December 18, 2021: Nominees for the 2021 "Jerk" Awards, or the "Jerkies."

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.

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.”