The GOP may have created Donald Trump as their Frankenstein’s monster, but the monster that’s even bigger and worse and harder to control is the anti-vaxx lie about COVID-19. Not even Monster One can keep the ball rolling for Monster Two, as we saw at MAGA Woodstock in Alabama tonight.
Noticeable boos in Cullman, Alabama when Trump recommended people get vaccinated https://t.co/z5R8xHZ6vL
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 22, 2021
There is no “freedom” to vaxx or not to vaxx. It’s the quintessence of the old song lyric, “freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.”
But you have to hand it to the GOP. They have thoroughly muddied the waters. Just today another right-wing luminary, talk show host Phil Valentine, died from the coronavirus.
Phil Valentine, 61, conservative radio talk-show host who told followers they were "probably safer not getting" the COVID vaccine if they weren't high risk died from COVID August 21, 2021. His family says "PLEASE GO GET VACCINATED!" #SoulsLostToCovid https://t.co/xOq7SvfQWw pic.twitter.com/3MPVqtY8mS
— Cleavon MD ? (@Cleavon_MD) August 21, 2021
Valentine even did a song parody of The Beatles’ song “Taxman” entitled “Vaxman” and it was all yuck yuck ha ha until he found himself in the ICU. Valentine spread the fiction of the vaccine giving people heart attacks. So far we’ve had heart failure, sterility, mind control, magnetized bodies and the list goes on.
Here’s more right-wing genius.
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— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 22, 2021
Red states are literally causing a collapse of the health care system. So naturally, there are people who will experience health complications or death because maybe they have a broken leg or they’re having a heart attack, but they can’t get into an ER because people are literally lying on the floor in some of these facilities, because they didn’t take COVID seriously.
Nucking futz.
The Repubs out there know their days are numbered by now, they thought they might have to pay a fine or some short time for allowing the Jan, 6 insurrection to go as far as it did, then {poof!}, the list of arrested and charged, continues to grow … And now, after stating the BS as a true problem with the vaccines, damn, they and all those friends at that high school first Friday Night football game are getting sick with Covid-19 … Man, I can hardly breath and my kids have it too …
So sad, and incredibly stupid, maybe the south’s unvaccinated should be refused ICU at those hospitals, a cruel trick at the time of triage, but hey, they did this to themselves, like looking down the barrel of a revolver with a flashlight to see if the next bullet lines up with the barrel before pulling the trigger …
THe absurd becomes the absorbed. I’ve been waiting for years to use that.
Yet more incontrovertible truth that “you can’t fix stupid.”
Reminds me of the scene in Young Frankenstein where Gene wilder tells his assistants not to open the monster’s cell door when he locks himself in. When Frankenstein growls at him, he bangs on the door, frantically saying, ” open the goddamn door!”.