bad:

A Texas man who helped organize protests against pandemic restrictions is fighting for his life after being hospitalized for nearly a month with COVID-19, the San Angelo Standard-Times reported.

His wife, Jessica Wallace, wrote Wednesday on Facebook that she had a “heartbreaking update” about her husband, Caleb.

“He’s not doing good. It’s not looking in our favor,” she said. “His lungs are stiff due to the fibrosis. They called and said they’ve run out of options for him and asked if I would consent to a do not resuscitate. And it would be up to us when to stop treatments.”

“My heart just can’t. I can’t imagine my life without him.”

Caleb Wallace, a 30-year-old father of three, has been unconscious, ventilated and heavily sedated in the ICU at Shannon Medical Center in San Angelo since Aug. 8, the Standard-Times reported. His wife said on a GoFundMe page for household and medical bills that he was was intubated multiple times, had high fevers, infection and bleeding in his chest.

In July, Caleb Wallace reportedly helped organize “The Freedom Rally,” an event that billed itself as a protest against the “government being in control of our lives.” He also founded “The San Angelo Freedom Defenders,” which hosted a rally last year to “end COVID tyranny.”

Every day there’s another story about one of these fucking idiots who not only killed themselves, but probably helped kill hundreds if not thousands of others and prevented us from reaching herd immunity and damned us to an eternal endemic, and my general attitude any more is “Fuck them we’re better off without them.” If these assholes had lived they’d be spewing bullshit about something else, fighting stem cell research or calling global warming a myth or some other fucked up nonsense that would make life worse for everyone.

And I’m just over it. I worry if I am becoming hardened or an ugly person on the inside because of this, but I just can not muster any sympathy for these fuck around and find out assholes, because they are hurting so many other people. I feel the same way I do when I read about a terrorist who blew himself up making a bomb, but actually this guy above Wallace ids worse, because the terrorist really did only take himself out. How many did Wallace infect or kill with his actions? Maybe these assholes dying off is our only way out of this?

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