Trump supporters and conspiracy theory - Part 2

[Jack Nessan]

Obviously, you have no clue about the disease because you're parroting the same  disinformation that comes from the right wing media. A slight fever is not a "terrible reaction" and it's a lot better than a 104 temperature dying from Covid in the ICU being hooked up to a ventilator.     

And being unvaccinated will allow you to get sick all over again with even worse symptoms. The whole point of the vaccine is not to be put in that situation again to where you can die from it.     

 

There were no "other variants" around before. The reason the Delta variant started is because it mutated from the serious COVID crisis in India and it eventually spread to America. The reason we will need booster shots is because of these anti vaxx idiots who refuse to get vaccinated and the Delta variant will mutate into another more deadly variant so a new booster shot will be needed to combat that strain. If everybody got vaccinated we will reach herd immunity which is why health experts, doctors, and Democrats are trying so hard to get people vaccinated. But with all the vaccine disinformation, especially the nonsense you're parroting it will be more difficult to obtain.           

I already answered your ridiculous question and I can't believe you are even asking something like this.

The vaccine prevents you from dying from COVID-19 and the more deadly Delta variant. If you happen to get COVID and you are vaccinated the symptoms will be extremely mild and you won't die.

Already having COVID does nothing to protect you from not getting it again. That's why you need to get vaccinated so you won't die from the more deadly Delta variant. People who already had COVID are getting it again and dying from the Delta variant.

Lay off the right wing vaccine disinformation.   

You would benefit from talking to people around you about what has happened in the last year and one half and what is happening now. It appears you have locked yourself away and have had no contact with the outside world and people around you, except for news media outlets. Not one thing you have posted is based in the real world.

The vaccine obviously works but has issues and like the "Morning Sickness Pill" the long term effects of it are yet to be known.

[Rick Plant]

You would benefit from talking to people around you about what has happened in the last year and one half and what is happening now. It appears you have locked yourself away and have had no contact with the outside world and people around you, except for news media outlets. Not one thing you have posted is based in the real world.

The vaccine obviously works but has issues and like the "Morning Sickness Pill" the long term effects of it are yet to be known.

You are posting nothing but nonsense.

What has happened in the last year was an absolute disaster with Criminal Donald, his corrupt administration, and the right wing media purposely lying to the American people allowing over 600,000 Americans to die. Now they are purposely pushing anti vaccine propaganda to prevent people from getting vaccinated so more people will die and you're parroting the same lies. You would greatly benefit from not watching blatant vaccine disinformation on Faux Propaganda.   

This is the real world Mr. Nessan, unvaccinated children and people are dying from COVID-19 which is now the more deadly Delta variant. You choose to live in a world of fantasy and make believe from what you hear in the right wing media. If you want to save your life you need to get vaccinated. Lay off the right wing media's bogus propaganda.


15-year-old Colorado girl dies from coronavirus Delta variant

Mesa County, Colorado reported its first child COVID-19 death in May. Shilynne Loux said that girl was her 15-year-old daughter.

Kaci Loux tested positive for the Delta variant and was hospitalized before her age group was eligible for the vaccine, the health department said.

“She was an outstanding girl. Like I said, she loved her music, she loved hanging out with me," her mom said.

Her mother is still in shock over what happened.

"You shouldn't have to lose your own kid over it," Loux said.

Cases of the rapidly spreading Delta variant are skyrocking in several states, including Colorado. The majority of the variant cases have been reported in Mesa County.

Health officials say that the variant is a high risk for young children who are not vaccinated.

Loux said her youngest daughter had coronavirus back in April, and everyone in the family ended up getting it. Only her daughter Kaci was hospitalized.

"It progressed pretty fast," she said. "She was complaining that she couldn't breathe.”

At one point, her mother said it seemed like Kaci was improving.

They're getting ready to put her into recovery and then everything just went to hell," she said.

Her daughter went into cardiac arrest and passed away after nearly a month in the hospital.

She warned other parents that if they believe their child is sick, don't wait to take them to the hospital.

"Take them in ASAP because if you wait it gets 10 times worse and it will shut their lungs down fast," she said.

The 15-year-old girl had so much life ahead of her.

“She was so loved," her mother said.

https://www.wral.com/coronavirus/15-year-old-colorado-girl-dies-from-coronavirus-delta-variant/19778107/


Unvaccinated Man Who Died of COVID 'Never Thought It Could Happen to Him'

The wife of an unvaccinated North Dakota man who died of COVID-19 last month has spoken out, saying her husband thought it "could never happen to him."

Amy Tersteeg told INFORUM that she did not want to push anyone to get vaccinated, but she felt the urge to share her husband's story so people could hear about his experience.

She said her husband, Rob Tersteeg, was open to getting vaccinated but was not in a rush to do so because he had no underlying health conditions.

"He never thought it could happen to him," she told INFORUM. "I want people to see what COVID really does. I want them to know that Rob received every COVID treatment, and it did not save him. "

Rob Tersteeg died on June 3 at the age of 46 after having received weeks of treatment for COVID-19.

As he lay on an ICU bed at Trinity Health in the city of Minot, the devoted stepfather to three children told his wife that she should get the kids vaccinated as soon as possible.

Amy Tersteeg had already received the vaccine earlier in the pandemic due to the fact that she works in an administrative role for Trinity Health.

Aside from not having any underlying health conditions, Tersteeg said that her husband had not prioritized getting vaccinated given that he had made it through more than a year of the pandemic without contracting COVID-19, while also seeing case numbers in North Dakota declining.

In his role as an oilfield safety officer for a natural gas company, Rob Tersteeg had traveled all over the U.S. in 2020 and had never become infected, even after being in states where COVID-19 was running rampant.

But in mid-May this year, Tersteeg began to develop symptoms of the disease, including a cough. Eventually, he began to experience difficulties with his breathing and decided to head to the emergency room. Unfortunately, he would never return home from hospital.

"Nothing had ever taken Rob down before. He just didn't stand a chance against COVID," Amy Tersteeg said.

During his hospitalization, his family was not allowed to be in the room due to COVID protocols.

"He was just so isolated and alone," Amy Tersteeg said.

By the end of the month, her husband's condition had worsened and he was intubated. He was eventually airlifted to another hospital in Minneapolis to receive specialist treatment. However, medical staff could not save him and he died in the early morning of June 3.

Dr. Casmiar Nwaigwe, an infectious disease specialist at Trinity Health, said some people think that they will not be severely affected by COVID-19 because they are relatively young and healthy. But Rob Tersteeg's story demonstrates that even seemingly healthy people can die from the disease.

"People feel that as long as they don't have any underlying medical conditions that they are not at risk of COVID. In my experience, it is not true," Nwaigwe told iNFORUM.

As of July 11, more than 184 million Americans have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine—roughly 55 percent of the population—according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Over 159 million Americans have been fully vaccinated.

https://www.newsweek.com/unvaccinated-man-died-covid-north-dakota-1608794

[Rick Plant]

We all know what happened. Criminal Donald refused to call in the National Guard because he wanted his MAGA domestic terrorists to overthrow the US Government to keep him in power and they covered it up which is why important items are omitted. All of these anti American seditious traitors need to be brought up on treason. And hopefully the judge will throw the book at this MAGA thug because they don't care they tried to overthrow the US Government and all feel they are above the law.   


New book about Trump reveals Pentagon omitted things from Jan. 6 timeline — and ex-special counsel wants to know why

Another book about the final year of Donald Trump's presidency will be released Tuesday. This one, by Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, is extensively well researched and goes into much greater detail about interactions between the Trump White House and members of the House, Senate and Pentagon.

"I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year" reveals a key piece to the ongoing questions about the failures on Jan. 6 and failures at all levels of government to protect the U.S. Capitol.

A former special counsel for the Department of Defense, Ryan Goodman, outlined how the book exposes discrepancies in the Pentagon's timeline for that day. Goodman placed the two side-by-side revealing some omissions that the Washington Post reporters were able to uncover.

"Despite Milley recommending that the Pentagon call up neighboring National Guard units immediately, Ryan McCarthy hadn't gotten around to it until more than 2 1/2 hours after the Capitol was breached. About 750 Guard troops from Maryland would soon begin arriving, along with 620 from Virginia," the book says.

McCarthy was serving as Secretary of the Army at the time. In a January statement to Congress, he claimed that the National Guard that was on hand in Washington on Jan. 6 had "no contingency" in place if things escalated. As CNN reported, McCarthy also "told Congress that alternate plans would only have happened if the US Capitol Police or local authorities in Washington requested it."

Goodman reveals that the book has a reference to a 2:30 p.m. meeting in which Milley recommends officials "send out a call for National Guard reinforcements from the nearby states." The Pentagon's timeline shows that at 2:30 p.m. there was a meeting about the Washington, D.C. Guard. The timeline then reveals that there was a 4:18 p.m. meeting about other states' Guards.

The DOD also omitted from their timeline a 4:39 p.m call between Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller and White House chief of staff Mark Meadows along with Mitch McConnell, who joined the call sounding "furious." The item is in the Rucker/Leonnig book but doesn't appear in the Pentagon timeline.

Goodman said that those "egregious omissions" already raise questions.

One, he said is: "Does Army Secretary McCarthy finally get around to calling Maryland's Gov. Larry Hogan (R-MD) at 4:40 p.m. only after 4:39 p.m. call where McConnell sounds furious about DoD lack of action?"

Another question he had was if McConnell's request to the Department of Defense "to clear the building incongruent with what DoD ultimately does, which is deploy the Guard only to the perimeter (and late in the day)?"

Acting Secretary of Defense's chief of staff, Kash Patel, told a reporter: "I was talking to Meadows, nonstop that day," so it raises even more questions.

He noted that it should cast doubts on the Pentagon's report, which could necessitate an investigation into what else might be omitted by the Pentagon and why.

See his full thread on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/rgoodlaw/status/1417147781270097920



MAGA rioter's hearing turns 'ugly' after she yells at judge while declaring herself a 'sovereign citizen'



A court hearing for MAGA rioter Pauline Bauer went off the rails on Monday after she began yelling at the judge while declaring herself a "sovereign citizen."

NBC 4 Washington's Scott MacFarlane reports that Bauer, who infamously called for the hanging of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) during the Capitol riots, immediately went off the deep end by telling the judge that she is not subject to American laws.

According to MacFarlane, Bauer during her court hearing repeatedly interrupted the judge while also demanding that the court recognize her own personal judicial authority.

"Every man is independent of all laws, except those of nature," declared Bauer, who decided to represent herself in court.

The judge at one point asked Bauer if she wanted to reconsider her decision to forgo legal representation by professional legal counsel, and she again declared that the court had no authority over her.

According to MacFarlane, the hearing got even crazier from there.

"This case... is going off-the-rails," he reported on Twitter. "January 6 defendant Pauline Bauer says she won't let pre-trial services come into her home, won't turn over her passport, calls the search of her home 'illegal'' -- and refuses to let judge move forward and get her lawyer. Ugly."

Bauer first gave hints of her purported "sovereign citizen" status when she filed a bizarre motion to dismiss her case in which she described herself as "I, Me, Pauline Bauer the Living Soul, A Creation of God."

The filing went on to demand that the court "drop all Charges against my VESSEL - PAULINE BAUER and Dismiss the Case."

Bauer has been charged with multiple counts of violent entry, disruptive conduct, and obstruction of Congress for her role in the deadly January 6th Capitol riots, in which she was heard yelling, "bring Nancy Pelosi out here now… we want to hang that f***ing b*t*h."

https://www.rawstory.com/sovereign-citizen-in-court/

[Rick Plant]

So, the lying right wing propaganda hacks at Faux have to abide by strict COVID-19 orders at their headquarters but come on the air each night and tell their sheep viewers that wearing masks, social distancing, and vaccine passports are "unconstitutional". These frauds even tell the viewers (or suckers as I call them) not to follow mask mandates, social distance, or to get vaccinated which is killing the people who watch them.

So, these lying fraudsters have to follow these strict orders themselves at Faux, but tell their brainwashed cult followers on t.v. it's "unconstitutional" and not to follow orders in their community or place of work.

Frauds like Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham are wearing masks at work if they are unvaccinated, but rail against masks on the air. So, why aren't these frauds refusing to wear masks like they tell their sheep viewers to do on the air?

If these frauds are vaccinated, they know themselves all the outright lies they spew to the sheep that watch them each night is total b.s. while pumping them with false vaccine disinformation as they are catching COVID-19 and dying. This propaganda network needs to have their broadcasting license revoked until they stop pushing outright lies that are killing Americans each day.       


Fox News has a strict COVID-19 policy that includes the kind of vaccine passport Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and other right-wing hosts have railed against

The Fox Corporation has a return to office protocol involving voluntary proof of vaccination.

Top host Tucker Carlson has compared vaccine passports to "Jim Crow" racial segregation laws.

Fox Corp employees who don't submit their status must continue masking and social distancing.

The Fox Corporation has instituted a strict COVID-19 policy that includes a vaccine passport, allowing only the company's fully-vaccinated employees to work in their offices without wearing a mask or social distancing.

But a slew of the parent company's Fox News personalities, particularly two of its highest-paid and most influential primetime hosts, have railed against exactly this kind of vaccination policy, also known as a "vaccine passport."

Beyond increased vaccine hesitancy among conservative men — a major share of the network's audience — polling shows Fox News viewers are less likely to say they have gotten or plan on getting the vaccine compared to the general population.

Many of the network's daytime anchors have said on-air that they've gotten vaccinated and have encouraged viewers to do the same, but in primetime, hosts Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham have both frequently dismissed the science around the vaccine and featured guests making misleading and false claims about the shots' high level of efficacy.

Carlson, Fox's top rated host and the centerpiece of its growing streaming service, has compared vaccine passports to "Jim Crow" racial segregation laws and likened asking someone about their vaccination status to asking them whether they've been infected with HIV or what their favorite sex positions are.

"Medical Jim Crow has come to America," Carlson claimed last month. "If we still had water fountains, the unvaccinated would have separate ones."

Both the host and network will not say whether he's been vaccinated.

A Fox News spokesperson pointed Insider toward a Fox Corp. memo from June on return to office procedures. A Fox Corp. spokesperson confirmed the rollout of the voluntary proof of vaccination system to Insider in an email.

https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-covid-protocols-vaccination-passport-memo-tucker-carlson-2021-7

[Joe Elliott]

You would benefit from talking to people around you about what has happened in the last year and one half and what is happening now. It appears you have locked yourself away and have had no contact with the outside world and people around you, except for news media outlets. Not one thing you have posted is based in the real world.

The vaccine obviously works but has issues and like the "Morning Sickness Pill" the long term effects of it are yet to be known.

Question:

In the long history of vaccines, which vaccine was used, which seemed to have rare serious side effects, was discovered, six months later, to have serious long term side effects.

That is, rare serious side effects in the first six months, but common serious long-term side effects discovered later.

Give us your best example from the history of medicine.

On the other hand, the long-term effects of not getting a vaccine, are well known. At least a 1 % death rate, possibly higher with the Delta variant. Not one in 500,000. Not one in 100,000. It is more than one in 100.

Also, for those who survive the infection, it is common for them to become “Long Haulers” who perhaps will neve recover their sense of smell and have other health complications.

[Rick Plant]

Wouldn't you think a Catholic school would be "Pro Life" by wearing masks to protect kids and save their lives? Instead, they want living and breathing kids to get sick and die from COVID-19 but they fight tooth and nail to whine about abortion. They want to force a child to be born, so they can sacrifice it to the virus, which is aborting a human being. So much right wing hypocrisy and their actions are killing people. And in Tennessee, Republican leadership is killing more of their residents.     

Michigan Catholic school says making students wear masks would be a direct affront to God

The Resurrection School in Lansing, a Catholic elementary school, argues the mandate is unconstitutional.

"The school says such a rule would violate 'sincerely held religious beliefs' because they say humans were made in the image of God, and masks shield that image from being seen," Michigan Radio reports. "They also allege requiring masks poses a health or learning problem for students who have allergies, difficulty breathing, or trouble being understood when they talk through a face covering."

There is not currently a statewide mask mandate in Michigan, although that hasn't stopped the school from continuing to pursue its case.

On Monday, a Trump-appointed federal judge ruled a university can mandate vaccinations in another case testing the ability of educational institutions to respond to the pandemic.

https://www.rawstory.com/mask-mandate-2653853187/


Tennessee vaccine summit 'indefinitely postponed' even as state COVID hospitalizations surge

Tennessee's vaccine skepticism under Republican Gov. Bill Lee continues to impact state policy.

"The Tennessee Department of Health abruptly postponed a virtual vaccine summit intended to provide training to medical professionals across the state as the agency continues to dial back its vaccination outreach despite widespread condemnation," the Nashville Tennessean reports.

The Department of Health website for the Tennessee Immunization Summit says the event has been "POSTPONED until further notice."

"The summit was intended to be a repeat of a virtual conference launched last year that featured local and national experts on immunizations and vaccine advocacy," the newspaper writes. "More than 350 medical professionals attended the event, and 'the reviews were overwhelmingly positive,' according to a description of the event previously posted on the health department's website but has since been removed."

The move to shut down the summit came even after Tennessee coronavirus hospitalizations rose 45.7% from last week.

Tennessee has been making multiple moves to end its promotion of vaccinations in the state, and last week the Tennessee Department of Health shut down all efforts to promote vaccinations to adolescents, while also firing Tennessee's top vaccine official for what she claimed were her efforts to promote COVID-19 vaccinations for teenagers.

On Friday, Republican former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a doctor, blasted Tennessee's "deadly" approach to the pandemic.

It should be the top priority of our state’s leadership to lead – to unambiguously lead each and every day – in encouraging #Covid and childhood vaccinations, especially in the midst of a pandemic where infections and new variants continue to spread

https://www.rawstory.com/tennessee-republican-2653850878/



Ozark, Mo. woman urges vaccinations after losing her husband to COVID-19: “I’m just thinking how lucky I was to have him, even for a short amount of time.”

COVID-19 spreads across southwest Missouri, it’s taking more lives in our community.

54-year-old Richard Glenn died on July 7 from COVID-19. Glenn tested positive for the virus at the end of May. At first his symptoms were mild, with fatigue, tiredness and a slight fever. His wife, Teresa Glenn, says his oxygen levels started declining and that’s when she took him to the emergency room.

“His lungs had just been so brutally beaten by the COVID,” Teresa says. “He was a healthy man before all of this.”



As time passed at Cox South Hospital, he wasn’t getting better. Teresa says they had to put Rich on a ventilator. She says nurses told her it was the only thing that could save his life.

“He couldn’t even talk to me so I never got to hear his voice again,” She says. “I mean he could hear mine but I couldn’t hear his.”

The couple attended Ozark High School together. They reconnected on Facebook a few years ago and married in 2018.

“I’m just thinking how lucky I was to have him, even for a short amount of time,” She says.

Their love story waited decades to unfold and for her it was cut too short, too soon.

“He always counted the days that we were married because he said it made him sound like he loved me longer,” she says. “Instead of saying oh it’s a one month anniversary or a one year anniversary, it was oh that’s my bride of 365 days. I was lucky to be his bride for 1,252 days.”

For those not lucky enough to have known him, Teresa describes Rich as someone who always put others before himself. Rich loved his job as a commercial trucker, often considered a workaholic.

However, they were able to take one last trip together in April and for that, Teresa couldn’t be more thankful.

“To get him to slow down and actually enjoy relaxing, resting and experiencing sights he had never seen before,“ she says. “It was fun to watch through his eyes.”

She received her COVID-19 vaccine early on, but she says he had reservations.

“I was protected and I just kept thinking God is protecting me so I can take care of him,” She says.

By the time he changed his mind, it was too late. His busy work schedule kept him from having time to make a vaccine appointment. Then, he contracted the virus.

“It might have kept him out of the ICU,” Teresa says. “It might have kept him from being gone now.”

That’s why she is encouraging people to get the vaccine. She is hoping others can learn from her story.

“I no longer have this man here with me,” Teresa says. “I no longer have this man to share my life with.”

Teresa is relying on her faith to help her through. Church and faith was something not only important to her, but to Rich.

“I know someday I will see him again,” Teresa says. “Heaven was always something to look forward to but it really is now because I can’t wait.”

Teresa is encouraging people to appreciate their loved ones daily, knowing that tomorrow isn’t promised.

https://www.ky3.com/2021/07/20/ozark-mo-woman-urges-vaccinations-after-losing-her-husband-covid-19/

[Rick Plant]

Save a life, stop watching Faux "News" 


Dr. Rob Davidson: How Fox News' Covid vaccine denialism hurts my patients

Right-wing Covid-19 denialism hit my community hard during the first surge. Now, we’re seeing a new, dangerous anti-vaccine push from these same sources.

By Dr. Rob Davidson, emergency room physician

In many parts of the country, summer looks relatively normal and safe, thanks to wide acceptance of the Covid-19 vaccine. But that’s not the case for areas that have low vaccination coverage. In those areas, cases are rising again. And as an emergency physician still battling Covid-19 in Michigan, I’m often frustrated by the way the news sources my community watches add fuel to these surges.

A patient walks in, struggling to breathe, complaining of pains and symptoms consistent with Covid-19. We recommend a test. Sometimes the patient declines, saying they don’t care whether they have a disease that not too long ago was the leading cause of death in the United States. When we suggest patients isolate themselves to prevent Covid-19 from spreading, sometimes they refuse. When we tell some patients and their family of a positive Covid-19 diagnosis, the response we get too many times is anger, outrage or denial. Just a few days ago, an older woman came into our emergency department, refusing to follow hospital policy to wear a mask and flatly refusing — like too many people in our community — to get vaccinated.

I don’t blame my patients for their refusal. What breaks my heart, as someone who took an oath to prevent harm, is that my patients choose to abandon the science and evidence that can save their lives. I do blame Fox News and other right-wing media outlets for poisoning the minds of millions of Americans with the deceptive propaganda they spray into living rooms 24/7.

This isn’t just my experience. As executive director of the Committee to Protect Health Care, an organization of medical professionals across the country, I hear stories like these from members every day.

Doctors and nurses share facts and data. We tell people that the vaccines are safe and effective, that nearly all Covid-19 deaths now are among people who didn’t get vaccinated, that vaccinations can save lives and protect people during the deadliest pandemic the world has faced in more than 100 years. But even as medical professionals like us plead with people to get vaccinated, we see resistance, even hostility, flaring.

The high cost of right-wing Covid-19 denialism hit my community hard during the first surge of this crisis. Now, we’re seeing a new, dangerous anti-vaccine push from these media sources, even as the delta variant threatens communities with low vaccination rates.

Covid-19 came to my rural western Michigan community relatively later than more populated areas. When the news showed packed emergency departments in New York and Detroit in spring 2020 and refrigerated trucks to hold bodies that morgues no longer could, Covid-19 had yet to fully impact our community. Fox News, meanwhile, spent those early months of the pandemic downplaying its seriousness and amplifying former President Donald Trump’s confusing denials.

When the pandemic finally reached us, my small hospital with limited resources and beds was packed for weeks on end with a flood of very sick people. On some days, we had nowhere to put patients and nowhere to send them, because other hospitals were also full. I remember frantically communicating with EMT drivers who crisscrossed Michigan for hours trying to find a hospital with an unoccupied bed.

Then vaccines were authorized for emergency use. My hospital set up community clinics. Our health department offered — and still offers — drive-through vaccinations at fairgrounds and farmers markets. Our community partners, from schools to food banks, spread the word: Get vaccinated. Protect yourself. Protect your loved ones.

Yet our regional vaccination rate is discouraging, with only half of the population fully vaccinated. One predictor of vaccine refusal is Fox News viewership, which is heavily Republican and conservative. Indeed, Fox News is lurching increasingly to the right to win back the Trump voters it has lost to upstart right-wing outlets like Newsmax and One America News Network. Fox hosts’ current line on Covid-19 and vaccines includes wrongly equating vaccine outreach efforts with forced vaccinations and accusing community campaigns — also wrongly — of harvesting private medical information.

Still, community groups within our conservative stronghold thought they could buck the Fox News narrative and persuade reluctant Republicans to get vaccinated. They recruited local Republican leaders to encourage their supporters to get their shots. But instead of getting more people vaccinated, these public servants got death threats. Mask requirements at my hospital used to set people off. Now, vaccinations are triggering shouting matches.

What’s truly tragic is that the disinformation my patients and their families hear from their favorite commentators and pundits is dangerously, life-threateningly wrong. They should listen to their family doctors for medical advice, not Sean Hannity — whom researchers have connected to higher infection rates — or Tucker Carlson, who suggested with zero evidence that Covid-19 vaccines don’t work.

My community’s low vaccination rate comes as more contagious variants circulate and spread among people. Communities that aren’t protected against Covid-19 allow the pathogen to stick around and adapt, potentially mutating to evade vaccines. The coronavirus hasn’t gone away. The pandemic is still with us and still deadly: In my health district, the mortality rate from Covid-19 is still around 1.7 percent, many times deadlier than the flu.

In a few months, summer will end, school will resume and life will return indoors, where Covid-19 can easily spread — again — especially among unprotected people.

Time is not on our side. We must do what science and evidence tell us demonstrably work to defeat Covid-19: Wear a mask, get vaccinated and stop watching Fox News.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/how-fox-news-covid-vaccine-denialism-hurts-my-patients-ncna1274236