COVID Week 77B: Various new nuttery

How bad is COVID in Texas schools? The Trib says that cases for the new school year have already topped all of last year. More ammo for superintendents in their battles against Strangeabbott.

A Canadian study that prompted claims that vaxxes would greatly increase heart inflammation odds was wrong and has been retracted.

Shock me that Kyrie Irving is at the heart of NBA players and COVID denialism/minimalism, and even worse, a COVID conspiracy theorist.

Eoin Higgins writes about lefty types who have jumped down the the COVID denial rabbit hole.

Scott Lincicome and other CATO nutters claim Biden's vax mandate is unconstitutional. Lincicome, who works for CATO, also lies about herd immunity studies. I Tweeted him what I blogged last week.

His ilk, libertarians, mixed with Trumpists who are an ideological mess in some ways, not the left, are the biggest problem, and they're NOT "vax hesitant." They're vax resistant, or even vax refusing. Here's Eric Boehlert. Here's the NYT on "red COVID."

Top that with NBC reporting that denialists are telling each other to take loved ones out of hospitals and not go there themselves. Part of the conspiracy theory is that they'll die of "something" in there and thus the hospitals will get more money. Part of it is so that they can "treat" these people at home with ivermectin, iodine, and now, new to me, nebulized hydrogen peroxide.

(Dr. Wes) Ely said this patient was not alone, and that some of those who refuse the vaccine “just keep denying until they’re dying.” 

“And let me say, this is not rare. You asked me what I’m hearing, and this is happening. Real time. Right now.”

NBC also notes that this has led to assaults against hospital personnel.

A Gallup poll reinforces this. The extended poll shows not huge gaps between R's and D's, among people identifying with the two major parties, on vaccination rates.

Once again, neoliberal Dum Fuqs like Yasmin Tayag writing stories on the basis of dealing with rational actors are half as bad as the actual denialist Dum Fuqs.