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Joe Rogan Positive for COVID, Taking Ivermectin
Joe Rogan has had some disappointing takes on coronavirus ever since the start of the pandemic, including saying that being “healthy” is enough to keep people safe from the disease and that young people probably shouldn’t get the vaccine. Now, Rogan has announced that he has tested positive for COVID-19 and that he has tried all sorts of treatments to get himself feeling better. Rogan said that he got fevers, sweats, and had one particularly bad day before starting to recover. In a video he posted to social media, Rogan rattled off the extensive list of treatments he took for the virus. He said he took: monoclonal antibodies, ivermectin, z-pack, prednisone, as well as an NAD drip and a vitamin drip. Many of these treatments are not FDA approved for treating COVID, whereas now the Pfizer vaccine is fully approved and not simply classified under an emergency use authorization. It therefore doesn’t appear to make a lot of sense that Rogan was so eager to take these unproven treatments when before he expressed skepticism over the safety of the vaccines. Also, if all of these medications really were warranted in Rogan’s case, that suggests that COVID really is quite dangerous and that being “healthy” alone isn’t enough to fend it off. Hopefully some in Rogan’s fanbase will hear this news and choose to get themselves vaccinated, but they just as easily could come away thinking they don’t need to, because if they do get the virus, they could simply take this litany of questionable medications.
Candace Owens Refused COVID Test, Claims Racism
Right-wing political commentator Candace Owens had to cancel a speaking gig at a conservative gathering over the weekend after coming down with a “sudden illness.” The announcement fueled speculation that Owens came down with COVID-19. All pandemic long, Owens has been downplaying the severity of COVID, while questioning the efficacy of masks and the need for vaccines. Just last week, Candace tweeted, “I'm unvaccinated. I've been to six countries and 28 states since the start of this pandemic (maskless outside of planes), and I still don't have Covid.” Owens tried going to a privately owned testing center in Aspen, Colorado to find out if she had COVID but was refused service because the owner of the testing service said she didn’t want to help someone who discouraged masks and vaccines. Upon hearing the news of her canceled appointment, Candace took to social media to blame it on racism. She said, “the last time a white Democrat refused a black person service . . . we were in the Jim Crow era.” Owens is someone making a career on arguing that the left overblows instances of racism from the right, but the second she has an opportunity to call something racist, she takes full advantage of it. Whether or not Candace has COVID remains to be seen, but if she does, maybe it will be a wake up call to finally start taking the virus more seriously. Often with conservatives, it takes an issue to affect them personally in order for them to start caring about it.
From yesterday’s show:
Florida's Bogus "Decline" in COVID Deaths
The state of Florida has been fudging its coronavirus data in order to hide the terrifying wave of deaths it’s been witnessing over the past couple of months. What Florida is doing is adding to its death totals weeks after the deaths occur, while leaving its recent death tally at close to zero. This creates an artificial collapse in the death count that makes it seem as though the virus is back under control. The state began reporting its data to the CDC this way at the beginning of August. For example, on Monday the data should have shown an average of 262 daily deaths from COVID in the Sunshine State, but by using these reporting tricks, its data instead showed only 46 new deaths over the previous seven days. This is just the latest attempt by Florida and its governor, Ron DeSantis, to make it seem as though Florida’s hands off approach to the virus should be a model for other states to follow. These politicians would rather further their own interests and careers than change course on the pandemic at this late date, even though people’s lives are at stake.
From yesterday’s show:
MAGA Republican Threatens "Bloodshed" If Elections Stay "Rigged"
Republican Congressman Madison Cawthorn is predicting there will be bloodshed if elections in the US remain “rigged.” On Sunday, the North Carolina congressman said that elections in the US are illegitimate and that it’s going to cause violence. Cawthorn told the audience “if our election systems continue to be rigged and continue to be stolen, it’s going to lead to one place and it’s bloodshed.” The congressman’s main premise is false which is the idea that Joe Biden didn’t really beat Donald Trump in the 2020 election. But he asserts it anyway and goes on to explain matter of factly that violence is a viable consequence. Cawthorn should be censured by the House of Representatives and investigated by the FBI over this statement, as it’s clear he’s not just predicting bloodshed and he’s actively rooting for it. This is the same person who got away with trying to bring a gun onto a plane and said it was okay to threaten members of Congress when they don’t act on behalf of the will of the people. Sadly, there won’t be any consequences for Cawthorn and instead he’ll likely be reelected to the House in 2022.
More on the show:
--Vincent Racaniello, virology professor at Columbia University and host of the podcast This Week in Virology, joins David to discuss the pandemic, COVID-19, the coronavirus, vaccines, contagion, incubation periods, and much more
--Republican Senator Ron Johnson is caught on hidden camera video by Lauren Windsor admitting that Donald Trump lost the election, and has only himself to blame for losing Wisconsin
--Right wing host Glenn Beck confronts radical Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert about her harebrained plan to impeach President Joe Biden
--Fox News host Will Cain suggests that unvaccinated Americans will soon be put in some kind of "camps," presumably by the Joe Biden administration
--MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is allegedly hiding a pro-Trump election clerk, Tine Peters, who is accused of not counting ballots in races she was overseeing
--Voicemail caller explains that he didn't get vaccinated because his mom got a headache from the vaccine, but now that his employer requires it, he will get vaccinated
--On the Bonus Show: Study says Moderna makes twice the antibodies of Pfizer vaccine, IL becomes first state to require media literacy classes in high school, missing OK representative threatened embassy, much more...
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I don't understand why some people wait for the almost-inevitable contact with Covid (predominantly the Delta strain), to experiment with a litany of mostly untested "Covid Cures", usually at great expense, when they could have taken the vaccine, now dispensed to hundreds of millions, worldwide, with extremely few complications. They could have averted the disease, altogether, or in the case of "breakthrough" infections, dealt with a mild case of the flu. Covid vaccines are the best choice for almost everyone, and the sooner that everyone gets vaccinated, the sooner we can loose the masks, and mandates, and lockdowns. If you want to return to normalcy - get vaccinated.