The flatlands summit
It’s impossible not to laugh. Anti-vax doctors get together for a jamboree, get Covid.
Seven anti-vaccine doctors fell sick after gathering earlier this month for a Florida “summit” at which alternative treatments for Covid-19 were discussed.
“I have been on ivermectin for 16 months, my wife and I,” Dr Bruce Boros told the audience at the event held at the World Equestrian Center in Ocala, adding: “I have never felt healthier in my life.”
This “alternative” label is interesting. Alternative to what? To the normal, reliable ways of determining which medications prevent or treat and which don’t. What an odd thing to seek an alternative for. Should we have alternative parachutes, the kind that don’t open? Alternative seat belts, the kind that let you smash into the windshield? Alternative fire departments, the kind that don’t show up when your house goes up in flames?
The 71-year-old cardiologist and staunch anti-vaccine advocate contracted Covid-19 two days later, according to the head event organizer, Dr John Littell.
“Staunch” is another word that is only as good as it is. Being staunchly stupid and dangerous is not all that praiseworthy. “Obstinate” would be a better fit.
Littell, an Ocala family physician, also told the Daily Beast six other doctors among 800 to 900 participants at the event also tested positive or developed Covid-19 symptoms “within days of the conference”.
Littell raised the suggestion the conference was therefore a super-spreader event but rejected it, vehemently saying: “No.
“I think they had gotten it from New York or Michigan or wherever they were from,” he told the Beast. “It was really the people who flew in from other places.”
Ah yes, New York or Michigan – you know, where all the [whispers] black people are.
Now why wouldn’t his father want to tell him?
I’m surprised that only six people out of 800 got it.
GW — others, presumably, got “a bad cold”. Some of course aren’t total fools and had secretly gotten vaccinated ahead of time.
Oh, and ivermectin was popular at this event held at an equestrian center? That’s too funny! We got Covid but at least we’re safe from intestinal parasites!
I suspect that if his Father was a younger man, he’d want to give Boros a smack up the side of the head for being such a fucking ejidt.
Me too! I suspect almost certainly an under count for a variety of reasons.
One of the good things to have come out of all this is that it’s put a big red ring around the names of health professionals who apparently don’t understand or have faith (small f) in science. Makes it much easier to avoid them. Here in NZ we’ve now got a Government Mandate requiring certain categories of worker to be vaccinated in order to work face to face. That includes health workers and teachers. The last count I saw a bit over 100 doctors a couple of thousand nurses and other health workers and around 2500 teachers had refused and as a result lost their jobs or in some cases have been able to get jobs in tele-health or remote learning.
A number were, or have become, prominent in what could loosely be called Q related protest movements. They tend to call them ‘Rights’ protests here and call for compassion for the unvaccinated (fucked if I know why). The banners at the protests tell the story. A weird mix of anti-government, racist, MAGA, a liquorice all sorts of conspiracy, anti-vacc, climate denial – you name it.
On the bright side, we now have over 90% of the over 12 population with at least one vaccine and in the low 80% over 12’s fully vaccinated. Probably not enough to prevent large scale sickness and death over the next few months, but there you go.
Same in OZ, Rob. Thousands of sheep, whipped into a frenzy by Murdoch media and manipulated by the shadowy forces of the hard right.
They are complaining of living under a dictatorship, even though the government was freely elected; they demand a return of their freedumbs, while exercising the freedoms of a liberal democracy.
A good read on how the American Disease has been imported to Oz is Van Badham’s “Qanon and anon”. The ebook is under 10AUD.
Thanks for the tip Rob.
Apologies too for the punctuation in my comment above. I was getting all the commas into place using some of the best trained comma dogs in NZ, but then something happened and they scattered to the four winds. Honest.
My father is 90 years old and a Trump voter. He got the vaccine at the earliest possible moment (which was pretty early, because he is both a veteran and in an assisted living facility). He would advise anyone to get the vaccine. He was very sad that Trump was so anti-vax, and said he wished Trump would wear a mask, but he was sensible enough to listen to his doctor for medical information, not an overinflated, overhyped, egotistical reality show host who doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground.
Looks like the Huntaway stole the J from my name while they were at it. :-)
Roj, you should have heard my wail of despair and chagrin, coupled with a snort of self mockery when I saw that. Huntaway blameless. That was autocorrect for sure. Or possibly senility.
Rob, I always blame the cat. (Even when I’m at the office, where the cat doesn’t accompany me.)