New Radio Gig. Same Old Lying Wendy Bell, The Angel of Death

How long till she gets fired from this job?

Breaking! @WRTAradio airs pro-choice talk host Wendy Bell. pic.twitter.com/UIVwUn6wcO

— JON (@JonInPGH) September 7, 2021

Wendy posted (as is tradition) her BS board and (as is tradition) someone must've reported her to the FB factcheckers because this is what happened:

Aw, Wendy. Did this happen to you again?

What could you be doing that flags the fact checkers so frequently?

Well if you were to hit that See Why button you'd, y'know, see why:

Does the government's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) provide data or reports that prove the COVID-19 vaccine or other vaccines have caused injuries or deaths? No, that's not true: As the VAERS webpage itself repeatedly explains, its purpose is to collect a wide-open, likely repetitive, messy and incomplete list of anyone's anecdotal, amateur, professional and even malicious reports of post-vaccination problems.

But let's back up abit to look at Wendy's framing.

A few days ago Rolling Stone reported:

The rise in people using ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug usually reserved for deworming horses or livestock, as a treatment or preventative for Covid-19 has emergency rooms “so backed up that gunshot victims were having hard times getting” access to health facilities, an emergency room doctor in Oklahoma said.

This week, Dr. Jason McElyea told KFOR the overdoses are causing backlogs in rural hospitals, leaving both beds and ambulance services scarce.

“The ERs are so backed up that gunshot victims were having hard times getting to facilities where they can get definitive care and be treated,” McElyea said.

Well, they got fact-checked and had to issue an update, which was placed between the head line and the text I just quoted you:

Update: One hospital has denied Dr. Jason McElyea’s claim that ivermectin overdoses are causing emergency room backlogs and delays in medical care in rural Oklahoma, and Rolling Stone has been unable to independently verify any such cases as of the time of this update.

The National Poison Data System states there were 459 reported cases of ivermectin overdose in the United States in August. Oklahoma-specific ivermectin overdose figures are not available, but the count is unlikely to be a significant factor in hospital bed availability in a state that, per the CDC, currently has a 7-day average of 1,528 Covid-19 hospitalizations. The doctor is affiliated with a medical staffing group that serves multiple hospitals in Oklahoma. Following widespread publication of his statements, one hospital that the doctor’s group serves, NHS Sequoyah, said its ER has not treated any ivermectin overdoses and that it has not had to turn away anyone seeking care. This and other hospitals that the doctor’s group serves did not respond to requests for comment and the doctor has not responded to requests for further comment. We will update if we receive more information.

See that, Wendy? When they make a mistake (and it looks like they did) they correct themselves. In public. On the same platoform where they blundered. The more mistakes they make the less credibility they have. If the mistakes go uncorrected, it's even more so.

There's a lesson here, isn't there? For you, Wendy. A lesson for you to learn. Just to be clear.

Here's the rest of Wendy's BS board:

 

You'll note on the bottom of the BS there's Wendy's habitual misuse of the VAERS data. This is one reason why she keeps getting snagged by the FB fact-checkers.

Wendy is using, as a source, Openvaers.com.

We've danced this dance before, haven't we? There's that pesky disclaimer about how the data isn't verified, and "cannot be used to determine if a vaccine caused or contributed to an adverse event or illness" and so on.

Remember that, Wendy?

Openvaers even gives you the disclaimer:

If you were to click on that, Wendy, you'd find:

HHS VAERS Disclaimer

VAERS accepts reports of adverse events and reactions that occur following vaccination. Healthcare providers, vaccine manufacturers, and the public can submit reports to the system. While very important in monitoring vaccine safety, VAERS reports alone cannot be used to determine if a vaccine caused or contributed to an adverse event or illness. The reports may contain information that is incomplete, inaccurate, coincidental, or unverifiable. In large part, reports to VAERS are voluntary, which means they are subject to biases. This creates specific limitations on how the data can be used scientifically. Data from VAERS reports should always be interpreted with these limitations in mind.

Wendy, why aren't you posting that on your BS Board?

Doesn't your fanbase deserve to know that the data you're presenting to them as solid "cannot be used to determine if a vaccine caused or contributed to an adverse event or illness" as "the reports may contain information that is incomplete, inaccurate, coincidental, or unverifiable?"

Aren't you lying to them by omitting this information?

When will we be seeing your online correction about all of your mistakes/hoaxes/blunders?

Heartless Wendy Bell Gets The Facts Wrong. Again

A few days ago this happened on twitter:

PA’s message to Wolf: I know you don’t check the CDC, but I do. 385 Covid deaths under 18 in the US. Out of 74 million. That’s .00052%. But by all means. Let’s restrict free air flow. That’s real leadership right there.

— Wendy Bell (@WendyBellPgh) August 31, 2021

By focusing only on the "385 Covid deaths under 18" Wendy is purposefully omitting this part of the story:

As vaccination rates lag and the new delta variant surges, Covid infection rates among kids have risen and children’s hospitals are seeing a spike in medical care needs among the young patients.

The Covid surge is also stacking upon an unseasonable spike in respiratory illnesses among children typically seen only in winter. That has shrunk the bed space further in children's hospitals and expanded on the unrelenting demand on doctors and nurses.

“It is scary, especially for kids who don’t fully understand what’s going on. They’re air hungry, struggling for breath, and it’s just scary,” said Dr. Kelechi Iheagwara, medical director of the pediatric intensive care unit at the Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. “You have the illness, the fear, they can’t breathe, they’re isolated — that’s hard for anyone to understand, but can you imagine what it’s like for a kid?”

Apparently, this is A-OK for Wendy Bell, the Angel of Death.

But beyond that, she gets the source of the mask mandate wrong. It's not issued under the authority of the Governor, it's issued under the authority of the Acting Secretary of Health, Alison Beam.

And it's not just about childrens' death. From the order:

Now, because of the rise of the Delta variant, increasing disease and hospitalizations, and the inability to obtain vaccines for a large part of that vulnerable group, children are more and more at risk.

There are several reasons for the increasing risk to children from COVID-19. The risk overall to the unvaccinated population is rising. Given the rise in hospitalizations and deaths, and despite COVID- 19 vaccines being available, the Delta variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is causing the rate of cases of COVID-19 to increase. The Delta variant is more infectious, and it is leading to increased transmissibility. Additionally, data is suggesting that the Delta variant may cause more severe illness than previous strains of SARS-CoV-2. Vaccination remains the most effective protection against all strains of SARS-CoV-2; however, not all of our population is able to get vaccinated. As of yet, no vaccine has been approved for children under the age of 12. As of August 26, 2021, the total number of cumulative cases reported in children in the Commonwealth was 23,974 in the 0-4 years of age cohort, 56,039 in the 5-12 years of age cohort, and 88,205 in the 12-18 years of age cohort.

See that Wendy? It's not about death but it is about public health and the recently increased risk of infection for children, understand?

You'd know this if you'd actually read the order.

I am guessing you never bothered with the order because if you had and you omitted telling the full truth about it then we'd all know how dishonest you are.

And we all know how much you hate being called a liar.

Then there's this from the order:

COVID-19 is a threat to the public’s health, for which the Secretary of Health may order general control measures. This authority is granted to the Secretary of Health pursuant to Pennsylvania law. See section 5 of the Disease Prevention and Control Law, 35 P.S. § 521.5; section 2102(a) of the Administrative Code of 1929, 71 P.S. § 532(a); and the Department of Health’s regulation at 28 Pa. Code § 27.60 (relating to disease control measures). Particularly, the Department of Health (Department) has the authority to take any disease control measure appropriate to protect the public from the spread of infectious disease. See 35 P.S. § 521.5; 71 P.S. §§ 532(a), and 1403(a); 28 Pa. Code § 27.60. With the opening of the 2021 school year at hand, and case counts and hospitalizations continuing to rise, there is a need for additional action to protect our Commonwealth’s children. 

Don't you want to protect the health of the Commonwealth's children, Wendy? 

I'll say it again. By focusing only on the "385 Covid deaths under 18" you're purposefully omitting this, Wendy.

Helpless to improve her infant son’s breathing as he was about to be intubated, Catherine Perrilloux did the only thing that came naturally to her in that moment, the worst of her life: She looked away and prayed. The boy, known as Junior, was two months old and gravely ill with Covid-19.

“I see a bunch of them crowding around the room with the ventilator machine, and then they pull out the tubing, and I’m just losing control,” Ms. Perrilloux, a dean at a nearby private school, recalled last week in her son’s room in the pediatric intensive care unit. “There’s nothing that you could say to make it better. You can’t do anything. It’s just paralyzing.”

At Children’s Hospital New Orleans, where the intensive care unit has been jammed with Covid-19 patients, scenes like this have played out unrelentingly over the past month. Nurses raced around monitoring one gut-wrenching case after another. One child was getting a complicated breathing treatment known as ECMO, a last resort after ventilators fail, which nurses said was almost unheard-of for pediatric cases. About a half-dozen others were in various stages of distress.

“We all thought, ‘Well, thankfully it’s not happening to the kids; none of us would be able to stomach that,’” said Mark Melancon, a longtime nurse at the hospital, recalling previous stages of the coronavirus pandemic. “Fast forward to now, and it’s happening with the kids.”

So this must be acceptable to you, Wendy.

Shame on you. Shame. On. You.

REPOST: Pittsburgh's Abortifacient History

In light of recent events in Texas, I thought it might be a good idea to repost this from 2 years (or so) ago:

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A few weeks ago, I stumbled across this:

Between 1800 and 1900, the birthrate of white native-born women in American declined by almost half, due in some part to the increased use of birth control. The amount of printed literature providing information about contraception, from medical texts to classified advertisements, indicates the popular demand for knowledge, products, and services beginning in the 1840s. Contraception allowed women a degree of freedom and control over their own bodies; abortions enabled them to choose to carry a pregnancy to term or not, whether they were prostitutes selling sex for a living or “ordinary” working women struggling to support the children they already had.

At the bottom of the page were some examples of advertisements found in the New York Herald - like this one from 1841:

It might be difficult to read but the important words are in the title:

FEMALE MONTHLY PILLS And in the text:

These Pills are acknowledged by the first Physicians in the United States as the very best medicine that ladies laboring under a suppression of their natural illness can take, and they very seldom fail to relieve when taken according to the directions.

And so on. What do you think "a suppression of their natural illness" could possibly mean?

I think you can figure it out when you see this other add for Madame Costello:

Were you to take a close look at the second paragraph:

Suppression, irregularity, obstruction &c, by whatever case produced, can be removed by Madam C, in a very short time.

And then the end of the third, how Madame can see:

...those who wish to be treated for obstruction of their monthly period.

"Obstruction of their monthly period"?? I'm not a doctor but what could possibly "obstruct" menstruation but a pregnancy?

So we're talking, at the very least, about pills to trigger miscarriages, if not actual abortion procedures, advertised in New York City newspapers.

The coded language for pregnancy back then was amazing:

• suppression of [the ladies'] natural illness
• obstruction of the monthly period

As were the code words used for treatment:

• "female tonic"
• "female pills"
• "female remedies"
• "regulators"

As well as the names of the medicines themselves:

• English Remedy
• French Remedy

And so on. The combination of these terms ("female tonic to regulate the monthly period" or "English Remedy for the removal of any obstruction") could only point to one thing - ending an unwanted pregnancy.

Take as an example an ad touting the above mentioned "French Remedy" from the Brandon Mail May 5, 1887:

The code words are there - Dr LeDuc's "periodic pills" are a  "cure for suppressed menstruation" along with the necessary warning that they "must not be taken during the first five months of pregnancy."

What do you think a woman in 1841, scared that she might be pregnant, would think reading the above ad?

Exactly.

Got me to thinking - did any of these ads show up in any Pittsburgh newspaper in the 19th century/early 20th century?

We've gotten this far down the blog post so I think you know the answer to this.

Take a look at this from The Daily Pittsburgh Gazette, August 2, 1841:

It's ostensibly an announcement regarding a set of medicines previously sold at "41 and 19 St Clair Street" will now be sold by a "Mr. SAMUEL FREW, corner of Wood and Liberty, downtown.

Look about a quarter of the way down:

DR LEROY'S FEMALE PILLS, for diseases peculiar to the sex.

 Any woman in need of those pills in 1841 would know exactly what they were for.

70 years later the story was the same. Take a look at this from the Pittsburgh Press of August 10, 1910:

No longer Dr LeRoy, now we're on to Dr Martell's "Female Pills" sold at May Drug stores.

But May Drug stores (and I guess there were 7 in 1910) wasn't the only place to go. Along with the sales of the "female pills" or the "French Remedy" or the various products promising "regulation of the menstrual period" there were ads selling "female tonic."  Like this one from the Pittsburg Press September 29, 1912:

The amazing part of this is that it's a recipe for the tonic. The tonic is for "toning up the system and restoring the female organs to their normal conditions...." And there's that word "regulator" in there as well.  The clue for it's use is the first ingredient, "black cohosh."

What is it? What is it used for?

Well, there's this from WebMd:

Black cohosh is most often used to control the symptoms of menopause, such as:

Some studies have found evidence that black cohosh does help with these symptoms. However, many experts consider the evidence unclear and say more research is needed.

Other uses of black cohosh have less scientific support. Women sometimes take it to regulate periods, ease PMS symptoms, and cause women to go into labor.

So, let me ask - as it's a recipe for a tonic intended to end a pregnancy, is it illegal for me to repost? For you to read? How about for a woman in Georgia or any of those other "heartbeat bill" states?

Let me put in a caveat here: I am not a doctor or expert in biochemistry in any way. I have no idea whether any of these remedies actually work or even if they're safe. Given that 19th century America was drenched in snake oil cures for many maladies known (or imagined), it would not be wrong to think that some or all of these "cures" are hokum - perhaps even dangerous hokum.

But that doesn't matter - what matters is that the women of 19th century Pittsburgh believed that taking the "periodic pills" (or the tonic or the various remedies) would end an unwanted pregnancy and they were willing to take the pills to end those pregnancies.

Women have been doing this for centuries.

Legislating it away won't legislate it away.

Hey, Wendy Bell! You Might Want To Read This!

From the Washington Post:

Marc Bernier was adamant: He was not going to get a coronavirus vaccination.

“I’m Mr. Anti-Vax,” he told listeners of his talk-radio program in Daytona Beach, Fla., after the federal government provisionally approved the first vaccines in December. He later declared that the government was “acting like Nazis” in urging people to get vaccinated.

But in early August, WNDB, Bernier’s radio home for more than 30 years, announced that the 65-year-old host was being treated in a hospital for covid-19. On Saturday, the station said that Bernier had died.

Bernier was at least the fourth talk-radio host who had espoused anti-vaccine and anti-mask sentiments to succumb to the virus in August. There was also Phil Valentine, 61, a popular host in Tennessee; Jimmy DeYoung, 81, a nationally syndicated Christian preacher also based in Tennessee; and Dick Farrel, 65, who had worked for stations in Miami and Palm Beach, Fla., as well as for the conservative Newsmax TV channel.

All four men had publicly couched their opposition to mainstream public health efforts in the typically hyperbolic and sometimes paranoid rhetoric of conservative talk radio. Farrel, for example, called coronavirus mitigation efforts “a scam-demic” and described the government’s top infectious-disease expert, Anthony S. Fauci, as “a power-tripping, lying freak.” At one point earlier this year, DeYoung, host of the “Prophecy Today” program, asked a guest whether the vaccine rollout could be “another form of government control of the people.”

Sound familiar, Wendy?

Yes I know technically you're not on the radio anymore (thanks to your Shoot! Done!! solution to people protesting Confederate statues) but this quotation from the article is definitely for you:

“The vaccine isn’t the problem. Talk radio is,” said Jerry Del Colliano, a professor at New York University and publisher and editor of Inside Music Media, which covers the radio industry. Radio companies, he said, “are risking the health of their audiences even as anti-vaxxer bloviators continue to die.”

You are risking the health of your audience by misinforming them about the vaccines, Wendy.

You. You're doing that.

What Reinstatement? (Trump Defenders Need To Answer This Question)

Wasn't he supposed to be reinstated in August?

He certainly thought so:

Trump has been telling a number of people he’s in contact with that he expects he will get reinstated by August (no that isn’t how it works but simply sharing the information). https://t.co/kaXSXKnpF0

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 1, 2021

So here's my question to every member of the GOP, every conservative, every QAnon-ster, every defender of the orange vulgarity:

Why isn't Donald Trump sitting in the Oval Office right now?

Robert David Steele, Anti-vaxxer, Dead of Covid (A Message To Wendy Bell)

This is not a gloat. I am not gloating. 

This is serious and this is sad. A man has died due to his own stubborn stupidity (or stupid stubbornness - you decide).

One of many conservative pundits recently, it seems.

About 3 weeks ago it was Dick Farrel. Newsweek's coverage of him began with this:

A Florida radio host who was vehemently outspoken about vaccinations died from COVID-19 complications on Friday.

More recently, it was another Florida radio host, Nick Bernier:

Another anti-vaccine conservative radio host has died due to complications from COVID-19. Marc Bernier, who hosted a radio show in Daytona Beach, Florida, passed away Saturday at the age of 65. “It’s with great sadness that WNDB and Southern Stone Communications announce the passing of Marc Bernier, who informed and entertained listeners on WNDB for over 30 years,” read a tweet from Bernier’s affiliate radio station. “We kindly ask that privacy is given to Marc’s family during this time of grief.” Bernier was publicly against the COVID-19 vaccine, comparing the U.S. government to Nazis for urging people to get vaccinated.

And now, Wendy, someone you have probably met - Robert David Steele.

Remember that rally up in Beaver County that you attended/spoke at? That was run by Robert David Steele. He even posted a video of your speech. Remember now?

August 17, he posted this on his blog:

With love to all of you, I survived!  I went in at 77 oxygenation.  I’m up to 94.  I will not take the vaccination, though I did test positive for whatever they’re calling “COVID” today, but the bottom line is that my lungs are not functioning.

The good news is that I will survive with a few days off.  I should be back up and at least functional soon.  This is been a near death experience, very much like a new death experience the whole country is going through right now.  We will never be the same because now we know that we’ve all been lied to about everything.  But,  now we also know that we can trust each other.  I’m alive today because I had a network that put me into a good hospital in Florida.

Still in COVID-denial but also very very sick from COVID (and not "COVID").

Anyway, last night on twitter this hit:

Mark Tassi today is announcing the death of his friend, former CIA officer Robert David Steele, of covid. Steele was a frequent guest on Alex Jones, and known for his vaccine, 9/11, and Sandy Hook conspiracies. Naturally, Tassi has a conspiracy that the hospital killed Steele. pic.twitter.com/4Ky5K8bVKe

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 29, 2021

And it was confirmed by Sherri Tenpenny, another anti-vaxxer you've had on your show. (She's the one who's since been banned from twitter after claiming the vaccine magnetizes people.)

Robert David Steele's death is why spreading anti-vaxx misinformation is so dangerous, Wendy. He probably believed it with his last painful dying breath.

Do you remember what Lisa Kellerman (who's not an MD) said at Steele's rally you attended? Let me remind you. She said this:

People are dying from this shot. They're having aneurysm, strokes, [unintelligible] HIV, autoimmune issues, blood clots, miscarriages. That's just a few. These are life threatening serious illnesses from this shot.

For the record, as far as I understand what I am reading from medical experts, none of that is actually true. No one gets HIV from the vaccine, for instance. Whatever side effects one might experience are far outweighed by the risk of contracting COVID. But Kellerman was allowed spewed it all out, unchallenged, to a very amenable crowd. After telling them another mistruth (that the vaccinated pose the read danger here), she offers this "solution":

The first thing you need to do, most important, is get some Pineneedle tea or get some pine essential oil, dilute it and rub it on your ankles and your feet. Ok? There's an ingredient in there that protects against something that may be transmitted from the shot.

How many people in the crowd heard this and thought that pine needle essential oil applied to their ankles would offer them protection from the vaccinated shedding something from the vaccine - like the virus?

How many of them got sick? How many of them are still sick now? How many will get sick thinking they're protected by the pine needle essential oil?

Robert David Steele was unvaccinated and he died of COVID-19. Same with Dick Farrel and Nick Bernier, They all preached on the dangers of the vaccine and prided themselves on being unvaccinated.

And they died of the very thing the vaccine could have protected them from.

Don't you not see a pattern here, Wendy? A cause and effect? Get the vaccine, get protected. Reject the vaccine and risk the fate of Farrel, Bernier and now Steele.

How many more of them are there who aren't prominent (or even semi-prominent) conservatives? How many are people who are just trying to live their lives and take care of their families as best they can with whatever they can scoop up on the way? Like the people who watch your program?

The more you spread vaccine misinformation to them the more you're putting them at risk, Wendy.

They're your folks, Wendy. Your fans. Your crowd. Shouldn't you be doing better by them?

Wendy Bell (The A of D) Invites And Dayvoe Responds!

Hey, you remember yesterday, right? When I posted this on this very blog, right?

You can click on that blue link OR you can just scroll down the page to see it.

Anyway, I tweeted the link to the blog post and Wendy Bell herself tweeted back!

This is what she said:

Let’s do this. I will have you on my show and you can detail my “lies.” Start jotting ALL of them down, with source material to support your case (like I provide.) Facts vs feelings. Which do you suppose will prevail?

— Wendy Bell (@WendyBellPgh) August 26, 2021

This is very interesting - she's inviting me to be on her show even though I've been blocked from commenting on her FB page. Have been for a while. What's Wendy scared of? Me giving actual factual data to her adoring public? I guess so.

In any case, we've danced this dance before, Wendy and I.

My answer to her angry invitation is the same as it was in April: 

No.

Unlike Wendy, I have to work for a living. I can't take the time off to call-in to her basement bunker broadcast.

Furthermore, (this is from April):

But even if that weren't the case, I'd still not be on your show. Here's the reason: Your radio program is far from being a level playing field. You (and/or your producer) will control the volume and the duration I'd be on. Not only that but after I finish you'll have the rest of your program to deliver your final word on whatever I said.

And as anyone who's ever argued with any other human being ever will undoubtedly know, whoever (whomever?) gets the final word wins the argument.

If she wants to email in any correction to anything I've written, she's certainly free to do so. I'll be happy to post it here - with my corrections of her corrections of course.

But I'd like to address her tweet in some detail.

Here it is again in case you missed it 4 (or so) inches ago:

Let’s do this. I will have you on my show and you can detail my “lies.” Start jotting ALL of them down, with source material to support your case (like I provide.) Facts vs feelings. Which do you suppose will prevail?

Evidently, Wendy Bell doesn't understand how html links work. Perhaps you noticed there's more than the usual amount of blue underlined text at the top of this blog post. Those are all html links. They link this page to other webpages.

See all those links, Wendy? Those are my sources. There's no need for me to jot them down at all. They've always been there for all the world to see. Including you. But, as I infer from your tweet, you never bothered to click on any of them. Or else you would've learned what they are.

For example it's a lie (and not a "lie") whenever you misused the VAERS data to "prove" that the vaccines are dangerous. Like you did on:

• July 13
• July 02
• June 26

There are a few more that I could list but you get the picture. What you do is to quote the VAERS numbers and let your audience infer that that number of incidents prove that the vaccines are dangerous - because those are actual government numbers and they can't be wrong, right?

All the while ignoring the disclaimer that's easily found on the VAERS page:

VAERS accepts reports of adverse events and reactions that occur following vaccination. Healthcare providers, vaccine manufacturers, and the public can submit reports to VAERS. While very important in monitoring vaccine safety, VAERS reports alone cannot be used to determine if a vaccine caused or contributed to an adverse event or illness. The reports may contain information that is incomplete, inaccurate, coincidental, or unverifiable. Most reports to VAERS are voluntary, which means they are subject to biases. This creates specific limitations on how the data can be used scientifically. Data from VAERS reports should always be interpreted with these limitations in mind.

What you said is a lie, Wendy. It's what's known as a "lie of omission."

You lied earlier this month with this story: 

8/6/21 Those of us who don't lie for a living often ask - How Do They Live With Themselves? Being dirty inside and out and purposefully deceiving people is a filthy game that doesn't wash off in the shower. Jump in on today's show as we BREAK SOME NEWS with Attorney Thomas Renz (the lawyer of the CDC whistleblower who says WAY more than 45,000 Americans have died because of the j@b) AND highlight the best audio soundbites from the USA's dirtiest of dirty.

45,000 Americans have not died from "the j@b" - anyone who's looked at the medical science would know that. Perhaps Dr. Joe can explain that to you. He's vaccinated, isn't he?

Wendy, you lie every time you said something like this:

Did you guys hear it? Shouted across the world yesterday that the CDC says that 94% of people who we think died of COVID did not die from COVID but died and happened to have it at the same time.

As you did on September 2, 2020. It's simply not true. Perhaps Dr. Joe can explain that to you, too.

Then there's this from last April when you listed on the BS board 7 completely untrue things about the vaccine that convinced you to not get it. Perhaps Dr. Joe can explain why you're wrong. Again, he's vaccinated, right?

And this is just me sifting through this blog for about 40 minutes. Do you really want me to jot down the evidence for every time you lied for us to discuss on your show?

There aren't enough minutes in a week of your bunker broadcasts to get to them all.

So, no. I'll respond here. Thank you.

Wendy Bell. Her BS Board. She's Misleading you. AGAIN.

This time it's a conspiracy theory debunked a year ago.

Were you to saunter over to her FB page, you'd see that Wendy Bell, ultimate source of all things troothfull about COVID, has posted this, her latest BS Board:

First thing to do when Wendy posts "information" is to check her source. This usually gives away the game. 

And today does not disappoint as it's someone named "David Martin, PhD."

This would be the same "David Martin" that Reuters wrote about last February:

A video shared on social media has claimed that the mRNA coronavirus vaccine is not actually a vaccine, but a “device” designed to make people sick. This is false.

The video, which has been viewed more than 11,000 times on YouTube, can be seen (here).

In it a man referred to as “Dr David Martin”, who has been linked to previous misinformation about the pandemic (here , here) is seen speaking on a video call.

And so on.

But that just proves he's an anti-vaxxer who's lied about the vaccine. Wendy's talking about some sort of CDC patent shenanigans, right? So he might be right about that, right?

Wrong.

From Factcheck.org:

Martin claims that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention saw “the possibility of a gold strike” when the SARS epidemic arose in 2003.

“They saw that a virus they knew could be easily manipulated was something that was very valuable,” he says, pointing to a patent filed by the CDC that year. The patent covered the isolated virus that causes SARS and ways to detect it.

Skimming across the screen while Martin makes that claim is a headline for a November 2003 news story about the race to patent the virus. However, that story doesn’t support his argument. It actually explains that the CDC wasn’t pursuing the patent for profit. Rather, it was doing so to keep others from monopolizing research.

And so on.

But let's peer into Wendy's patent numbers. Once we do that we see that this whole story line was debunked a year ago:

Since the pandemic started, some public figures with a pronounced distrust of authority have gone on a patent hunt. We have seen Mike Adams, the Plandemic conspiracy film, and a recent French video viewed by nearly 1.5 million people claim that a trail of patent applications prove that scientists created the COVID-19 coronavirus in a laboratory. They also apparently decided to protect their intellectual property along the way.

There are two lessons I want to draw from this on-going patent fear-mongering. The first is that “coronavirus” is not a word that only applies to the agent behind COVID-19. Coronaviruses are a subfamily in the grand classification of viruses. They include our current enemy, SARS-CoV-2, but also a different coronavirus that caused SARS nearly twenty years ago, and the coronavirus that produces the Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). This subfamily also contains the coronaviruses that are responsible for 15 to 30% of cases of the common cold in humans. And, importantly, there are many coronaviruses that do not infect us but that cause respiratory and gastrointestinal infections in animals, like birds and pigs.

And:

In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States stepped in at the time and filed their own patent on the isolated SARS virus, its genes, its proteins, and the methods to detect it and the infection it was causing (US7220852B1 and US7776521B1). The reason? They wanted to prevent others from “monopolizing the field” and to allow researchers to develop diagnostics and therapeutics to help deal with the SARS outbreak.

Remember this was August, 20, 2020.

USAToday also took a look at this back then. A year ago. In August of 2020:

A new video — entitled "Plandemic II: Indoctornation" — has spread online and on Facebook since Aug. 18, proliferating a baseless conspiracy theory about the nature of the coronavirus pandemic.

The 75-minute documentary is a follow-up to a similar video that went viral in May — and was removed by social media platforms for spreading misinformation. Its description claims it "tracks a three decade-long money trail that leads directly to the key players behind the COVID-19 pandemic."

This theory is explained by David E. Martin, credited as a national intelligence analyst, founder of IQ100 Index and self-proclaimed developer of "Linguistic Genomics" with a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.

And:

Based on our research, the claim that the pandemic was "planned" or created by the CDC, NIH, EcoHealth Alliance, or the Wuhan Virology Institute is FALSE.

"Plandemic II: Indoctornation" is based on a number of cherry-picked facts, such as the existence of a patent on the genome of SARS-CoV, and the transfer of funds from the NIH to EcoHealth Alliance to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The nefarious extrapolations it makes are unsupported and even disproven by facts.

The CDC did patent the genome of SARS-CoV. But it was legal and intended to ensure open access for all researchers, not for profit. SARS-CoV is not the same virus as SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19. And the project funded by the NIH at EcoHealth Alliance, in part involving the Wuhan Virology Institute, was to identify and fight coronaviruses, not create them.

This was last year, Wendy. Can't you find any new debunked conspiracy theories?

Is this how deeply you research your "information" for your basement bunker broadcast?

Light years, Wendy. You're light years away from when you were a respected journalist.

Wendy Bell, FORMER Journalist, Gets The Facts Wrong. Again.

We'll start with this tweet from Brother Jon:

3%-er @WendyBellPgh claims to not be an advocate of 3%-ers and Proud Boys, as she stands in front of her prized 3%-ers flag, while she and co-host Brick defend the leader of the Proud Boys.

Can’t make it up. pic.twitter.com/pxIafgdlVg

— JON (@JonInPGH) August 24, 2021

And yes, Jon is correct about the Angel of Death's 3%-ers flag.

But let's take a look at what Wendy and Brock said:

Wendy: Number two. Hypocritical justice. Isn't it so intriguing to all of you. Did you hear the leader, the lah-, the past leader of the Proud Boys? I'm not some an advocate of the Oath Keepers or the Three Percenters or any fringe group that's militant, and angry and wants to do harm. I don't know if that's their platform. I don't spend a whole lot of time investigating these people.

Anybody who's too far right or too far left I think is a danger to society. 

This dude, who I guess resigned as the head of the Proud Boys, black guy, I don't know his name. I don't care! Was sentenced yesterday for five months in prison!

Brock, do you want to tell everybody what he did that was so egregious?

Because you're thinking, "Holey Moley! That is a serious - five months, a hundred and fifty five days in prison." What?

Brock: He burned a BLM flag and he took a - . He had a clip uh-

Wendy: Couple of magazine rounds.

Brock: Yea.

Wendy: That were actually bought by somebody else who was abs - he was holding them.

Brock: But he gr-. Out of that it was a congruent sentence. I believe he got ninety days for burning a BLM flag. Last time I checked you can burn a flag. Constitutional right.

You'll notice that they're defending the Proud Boys guy. Wendy even calls it "hypocritical justice."

But how much of the story do they get right? (Now, remember, Wendy Bell was once an award winning journalist. Getting the story right should come second nature to an award winning journalist, right?)

They didn't get much of the story right.

From the BBC:

The leader of the far-right Proud Boys group has been given nearly six months in jail for burning a stolen Black Lives Matter flag and a weapons crime.

Enrique Tarrio, 37, pleaded guilty to destruction of property and attempted possession of a large-capacity ammunition feeding device.

Appearing through video in court on Monday, Tarrio apologised and said there was "no excuse" for his actions.

Wait. So he pleaded guilty and apologized? But Wendy's letting us infer that he's being mistreated by a hypocritical justice system. She got that wrong, didn't she?

Tarrio (who identifies as an Afro-Cuban, Wendy.) even admitted to doing it:

The leader of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, said he participated in the burning of a Black Lives Matter banner that had been ripped from the facade of a historic Black church during unrest in downtown Washington following a rally earlier this month for President Trump.

Tarrio, the chairman of the male-chauvinist organization with ties to white nationalism, said in an interview with The Washington Post he would plead guilty to destruction of property, pay the church the cost of the banner and surrender to authorities if that criminal charge is filed.

“I’ll fly there on my own dime,” said Tarrio, who was in Miami on Friday, and spoke in a telephone interview days after D.C. police and the FBI posted rewards in their search for people responsible in the case. “I have nothing to hide.”

Tarrio wrote he was speaking out against the advice of his attorney: “So let me make this simple. I did it.”

And:

D.C. police have classified the burning as a destruction of property, a misdemeanor when damage is under $1,000. It is punishable by up to 180 days in jail and a $1,000 fine. A hate crime can add to the severity of the punishment.

But this was not simply burning a flag, was it Brock? You got this wrong, didn't you Brock?

It's destruction of (someone else's) property. Did you miss that part, Wendy? 

That's right, Wendy. You don't spend a lot of time investigating these stories. But you still felt the need to pass along your "information" to your adoring throng, however. 

You do have every right to burn a flag as a form of protest. You do not have a right to steal someone else's property and destroy it. Do you not understand the distinction?

Wendy Bell, ladies and gentleman. A former journalist misleading the public.

FDA Approval (Prepare To See The Goal Posts Move!)

From the Food And Drug Administration: 

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine has been known as the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, and will now be marketed as Comirnaty (koe-mir’-na-tee), for the prevention of COVID-19 disease in individuals 16 years of age and older. The vaccine also continues to be available under emergency use authorization (EUA), including for individuals 12 through 15 years of age and for the administration of a third dose in certain immunocompromised individuals.

“The FDA’s approval of this vaccine is a milestone as we continue to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. While this and other vaccines have met the FDA’s rigorous, scientific standards for emergency use authorization, as the first FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccine, the public can be very confident that this vaccine meets the high standards for safety, effectiveness, and manufacturing quality the FDA requires of an approved product,” said Acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock, M.D. “While millions of people have already safely received COVID-19 vaccines, we recognize that for some, the FDA approval of a vaccine may now instill additional confidence to get vaccinated. Today’s milestone puts us one step closer to altering the course of this pandemic in the U.S.” [Bolding in original.]

Some extras from the FDA:

Comirnaty contains messenger RNA (mRNA), a kind of genetic material. The mRNA is used by the body to make a mimic of one of the proteins in the virus that causes COVID-19. The result of a person receiving this vaccine is that their immune system will ultimately react defensively to the virus that causes COVID-19. The mRNA in Comirnaty is only present in the body for a short time and is not incorporated into - nor does it alter - an individual’s genetic material. Comirnaty has the same formulation as the EUA vaccine and is administered as a series of two doses, three weeks apart.

“Our scientific and medical experts conducted an incredibly thorough and thoughtful evaluation of this vaccine. We evaluated scientific data and information included in hundreds of thousands of pages, conducted our own analyses of Comirnaty’s safety and effectiveness, and performed a detailed assessment of the manufacturing processes, including inspections of the manufacturing facilities,” said Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D., director of FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. “We have not lost sight that the COVID-19 public health crisis continues in the U.S. and that the public is counting on safe and effective vaccines. The public and medical community can be confident that although we approved this vaccine expeditiously, it was fully in keeping with our existing high standards for vaccines in the U.S." [As above, bolding in original.]

And: 

To support the FDA’s approval decision today, the FDA reviewed updated data from the clinical trial which supported the EUA and included a longer duration of follow-up in a larger clinical trial population. 

Specifically, in the FDA’s review for approval, the agency analyzed effectiveness data from approximately 20,000 vaccine and 20,000 placebo recipients ages 16 and older who did not have evidence of the COVID-19 virus infection within a week of receiving the second dose. The safety of Comirnaty was evaluated in approximately 22,000 people who received the vaccine and 22,000 people who received a placebo 16 years of age and older.

Based on results from the clinical trial, the vaccine was 91% effective in preventing COVID-19 disease. 

More than half of the clinical trial participants were followed for safety outcomes for at least four months after the second dose. Overall, approximately 12,000 recipients have been followed for at least 6 months.

And some experts' statements have already arrived.

For example this is from the Johns Hopkins Medical School:

The three COVID-19 vaccines authorized for use in the U.S. are safe and effective in helping prevent serious disease or death due to the coronavirus. These vaccines were granted an emergency use authorization, or EUA, by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine received full approval by the FDA on Aug. 23, 2021.

Lisa Maragakis, M.D., M.P.H., senior director of infection prevention, and Gabor Kelen, M.D., director of the Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response, explain what that means.

Specifically, What does full FDA approval of a COVID-19 vaccine mean?

Full FDA approval takes place when enough data demonstrate that the vaccines are safe and effective for most people who receive them, and when the FDA has had an opportunity to review and approve the whole vaccine manufacturing process and facilities. After many months of studies and more than 165 million people having received a COVID-19 vaccine, the FDA has a lot of information on how safe and effective the COVID-19 vaccines are in protecting people, how well they work to prevent severe coronavirus disease, and how the vaccines are safely and consistently manufactured. 

Then there's the AMA, AHA, ANA statement: 

Today’s full approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)—the result of many months of work, robust data evaluation, and a thorough, comprehensive review process that has already protected more than one hundred million Americans from severe COVID-19 complications—is a major step forward in the worldwide effort to end this pandemic. The vaccines to prevent COVID-19 are effective; we have known that for months as health care professionals were among the first to get vaccinated and have advocated for our patients to get vaccinated to save lives. But today’s news marks a critical moment for people who were concerned about getting vaccinated due to the vaccines being authorized for emergency use. With millions of data points on the vaccine’s safety and efficacy over nearly nine months of vaccinations, every ‘i’ is dotted and every ‘t’ is crossed. This vaccine is safe, it prevents severe COVID-19, hospitalization, and deaths, and it will save your life.

Of course, now the anti-vaxxers have to move the goal posts: 

According to an article published Aug. 20 in the BMJ, transparency advocates have criticized the FDA decision not to hold a formal advisory committee meeting to discuss Pfizer’s application for full approval — an important mechanism used to scrutinize data.

Last year the FDA said it was “committed to use an advisory committee composed of independent experts to ensure deliberations about authorisation or licensure are transparent for the public.”

But in a statement to The BMJ, the FDA said it did not believe a meeting was necessary ahead of the expected full FDA approval.

An FDA spokesperson said the agency held numerous meetings of its Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) related to COVID vaccines in 2020, and did not believe a meeting was needed related to this biologics license application for Pfizer.

And:

[Kim Witczak, a drug safety advocate who serves as a consumer representative on the FDA’s Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee] said it’s concerning that full approval is based on only six months’ worth of data — despite clinical trials designed for two years — and there’s no control group after Pfizer offered the product to placebo participants before the trials were completed.

So we have the FDA, American Medical Association, the American Hospital Association, the American Nurses Association, Johns Hopkins (by definition, medical experts) on one side saying there's enough evidence and the Children's Health Defense folks (definitely not medical experts) saying there isn't enough evidence yet.

Which would you go with?

Expect more goal-post moving like this in the future.

Meanwhile, Outside

While the anti-vaxxers are making the pandemic (even) worse, there's still the matter of climate change.

From the scientists over at NOAA:

As a whole, the July 2021 global surface temperature was the highest for July since global records began in 1880 at 0.93°C (1.67°F) above the 20th-century average of 15.8°C (60.4°F). This value surpassed the previous record set in 2016 (and subsequently matched in 2019 and 2020) by only 0.01°C (0.02°F). Because July is the warmest month of the year from a climatological perspective, July 2021 was more likely than not the warmest month on record for the globe since 1880. Nine of the 10 warmest Julys have occurred since 2010, with the last seven Julys (2015-2021) being the seven warmest Julys on record. July 1998 is the only July from the 20th century to be among the 10 warmest Julys on record. July 2021 marked the 45th consecutive July and the 439th consecutive month with temperatures, at least nominally, above the 20th-century average.

And as always, there's artwork:

 Happy Monday!

PA State Senator Doug Mastriano Helps Spread Medical Misinformation

With this:

See that part w-a-a-a-y up in the upper left hand corner? The part that reads:

Doug Mastriano Retweeted

That's the treason-adjacent PA State Senator Doug Mastriano spreading medical misinformation. 

Why is this misinformation?

There's a hint of this tucked into the bottom of Doug's retweet:

FDA and WHO caution against its use

How many members of Mastriano's Army, do you think, will even bother to dig into that? Or even read the article he retweeted? My guess is that they'll read the part above the image and then consider themselves well informed.

If they do read the article they'll find this:

The FDA said on its website it “received multiple reports of patients who have required medical support and been hospitalized after self-medicating with ivermectin.”

 

The “FDA has not approved ivermectin for use in treating or preventing COVID-19 in humans,” it said. “Ivermectin tablets are approved at very specific doses for some parasitic worms, and there are topical (on the skin) formulations for head lice and skin conditions like rosacea. Ivermectin is not an antiviral (a drug for treating viruses). Taking large doses of this drug is dangerous and can cause serious harm.”

 And this is why what State Senator Doug Mastriano did was so dangerous:

Ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug commonly used for livestock, should not be taken to treat or prevent Covid-19, the Food and Drug Administration said on Saturday.

The warning came a day after the Mississippi State Department of Health issued a similar statement in response to reports that an increasing number of people in Mississippi were using the drug to prevent a Covid infection.

And:

In Mississippi, where only 37 percent of the population is fully vaccinated, more than two-thirds of recent calls placed to the state’s poison control center were related to “ingestion of livestock or animal formulations of Ivermectin purchased at livestock supply centers,” the state department of health said in a news release.

The FDA even tweeted:

You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y'all. Stop it. https://t.co/TWb75xYEY4

— U.S. FDA (@US_FDA) August 21, 2021

We'll note that Pennsylvania State Senator Doug Mastriano did NOT retweet the FDA's info on ivermectin.

But let's look at what the FDA does say about invermectin:

FDA has not approved ivermectin for use in treating or preventing COVID-19 in humans. Ivermectin tablets are approved at very specific doses for some parasitic worms, and there are topical (on the skin) formulations for head lice and skin conditions like rosacea. Ivermectin is not an anti-viral (a drug for treating viruses).

And:

Ivermectin tablets are approved by the FDA to treat people with intestinal strongyloidiasis and onchocerciasis, two conditions caused by parasitic worms. In addition, some topical (on the skin) forms of ivermectin are approved to treat external parasites like head lice and for skin conditions such as rosacea. 

Some forms of ivermectin are used in animals to prevent heartworm disease and certain internal and external parasites. It’s important to note that these products are different from the ones for people, and safe when used as prescribed for animals, only.

But the treason-adjacent didn't pass this along either, did he?

Here's the thing: There already is something out there supported by a mountain of medical evidence that, by taking it, you'll greatly reduce your chances of getting sick and dying from Covid. It's even free.

It's called the vaccine.

But State Senator Doug Mastriano didn't say that, did he?

Newsflash: Disgraced Former Reporter Wendy Bell Misreads Her Own Research. Again

Wendy Bell is on vacation for a couple of weeks, no longer ranting in (as she calls it) her "basement bunker" broadcast center.

I thought I had some time off from the Karen rants, but no.

There was this yesterday. At about 42 minutes in, Wendy speechifies:

Did you guys see the new, um, the new report just put out a couple days ago by the Mayo Clinic and a Cambridge based biotech company called nference?

They looked at twenty-five thousand folks from Minnesota. They compared the – this is for COVID, OK? - they looked at them in July but they looked at them before in January, alright?

To study the effectiveness of these vaccines that you are being implored, as a patriotic American, to get, that you're being told your children should get, that by the way Pfizer itself doesn't require it's own employees to get, but you need to.

This study finds Moderna's MRNA vaccine's effectiveness dropped in July to 76%. Pfizer's dropped to 42%. And so now, the CDC, Rochelle Walensky and Dr Doom himself, Fauci, say, absolutely the booster shot is the only way to go.

How many times are you going to be told something that proves wrong before we wake up and say, I don't believe you any more. You can't lie as often as you do, get caught, back pedal, point fingers and blame other people, so frequently and continue to have the faith and confidence in the American people.

This is where we are.

First error of Wendy's. Pfizer.

Two weeks ago, CNBC reported: 

Pfizer said Wednesday it will require all its U.S. employees and contractors to get vaccinated against Covid-19 or participate in regular weekly testing.

The new initiative will “best protect the health and safety of our colleagues and the communities we serve,” Pfizer spokesperson Pamela Eisele said in a statement to CNBC.

“Outside the U.S., the company is strongly encouraging all colleagues who are able to do so in their countries get vaccinated,” Eisele added. “Colleagues who have medical conditions or religious objections will be able to seek accommodations. Colleagues are still required to adhere to all COVID-19 state, local and Pfizer safety procedures while engaged in Pfizer work.”

Did you miss that, Wendy? Or were you just lying about it?

But the big lie was about that study. Yea, I found the study. Did you think I couldn't find the study?

Wendy gets it wrong. Badly badly wrong. I've asked this before and I have to ask it again, "Isn't there someone in Wendy's very close circle of friends or maybe even a member of her family with some sort of medical training who can explain these things to her? Isn't there??"

Anyway, here's the title of the not-yet-peer reviewed paper:

Comparison of two highly-effective mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 during periods of Alpha and Delta variant prevalence

Wait, it's comparing the effectiveness of the vaccines during the Alpha and Delta waves? So that if there's a drop in effectiveness, it might have something to do with the new player in the game, the Delta variant?

It even says so in the abstract:

Although clinical trials and real-world studies have affirmed the effectiveness and safety of the FDA-authorized COVID-19 vaccines, reports of breakthrough infections and persistent emergence of new variants highlight the need to vigilantly monitor the effectiveness of these vaccines. Here we compare the effectiveness of two full-length Spike protein-encoding mRNA vaccines from Moderna (mRNA-1273) and Pfizer/BioNTech (BNT162b2) in the Mayo Clinic Health System over time from January to July 2021, during which either the Alpha or Delta variant was highly prevalent.

And:

Comparing rates of infection between matched individuals fully vaccinated with mRNA-1273 versus BNT162b2 across Mayo Clinic Health System sites in multiple states (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Arizona, Florida, and Iowa), mRNA-1273 conferred a two-fold risk reduction against breakthrough infection compared to BNT162b2 (IRR = 0.50, 95% CI: 0.39-0.64).

So we're talking breakthrough infections here?

Did Wendy point out any of this?

No. Wendy lied.

Then there's this part that goes completely unmentioned in Wendy's warning to her adoring crowd:

The SARS-CoV-2 virus has infected over 190 million individuals, leading to over 4 million deaths attributed to COVID-19. To curb the spread of SARS-CoV-2, mass global vaccination efforts have been initiated, with 3.9 billion vaccine doses administered to date. Controlled clinical trials and real-world clinical studies have provided clear evidence of the effectiveness of FDA- authorized COVID-19 vaccines. In clinical trials, BNT162b2, an mRNA vaccine developed by Pfizer/BioNTech, showed 95.0% efficacy (95% CI: 90.3-97.6%) in preventing symptomatic COVID-19 with onset seven or more days after the second dose. mRNA-1273, an mRNA vaccine developed by Moderna, showed 94.1% efficacy (95% CI: 89.3-96.8%) in preventing symptomatic infection with onset at least 14 days after the second dose. Additional real-world retrospective studies in major health systems in the United States and Israel further support the effectiveness and safety of these vaccines.

However, only about 50% of the United States population is fully vaccinated as of July 2021, with an even lower fraction fully vaccinated across the globe. Further, there have been reports of reduced vaccine effectiveness against emerging variants and local increases in COVID- 19 cases despite mass vaccination, raising questions about the potential need to administer vaccine booster doses and to develop variant-targeted vaccines in the future.8–10 This evolving state of affairs highlights the need to assess the durability and comparative effectiveness of the FDA-authorized vaccines. Here, we address this need by comparing the rates of SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 associated complications between demographically and geographically matched individuals who were vaccinated with mRNA-1273 versus BNT162b2 in the multi-state Mayo Clinic Health System.

Hey, Wendy! You were once a prize winning journalist, right? Why aren't you telling the truth now?

How many times are you going to say something that proves wrong before people wake up and say, "I don't believe you any more. You can't lie as often as you do, get caught, back pedal, point fingers and blame other people, so frequently and continue to have the faith and confidence of...well anyone?"

A Statewide Vaccine Mandate: Is It Constitutional?

If I am reading this correctly, the answer is yes.

Note: I'm not a lawyer, never been to law school, took a law class, read a law book etc.

We'll start with Lawrence Tribe, who is a lawyer, has gone to law school, has taken a few law classes, has read a few law books (he's even written a few, I believe). He tweeted:

An easy application of Jacobson v. Massachusetts (1905): https://t.co/TU6RpXoAAY

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) August 16, 2021

You can follow the links to here - Judge Easterbrook's decision in the Seventh Circuit in Indiana. This is the second paragraph of the decision:

Given Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905), which holds that a state may require all members of the public to be vaccinated against smallpox, there can’t be a constitutional problem with vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 [aka COVID-19].

So what's this Jacobson v. Massachusetts from 1905?

You can read it here. Some highlights:

The liberty secured by the Constitution of the United States does not import an absolute right in each person to be at all times, and in all circumstances, wholly freed from restraint, nor is it an element in such liberty that one person, or a minority of persons residing in any community and enjoying the benefits of its local government, should have power to dominate the majority when supported in their action by the authority of the State.

It is within the police power of a State to enact a compulsory vaccination law, and it is for the legislature, and not for the courts, to determine in the first instance whether vaccination is or is not the best mode for the prevention of smallpox and the protection of the public health. [Emphasis added.]

And:

We are not prepared to hold that a minority, residing or remaining in any city or town where smallpox is prevalent, and enjoying the general protection afforded by an organized local government, may thus defy the will of its constituted authorities, acting in good faith for all, under the legislative sanction of the State. If such be the privilege of a minority, then a like privilege would belong to each individual of the community, and the spectacle would be presented of the welfare and safety of an entire population being subordinated to the notions of a single individual who chooses to remain a part of that population. We are unwilling to hold it to be an element in the liberty secured by the Constitution of the United States that one person, or a minority of persons, residing in any community and enjoying the benefits of its local government, should have the power thus to dominate the majority when supported in their action by the authority of the State.

The United States Supreme Court, 1905.

The Awful Humans At Crack'd Egg

We'll start here:

From a friend: Pittsburgh’s Crack’d Egg restaurant honors the Delta And Lambda Variants with breakfast specials. Calls the Allegheny County Health Department brown shirts.

These same deplorables cheered how they love Covid. pic.twitter.com/tOJ4D0sBSi

— JON (@JonInPGH) August 14, 2021

While this attempt at death-cult humor isn't at their website, it is posted at their Facebook page yesterday. It's there. They own it. And they'll own it for ever.

What awful human beings these people are. 

Remember these are the same people who cheered for the virus, adding:

Covid has been a blessing for me.

But first, what's the latest on the restaurant?

There's this from The Trib:

A Pennsylvania appellate court ruled in favor of the Allegheny County Health Department on Friday, finding that the forced closure of the Crack’d Egg restaurant in Brentwood was appropriate given its owner’s refusal to follow covid-19 mitigation measures.

The decision has no practical effect because Gov. Tom Wolf lifted safety protocols, including the mask mandate, at the end of June.

And:

The lengthy court battle for the Crack’d Egg began in August when the county health department ordered it to close after multiple complaints that its owner, Kimberly Waigand, was not following covid-19 mitigation measures, including masking and social distancing.

Despite the orders, the restaurant continued to operate until Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge John McVay granted a request for a preliminary injunction by the county in February following a three-day hearing.

McVay heard testimony from the county health department director and others who said that masks substantially decrease the risk of infection.

Waigand testified during the hearing that she would never require masks at her restaurant, calling them — and the emergency measures through which the Wolf administration implemented them — unconstitutional.

McVay was not swayed.

“If I did not grant the injunction, restaurants that are following the rules will become less likely to do so and thus further increasing public health risks to everyone involved and possibly increasing overall community spread,” McVay wrote in his decision.

Waigand appealed to the state Commonwealth Court, which heard arguments in June.

In its 34-page opinion, the Commonwealth Court found that the restaurant was unable to prove that the lower court’s opinion on the motion for preliminary injunction was in error.

 And finally:

Further, the court found that Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court has already upheld the implementation of the emergency code as a valid exercise of police power.

Now let's take a look at the restaurant's death-cult humor:

In the "Commie Specials" section we read:

Delta Waffle - Perfect Comfort Food

This is a reference to the Delta Variant of the Covid-19 virus. This is what the CDC says about Delta (to Waigand "comfort food"):

• The Delta variant is more contagious: The Delta variant is highly contagious, more than 2x as contagious as previous variants.
• Some data suggest the Delta variant might cause more severe illness than previous strains in unvaccinated persons. In two different studies from Canada and Scotland, patients infected with the Delta variant were more likely to be hospitalized than patients infected with Alpha or the original virus strains.
• Fully vaccinated people with Delta variant breakthrough infections can spread the virus to others. However, vaccinated people appear to be infectious for a shorter period: Previous variants typically produced less virus in the body of infected fully vaccinated people (breakthrough infections) than in unvaccinated people. In contrast, the Delta variant seems to produce the same high amount of virus in both unvaccinated and fully vaccinated people. However, like other variants, the amount of virus produced by Delta breakthrough infections in fully vaccinated people also goes down faster than infections in unvaccinated people. This means fully vaccinated people are likely infectious for less time than unvaccinated people.

The New York Times reported on August 1:

The highly infectious Delta variant now accounts for an estimated 83 percent of new coronavirus cases in the United States — a “dramatic increase” from early July, when it crossed the 50 percent threshold to become the dominant variant in this country, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday.

In some regions, the percentage is even higher — particularly where vaccination rates are low, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the C.D.C. director, said during a Senate health committee hearing.

They've even tweeted it:

Come get the Delta at the Egg
Perfect comfort food 😃 Belgian Waffle topped with scrambled egg, biscuit battered chicken all smothered with sausage gravy @ Crack'd Egg https://t.co/rfvXLprBdz

— The Crack’d Egg (@TheCrackdEgg) August 12, 2021

Evidently this is funny to them. A variant of a virus that's killed hundreds of Americans and infected tens of thousands and yet to Kim Weigand of the Crack'd Egg (412 881-3000, if you wish to discuss this with her), it's their "perfect comfort food."

What a horrible horrible person this is.