Coronavirus week 61: Odds and ends and Rebekah Jones

Those OSHA workplace safety standards for COVID that Biden said would happen? Between CDC dropping most mask rules and OSHA slow-walking hearings, they ain't happening. So, when another pandemic comes, our "heroic" grocery store workers will again be SOL.

Fired Florida Department of Health spox and data guru Rebekah Jones misinterpreted fluctuating data to come to some of her more conspiratorial ideas. Yes, she was in kind of a bad spot, but she then chose to run with it; the Herald piece is a bit turd-polishing. Even more on her nuttery, including COVID conspiracy theories here, including the idea that it almost certainly backfired and actually helped DeSantis. And yes, Florida remains below the US average in death rate; in fact, it's almost 10 percent below the U.S. average, lower than here in Tex-ass and about the same as Ohio. Another #BlueAnon backfire. (And, as of late Monday afternoon, on Twitter, some #BlueAnon were supporting her in the face of a Twitter suspension for high-level spamming.)

Methodist Hospital Houston employees are suing over a COVID vaccine mandate. (OF COURSE Jared Woodfill is their lawyer.) They've got no chance of winning. First, the hospital already has an influenza vaccine mandate. "Goes to precedent, your honor." Second, the EEOC has already ruled that employers can require this vaccine, and has made similar rulings on other vaccines. Third, Jared Woodfill is their lawyer! Skeptical Raptor, with guest poster Dorit Reuss goes further into "they've got no chance," including posting the complaint, which is full of crazy.

Naomi Wolf, antivaxxer nutbar de luxe, now things mRNA from vaccines can get into our water and sewer systems and ????  what??? become "The mRNA from the Black Lagoon"? She's now been suspended from Twitter for something related to her nuttery.