CNN's Dana Bash: How Dare You Say That CNN Attacked Anyone Who Dissented With Fauci and Deliberately Spread Fear for Ratings (and Access)

She says this while pushing fear about measles outbreaks.

BTW, she's highly selective about which outbreaks she chooses to freak out over. When monkeypox was spreading like wildfire, Biden's health advisor refused to even tell gay men not to go to anonymous gangbang/urination parties, and Dana Bash thought that was Sound Science.

But measles? That must be Trump's fault.

This is CNN:

RFK Jr torches CNN anchor Dana Bash for 'press malpractice' over COVID coverage in explosive clash

Kennedy told Bash she was 'scaring people' and accused her of punishing people who distrusted Fauci during the pandemic

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Dana Bash she was "part of the problem" and accused CNN of frightening viewers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Bash pushed back and defended the network's coverage of federal health guidance.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. accused CNN anchor Dana Bash of COVID-era media malpractice Sunday, saying she failed to challenge public health authorities and helped marginalize dissenters during the pandemic.
"You were part of the problem. There was absolute press malpractice. Your job -- your job -- is a fierce skepticism toward authority, and you weren't doing that," Kennedy said on "State of the Union."
"You were beating up on people who were dissenting," the HHS secretary added.
Kennedy leveled the attack after Bash asked how HHS would prepare for another pandemic and tried to move him away from re-litigating the prior federal response.
Bash pushed back, saying she was trying to ask how Kennedy would prevent another public health crisis.
"I also don't want to use this interview to allow you to say things that aren't entirely true," Bash said. "You're talking about therapeutics. Fine. It is also factually true that the COVID vaccine worked. The COVID vaccine prevented deaths. There is data, upon data, upon data."
CDC and Harvard researchers estimated in 2023 that primary vaccination could have prevented at least 232,000 deaths among unvaccinated U.S. adults.
After Bash acknowledged the frightening nature of the pandemic and said officials made mistakes, Kennedy accused CNN of contributing to public fear.
"You were scaring people," Kennedy said.
Bash asked why he believed CNN had frightened viewers, prompting Kennedy to point to its pandemic chyrons.
"Because that was the job of CNN," Kennedy said.
Bash said the network had been covering government officials, including President Donald Trump's daily White House briefings.
"We were listening to the leaders in this country, including the president, who had a daily press conference explaining what was going on," Bash said.
...
Kennedy later accused Bash of punishing people who distrusted Fauci, claiming he lied about masks, social distancing, natural immunity, vaccine transmission and COVID-19's origins.
"We know that Anthony Fauci, who was the expert, was lying about everything," Kennedy said. "He was lying. And you were punishing people for not trusting the experts."

SilentPatriot47
@ShadowPatriotUS
🚨 THE CLIP THAT BROKE THE INTERNET
Dana Bash: "You're the HHS Secretary and you're leading to vaccine hesitancy."
RFK Jr.: "Do you see your job as ending vaccine hesitancy... or telling the truth?"
Bash: "The truth is that there is study after study..."
RFK Jr.: "You're repeating it like a parrot. I've actually read the science. Let's debate the science."
Bash: "I'm not debating this with you."
RFK Jr.: "Of course you won't. Because all you know how to do is repeat what you're told and say 'trust the experts.'
That's what you did during COVID.
Now we know Fauci was lying about everything -- about masks, social distancing, natural immunity, vaccine transmission. He was lying... and you were punishing people for not trusting the expert."

Kennedy also asserted that the government took away our right to free speech during this period, which permitted Fauci's mismanagement and lies to take even more lives.

Dana Bash and Politico, of course, believe that if a (left wing) government bureaucracy wants to exert tyrannical control due to a "health crisis," only a right-wing nutter would object and talk about his constitutional rights.

During an appearance on "State of the Union" that Bash herself described as "contentious," Kennedy argued that Fauci, who served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases during the Covid-19 pandemic, was to blame for the millions of Americans who were sickened or killed by the respiratory virus.
Bash challenged Kennedy's assertions -- pointing out that public health experts say it was a combination of factors that led to such high death rates, including gaps in health care and misinformation -- and noted that Fauci served under President Donald Trump in the first Trump administration. Still, Kennedy held firm that it was Fauci who set the Covid response.

"Experts say the experts were right and even when they were wrong they were just great guys doing the best job anyone could."

What would we do without experts?

"Anthony Fauci was mismanaging the Covid pandemic and was doing it under the Biden administration. President Trump wanted to end the lockdowns," Kennedy said.
The exchange grew tense as Bash pressed Kennedy on how the nation should prepare for a future pandemic.
"I mean, I think we did virtually everything wrong the last time," Kennedy said, adding that the "primary obligation" in any future health crisis must be to "protect our constitutional rights."
"You're talking about rights, and I'm asking about a potential public health crisis that is coming," Bash replied.

Dana Bash can't wait for total government lockdowns again. Her cooter is vibrating over the possibility.

"One of the mistakes we made in the last time was suppressing those rights," Kennedy said. "So people weren't being heard. Doctors who are saying you're doing it wrong were being marginalized and vilified."
As Bash attempted to pivot, Kennedy accused her and CNN of being "part of the problem."
"Your job is a fierce skepticism toward authority," he said before accusing Bash of attacking him.
"I'm not attacking you. I'm asking questions about how to prevent the next pandemic," Bash replied. "But I also don't want to use this interview to allow you to say things that aren't entirely true. You're talking about therapeutics -- fine. It is also factually true that the Covid vaccine worked. The Covid vaccine prevented deaths. There is data upon data upon data."
Kennedy, however, dismissed those studies.
"You are saying nonsense. You are saying something that you cannot show me a single study that says that," Kennedy said, accusing Bash of "scaring people" about Covid "because that was the job of CNN."
"We were listening to the leaders in this country, including the president, who had a daily press conference explaining what was going on and trying to listen," Bash said before shifting over to the current measles outbreak.
Bash asked Kennedy if he accepted some responsibility for the current measles outbreak, labeling him as "one of the leading voices questioning vaccine efficacy."
"Absolutely not," Kennedy responded before again laying the blame at Fauci's feet. "The reason we're having a measles outbreak is because of the Covid lockdowns, because people didn't -- children during that period did not get vaccinated."
Bash then challenged Kennedy to stare into the camera and vouch for measles vaccines -- he did vouch for the vaccines -- before asking about researching a link between vaccines and autism.
Kennedy responded by discussing concerns around consuming Tylenol while pregnant, appearing to echo Trump's unsubstantiated claims of an unproven link between acetaminophen and autism. At that, Bash appeared visibly annoyed.
"You're rolling your eyes, Dana," Kennedy said.
"I am because I don't want to have you use our air to say this," she replied.

"Our air."

"Yeah you know, you probably don't understand this because you're not a scientist," Kennedy said.
"Neither are you," Bash shot back.

🚨 THE CLIP THAT BROKE THE INTERNET

Dana Bash: “You’re the HHS Secretary and you’re leading to vaccine hesitancy.”

RFK Jr.: “Do you see your job as ending vaccine hesitancy… or telling the truth?”

Bash: “The truth is that there is study after study…”

RFK Jr.: “You’re…
— SilentPatriot47 (@ShadowPatriotUS) August 2, 2026

Bash: "Covid was a scary time."

RFK: "You were scaring people."

Bash: "Why are you saying that?"

RFK: "Because that was the job of CNN. To put the chyrons up on how many people are dying to get people to believe a lie." pic.twitter.com/oTItEWU7BR
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 2, 2026

I don't understand why he would say that CNN wanted everyone to be afraid of covid!

I mean, Jake Tapper said "it's okay to be afraid of covid" and their medical "expert" Sanjay Gupta said it was "gross" for Trump to urge people not to let covid dominate their lives, so it's just a total lie that CNN wanted people to be afraid.

I can't believe Dana Bash allowed this lie on "our air"!

Please share this with everyone. Let’s never listen to these liars ever again. I guess CNN doesn’t need Sanjay to be a useful idiot anymore pic.twitter.com/XawCqUEWUB
— Adam Carolla (@adamcarolla) July 30, 2026

RFK Jr: “As you know, Sean, I wrote a book about Anthony Fauci in 2021. It was the biggest-selling book of 2021. It sold 1.4 million copies. It was the most heavily censored book. The New York Times would not even print a paid advertisement for it.” pic.twitter.com/320XBZHrb5
— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) July 30, 2026

CNN was all about the truth. And also, pleasing its huge advertiser Pfizer.

March, 2021. CNN breaks the "news" that the Pfizer vaccine is 100% effective in preventing infection and sickness in 12-15 year old.

It was absolutely not true.

This is the same CNN that wouldn't air Trump's recent speech because of "misinformation." pic.twitter.com/28QFofKkQD
— MAZE (@mazemoore) July 31, 2026

“He lied about masks.”
“He lied about social distancing.”
“He lied about the transmission.”
“He lied about natural immunity.”@SecKennedy sets the record straight on Anthony Fauci and what he NEVER told the American people. pic.twitter.com/yReHxioEud
— HHS Rapid Response (@HHSResponse) July 28, 2026

Matt Orfalea put together this compilation of CNN scaring the hell out of people, telling them that covid would kill their 5-year-old children if they didn't get them fake-vaccinated:

CNN: “Covid was a scary time.”

RFK JR: “You were scaring people.”

CNN: “Why are you saying that?”

Ahem...pic.twitter.com/huLfZGl2WM https://t.co/exwcuMrRUK
— Matt Orfalea (@0rf) August 3, 2026

Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
The strategy CNN management chose was silence. Just say nothing, and hope the controversy fades away.
It's been almost 10 days since Fauci diary entries revealed that two of CNN's top anchors were private pals with the man they were supposed to be objectively covering.
From "friendship building" dinner parties, backchanneling interview questions, to texting insults about Republicans, none of it has been addressed by Tapper, Bash, Stelter or anyone else at CNN.
Just pretend like it never happened.
And to many people who aren't on 𝕏 or don't consume right-leaning media -- it never did.
Ethics. Transparency. Journalism.
This is CNN.

Even Bill Maher, who is a buffoon, can see through this:

RedWave Press
@RedWavePress
Bill Maher: "[Dr. Anthony Fauci] was caught in ACTUAL LIES... The big issue to me is the origin of [COVID], which is very important... and he was telling people up front... it was from the wet markets. 'That's a conspiracy theory if you say it -- escape from the lab.'"
"And he KNEW better because we have him in his diary telling us what he was saying to other scientists. Who were saying, 'No, absolutely.'"
"And the REAL ISSUE here is the gain-of-function research."
"We make everything about race... You couldn't say it escaped from the lab because that was the RACIST point of view somehow. That the entire Asian continent would have been somehow complicit in this because it escaped [from the Wuhan lab in China]."
"It was ridiculous!"

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:15 PM

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1 Foist.

Posted by: zombie at August 03, 2026 04:16 PM (Av6i5)

2 "We have Photoshopped truth out of your memory banks."

Posted by: zombie at August 03, 2026 04:16 PM (Av6i5)

3 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 03, 2026 04:16 PM (NcvvS)

4 Bill Maher: "[Dr. Anthony Fauci] was caught in ACTUAL LIES... The big issue to me is the origin of [COVID], which is very important... and he was telling people up front... it was from the wet markets. 'That's a conspiracy theory if you say it -- escape from the lab.'"

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"But Democrats take climate change seriously, so I will vote Democrat still."
-Bill Maher

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 03, 2026 04:17 PM (bzPaY)

5 We are you gonna believe? Me, or your lying eyes, ears, and memory?

Posted by: zombie at August 03, 2026 04:17 PM (Av6i5)

6 Dana Bash is taking her shots now, since she will be unemployed as soon as Paramount can navigate the Newsom demands for cash money.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 03, 2026 04:19 PM (sKFJy)

7 "Experts say the experts were right and even when they were wrong they were just great guys doing the best job anyone could."

What would we do without experts?

Clap loudly with Joker grins, in a standing ovation for thirty minutes, while praising Jesus and thanking him for this divine miracle?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 03, 2026 04:19 PM (6ydKt)

8 6 Dana Bash is taking her shots now
Posted by: Huck Follywood

She's taking her shots about taking shots.

Posted by: zombie at August 03, 2026 04:20 PM (Av6i5)

9 The Winter of Death was crazy.

If I hadn't died of Popcorn Lung back in 2018...it really would have taken a lot out of me.

Posted by: garrett at August 03, 2026 04:20 PM (zGzrB)

10 "I also don't want to use this interview to allow you to say things that aren't entirely true," Bash said.
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When I heard her say that I laughed out loud. How is it possible for her to be so self-unaware?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 03, 2026 04:21 PM (sKFJy)

11 Never thought in a million years that I'd be cheering a member of the Kennedy family. He isn't perfect , but RFK Jr is bringing the noise

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 03, 2026 04:21 PM (BFvh9)

12 Experts say the experts were right and even when they were wrong they were just great guys doing the best job anyone could.

They also say that we should forgive each other for the things we did and said during that time, particularly those of us who didn't receive a Presidential pardon.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 03, 2026 04:21 PM (ExV1e)

13 Poor Dana.

Anyone who goes on CNN should bring up the dinner and text messages with Saint Fauci.

Ask them to address it.

Did Fauci lie in his diary?

Make them own it.

Saul Alinksky: rule something or another

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at August 03, 2026 04:21 PM (ItWcy)

14 Funny that Canada has an even worse measles outbreak and they are an enlightened very anti Trump country....

Posted by: steevy at August 03, 2026 04:21 PM (YwEeS)

15 The truth is like garlic for these media vampires.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 03, 2026 04:21 PM (N1DT3)

16 FNM 2021: COVID is the most important thing in the world. The government can and should be able to do whatever it needs to to stop the spread. F*ck your freedoms

FNM 2026: COVID? Covid....oh yeah that flu from a few years ago. Wow did some people overreact with that one didn't they? I bet those people feel silly now!

Posted by: 18-1 at August 03, 2026 04:22 PM (sKqQm)

17 Also they're desperately trying to re-litigate "blue state shutdowns saved more lives!"

It's like they just can't understand, after Covid we:
- don't trust experts; especially not your experts
- don't trust your data; especially not your data
- don't trust your governments; especially your blue state governments

Another is, "Fauci et al. were just doing the best they could with the information they had and people are mad about that?!"

It's simple:
you lied about everything, you were caught lying about everything, you're still lying and citing back to those lies does not help.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 03, 2026 04:22 PM (3cUTc)

18 Biden letting in 20 Million Illegals had nothing to do with the proliferation of Measles, Whooping Cough and TB...

that's just some Deep Fake, Far Right Conspiracy.

Posted by: garrett at August 03, 2026 04:22 PM (zGzrB)

19 Fauci is the most evil American in history.

Prove me wrong.

Posted by: Delurker at August 03, 2026 04:22 PM (2Drhq)

20 If you went against fauci in any form you were against the "science" and had to be silenced and cnn did just that.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 03, 2026 04:22 PM (cpFbA)

21 "You're talking about rights, and I'm asking about a potential public health crisis that is coming," Bash replied.

Dana Bash can't wait for total government lockdowns again. Her cooter is vibrating over the possibility.

Does her cooter know that if you've had the measles or the measles vaccine that you won't get the measles?

Her cooter should worry about all the South-of-the-Border type new arrivals who don't care about her cooter caring about the measles.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 03, 2026 04:22 PM (6ydKt)

22 Bash came perilously close to tranforming into Venom during that interview.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 03, 2026 04:22 PM (bX16E)

23 C'mon where are all you amateurs? Reading the content as usual?

Posted by: zombie at August 03, 2026 04:22 PM (Av6i5)

24 I just can't listen to RFK Jr. talk. That voice of his is painful to listen to.

Posted by: Bulg at August 03, 2026 04:23 PM (77rzZ)

25 18 Biden letting in 20 Million Illegals had nothing to do with the proliferation of Measles, Whooping Cough and TB...

that's just some Deep Fake, Far Right Conspiracy.

Posted by: garrett at August 03, 2026 04:22 PM (zGzrB)

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Canada prevented their disease outbreak by letting in half of Calcutta legally!

Oh, wait...Canada is dealing with worse disease outbreaks?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 03, 2026 04:23 PM (bzPaY)

26 Dana Bash is Very Deep State.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 03, 2026 04:23 PM (JvZF+)

27 RFK, Jr. is focused like a laser on the most egregious crimes of the covid era. He gets it.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 03, 2026 04:23 PM (2ap+5)

28 My favorite Fauci moment is shortly after he flip flopped on masks, going from arguing they didn't do anything to arguing everyone had to double mask he had a friend ask him if she should be concerned if she was on an airplane next to someone without a mask.

Fauci's answer? No, masks don't do anything anyway

Posted by: 18-1 at August 03, 2026 04:23 PM (sKqQm)

29 I saw Dana Bash's Vibrating Cooter open for Elastica at the Theater at MSG

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 03, 2026 04:23 PM (BFvh9)

30 Trust. The. Journalism.

Posted by: James Earl Jones at August 03, 2026 04:23 PM (n9eFH)

31 The strategy CNN management chose was silence. Just say nothing, and hope the controversy fades away.
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An all-purpose PR strategy at CNN, where actual values and beliefs are entirely flexible and subject only to Democrat Party needs.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 03, 2026 04:24 PM (sKFJy)

32 Fauci is the most evil American in history.

Prove me wrong.
Posted by: Delurker

No argument from me.

Posted by: Bulg at August 03, 2026 04:24 PM (77rzZ)

33 "The COVID vaccine prevented deaths. There is data, upon data, upon data."

--

This sounds a lot like the nebulous " jobs saved or created."

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 03, 2026 04:25 PM (qBdHI)

34 32 Fauci is the most evil American in history.

Prove me wrong.
Posted by: Delurker

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I don't know...

There's always Todd.

Fucking Todd.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 03, 2026 04:25 PM (bzPaY)

35 "Your job is a fierce skepticism toward authority,"

I'd expect that from the press, fair enough. But our media's job appears to be to push the POV of their authorities, the ones who pay them and schmooze with them.

Posted by: gp at August 03, 2026 04:25 PM (Jr5Lq)

36 Measles are bad. I know this because I had them. Like 99.9% of kids who had measles, I survived.

Posted by: huerfano at August 03, 2026 04:25 PM (VJX5o)

37 When does Communist News Network (CNN) rebrand as DSNN (Democrat Socialist News Network)? This month, this year, or next year?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 03, 2026 04:26 PM (qx7Zg)

38 Poor Dana.

Anyone who goes on CNN should bring up the dinner and text messages with Saint Fauci.

Ask them to address it.

Did Fauci lie in his diary?

Make them own it.

Saul Alinksky: rule something or another
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at August 03, 2026 04:21 PM (ItWcy)
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And the hand signals she was sending to Biden during the debate she moderated alongside Fake Jake.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 03, 2026 04:26 PM (sKFJy)

39 Aaron Rodgers unleashed at 'coward' and 'criminal' Anthony Fauci

Posted by: SMOD at August 03, 2026 04:26 PM (RHGPo)

40 "gay men"; you mis-spelled homosexual.

Let's reclaim a perfectly good word, as well as the alphabet. Buggery activists works, sodomites, pickle-smoochers, whatever. But "gay" used to be a nice word. Not a cutesy euphemistic synonym for sex deviants.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 03, 2026 04:27 PM (DGpsA)

41 This sounds a lot like the nebulous " jobs saved or created."
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 03, 2026 04:25 PM (qBdHI)
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Two weeks!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 03, 2026 04:27 PM (sKFJy)

42 I simply cannot stand to look at Dana Bash. She looks like a younger version of Andrea Mitchell. They could be sisters. And that's not good.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 03, 2026 04:27 PM (qBdHI)

43 Why the long face, Dana?

Posted by: Delurker at August 03, 2026 04:27 PM (2Drhq)

44 I saw Vibrating Cooters open for Hole at the LA Coliseum in 1992.

Made me moist it did.

Posted by: Dana Bash at August 03, 2026 04:27 PM (F1rMs)

45 "The COVID vaccine prevented deaths. There is data, upon data, upon data."

China, which used its own REAL vaccine for COVID claims it had 122K deaths, versus the US government that claims it had 1.2M deaths with the clot shot

So...what data we talking here Dana?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 03, 2026 04:27 PM (sKqQm)

46 19 Fauci is the most evil American in history.

Prove me wrong.
Posted by: Delurker

Say what?

Posted by: Albert Fish at August 03, 2026 04:27 PM (Av6i5)

47 That the entire Asian continent would have been somehow complicit in this because it escaped [from the Wuhan lab in China].

But, if it escaped from a wet market because the Chinese have a taste for penguin (yeah, I know, go with the bit), that's just their culture and not at all reflective of Asians as a whole.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 03, 2026 04:28 PM (ExV1e)

48 Measles are bad. I know this because I had them. Like 99.9% of kids who had measles, I survived.
Posted by: huerfano

I had chicken pocks as a kid, and possibly mumps. Survived both, and fathered a child (as some male mumps victims supposedly couldn't).

Posted by: Bulg at August 03, 2026 04:28 PM (77rzZ)

49 Fucking the 5th Fleet > Fucking Todd

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at August 03, 2026 04:28 PM (sKqQm)

50 Bash was married to Jeremy Bash who was Deep State under Obama and was one of the 51 intelligence figures who signed the BS RussiaGate letter.
Then she was married to CNN dork John King.
If she apologized her whole world would implode

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 03, 2026 04:28 PM (BFvh9)

51 The 14 people who still watch CNN will be amused by this debate.

Posted by: zombie at August 03, 2026 04:28 PM (Av6i5)

52 >>I saw Dana Bash's Vibrating Cooter open for Elastica at the Theater at MSG

Pity anyone who sees Dana Bash's Vibrating Cooter - the stuff of nightmares.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 03, 2026 04:29 PM (NcvvS)

53 That COVID 19 Virus from Gay Penguins in the "Mostly Peaceful" Wet Markets was really intelligent !!!!

I did not know it had the ability to target "CHILDREN OF COLOR" more of White Racist Cracker MAGA children ...

Posted by: Jack Meehoff at August 03, 2026 04:29 PM (J1l9E)

54 I simply cannot stand to look at Dana Bash. She looks like a younger version of Andrea Mitchell. They could be sisters. And that's not good.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 03, 2026 04:27 PM (qBdHI)
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Are we sure they aren't clones?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 03, 2026 04:29 PM (FZ29D)

55 Albert Fish murdered three.

Not a pimple on Fauci's withered ass.

Posted by: Delurker at August 03, 2026 04:29 PM (2Drhq)

56
Did anyone here get a ration of shyte from their employer during COVID?

Back away!
Stand on that 6-foot line!
Don't touch my keyboard!
Your mask is down below your nose!
Have you been vaxxed? NO??!!

Sometimes I feel like getting back to those clowns I worked with and saying "You absolute sucker."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 03, 2026 04:29 PM (mmrXZ)

57 "Like, how do you kind of view this year versus maybe the years of the past?"

From there, things went off the rails.

"I'm going to plead the Fifth," Rodgers responded, referencing former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci pleading the Fifth over 100 times in a recent congressional hearing.

"That absolute coward, Tony Fauci," Rodgers went on. "Absolute coward. Yeah. Are you kidding me?

"You got a pardon and you pleaded over 100 times at the White House? What are you scared of, Tony? I thought you were the science. I thought you were, 'I am science,' and you get up there and you can't answer a question?

"And how much time did the network spend on that? How much time did they spend on my responses every week, on my vaccination status, on Taylor and Travis's wedding? Yeah. Did they do even a minute? Did they do even a minute on Tony Fauci?"

Posted by: SMOD at August 03, 2026 04:30 PM (RHGPo)

58 Where could this sudden onslaught of measles come from? Any mention from Bash that maybe, possibly the invasion of third-worlders who lack medical care might've brought it over the border? Did she even get to the part about the source as opposed to simply commenting that it spontaneously arose from phlogiston and let's not bicker and argue about 'oo previously killed 'oo?

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at August 03, 2026 04:30 PM (oji8u)

59 What I can't figure out is how the public got the idea that they could (somehow) avoid a virus altogether.

Nobody can stop a virus, not even a government. Everyone was going to be exposed, sooner or later. There is no way around this.
..
Then somehow they also got it in their head, that they were gonna die if they did catch it. So people camped out in their basement and microwaved their junk mail and disinfected their groceries and wore dust masks driving around in their car alone.

The whole things was just insanity

Posted by: Common Tater at August 03, 2026 04:30 PM (DGpsA)

60 Canada prevented their disease outbreak by letting in half of Calcutta legally!

Oh, wait...Canada is dealing with worse disease outbreaks?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 03, 2026 04:23 PM (bzPaY)

Don't forget about turning their waterways into the Ganges as well!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 03, 2026 04:30 PM (N1DT3)

61 Measles are bad. I know this because I had them. Like 99.9% of kids who had measles, I survived.

Posted by: huerfano at August 03, 2026 04:25 PM

Me and my brother got the measles in 1964 and it nearly killed both of us. This was before the vaccine was available. While we did recover after a few weeks it ruined our eyesight for the rest of our lives. My uncorrected eyesight was so bad I almost couldn't join the Army. They gave me a waiver and let me in because I scored high on the BTB (ASVAB).

The weird thing is my sister never was infected and she was three years younger than me and went to the same school.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 03, 2026 04:30 PM (cpFbA)

62 I had chicken pocks as a kid, and possibly mumps. Survived both, and fathered a child (as some male mumps victims supposedly couldn't).
Posted by: Bulg

Last I'd heard, mumps on only one side at a time doesn't affect your potency, mumps on both sides at the same time is what sterilizes you.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 03, 2026 04:31 PM (vJrRc)

63 While your parents or grandparents were being forced to die alone, locked in a nursing home, due to the lockdowns, Fauci and Tapper were having dinner parties together, drinking wine, and laughing at how stupid you all were.

Remember:
The basis for the lockdowns was the "6 feet apart rule" that they pulled out of their asses; just flat-out made it up.
And if everyone has to be 6 feet apart, nothing can be open and follow that.

That was the nastiest lie.
The one that cost billions in economic damage, millions in cognitive teaching lost, lives destroyed--and ended.
For a lie.
A rule they made up.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 03, 2026 04:31 PM (3cUTc)

64 58 Where could this sudden onslaught of measles come from? Any mention from Bash that maybe, possibly the invasion of third-worlders who lack medical care might've brought it over the border? Did she even get to the part about the source as opposed to simply commenting that it spontaneously arose from phlogiston and let's not bicker and argue about 'oo previously killed 'oo?

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at August 03, 2026 04:30 PM (oji8u)

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"Biden never opened the borders. Biden's record on the border is more stringent that Trump's ever was. In fact, Biden would have been even more stringent if Trump hadn't torpedoed the bipartisan effort in 2023 to enhance border security. Trump is actually letting in more illegals than Biden did right now."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 03, 2026 04:31 PM (bzPaY)

65 I just can't listen to RFK Jr. talk. That voice of his is painful to listen to.
Posted by: Bulg at August 03, 2026 04:23 PM (77rzZ)

It sounds like it's as painful for him to speak as it does to listen to.

I have to read the transcripts, and hope they're accurate.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 03, 2026 04:31 PM (qx7Zg)

66 Lady in Black -

Oh it definitely was. It's the, "Well, if you hadn't gotten vaccinated, your Covid would have KILLED you!" dodge. It's the "I've had 50 boosters and I keep getting new covid variants, while my anti-vax former friends don't. But I'm sure the boosters are what are keeping me safe!"

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 03, 2026 04:32 PM (aJQbY)

67 You can't hate them enough.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at August 03, 2026 04:32 PM (Q/FnY)

68 Most of what The Experts told us in 2020-22 was ridiculous. The notion that a fabric mask could stop viruses, which could slip through the weave more easily than a mosquito through a chain link fence? The notion that, even if you were what they called "fully vaccinated," you still needed to wear a face diaper? The notion that the virus was so polite that it would hover five feet above your restaurant table, so you could eat without the mask, but it you got up you had to wear the stupid rag? The idea that moving air, such as wind or air conditioning, could not waft the virus more than six feet?

Stoopid.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 03, 2026 04:32 PM (wzUl9)

69 This is CNN:

Amazing that CNN is now being used to inject a touch of reality into the NPC bubble, isn't it?

Posted by: t-bird at August 03, 2026 04:32 PM (DZ6nv)

70 I just can't listen to RFK Jr. talk. That voice of his is painful to listen to.
Posted by: Bulg at August 03, 2026 04:23 PM (77rzZ)

You know who has a good speaking voice and can talk authoritatively about health matters?

https://youtu.be/2nzcrGHjuaU

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 03, 2026 04:32 PM (ExV1e)

71 Like 99.9% of kids who had measles, I survived.

George Washington had the mumps. Why not run with that.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 03, 2026 04:32 PM (zdLoL)

72 hobo ass is the best tasting ass

Posted by: Paul at August 03, 2026 04:32 PM (Rr8Bc)

73 >>I had chicken pocks as a kid, and possibly mumps. Survived both, and fathered a child (as some male mumps victims supposedly couldn't).

Sterility from mumps occurs when the male gets it post-puberty. Before the vaccine, most of us got mumps as kids.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 03, 2026 04:32 PM (NcvvS)

74 COVID was a complete fraud. If you didn't see people dying in the streets without scuba, it was a test run for a delivery system and the payload was flu. That shit was nasty, but the vaccines and boosters were worse.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 03, 2026 04:33 PM (ixEhJ)

75 RFK Jr: “As you know, Sean, I wrote a book about Anthony Fauci in 2021. It was the biggest-selling book of 2021. It sold 1.4 million copies. It was the most heavily censored book. The New York Times would not even print a paid advertisement for it.”
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The censorship was amazing. Still is, when you consider networks other than FNC have almost completely ignored the Fauci hearings and diary.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 03, 2026 04:33 PM (pRv/j)

76 >>Biden letting in 20 Million Illegals had nothing to do with the proliferation of Measles, Whooping Cough and TB...

>>that's just some Deep Fake, Far Right Conspiracy.

I remember talking heads trying to explain to us rubes why it was totally fine to allow millions of 3rd world illegals into the US and not require them to be vaccinated while every American must get vaccinated and boosted forever.

Same with the BLM/antifa riots. They tried to stop me and a friend from going fishing on a boat in the ocean because we weren't in the same household but thousands could riot because "social justice" was more important than health.

So much idiocy and they still pretend it was real.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 03, 2026 04:33 PM (viF8m)

77 The only point in the whole Covid that a lockdown could have helped was when Pelosi was saying it was no big deal--"to to Chinatown, hug, and celebrate the Chinese New Year."

And no one ever called her out on that in the media.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 03, 2026 04:34 PM (3cUTc)

78 26 Dana Bash is Very Deep State.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 03, 2026 04:23 PM (JvZF+)

I just heard today that her first husband, Jeremy Bash, worked for the CIA.

She's not a reporter, she's a protector.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 03, 2026 04:34 PM (6ydKt)

79 I saw Dana Bash's Vibrating Cooter open for Primus at Antone's in '95.

Posted by: ballistic at August 03, 2026 04:34 PM (oqH4h)

80 >>Most of what The Experts told us in 2020-22 was ridiculous.

It should have been over the minute we did the Bodycount of the Princess Diamond/Diamond Princess.

We had an isolated, random population stuck on a Cruise Ship with the Virus for over 3 Months.
The kind of experiment that would be outlawed if you proposed it.

Posted by: garrett at August 03, 2026 04:34 PM (zGzrB)

81 The most evil Americans were the neighbor who excoriated you for not wearing a mask while outside walking your dog; the lady in the grocery store with COPD who has the right to tell everyone else what to do so that she can be "safe"; your 6-year old's teacher who put plexiglass up around her desk and made her wear a mask while maintaining social distancing at recess; your school system administrators that wasted years of students' lives with remote "learing"

Posted by: Oglebay at August 03, 2026 04:35 PM (2ap+5)

82 One thing that gets lost with COVID, people point out the FNM/Biden junta let people riot over BLM stuff while looking down the normies, but they also imported tens of millions of foreigners over the same time.

Whatever arguments you can make for locking people down mean NOTHING if you allow people to travel the world

Posted by: 18-1 at August 03, 2026 04:35 PM (sKqQm)

83 IMO Covid death numbers are greatly exaggerated. Also IMO many of the deaths that were mostly caused by Covid could have been prevented if HCQ and Ivermectin were allowed to be prescribed. HCQ as a preventative ( not great after contracting Covid) and Ivermectin as a treatment.

Posted by: polynikes at August 03, 2026 04:35 PM (KC5Lt)

84 Most of what The Experts told us in 2020-22 was ridiculous. The notion that a fabric mask could stop viruses, which could slip through the weave more easily than a mosquito through a chain link fence? The notion that, even if you were what they called "fully vaccinated," you still needed to wear a face diaper? The notion that the virus was so polite that it would hover five feet above your restaurant table, so you could eat without the mask, but it you got up you had to wear the stupid rag? The idea that moving air, such as wind or air conditioning, could not waft the virus more than six feet?

Stoopid.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 03, 2026 04:32 PM (wzUl9)
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I think the worst part was friends and family arguing that YOU MUST COMPLY as if they knew WTF they were talking about.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 03, 2026 04:36 PM (FZ29D)

85 There's a new commercial on TV for a new Covid shot you get after your are afflicted. It shows some parents freaking out after their kid calls and tells them he may have given them covid.

Posted by: fd at August 03, 2026 04:36 PM (MWfyi)

86 84 I think the worst part was friends and family arguing that YOU MUST COMPLY as if they knew WTF they were talking about.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 03, 2026 04:36 PM (FZ29D)

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The experts said so, and the experts are never wrong.

Now, lay down and take your lobotomy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 03, 2026 04:37 PM (bzPaY)

87 If a novel respiratory virus is circulating within populations, there is literally nothing you can do to stop the transmission and spread of it.

Especially a novel virus that was created in a lab to purposely be extraordinarily contagious.

The people who perpetrated this monstrosity against us deserve to meat the business end of an industrial wood chipper.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 03, 2026 04:37 PM (XV/Pl)

88 87 If a novel respiratory virus is circulating within populations, there is literally nothing you can do to stop the transmission and spread of it.

Especially a novel virus that was created in a lab to purposely be extraordinarily contagious.

The people who perpetrated this monstrosity against us deserve to meat the business end of an industrial wood chipper.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 03, 2026 04:37 PM (XV/Pl)

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Not even with plexiglass?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 03, 2026 04:37 PM (bzPaY)

89 "You're a meanie.
*sniffle*
Plus you talk funny." - Dana Bash

Posted by: wth at August 03, 2026 04:38 PM (UjdFS)

90 Did anyone here get a ration of shyte from their employer during COVID?

Back away!
Stand on that 6-foot line!
Don't touch my keyboard!
Your mask is down below your nose!
Have you been vaxxed? NO??!!

Sometimes I feel like getting back to those clowns I worked with and saying "You absolute sucker."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 03, 2026

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Oh, yes. My long-time employer, supposedly a leader in medical and scientific research, fell like a Cadillac SUV full of lead for the entire hoax. They basically threatened us with termination if we didn't get the shot or an exemption.

Fortunately they accepted mine. But in late '21 I was ready to take my SS and annuity, unemployment if I could get it, and walk rather than be forced into that.

The clowns I worked with, advanced degree holders all, were on board with it all. It's why I've never been tempted to go back and visit after more than a year.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 03, 2026 04:38 PM (wzUl9)

91 Ffs, if journalists are going to be this stupid, they should at least be good looking.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 03, 2026 04:38 PM (aoDJU)

92 HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Dana Bash she was "part of the problem"

Kennedy undersold it. CNN, Bash, and a cast of thousands were not simply part of the problem; they were central and essential. Forgetting simply the explicit desire to rid themselves of Trump "by any means necessary", hence the conspiracy to go totalitarian to squash a booming economy, they buttressed the malignant Fauci gnome by exalting him - unquestionably and unceasingly - while completely abandoning journalism.

And the world NEVER need listen to Bash et al again about anything. In fact in a normal society, we'd have placed then on an ice floe never to be seen again.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at August 03, 2026 04:38 PM (oji8u)

93

She talks over people like that fatty Abby does.

RFK let her off easy. Never brought up how she and others on CNN fellated the little Fauci.

Sick freaks.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at August 03, 2026 04:38 PM (2jv4y)

94 Here's a little Covid Memory we can ALL enjoy:

'Clearly Jesus loves me the most...'

https://www.youtube.com/
shorts/LFSpurLcWX0

Posted by: garrett at August 03, 2026 04:38 PM (zGzrB)

95 >> The most evil Americans were the neighbor who excoriated you for not wearing a mask while outside walking your dog

I walk Elvis in a park that is on the ocean. The place was completely empty one day when we were out other than me and the dog and Karen. Karen was way on the other side of the park, like football fields away.

Karen was screaming at me for not wearing a mask. I had no idea what she was actually saying cause football fields away but she was agitated and pointing at her mask.

I just flipped her the bird and smiled. Apparently, that was not the response she was looking for.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 03, 2026 04:38 PM (viF8m)

96 Dana. Got. Bashed.

Posted by: ShainS at August 03, 2026 04:38 PM (Ae4dV)

97 There's a new commercial on TV for a new Covid shot you get after your are afflicted. It shows some parents freaking out after their kid calls and tells them he may have given them covid.
Posted by: fd at August 03, 2026 04:36 PM (MWfyi)
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Unless a child is immunocompromised due to their autism-spectrum diagnosis or taking extra hormones as part of gender transition "therapy" they are probably going to be OK.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 03, 2026 04:39 PM (FZ29D)

98 The clowns I worked with, advanced degree holders all, were on board with it all. It's why I've never been tempted to go back and visit after more than a year.

Nothing I have seen in my own personal life has lowered my respect for people more then COVIDmania

Posted by: 18-1 at August 03, 2026 04:39 PM (sKqQm)

99 "The most evil Americans were the neighbor who excoriated you for not wearing a mask while outside walking your dog;"

The sawed off little tyrant at the UPS store who forbid me from coming in the store, even after hours to check my mailbox. I see that guy every now and then and he gets the evil eye and he know it.

Posted by: fd at August 03, 2026 04:39 PM (MWfyi)

100 Now we know Fauci was lying about everything -- about masks, social distancing, natural immunity, vaccine transmission. He was lying... and you were punishing people for not trusting the expert."
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We do not feel that was part of our lived experience.

Posted by: Clone Nose Network at August 03, 2026 04:40 PM (Fi81e)

101 Hey everyone it's your favorite VP "The Kamster" here...

I am proud announce in cooperation with CNN the grand opening of "Hand Jobs Our Us" stores are now open in the LA Basin Area.

With cooperation with the Governor of CA we are hoping this will reduce the amount of Sexual Abuse crimes in the LA area.

So stop by and have a "Stroke" on Me....

Posted by: Kami Harris at August 03, 2026 04:40 PM (Dsp/g)

102 It sounds like it's as painful for him to speak as it does to listen to.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Same here. I have this weird trait where I tend to adopt he breathing patterns of the person who's talking to me, even if it's just via television. That's why I generally can't watch speeches on television.

I don't really have that problem with people I'm speaking to in person, or with people in movies. It only seems to happen with speeches by political figures. Weird.

Posted by: Bulg at August 03, 2026 04:40 PM (77rzZ)

103 Locking us down only caused the pandemic to last longer. A virus is going to do what a virus does and that is mutate but that is delayed with the lockdown.

Posted by: polynikes at August 03, 2026 04:40 PM (KC5Lt)

104 Illegal invaders were not required to get the shot.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 03, 2026 04:40 PM (abScH)

105 I just can't listen to RFK Jr. talk. That voice of his is painful to listen to.

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Poor guy. It sounds like his throat is being dragged down hot pavement.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 03, 2026 04:41 PM (qBdHI)

106 The clowns I worked with, advanced degree holders all, were on board with it all. It's why I've never been tempted to go back and visit after more than a year.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 03, 2026 04:38 PM (wzUl9)
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At that time, I worked in fairly close proximity with two coworkers. We scootched the desk of one of them a few inches just so we would all be in compliance with the "6-foot" rule.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 03, 2026 04:41 PM (FZ29D)

107 My favorite mask moment...

I saw a teen girl riding her bike on the side walk. She had a mask on her face that had fallen below her nose. In one hand she had a phone which is where all her attention was focused.

One slip with her one hand on the handlebars, one pot hole in the sidewalk, hell, one sneeze and she would be riding straight into traffic on a busy road. But hey she was protected from COVID right?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 03, 2026 04:41 PM (sKqQm)

108 RFK Jr. tells CNN host that constitutional rights take priority over public health
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Isn't that just the most incredible headline?

Politico thinks RFK is the problem here. It's dumbfounding.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 03, 2026 04:41 PM (pRv/j)

109 The clowns I worked with, advanced degree holders all, were on board with it all.

My co-workers were on board as well but I assume that's because they were all either on trannie drugs or "don't let me catch HIV this weekend when I have anonymous sex with 50 men" drugs so they were serious and thoughtful about their health.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 03, 2026 04:41 PM (ExV1e)

110 The clowns I worked with, advanced degree holders all, were on board with it all. It's why I've never been tempted to go back and visit after more than a year.

Nothing I have seen in my own personal life has lowered my respect for people more then COVIDmania

Posted by: 18-1 at August 03, 2026 04:39 PM (sKqQm)
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Covid was a test that so many failed.

A lot of people who "hate fascism" tested positive for fascism.

Posted by: Axeman at August 03, 2026 04:41 PM (Fi81e)

111 Remember:
there is an "public health emergency" clause hidden in the Constitution.

It says, "if a county judge, with no scientific or medical training, determines there is a public health emergency, even without taking any public hearings or input, then all provisions and rights herein are suspended until further notice."

You'd know that if you were smart enough to go to Harvard like all the cartel judges that cowered and hid while people were being thrown to the ground and arrested for not wearing masks.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 03, 2026 04:41 PM (3cUTc)

112 I think the worst part was friends and family arguing that YOU MUST COMPLY as if they knew WTF they were talking about.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 03, 2026

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Oh yes. The BernieBro in my former writing group -- a starry-eyed socialist even though he'd been in the service in Vietnam and had been a working electrician all his life -- hated anything Trump had to say, so anybody who contradicted DJT had to be right.

"You know more than a medical doctor?" he demanded. "I do," I said, "when I use my own common sense and knowledge of how the real world works, and the doctors are clearly, what's the word, oh yes, LYING."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 03, 2026 04:41 PM (wzUl9)

113 The point is, everyone, or virtually everyone was going to be exposed to the virus sooner or later.

You can make the argument that a 2 week lockdown to prevent a large slug of humanity from presenting themselves to the Hospital all at once, overwhelming the system, was a good idea.

But they never explained any of this adequately or realistically. For most people, it wasn't going to be a major issue, this became apparent. But they never explained this either. Some people, for whatever reason, some sort of prior immunity perhaps due to a related virus, were going to be symptom free. Some people were going to get it and get very sick. Some people were going to die.

They never explained any of this either. Instead they just fucked everything up beyond recognition, because they are pussies.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 03, 2026 04:42 PM (DGpsA)

114 That vaccine didn’t do shit other than continue Fauci’s hairbrained experiments.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 03, 2026 04:42 PM (aoDJU)

115 Doubt she has a cogent thought on her own. 🤷🏼‍♀️

1st husband, CIA under Obama. Wikipedia: American lawyer who served as chief of staff at the Central Intelligence Agency (2009–2011) and the U.S. Department of Defense (2011–2013) under President Barack Obama, in both roles as a senior advisor to Leon Panetta.[2][3]

2nd husband, John King. Wikipedia, American news anchor. He is CNN's chief national correspondent, based in Washington, D.C.. He formerly anchored Inside Politics,[2] State of the Union, and John King, USA.

Boyfriend: my definition, probably not hers: Spencer Garrett, actor.

AI: Has shown support for Democratic candidates and causes through public participation, campaign contributions, and political commentary. Grew up in a prominent entertainment industry family in Los Angeles.

Publicity Ho?

Posted by: L - No nic.. at August 03, 2026 04:42 PM (NFX2v)

116 Politico thinks RFK is the problem here. It's dumbfounding.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 03, 2026 04:41 PM (pRv/j)
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They serve their party's narrative.

Posted by: Axeman at August 03, 2026 04:42 PM (Fi81e)

117 >> The most evil Americans were the neighbor who excoriated you for not wearing a mask while outside walking your dog
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I still recall being corrected by an old lady for not following the arrows on the floor at the grocery store.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 03, 2026 04:43 PM (25DXE)

118 >>The point is, everyone, or virtually everyone was going to be exposed to the virus sooner or later.

Sure.

But you had a choice if you wanted to expose yourself to the mRNA Treatment.

Posted by: garrett at August 03, 2026 04:43 PM (zGzrB)

119 hobo ass is the best tasting ass

Posted by: Sid at August 03, 2026 04:44 PM (Elsjd)

120 At that time, I worked in fairly close proximity with two coworkers. We scootched the desk of one of them a few inches just so we would all be in compliance with the "6-foot" rule.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 03, 2026

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I was the only one in my "office," but it was a reception area that nearly everybody had to pass through. The personnel dept. actually suggested putting up plexiglas shields around my desk or hanging from the ceiling. Fortunately that went away.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 03, 2026 04:44 PM (wzUl9)

121 There's a new commercial on TV for a new Covid shot you get after your are afflicted. It shows some parents freaking out after their kid calls and tells them he may have given them covid.

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Mom Karen will take the kiddies down for their new covid shots just as soon as she picks up the newest ColorForms playset where they can pick their own genitals and stick them on depending on how they identify that day.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 03, 2026 04:44 PM (qBdHI)

122
Finally realized what Dana Gash's face looks like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpAyc-rhBcs

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 03, 2026 04:44 PM (JyBgb)

123 Fauci. Mengele. Two peas in a pod.

CNN. To piss in their pants.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 03, 2026 04:45 PM (n5tGW)

124 How did Fauci kill anyone?

Number of people I know that died from COVID = 0
Number of people I know that died from the clot shot = 2

Posted by: 18-1 at August 03, 2026 04:45 PM (sKqQm)

125 County health authorities have broad sweeping powers to shut everything down. That's a fact.

But it is temporary at best. 30 or 60 days perhaps. After that, legislation, ordinance must be enacted or passed. They left that part out.

Nobody can be forced to participate in experimental medical trials. And you can't be fired or threatened with termination, no coercion is lawful. They left that part out too. And in some cases the vaccine caused real harm, particularly to young adults. Heart inflammation is
never a good thing.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 03, 2026 04:45 PM (DGpsA)

126 And don't forget that the "public health emergency" secret clause of the Constitution is hidden in every state constitution but includes a double-secret:

"IF the Secretary of State or other such election official, determines there is a public health emergency, they are authorized to re-write any portion of the Elections Code as they see fit--without such amendment needing a vote in the Legislature or signature of the governor."

And, again, all the cartel judges cowered and hid in fear, pissing themselves, letting this happen.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 03, 2026 04:45 PM (3cUTc)

127 >>How did Fauci kill anyone? Even if his protocols were ineffective, how were they harmful? The vaccine did work.

Being THIS retarded should really come at a dire cost.

Posted by: garrett at August 03, 2026 04:46 PM (zGzrB)

128 When I use Public Restrooms, I still wear a mask.

Who knows what dirty, filthy, redneck MAGA Racists may have used the Bathroom before. They carry dirty Guns, Drink PBRs, and eat Red Meat !!!!!!!

I heard MAGA Republicans are like "Carnies" !!!!
They all have "Very Small Hands" and like Big Breasted Real Biological Females" like Daisy Duke ...

Posted by: Kami Harris at August 03, 2026 04:46 PM (Dsp/g)

129 My favorite covid moment was my sister arguing with me that we should cancel Thanksgiving, and then showing up at my parents wearing a mask. Her two daughters too. Masked, at Thanksgiving dinner.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 03, 2026 04:46 PM (25DXE)

130 Like I said before I didn't mind the 6 ft rule . It was like I had a force field I had always wanted.

I have to say i didn't experience the horrors of a lockdown as much as people in other states .

Posted by: polynikes at August 03, 2026 04:46 PM (KC5Lt)

131 I don't what other conclusion one can draw about the media these days other than that they are mentally ill, and irremediably so. The idea that they could ignore the news on Fauci and continue to insist they were right (it's all there in Bash's interview) is plainly sick. And it's not just the Covid story but nearly every major "scandal" over the last 10 years. They're repeatedly, dogmatically wrong and totally incapable of admitting it or even modifying their conduct. That's a sickness.

I wish RFK Jr had been much more aggressive and contemptuous. He should have asked Bash when she intended to apologize to the country. Why are even pretending anymore that these people journalists?

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 03, 2026 04:46 PM (F8UH0)

132 The exchange grew tense as Bash pressed Kennedy on how the nation should prepare for a future pandemic.
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We shouldn't. That would be my answer.

"Preparing" for a pandemic is bullshit.

Posted by: Axeman at August 03, 2026 04:47 PM (Fi81e)

133 One slip with her one hand on the handlebars, one pot hole in the sidewalk, hell, one sneeze and she would be riding straight into traffic on a busy road. But hey she was protected from COVID right?
Posted by: 18-1

The really stupid ones were the athletes and choral singers who pursued their advocations while masked.

Posted by: Bulg at August 03, 2026 04:47 PM (77rzZ)

134 "Her cooter is vibrating"

Eh...might there be pics of this?

Posted by: dananjcon at August 03, 2026 04:47 PM (8C1eU)

135 >>Sid at August 03, 2026 04:44 PM (Elsjd)

Because he funded the development of the virus you fucking idiot.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 03, 2026 04:47 PM (viF8m)

136 Remember how if you were the slightest bit concerned that Obama was mishandling the Ebola outbreak, you were a "conspiracy nut"?

I do. I'm guessing Pepperidge Farm does too.

Posted by: Axeman at August 03, 2026 04:47 PM (Fi81e)

137 The exchange grew tense as Bash pressed Kennedy on how the nation should prepare for a future pandemic.

Send the illegals home
Kill anyone that crosses the border without permission

Posted by: 18-1 at August 03, 2026 04:48 PM (sKqQm)

138 >>Sid at August 03, 2026 04:44 PM (Elsjd)

Because he funded the development of the virus you fucking idiot.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 03, 2026 04:47 PM (viF8m)
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Hey! I doubt Sid fucks.

Posted by: Axeman at August 03, 2026 04:48 PM (Fi81e)

139 "CNN was all about the truth. And also, pleasing its huge advertiser Pfizer."

If Trump really wants to kill CNN and the MSM, he should follow through on his threat to ban pharmaceutical advertising from broadcast TV. Their remaining earnings would crater as a result.

The reason Pharma advertises on TV is not to push the next funnily-spelt drug to the public. It's to immunize themselves from investigative journalistic reports from the MSM. I actually have no problem with pharma companies - the drugs they've produced have, by and large, improved our lives tremendously. I do have a big problem when they use their influence to avoid critical scrutiny.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 03, 2026 04:48 PM (0CU3H)

140 Forget the lead. Sid/Paul's brain is so dense, I don't even think Chernobyl's radioisotopes could penetrate it.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 03, 2026 04:48 PM (qBdHI)

141 Please don't edit Sid at 119. Instead, let's put that on in the sidebar as a permanent exhibit.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 03, 2026 04:48 PM (25DXE)

142 I still recall being corrected by an old lady for not following the arrows on the floor at the grocery store.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

I took great pride in explicitly defying those. No one ever said a word to me about it, though.

Posted by: Bulg at August 03, 2026 04:48 PM (77rzZ)

143 You have to be incandescently stupid to still believe that vaccine did anything.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 03, 2026 04:49 PM (aoDJU)

144 Here's Jeremy Bash lying so much about the Hunter laptop that an X user made a reel of it:

https://tinyurl.com/35rkha4u

Posted by: beckster at August 03, 2026 04:49 PM (kX27y)

145 @88

>>Not even with plexiglass?!

Not even if everyone wore level 4 bio suits.

To Paraphrase Ian Malcolm, Viri will find a way.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 03, 2026 04:49 PM (XV/Pl)

146 Did anyone here get a ration of shyte from their employer during COVID?

Back away!
Stand on that 6-foot line!
Don't touch my keyboard!
Your mask is down below your nose!
Have you been vaxxed? NO??!!

Sometimes I feel like getting back to those clowns I worked with and saying "You absolute sucker."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 03, 2026 04:29 PM (mmrXZ)

Since I work out of a few harley shops thats a big no. No masks, no fear, kept sterile with beer. Life went on. We did like the non existent traffic on the road from people hiding in their basements though. Made test rides a lot more fun.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 03, 2026 04:49 PM (S41Gd)

147 All exchanges with the Democratic Party press should grow tense.

They absolutely should. And more conservatives ought to address the Democratic Party as "your party".

Posted by: Axeman at August 03, 2026 04:49 PM (Fi81e)

148 Dana Bash is one of prettiest trans women on TV.

Posted by: Taste the Rainbow at August 03, 2026 04:49 PM (S0aVF)

149 I still recall being corrected by an old lady for not following the arrows on the floor at the grocery store.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 03, 2026 04:43 PM

I remember a guy walking up to me while I was in the check out line at Kroger, he pulled his mask down to let me know there was a lady in front of me that did not have her mask on. I pulled my mask down and said, hey bro you are breaking my six foot bubble. He walked away looking confused.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 03, 2026 04:49 PM (cpFbA)

150 If Trump really wants to kill CNN and the MSM, he should follow through on his threat to ban pharmaceutical advertising from broadcast TV. Their remaining earnings would crater as a result.
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That's Plan B probably, now that Plan A seems to be to merge it with Paramount CBS and let Bari Weiss start firing people.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 03, 2026 04:50 PM (25DXE)

151 Besides Spider Solitary is evil

The Democrats Propaganda Ministry all jumped on Evil Fauci's Covid attack on the country, don't expect any of them to turn against Fauci.

Posted by: Skip at August 03, 2026 04:50 PM (Ia/+0)

152 I also knew from my own experience that the entire "testing" thing was for show. We were supposed to go for a nasal swab at random intervals. I went once. The second time, they weren't watching me, so I carefully did NOT insert the swab in my nose, but put it right into the jar. In other words, they would have no sample to test and should call me back in, right?

Nope. "Passed."

After that I ignored the summonses. Nothing happened; there was no enforcement. We were all just supposed to trot over like good little robots and get our grease fittings checked.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 03, 2026 04:51 PM (wzUl9)

153 Hey! I doubt Sid fucks.
Posted by: Axeman

Think again.

Posted by: 500 lb transtesticle person behind the 7-11 at August 03, 2026 04:51 PM (EGW4m)

154 I think O'donnell is more closely related to a yeast infection

Posted by: Common Tater at August 03, 2026 04:51 PM (DGpsA)

155 No one knows that the vaccine worked and rely on the fact you can't prove a negative to push their position of its success. Of course they ignore the fact that many many people who received the vax contracted Covid afterwards. That's not how a vax works.

Posted by: polynikes at August 03, 2026 04:51 PM (KC5Lt)

156 Things public health told me were fine during COVID:

Going to a gay orgy
Glory Holes
Going to a casino
Getting shitfaced
Burning down by city and stealing TVs

Things they told me were not safe
Going to the beach...alone
Going hiking...alone
Going to Church

Posted by: 18-1 at August 03, 2026 04:51 PM (sKqQm)

157 The vaccine didn't work, holy smokes this in known information now. It does not prevent acquisition or transference of covid 19. It does however have wide ranging terrible side effects.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 03, 2026 04:51 PM (n5tGW)

158 Remember how they said Trump told people to inject bleach?

When what he actually said is, something like, "I know bleach kills it. What'd be great is, if they could find some way to inject that, kill all the virus in you. That can't be done, isn't safe, but that would be great."

Even today, you can still see the left claiming "Trump told people to inject bleach to protect against Covid!!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 03, 2026 04:52 PM (3cUTc)

159 It's been ~5 years and the medico-fascists are giddy about a replay.

Posted by: Axeman at August 03, 2026 04:52 PM (Fi81e)

160 The two weeks to stop the spread was stupid.

If you were old or immunocompromised, it was prolly a good idea.

But healthy people under age 65 were fine.

Cover coughs and sneezes
Wash your hands
Keep your hands away from your face
Stay home if you’re sick.

It would have made for a much quicker resolution.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 03, 2026 04:52 PM (nKgb7)

161 I remember taking a walk in the park sans mask and a hysterical woman screaming at me that I was gonna kill people without the mask.. I said no problem and went on my way...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 03, 2026 04:52 PM (TFsdh)

162 You could still go to the liquor store so it wasn't all bad , right?

Fucking idiots.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 03, 2026 04:53 PM (abScH)

163 The Guardian: RFK Jr tells US families to vaccinate children against measles amid outbreak Health secretary, longtime vaccination skeptic, spent years boosting misinformation about vaccines including MMR

He should be forced to resign and be put on trial for all the innocent children he's harmed with his bullshit crusade against public health!

who knew putting a bunch of Fox "news" hosts in government positions would result in a complete shitshow

So now MMR is good? What about the autism claim you fucking clown did? Isn't this kind of reverse the kind of thing that got the anti maskers so pissed off at Fauci?

Thanks for causing disruption in America just to fucking finally agree with the science. All that damage is already done you asshole

It would be a more effective message if he made it shirtless with Kid Rock.

He should be using his office and our tax dollars to give the MMR vaccine out for free like other developed countries.

God why do braindead conservatives get to ruin everything and then have no political consequences afterwards.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 03, 2026 04:53 PM (/y3Vc)

164 Axeman: "The exchange grew tense as Bash pressed Kennedy on how the nation should prepare for a future pandemic.
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We shouldn't. That would be my answer."

My answer would be:
1) Direct all MFM personnel to a SpaceX Starship,
2) Launch SpaceX Starship and aim it at the Sun,
3) Order pizza.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at August 03, 2026 04:53 PM (oji8u)

165 Then somehow they also got it in their head, that they were gonna die if they did catch it.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 03, 2026 04:30 PM (DGpsA)

He kept track of the stats- the positive tests, the confirmed cases, etc. locallynd statewide.
I made him repeat a mantra every day:
"A positive test means you've been exposed.
You may or may not get Covid.
A confirmed case doesn't mean you're going to die."

Otherwise, he'd have worried himself ragged.

Posted by: sal at August 03, 2026 04:53 PM (f+FmA)

166 Well Dana, if we controlled the borders a little better, managing a pandemic might be a tad easier.

Posted by: Darth Randall at August 03, 2026 04:53 PM (mseD3)

167 Every day, the squawking haircuts prove that rock bottom has a sub basement.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at August 03, 2026 04:54 PM (XqFM2)

168 Height of Covid I had a few friends from Oregon over here for a Mountain Biking Trip.

We were out on a trail...18 miles from the trailhead, and ran into a woman Trail Running.
Wearing a Mask.

She insisted we get more than 6 feet off the trail so she could pass by.

Never underestimate the stupidity of humanity.

Posted by: garrett at August 03, 2026 04:54 PM (zGzrB)

169 If we'd have been serious about fighting Crovid-Nineteen, Birx would have been on the tube advocating the use of gloryholes. Minimizes the exposure for sure. Not to AIDS or whatever. But still.

Posted by: Taste the Rainbow at August 03, 2026 04:54 PM (S0aVF)

170 When what he actually said is, something like, "I know bleach kills it. What'd be great is, if they could find some way to inject that, kill all the virus in you. That can't be done, isn't safe, but that would be great."

Even today, you can still see the left claiming "Trump told people to inject bleach to protect against Covid!!"
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 03, 2026 04:52 PM (3cUTc)
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Are you sure?

Because I searched high and low for a Trump quote about bleach a number of times and the closest I ever came (each time) was about how some light kills the virus "like bleach".

I'd be interested to see the quote where Trump talked about injecting bleach.

Posted by: Axeman at August 03, 2026 04:55 PM (Fi81e)

171 Or how about the time the media blamed Trump for those idiots who drank aquarium cleaner?

No, no, they the media were not to blame for the hysteria that they ginned up, making everyone think they were one inhale away from dying of Covid.

Nope, Trump said something that sounded like something else that's in the cleaner and so he caused that.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 03, 2026 04:55 PM (3cUTc)

172 I still recall being corrected by an old lady for not following the arrows on the floor at the grocery store.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

I took great pride in explicitly defying those. No one ever said a word to me about it, though.
Posted by: Bulg at August 03, 2026

***
I too took pride in ignoring the greeters/face diaper police at Walmart. And when necessary, waving my doctor's letter stating that my vertigo (basically non-existent) made it dangerous for me to wear a mask for any length of time.

One stupid "security guard" at one store made the mistake of saying, "You could have made this letter up." I snarled, "Are you telling me, a paying customer, that I'm lying?" and stalked out.

I wrote a letter to the CEO of the store, a local chain, complaining. No idea if there was any connection, but within a week or so, the security goons were gone.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 03, 2026 04:55 PM (wzUl9)

173 The Media's Plan for All Interviews: "I'm not debating this with you! I'm talking; you're listening then agreeing with me!"

Posted by: Gref at August 03, 2026 04:56 PM (5rh/l)

174 Since I work out of a few harley shops thats a big no. No masks, no fear, kept sterile with beer. Life went on. We did like the non existent traffic on the road from people hiding in their basements though. Made test rides a lot more fun.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Buddy of mine was working for Verizon at the time. Said it was cool to do 115 in the Holland Tunnel.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 03, 2026 04:56 PM (EGW4m)

175 Just where do these rocket scientists think measles all of a sudden showed up in this Country ?

Posted by: It's me donna at August 03, 2026 04:56 PM (TFsdh)

176
How did Fauci kill anyone?

Number of people I know that died from COVID = 0
Number of people I know that died from the clot shot = 2
Posted by: 18-1 at August 03, 2026 04:45 PM (sKqQm)

I'm pretty sure that it killed my stepdad, despite the fact that he was in chemo for lung cancer (never smoked a day in his life, but got it anyway).

I don't bring up the vax with my mom, to avoid having her think that she held some responsibility there, since they were both enthusiastic about getting vaxxed. To their credit, they didn't put any pressure on the rest of the family, they understood the reluctance from some of us.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 03, 2026 04:56 PM (JyBgb)

177 >> The most evil Americans were the neighbor who excoriated you for not wearing a mask while outside walking your dog
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I still recall being corrected by an old lady for not following the arrows on the floor at the grocery store.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 03, 2026 04:43 PM (25DXE)

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I was walking down a hallway in our local VA Medical Center, for work, with my bandana (painted with a giant boot-print per the famous Orwell "boot stamping on a human face forever" quote – as I refused to wear a mask) below my nose and some obese Nurse Karen (I know Imma gonna need to be A LOT MOAR specific) approaching me with a couple of her co-workers.

She said "PULL YOUR MASK UP!" I retorted "You should keep yours on permanently ... you might lose some weight."

Posted by: ShainS at August 03, 2026 04:57 PM (Ae4dV)

178 >>Buddy of mine was working for Verizon at the time. Said it was cool to do 115 in the Holland Tunnel.

Usually you can't do that in the Holland Tunnel...

because it's all Clogged up.

Posted by: garrett at August 03, 2026 04:57 PM (zGzrB)

179 Damn, not only is Dan-a Bash (not "Day-na") monstrously stupid, she's just monstrous, physically.
Fugly

Posted by: UncleJefe at August 03, 2026 04:57 PM (gAuAm)

180 Dr. Fauci [to Biden] Now that brain that you gave me. Was it John Fetterman’s?

Biden [pauses] No.
Dr. Fauci: Ah! Very good. Would you mind telling me whose brain I DID put in?

Biden: Then you won't be angry?
Dr. Fauci: I will NOT be angry.

Biden: Abby someone.
Dr. Fauci: [pauses] Abby someone. Abby who?

Biden: Abby... Normal. No wait, I think Abby Phillips from CNN?
Dr. Fauci: [pauses] Abby Normal or Abby Phillips are the same?

Biden I'm almost sure that was the name.
Dr. Fauci: [chuckles] Are you saying that I put an
abnormal brain from CNN into a seven and a half foot long, fifty-four-inch-wide Senator from PA?

Dr. Fauci: Biden you idiot!!! Is that what you're telling me?

Posted by: Mike Hunt at August 03, 2026 04:57 PM (X2inB)

181 I'd be interested to see the quote where Trump talked about injecting bleach.
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I was going from memory.
You're right, it was even less attenuated and more out of context than I'd recalled.

Full quote:
“And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning, because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that, so that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me.”

Fucking media all deserve to burn.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 03, 2026 04:58 PM (3cUTc)

182 "We did like the non existent traffic on the road from people hiding in their basements though."

That was a glorious two weeks. Driving with nobody else on the roads, as far as I could see to the horizons.

Posted by: gp at August 03, 2026 04:58 PM (Jr5Lq)

183 Buddy of mine was working for Verizon at the time. Said it was cool to do 115 in the Holland Tunnel.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 03, 2026 04:56 PM (EGW4m)

It was crazy. I would come home and mrs b would ask how it looked out there. I would say 6 months after people. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 03, 2026 04:58 PM (S41Gd)

184 Defying their stupid rules was one of the best larks I've had. My wife would get so mad at me just for causing trouble.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 03, 2026 04:59 PM (n5tGW)

185 Proof that the vaccine didn't work: They're reduced it to a palliative effect, and they deny they ever said it would prevent infection.

And there is no hard data that it even had a palliative effect. Just a bunch of "Listen to experts, sheep".

Posted by: Axeman at August 03, 2026 04:59 PM (Fi81e)

186 156 Things public health told me were fine during COVID:

Going to a gay orgy
Glory Holes
Going to a casino
Getting shitfaced
Burning down by city and stealing TVs

Things they told me were not safe
Going to the beach...alone
Going hiking...alone
Going to Church
Posted by: 18-1 at August 03, 2026 04:51 PM (sKqQm)

Thankfully, my blue area somehow didn't get swept up in the total insanity. I may have actually communicated with my own councilman (a D) and had emails back and forth about "opening up the outside asap" b/c people needed an outlet and the Gov wasn't giving anyone one with schools shut, so the county had to make the outside the option.

It was a blessing that our local pool was open that Covid summer or my kid probably would have gone insane. We were there every day, even if we had to pre-sign up and stay in our pool area (yes, our area was blue, so we had some insanity)...same for our Couty parks, but there, they were just open...most time I've ever been outdoors since the military...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 03, 2026 04:59 PM (tOcjL)

187 Defying their stupid rules was one of the best larks I've had. My wife would get so mad at me just for causing trouble.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 03, 2026 04:59 PM (n5tGW)
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I complied with most of them.

But I stopped wearing a mask, because it did impinge upon me.

Posted by: Axeman at August 03, 2026 05:00 PM (Fi81e)

188 She insisted we get more than 6 feet off the trail so she could pass by.

Never underestimate the stupidity of humanity.
Posted by: garrett

My oldest son and I were backpacking part of the Pacific Creat Trail summer of 2021. We saw a woman, alone, hiking with a mask on coming in the opposite direction. She started screaming at us to put on a mask and get six feet off the trai so she could pass. We completely ignored her and when she screamed and ran off the trail we both stopped and had coughing fits and then told her to die.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 03, 2026 05:00 PM (nKgb7)

189 >>My oldest son and I were backpacking part of the Pacific Creat Trail summer of 2021. We saw a woman, alone, hiking with a mask on coming in the opposite direction. She started screaming at us to put on a mask and get six feet off the trai so she could pass. We completely ignored her and when she screamed and ran off the trail we both stopped and had coughing fits and then told her to die.

Based

Posted by: garrett at August 03, 2026 05:01 PM (zGzrB)

190 Sorry I missed the Tucker thread...So he and the other rejects want a communist President ? Some Conservatives.... Do they actually think they will get any Lib votes ? Of course not... They want to take down MAGA

Posted by: It's me donna at August 03, 2026 05:01 PM (TFsdh)

191 "I also don't want to use this interview to allow you to say things that aren't entirely true," Bash said.

OMG! The chutzpah!

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at August 03, 2026 05:02 PM (oji8u)

192 2 weeks of lock down *at the time* made perfect sense. It was unknown how severe the effect of a brand new virus was going to be. Was it going to be similar to the 1918 flu, with cytokine storm targeting young people primarily? Nobody knew, or they weren't telling anyhow.

But it never ended. They just rolled with it on a semi-permanent basis. Public policy appeared to be largely based on the rantings of hysterical nutbars.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 03, 2026 05:02 PM (DGpsA)

193 It was crazy. I would come home and mrs b would ask how it looked out there. I would say 6 months after people. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 03, 2026 04:58 PM (S41Gd)
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If anybody gets the reference to "Blue Earth" on the series Fringe, that's the vibe 2020 gave me.

Posted by: Axeman at August 03, 2026 05:02 PM (Fi81e)

194 "We did like the non existent traffic on the road from people hiding in their basements though."

That's when I bought some XLE. Petroleum stocks were hated at the time, have near tripled since then.

Posted by: gp at August 03, 2026 05:02 PM (Jr5Lq)

195 Sorry I missed the Tucker thread...So he and the other rejects want a communist President ? Some Conservatives.... Do they actually think they will get any Lib votes ? Of course not... They want to take down MAGA
Posted by: It's me donna

I think they just want to kill Jews.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 03, 2026 05:03 PM (/y3Vc)

196 HCQ and Ivermectin are proven highly safe drugs and no reason they shouldn't have been prescribed. That is the most evil thing that occurred imo.

And today the people who prevented doctors from prescribing it are denying they ever did. Those are the people who deserve severe punishment.

Posted by: polynikes at August 03, 2026 05:03 PM (KC5Lt)

197 I still can't get over the "science" that had people washing their groceries--fruits and vegetables--in bleach, then letting them sit outside overnight to stop the spead.

anyone in the medical community and the media going to own up to encouraging that lie?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 03, 2026 05:03 PM (3cUTc)

198 Her cooter is vibrating over the possibility.-Ace

Great. Now I have Cooter from Dukes of Hazard associated with Dana Bash's Vajayjay.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 03, 2026 05:03 PM (OkYzo)

199
Usually you can't do that in the Holland Tunnel...

because it's all Clogged up.
Posted by: garrett at August 03, 2026 04:57 PM (zGzrB)

*snort*

ISWYDT

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 03, 2026 05:03 PM (JyBgb)

200 >>2 weeks of lock down *at the time* made perfect sense.

No. It never made any sense at all.

You can't just pause life as if you were playing it on your X-Box.

Posted by: garrett at August 03, 2026 05:03 PM (zGzrB)

201 196 HCQ and Ivermectin are proven highly safe drugs and no reason they shouldn't have been prescribed. That is the most evil thing that occurred imo.

And today the people who prevented doctors from prescribing it are denying they ever did. Those are the people who deserve severe punishment.
Posted by: polynikes at August 03, 2026 05:03 PM (KC5Lt)

Agreed

Posted by: It's me donna at August 03, 2026 05:03 PM (TFsdh)

202 Spring of 2021 never wore mask in the stores. Multiple confrontations by managers, clerks and customers. Ignored them all. Always finished shopping. I refused to do stupid. Fort Worth.
Still a pure blood.

Posted by: little people at August 03, 2026 05:04 PM (ehY6c)

203 >>>Damn, not only is Dan-a Bash (not "Day-na") monstrously stupid, she's just monstrous, physically.
Fugly

Posted by: UncleJefe

>Not only is she long in the tooth, but she has a wet brain. Not very sharp, that one.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 03, 2026 05:04 PM (ixEhJ)

204 They officials had to update the entry on "vaccine" to mention palliative effects, because a vaccine is meant as a preventative, not a palliative.

Posted by: Axeman at August 03, 2026 05:05 PM (Fi81e)

205 Just where do these rocket scientists think measles all of a sudden showed up in this Country ?

Posted by: It's me donna at August 03, 2026 04:56 PM (TFsdh)

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Next you'll be telling me that tuberculosis in the USA has been on the rise SINCE 2021 -- PEAKING in 2024 -- marking a reversal after nearly three decades of consistent decline.

Wait, wut?

/Is there nothing destructive that The AutoPen Empire's open borders couldn't do?

Posted by: ShainS at August 03, 2026 05:05 PM (Ae4dV)

206
To this day, there are still people in Oregon driving alone in their car wearing a covid mask.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 03, 2026 05:05 PM (OkYzo)

207 >>HCQ and Ivermectin are proven highly safe drugs and no reason they shouldn't have been prescribed. That is the most evil thing that occurred imo.

Also, insanely Cheap.

Posted by: garrett at August 03, 2026 05:05 PM (zGzrB)

208 That was a glorious two weeks. Driving with nobody else on the roads, as far as I could see to the horizons.

Posted by: gp at August 03, 2026 04:58 PM (Jr5Lq)

Yeah it was great. Then in a few weeks we were able to laugh at the retards driving in cars with masks on. One day I was driving with a friend in the car, and we pulled up to a light and the person next to us was wearing a mask. He yells over "if its that bad in there just change your cabin filter". lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 03, 2026 05:05 PM (S41Gd)

209 Gee I wonder if importing 10 million illegals from 3rd world shitholes had anything to do with a measles outbreak.

Posted by: Ya Know? at August 03, 2026 05:05 PM (tNkpt)

210 But, if it escaped from a wet market because the Chinese have a taste for penguin (yeah, I know, go with the bit), that's just their culture and not at all reflective of Asians as a whole.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Now, you're on the list.

Posted by: Penguin Defense Fund 501c3 at August 03, 2026 05:06 PM (JM9I6)

211
This is good but the problem is, it will only be the red states and not the blue states:

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
·
5h
🚨 JUST IN: Florida, Alabama and Louisiana have just launched investigations into DR. FAUCI

State-level investigations are NOT covered under the autopen pardon 🔥

Leave no stone unturned, Fauci MUST face consequences!

GOV. RON DESANTIS: "This is a guy that was drinking his own Kool-Aid. He was venerated by the media. I think he liked the fact that he had a lot of this informal power when he was issuing these recommendations and telling governors and mayors to do some of the draconian things that were actually done, it had a really negative effect on a lot of societies throughout this country!"

"You had businesses reeling, people's liberties curtailed, and kids left on the sideline unable to access education."

Posted by: beckster at August 03, 2026 05:06 PM (kX27y)

212 Guy in a liquor store screaming at me to put a mask on. I just calmly said no. He says I'm standing way back here, don't get near me. I say no problem. Owner didn't care, I bought my bourbon and went my way.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 03, 2026 05:06 PM (n5tGW)

213 Woodstock took place in the middle of the Hong Kong Flu pandemic.

On that note, I've not heard any COVID alarmists explain why flu cases were relatively non-existent throughout the COVID panic.

Posted by: polynikes at August 03, 2026 05:06 PM (KC5Lt)

214 I see people in PA driving alone with masks occasionally

Posted by: Skip at August 03, 2026 05:06 PM (Ia/+0)

215 They officials had to update the entry on "vaccine" to mention palliative effects, because a vaccine is meant as a preventative, not a palliative.

Posted by: Axeman at August 03, 2026 05:05 PM (Fi81e)

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As commenter Romeo13 recently observed: by that definition, aspirin is now a "vaccine."

Posted by: ShainS at August 03, 2026 05:06 PM (Ae4dV)

216 DJT's second term Cabinet picks have been outstanding.

Posted by: mrp at August 03, 2026 05:06 PM (rj6Yv)

217 I’m on an airplane right now.

Yes. There are people wearing masks.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 03, 2026 05:07 PM (nKgb7)

218 I knew it had gotten out of hand the first time I saw a women driving down the roads in the car by herself wearing a mask.

I saw Moms with kids in the car, all wearing masks.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 03, 2026 05:07 PM (6ydKt)

219 >>HCQ and Ivermectin are proven highly safe drugs and no reason they shouldn't have been prescribed. That is the most evil thing that occurred imo.

Also, insanely Cheap.
Posted by: garrett at August 03, 2026 05:05 PM (zGzrB)
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In February 2020, a month before the shamdemic, they outlawed the use of HCQ outside of hospital care.

There, they simply weren't going to give it to you, of course and pop your lungs with a ventilator and let you die.

Posted by: Axeman at August 03, 2026 05:07 PM (Fi81e)

220 Nobody can be forced to participate in experimental medical trials.

Ethical standards, including the AMA Code of Medical Ethics and the World Medical Association’s Declaration of Helsinki, mandate that participation in biomedical research must be voluntary and based on informed consent.

Ethical standards are not law and cannot stand before the desire to affect an election.

And before you bring up the Nuremberg Code...

The Nuremberg Code has not been officially adopted as binding domestic law by any nation. It is a set of ten ethical principles rather than a statute or treaty, meaning it cannot be directly enforced in court on its own.

The US has regulations which, supposedly, enforce the Nuremberg Code but enforcement assumes that it isn't the federal government violating them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 03, 2026 05:08 PM (ExV1e)

221 Again, where did this notion arise, that one could, or should prevent exposure to the virus on a permanent basis? It's a fairy tale. The only objective that was practical was to slow the spread. Not prevent it, because that's

I suppose it would be possible to quarantine oneself for several years, maybe the virus will mutate to a less deadly variant. I guess.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 03, 2026 05:08 PM (DGpsA)

222 I very much hope that historians will look back on the Covid-19 era and basically point and laugh about how comically fucking retarded everyone suddenly became, because as a whole, that's what we were.

Posted by: ballistic at August 03, 2026 05:09 PM (oqH4h)

223 I could set cruise control at 70 in Splendora and be in El Campo in under 2 hrs on 59 through Houston during covid.

Posted by: DanMan at August 03, 2026 05:09 PM (8uzBS)

224 JUST IN: Florida, Alabama and Louisiana have just launched investigations into DR. FAUCI

Have the Cajun Navy draw and quarter him. Then snacks for the gators.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 03, 2026 05:09 PM (EGW4m)

225 If you don't vaccinate for measles and are exposed to measles you will catch measles. Measles are very contagious. Your choice.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 03, 2026 05:09 PM (4tmEn)

226 Strip clubs and liquor stores were open.

Hiking trails and churches were closed

All you need to know about “the science”.

Posted by: Ya Know? at August 03, 2026 05:09 PM (tNkpt)

227 Fauci is the most evil American in history.

Prove me wrong.
Posted by: Delurker

No argument from me.
Posted by: Bulg at August 03, 2026 04:24 PM (77rzZ)

Jimmy Carter probably still squeaks out a win there.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 03, 2026 05:09 PM (uhVAy)

228 The Diamond Princess was the perfect predictor of the Wuhan flu contagion and lethality.

Posted by: little people at August 03, 2026 05:10 PM (ehY6c)

229 222 The year 2020 in particular. The whole nation went nuts.

Posted by: gp at August 03, 2026 05:10 PM (Jr5Lq)

230 225 If you don't vaccinate for measles and are exposed to measles you will catch measles. Measles are very contagious. Your choice.

Posted by: Braenyard

Not necessarily.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 03, 2026 05:10 PM (nKgb7)

231 PBS, U.S. sent $1.4 billion in virus relief payments to dead people
By — Marcy Gordon, Associated Press
Politics Jun 25, 2020

Note date, June 2020. Then it went on for years!
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FEMA - COVID-19 Funeral Assistance Milestones
FEMA has awarded $3.26 billion to more than 506,000 applications in COVID-19 Funeral Assistance for help covering expenses incurred between January 20, 2020, and September 30, 2025.

Posted by: L - No nic.. at August 03, 2026 05:10 PM (NFX2v)

232 Leave the fucking "Nuremburg Code" out of it. The whole thing was bullshit anyway.

Title 18 United States Code is black letter law makes it unlawful to force or coerce participation in experimental medical trials.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 03, 2026 05:10 PM (DGpsA)

233 225 If you don't vaccinate for measles and are exposed to measles you will catch measles. Measles are very contagious. Your choice.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 03, 2026 05:09 PM (4tmEn)

Especially when a bunch of third worlders unvaccinated flood the Country

Posted by: It's me donna at August 03, 2026 05:11 PM (TFsdh)

234 "The COVID vaccine prevented deaths. There is data, upon data, upon data."

China, which used its own REAL vaccine for COVID claims it had 122K deaths, versus the US government that claims it had 1.2M deaths with the clot shot

So...what data we talking here Dana?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 03, 2026 04:27 PM (sKqQm)

China also had people welded inside their apartments. Wonder what happened to them?

Posted by: Oldcat at August 03, 2026 05:11 PM (uhVAy)

235 228 The Diamond Princess was the perfect predictor of the Wuhan flu contagion and lethality.

Posted by: little people at August 03, 2026 05:10 PM (ehY6c)

Yes.
And the percentage that died, older people with health problems, was really low.

That went down the memory hole quick.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 03, 2026 05:11 PM (6ydKt)

236 You know what you can't vaccinate against? Tuberculosis.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 03, 2026 05:11 PM (abScH)

237 Your mask may filter out dry wall dust but it probably won't filter out a virus. Research sometimes is prudent.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 03, 2026 05:12 PM (ixEhJ)

238 Then-governor Roy Cooper was one of the most zealous COVID lock-down advocates in these United States. I took to calling him King Cooper for all of his edicts. A sellout from Day One for the teachers' unions. NC teachers loved, I mean LOVED the school shutdowns.

Posted by: mrp at August 03, 2026 05:12 PM (rj6Yv)

239 I never understood why "The virus escaped from a lab where the Chinese were doing gain-of-function research on a bat corona virus mostly sponsored by America" was "racist".

But, "You know that weird market those Chinese people fry live dogs in, and sometimes maybe live pangolins? It came from eating all that weird shit" was not.

Posted by: Axeman at August 03, 2026 05:12 PM (Fi81e)

240 I still can't get over the "science" that had people washing their groceries--fruits and vegetables--in bleach, then letting them sit outside overnight to stop the spead.

anyone in the medical community and the media going to own up to encouraging that lie?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 03, 2026

***
I will admit that all the insanity led me to wash my hands more thoroughly and frequently throughout the day -- after using the toilet (though I usually did that), when coming back from the grocery or meeting people, etc. I do think it's helped me keep well since '22.

But that's just good health practice.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 03, 2026 05:13 PM (wzUl9)

241 237 Your mask may filter out dry wall dust but it probably won't filter out a virus. Research sometimes is prudent.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 03, 2026 05:12 PM (ixEhJ)

I used to see this couple at the grocery store who had on masks and those shields.. Looked other worldly...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 03, 2026 05:13 PM (TFsdh)

242
I should have worn a white mask with brown spots all over it from povidone iodine that made it look like I was a terminal TB patient. I'm ashamed that I didn't think of that until the hysteria was over.

On the other hand, I wore my Groucho facemask with "MARXISM" in big letters. Got lots of nasty looks, and quite a few compliments.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 03, 2026 05:13 PM (JyBgb)

243 An interesting covid memory is a doctor explaining that masks were essentially useless - "if you throw sand at a chain link fence, it's going to stop some of the sand, but it's essentially useless. You can see that I am wearing a mask right now, and the reason I'm wearing it is because people are afraid and the mask is telling those people that I care."

Posted by: Oglebay at August 03, 2026 05:13 PM (2ap+5)

244 Dana Pinch Face's eyeballs are sinking back into her skull.

I wish RFK could yell over her. I always feel bad about his voice.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 03, 2026 05:13 PM (hzuYO)

245 Remember the first reports of a lot of deaths were in that nursing home in Washington State(?) I think.
These people had one foot in the grave and somebody brought the virus is, but the media was all over it for a week.

Then it was off to the races with the Death Counters.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 03, 2026 05:13 PM (6ydKt)

246 there is a tuberculosis vaccine called the Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, which works well for infants and young children, but it is not routinely given in the United States

Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 03, 2026 05:14 PM (nKgb7)

247 Measles are bad. I know this because I had them. Like 99.9% of kids who had measles, I survived.
Posted by: huerfano

I had chicken pocks as a kid, and possibly mumps. Survived both, and fathered a child (as some male mumps victims supposedly couldn't).
Posted by: Bulg at August 03, 2026 04:28 PM (77rzZ)

Mumps sterilized *adult* men who caught it, the fever could scar the tissues due to fever as I recall. Kids didn't have an issue to any extent.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 03, 2026 05:14 PM (uhVAy)

248 JUST IN: Florida, Alabama and Louisiana have just launched investigations into DR. FAUCI

State-level investigations are NOT covered under the autopen pardon 🔥

Leave no stone unturned, Fauci MUST face consequences!

I assume he'd normally be shielded under the Supremecy Clause, just like the ICE agents Minnesota wants to lynch, er, fairly investigate and prosecute. However, if Trump says Fauci lied and was not acting in the government's interest, and directs the Feds to waive protection...it's an interesting question.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 03, 2026 05:14 PM (/y3Vc)

249 Inquisitive people look at Africa and wonder why their Covid deaths were minimal. And then a lightbulb goes off when they remember HCQ and Ivermectin is given to the populations like candy.

Posted by: polynikes at August 03, 2026 05:14 PM (KC5Lt)

250 Walmart could be open.

But the garden center had to stay closed.

Lest people buy things for to be outside.
Of their own home.

That was the Science.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 03, 2026 05:14 PM (3cUTc)

251 ^^^ *brought the virus in

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 03, 2026 05:14 PM (6ydKt)

252 Then-governor Roy Cooper was one of the most zealous COVID lock-down advocates in these United States. I took to calling him King Cooper for all of his edicts. A sellout from Day One for the teachers' unions. NC teachers loved, I mean LOVED the school shutdowns.

Posted by: mrp at August 03, 2026 05:12 PM (rj6Yv)
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The Supreme Court of Michigan found the head witch of Michigan way overreached her "emergency powers" and held on to them way longer than she was allowed.

Posted by: Axeman at August 03, 2026 05:14 PM (Fi81e)

253 As a uni grad this has always bothered me. Grok found no cause of death listed:

Lily Ernst, a UNI swimmer/diver dies unexpectedly.

Sorry. Unable to add a link.

Posted by: Turn 2 at August 03, 2026 05:14 PM (Y2/Vj)

254 Then it was off to the races with the Death Counters.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 03, 2026 05:13 PM (6ydKt)

Didn't they stop that when biden was president ?

Posted by: It's me donna at August 03, 2026 05:14 PM (TFsdh)

255 People were opening their mail wearing gloves. For an airborne disease.
Cuz science.

Posted by: Ya Know? at August 03, 2026 05:15 PM (tNkpt)

256 Bullshit, if you "really cared" you wouldn't be wearing a dust mask to mollify or assuage the guilt of idiots. Nice try though

Posted by: Common Tater at August 03, 2026 05:15 PM (DGpsA)

257 I assume China is lying.

But the amusing thing is their standard vaccine obviously did nothing positive or NEGATIVE...giving someone a tradition vaccine for a flu like illness isn't going to give them clots, strokes, and turbo cancer but it isn't going to stop you from getting COVID either.

But the point of all this is the official data says China's COVID vaccine was 30 times more effective then ours.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 03, 2026 05:15 PM (sKqQm)

258 @221

>> maybe the virus will mutate to a less deadly variant. I guess.

There is no mechanism of action for a virus to mutate or attenuate absent a host.

They circulate through populations and work through populations.

They are not hanging out under bridges waiting to infect an unsuspecting passerby.

This will always be the biggest scam ever perpetrated on the world.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 03, 2026 05:15 PM (XV/Pl)

259 Off topic - James Talarico argues that the Bible endorses Government run health care, because Jesus spent most of his time healing people:

Legal Insurrection site:

https://tinyurl.com/2ymtpbk6

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 03, 2026 05:15 PM (W90Ou)

260 Do you remember when The Science™ told Trump hospitals needed 20 billion respirators by tomorrow or everyone who got COVID would die? Everyone who came forward with a prototype for a respirator that could be built in an hour for $3.50 was hailed as a genius by the Media! Some were personally praised on TV by PDT45, because he was following the The Science™!

If you remember that you must also remember the quiet fizzling-out of the Great Respirator Invention and Manufacture Crusade. Because The Science™ soon learned that putting older people with COVID on respirators was a death sentence.

The Science™ was capable of learning and revising public guidance. In that case. Unfortunately, The Science™ pushed by Fauci and Birx and every TV network COVID 'expert' was never continually assessed using available real-world evidence, then revised accordingly.

Posted by: Gref at August 03, 2026 05:15 PM (5rh/l)

261 I put a clear glass plate in a welders helmet and wore it one time just to ridicule the insanity.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 03, 2026 05:16 PM (abScH)

262
You know what you can't vaccinate against? Tuberculosis.

Crap.
- Guy making out with dancer at the Moulin Rouge

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 03, 2026 05:16 PM (n5tGW)

263 I hate these people; they are liars, irrational, and fascist.

Posted by: Seems Legit at August 03, 2026 05:16 PM (f5Y1D)

264 Didn't they stop that when biden was president ?

Posted by: It's me donna at August 03, 2026 05:14 PM (TFsdh)

Probably.
I stopped watching every one of them after the election, including Fox, so I'm not sure.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 03, 2026 05:16 PM (6ydKt)

265 Yes.
And the percentage that died, older people with health problems, was really low.

That went down the memory hole quick.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 03, 2026

***
During mid-2020, the CDC's own website had the data. 94% of deaths "with Covid" were people who were over 65, overweight, and/or with other co-morbidities. Only 6% of the deaths could be attributed to the virus alone.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 03, 2026 05:16 PM (wzUl9)

266 Walmart could be open.

But the garden center had to stay closed.

Lest people buy things for to be outside.
Of their own home.

That was the Science.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 03, 2026 05:14 PM (3cUTc)
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The argument used to be that they didn't want you to do something that might cause you to go to the emergency room, because they needed all that reserve for Covid patients.

Now, I'm pretty sure that it was primed to make us want to open back up, but for that the price was the Jab. Fraudci and Dalek wanted to try mRNA vaccine and that was what this was about start-to-finish.

Posted by: Axeman at August 03, 2026 05:17 PM (Fi81e)

267 I spray painted a mask with gold paint and sprinkled glitter on it. Sparkel farkel fun, would hang round my mirror all flashy in the sun tooling down the street. Did sport it in smallmart now and then. Have fun when and where you can.

Posted by: little people at August 03, 2026 05:17 PM (ehY6c)

268 I'm still sticking with my theory that the CCP released the virus in Hong Kong to stop the protests and that that population spread it to Northern Italy.

Posted by: polynikes at August 03, 2026 05:17 PM (KC5Lt)

269 It would have really helped if a higher percentage of the population would have defied the idiotic orders/advice. I really respect the people who either recognized it was an op or the ones who at least applied common sense in the situation, like a friend who, with relief, stopped wearing a mask after she was vaccinated because common knowledge is that vaccines prevent disease. While neither masks nor Covid shots were actually protective, at least those precautions made some logical sense.

But widespread masking and leaky vaccinations helped the disease spread and mutate, and the suffering and panic could have been greatly minimized if more people had said NO.

Posted by: Emmie at August 03, 2026 05:17 PM (OlzlW)

270 I put a clear glass plate in a welders helmet and wore it one time just to ridicule the insanity.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 03, 2026

***
I was tempted to buy a medieval doctor's "plague mask" and wear that, but never got the nerve.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 03, 2026 05:18 PM (wzUl9)

271 259 Off topic - James Talarico argues that the Bible endorses Government run health care, because Jesus spent most of his time healing people:

Legal Insurrection site:

https://tinyurl.com/2ymtpbk6

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 03, 2026 05:15 PM (W90Ou)

It's on brand for Talarico because his real God is Government.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 03, 2026 05:18 PM (6ydKt)

272 There is no mechanism of action for a virus to mutate or attenuate absent a host.
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Of course not. If someone claimed otherwise, you might have a point

Posted by: Common Tater at August 03, 2026 05:18 PM (DGpsA)

273 IMO Covid death numbers are greatly exaggerated. Also IMO many of the deaths that were mostly caused by Covid could have been prevented if HCQ and Ivermectin were allowed to be prescribed. HCQ as a preventative ( not great after contracting Covid) and Ivermectin as a treatment.

Posted by: polynikes at August 03, 2026 04:35 PM (KC5Lt)

Hospitals in SoCal recanted about a third of their Covid death counts because it was utterly fraudulent. Like motorcycle accident deaths. That doesn't mean the other 2/3 were real. It also didn't subtract them from the 'grim milestone' numbers. The fact that also the number of actual flu deaths, which are considerable, went to 0 during Covid is another bit of evidence.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 03, 2026 05:19 PM (uhVAy)

274 When you pay hospitals an extra 13,000 for Covid deaths you're going to get a lot of Covid deaths.

Posted by: polynikes at August 03, 2026 05:19 PM (KC5Lt)

275 Title 18 United States Code is black letter law makes it unlawful to force or coerce participation in experimental medical trials.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 03, 2026 05:10 PM (DGpsA)

So, how many people have been tried for forcing or coercing participation in experimental medical trials wrt the mRNA vaccine?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 03, 2026 05:19 PM (ExV1e)

276 Inquisitive people look at Africa and wonder why their Covid deaths were minimal. And then a lightbulb goes off when they remember HCQ and Ivermectin is given to the populations like candy.
Posted by: polynikes at August 03, 2026

**
I had to order my ivermectin, "bimectin," from Valley Vet Supply. Still have some left. And they continue to email me every few days.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 03, 2026 05:20 PM (wzUl9)

277
Your mask may filter out dry wall dust but it probably won't filter out a virus. Research sometimes is prudent.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 03, 2026 05:12 PM (ixEhJ)

One actual benefit to the face diapers is that it'll stop a lot of the virus that's suspended in your spit when you cough or sneeze. Not all of it though. Won't do diddly squat with the virus itself, but it'll reduce the chance that someone's going to accidentally spit on your pizza when you go out to eat.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 03, 2026 05:20 PM (JyBgb)

278 nood

Posted by: gp at August 03, 2026 05:20 PM (Jr5Lq)

279 I so wish I had a MOPP 4 suit, boots, gloves, hood and mask, and deconn kit and the rest of it. I never needed to go anywhere during the insanity, but it would have been a blast.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 03, 2026 05:20 PM (DGpsA)

280 Nood. The EU.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 03, 2026 05:20 PM (ExV1e)

281 259 Off topic - James Talarico argues that the Bible endorses Government run health care, because Jesus spent most of his time healing people:

Legal Insurrection site:

https://tinyurl.com/2ymtpbk6

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 03, 2026 05:15 PM (W90Ou)

__________________________________

Bonus: Turning water into wine endorses cheap wine. Jesus drank Mad Dog 20/20.

Posted by: Orson at August 03, 2026 05:20 PM (dIske)

282 Inquisitive people look at Africa and wonder why their Covid deaths were minimal. And then a lightbulb goes off when they remember HCQ and Ivermectin is given to the populations like candy.

Posted by: polynikes at August 03, 2026 05:14 PM (KC5Lt)
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Later in the shamdemic, the government of India was paying for Ivermectin for each patient treated for Covid.

This is while the "horse paste" thing was going on in American media.

I used to have fun with this: "So you're saying that Indians are stupid, right? That's racist."

Posted by: Axeman at August 03, 2026 05:21 PM (Fi81e)

283 What made me go completely insane was the “asymptomatic spreader” and “natural immunity isn’t as good as the vaccine.”

Pure, unadulterated bullshit. And I looked at providers and challenged them on it several times.

They knew it was horse shit. But they towed the line.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 03, 2026 05:21 PM (nKgb7)

284 Only 6% of the deaths could be attributed to the virus alone.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 03, 2026 05:16 PM (wzUl9)

I recall the one guy in Florida who died of a motorcycle accident and they had the cause of death as COVID because he tested positive.

1. Why test a dead man?
2. Why pay hospitals $13,000 a pop for COVID cases to insure they tested a dead man?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 03, 2026 05:21 PM (6ydKt)

285 I was tempted to buy a medieval doctor's "plague mask" and wear that, but never got the nerve.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 03, 2026 05:18 PM (wzUl9)
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I bought a gaiter that had the lower half of a skull imprinted on that. I wore that with a black hoody pulled all the way up, along with black gloves that have skeleton fingers imprinted on them.

When I went to Walmart, security should have thought I was there to rob the place. But nobody said anything.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 03, 2026 05:22 PM (FZ29D)

286 HCQ and Ivermectin are proven highly safe drugs and no reason they shouldn't have been prescribed. That is the most evil thing that occurred imo.

And today the people who prevented doctors from prescribing it are denying they ever did. Those are the people who deserve severe punishment.
Posted by: polynikes at August 03, 2026 05:03 PM (KC5Lt)

They wanted those drugs for themselves.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 03, 2026 05:22 PM (uhVAy)

287 o, how many people have been tried for forcing or coercing participation in experimental medical trials wrt the mRNA vaccine?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 03, 2026

***
I recall speaking to a local lawyer about the legality of being threatened as I had been. When he heard I worked for a certain rich private university he really perked up.

His advice to me was to see if they accepted my exemption request, and then call him back if they did not. They did accept it, so nothing came of it all.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 03, 2026 05:22 PM (wzUl9)

288 During the initial ‘wear a mask” hysteria, me and my brother (both racecar drivers) went out in our full race helmets with visors.

We thought it would be obvious we were mocking the mask rules.

But … no. People thought we were serious, and that we were scared to death of the virus, so we quickly stopped doing that.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 03, 2026 05:22 PM (i+vnO)

289 259 Off topic - James Talarico argues that the Bible endorses Government run health care, because Jesus spent most of his time healing people:

Legal Insurrection site:

https://tinyurl.com/2ymtpbk6

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 03, 2026 05:15 PM (W90Ou)

I don't recall Jesus claiming to be a government.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 03, 2026 05:24 PM (uhVAy)

290 I'm still sticking with my theory that the CCP released the virus in Hong Kong to stop the protests and that that population spread it to Northern Italy.
Posted by: polynikes at August 03, 2026 05:17 PM (KC5Lt)

Oh absolutely. They weren't gonna be holding that bag themselves.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 03, 2026 05:25 PM (uhVAy)

291 And we were told that hospitals were choked with Covid patients. Then someone released actual video that showed they were practically empty.

As I pointed out to anyone who might listen at the time: "Are we seeing the gutters filled with dead bodies? No? Then it's not a pandemic."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 03, 2026 05:26 PM (wzUl9)

292 I bought a gaiter that had the lower half of a skull imprinted on that. I wore that with a black hoody pulled all the way up, along with black gloves that have skeleton fingers imprinted on them.

When I went to Walmart, security should have thought I was there to rob the place. But nobody said anything.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 03, 2026

***
In 2019 and earlier, they would have thought that of you.

There has long been a local ordinance here that no one is to wear masks after dark, even on Mardi Gras night. Somehow that vanished or got studiously ignored.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 03, 2026 05:28 PM (wzUl9)

293 But the point of all this is the official data says China's COVID vaccine was 30 times more effective then ours.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 03, 2026 05:15 PM (sKqQm)

Their flood control is even better. Entire cities are drowned under 30+ feet of water with only 29 deaths. Including drowned car tunnels full to the brim with occupied cars.

See, if you have more than 30 deaths you have to report in detail to Peking about why you messed up.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 03, 2026 05:28 PM (uhVAy)

294 My fav thing from the Covid files?

BLM protests were AOK, but going to church, or even paddleboarding by yerself in the Ocean, was not.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 03, 2026 05:28 PM (mP0Kj)

295
I'm still sticking with my theory that the CCP released the virus in Hong Kong to stop the protests and that that population spread it to Northern Italy.
Posted by: polynikes at August 03, 2026 05:17 PM (KC5Lt)

Werd.

I've been saying that since Day 1. The way that the ChiComs flailed about, blaming everyone was the big tell (at different times, they blamed Italy, Australia and the US for sure, and probably more). If it was targeted specifically at Trump and the US, their story would have been more focused and consistent, with a single villain.

The commie cocksuckers in the US jumped on board opportunistically.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 03, 2026 05:29 PM (JyBgb)

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