12/18/21: With Americans still dying from COVID-19 at a
rate of more than a thousand a day, it’s time to nominate candidates for the
2021 Jerk Awards, popularly known as the “Jerkies.”
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“Virtually every single person that is getting sick enough to
be admitted to the hospital has not been vaccinated.”
Dr. Oren Friedman
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A nominations for “Biggest Elected Jerk” goes
to Sen. Ron Johnson, who recently said Dr. Anthony Fauci over-hyped the AIDS epidemic in
the 1980s and then the COVID-19 pandemic.
Since Sen. Bonehead offered up
his thoughts on World AIDS Day, you had to wonder how the man could have been
elected to the Oshkosh Public Library Board, let alone the U.S. Senate.
Old Bonehead could easily
look up figures for AIDS and HIV,
and learn that at least 79 million people worldwide have been infected with the
virus and that at least 36 million have died.
In any case, Johnson will be
stiff competition for all the other nominees in that category.
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Jenne makes his point: He's ignorant. |
“Most Valuable Player”
nominations have gone to two NFL players. Antonio Brown, wide receiver for the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers, has been selected on the basis of gross stupidity – that
is, buying a fake vaccination card – and having that fake registered in “Citrus
County,” which isn’t even close to where he lives.
The second nod goes to Green
Bay QB Aaron Rodgers, a gentleman better at tossing TD passes than grasping
third grade science. He was chosen both for his stupidity and the stupidity of
his favorite health advisor. That is, Joe Rogan – former commentator for Ultimate
Fighting Championship bouts – former host of the Fear Factor (a show
where contestants had to eat spiders or lie down in worm-filled coffins to win
prizes) – and current podcasting knucklehead.
In the “Greensboro Lunch
Counter Sit-in Gone Bad” category, nominees are piling up (like corpses in the
next category). The first nomination goes to Adam Jenne, who wore a red thong
as a mask on an airplane to protest federally-mandated mask guidelines. As a
bonus, he got kicked off his flight – and then compared his stance to Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat
to a white person.
Jenne will be tough to beat;
but six individuals who participated in a sit-in at a New York City Cheesecake
Factory, to protest policies denying them service unless they could prove they were vaccinated,
are in the running. This would be (in right-wing minds) exactly like the stand
taken in Greensboro in 1960, when four young black students sat down at a lunch counter and refused to
leave despite being denied service.
So close to the same! In the
modern case, you could get served if you got shots. In 1960, if you were black,
you couldn’t vote in most parts of the
South, couldn’t stay at most motels across the nation, couldn’t eat at most
restaurants, no matter how many shots you had, and your children had to go to
separate schools. You still had to drink from separate drinking fountains, and
still couldn’t play basketball for the University of Kentucky or enroll at the
University of Alabama. As an added bonus, if you protested you might end up buried under an earthen dam in Mississippi.
In yet another jam-packed
category, Pastor Marcus Lamb will be competing posthumously in the crowded
“Alex Jones Disinformation” category. The man of God, having spent almost the
entirety of the pandemic mocking vaccines – and we mean “almost,” because he managed
to contract COVID-19 and die unnecessarily – will now be going on to meet God
in a different venue.
In the “Disinformation”
category, Lamb is up against formidable competition. There’s the Magnet Lady,
the Ohio nurse who swore the vaccine made metal objects stick to her body, and Alex Jones, for whom the
award was originally named. He is a candidate to grab the “Jerkie” again, after
winning last year, having warned that anyone who gets the shots will be dead in a year.
Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio also
garnered a “Jerkie” nomination last week, when he tweeted: “Real America is done with #COVID19. The only
people who don’t understand that are Fauci and Biden.”
So, let’s try to explain this
slowly for any poor saps who give credence to anything Rep. Numbskull has to
say. First, all Americans live in “Real America,” those of us vaccinated, and
those of you not.
In the second place, those of
us who don’t feel we’re “done” with the virus have legitimate concerns. A few
of us, even if vaccinated, still die every day if infected. Odds, however, are
greatly in our favor, as opposed to those who tend to love Jim Jordan, the unvaccinated
who fail to understand he’s talking out his anus. The unvaccinated have at
least ten times as great a chance of getting infected and dying, as those of us who ignore the disinformation,
the gross ignorance and the lies, and go ahead and get shots. As November drew
to a close, CDC put the U.S. death toll for the month at more than 33,000.
That brought the total for the
United States to 780,451.
Nor has the pace of death
abated, while people like Sen. Bonehead and Rep. Numbskull continue to go out
and pretend the virus is not so terrible and if it is killing tens of thousands
of Americans, it’s Dr. Fauci’s fault.
Meanwhile, the University of
Minnesota reports that 55,123 Americans are hospitalized with the virus as of today.
None of those people, nor
their families nor friends are “done” with COVID-19. In fact, someone should
explain to Rep. Numbskull that 3,916 infected Ohioans are laid up in his own
state.
Last time I checked Ohio was
still part of “Real America.”
If you go to this link you will discover that Michigan leads with more than 4,300 individuals
infected with COVID filling hospital beds as of today. Texas has 2,886. Florida
has 2,251 patients with the infection in hospitals, and could soon hit 100,000
persons hospitalized with the coronavirus since the pandemic first hit. Ohio
has had more than 87,000 COVID-19 patients hospitalized and, still, Rep.
Numbskull is absolutely too clueless to grasp the magnitude of the crisis.
California has 850 COVID patients in ICU and South Carolina has 61 on
ventilators right now.
So? Yeah. We’re not “done”
with this virus, no matter what the “Jerkie” nominees might have to say.
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OUR ANTI-VAXXER friends,
relatives and neighbors continue to take their chances, often committing
“suicide by COVID,” as one person put it. Lamb, the founder of the Christian
Daystar Television Network, and a vaccine denier, caught the virus and died needlessly. (No telling how many of his listeners heard him
question the efficacy of vaccines and died along with him.) Nick Bledsoe,
another anti-vaxxer, posted a petition against school mask mandates on social
media and cursed “Biden and his vaccine” on Facebook. He would have loved Rep.
Jordan’s recent tweet, but at age 41, he too had slipped the bands of earthly existence.
The coronavirus killed him –
roughly halfway through what one might assume should have been his normal
lifespan.
Others who died after fighting
for the right not to get shots – or even wear masks – include:
an
Idaho man whose final [social media] post was a petition opposing a university
vaccine mandate, a nurse who campaigned against masks in schools, and a
50-year-old hospitalized Covid patient who declared: “I’m still not screaming
for people to wear their mask or get vaccinated” on Facebook three weeks before
he died from the virus. “I say live free,” the man wrote.
None of these people had to
die. And, yes, we know, all you avid anti-vaxxers. You can skip the shots and
never get sick. And you can skip the shots, and refuse to wear masks, and you
can get a mild case and pass it on to people you love – or people you pass by
one day – and they can get sick and die, instead.
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THAT BRINGS US to our final
nomination for a “Jerkie” today, the “Classless Internet Troll” award.
Sadly, Americans continue to
die in large numbers from COVID, and almost all of them unnecessarily.
Consider, for example, Steve Harmon, who mocked vaccines, and insisted from a hospital bed just days before the virus killed
him: “If you don’t have faith that God can heal me
over your stupid ventilator then keep the Hell out of my ICU room, there’s no
room in here for fear or lack of faith!”
R.I.P., Mr. Harmon.
But you didn’t have to die. According to Dr. Oren Friedman,
who treats COVID-19 patients at the hospital where you succumbed, your death
and others like it have been “unbelievably demoralizing.”
“Virtually every single person that is getting sick enough to
be admitted to the hospital has not been vaccinated,” Friedman told a reporter.
Unfortunately, it turns out there’s an entire website called sorryantivaxxer.com., which
compiles stories of those who refused to take precautions, mocked those who
did, and paid the coronavirus piper. I don’t believe any of us should take
pleasure in the deaths of these human beings – but it would be nice if someone
could knock Rep. Jordan upside the head with a loaf of French bread and get him
to quit shifting the focus on COVID to matters that won’t save a single life –
and, in fact, by undercutting faith in science, will cause more Americans to
die. “Real America” is not done with COVID and it’s shameful to try to convince
the ill-informed that you can’t trust Dr. Fauci and people who tout masks and
vaccination.
I will post just one example from the website, sorryantivaxxer.com and
that should be enough.
Ellen Breeden, 41, mother of six, was a strident anti-vaxxer.
She posted a photo on social media of a yellow star like those worn by Jews
during the Nazi reign of terror – as if to say those who refused to mask up and
get shots, like her, were victims of tyranny when told they couldn’t fly on jets,
or enter every restaurant.
She also posted this, on July 21, 2020:
Her husband was equally vehement and both Mr. and Mrs.
Breeden shared Rep. Jordan’s misplaced hatred for Dr. Fauci – who mainly said
that all of us should get shots for our own safety, and wear masks for the
safety of others:
Mrs. Breeden leaves behind
husband David and in all likelihood sacrificed decades of happiness watching
her children grow.
If you do check out the
website sorryantivaxxer.com. and read a few comments, you will come away
wondering what’s wrong with Americans on both sides of the debate. In this
case, most of the stupidity comes from the vaccinated. That’s not the
stupidity, by the way. Getting the shots?
That’s smart.
It’s the comments they make
that are disgusting.
Two quick examples should suffice:
“Ellen won’t be
Breeden any longer.”
“Bye bye C**t.”
Both posters, above, are now
in the running for the “Classless Internet Troll” Jerkie. Organizers of the
show are hoping to hold the awards ceremony at Mar-a-Lago, and have the former
president pass the golden trophies out.
POSTSCRIPT: For the right price, of course, you can
commune with those who die from COVID-19, or from any other cause, from car
wreck to conflagration. Carissa Schumacher, a spiritual advisor known to hang
with some of Hollywood’s biggest names, promises that she can serve as medium
and communicate with the dead. If you’d like a private session she’ll do one
for $1,111 per hour.
Or you can buy her latest book,
The Freedom Transmissions, in which Schumacher explains how she has been
channeling the spirit of Jesus, who she refers to as Yeshua. Her book is now
out, just in time for Christmas.
Only $14.99 on Kindle.
And much cheaper than a
private session.
When I “look inside” the
Kindle version, I see that Schumacher opens with this in her introduction. I have added my reactions in italics:
Hello,
Beautiful Spirit. (That’s me! I am a Beautiful Spirit!) I’m Carissa. (Hi,
I’m John.) I am one of Yeshua’s channels. It is my greatest joy to lend my
body, my heart, my spirit to serve as an anchor and vessel for Yeshua in the
channeling of the Freedom Transmissions. That is my only presence and purpose
here. (Does this mean, I can get a free private session?) The rest of
the journey is between you and Him. (Couldn’t I just go to church instead?)
It
does not matter when you are finding these Transmissions or how – the energy
behind the Transmissions of Divine Spirit knows no time. (So, if I don’t buy
the book for Christmas, it will be a good birthday present for my wife in June?)
If
you felt the call to read or listen to this book, you were drawn to it for
reasons beyond the mind. The “why” does not matter. Let it be. The mind often
cannot comprehend the ways of the Divine. If you found your way here it is
because Spirit put out a call to you and you answered that call. Or you put out
a call to Spirit and Spirit answered your call. (Actually, I was drawn here
because my mind tells me you are no better than a pickpocket.)The
incredible grace and Wisdom of Yeshua is for those truly ready to transform,
illuminate, and evolve in consciousness and embodiment of Light in a very
direct way. (Somehow, I think I’d rather throw $14.99 into the Ohio River
and save the time I’d waste reading.)
So, in closing, and offering
up my thoughts for free, let me say, “May you all stay safe this holiday season
and let’s hope we get the virus under control in 2022.”
