Category: coronavirus

Natural News.com: Getting the COVID vaccine is pretty much exactly like being gassed in a Nazi death camp

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date July 15, 2021
29 Comments on Natural News.com: Getting the COVID vaccine is pretty much exactly like being gassed in a Nazi death camp

These are happening too

Natural News is a health site gone bad, given over to New Age quackery and right-wing conspiracy theories. It won’t shock you to learn that the people running the site aren’t exactly big fans of the COVID vaccine.

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Those who need to wear masks won’t; those who don’t need to, do

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date June 7, 2021
49 Comments on Those who need to wear masks won’t; those who don’t need to, do

Not how it’s supposed to work

The CDC has made it official, or at least as close to official as we are likely to get: If you’ve gotten all the vaccination shots for COVID, you don’t need to wear a mask — definitely not outside, and possibly not inside a shop or restaurant.

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Lab Leak: Are the world’s worst people actually right about the origins of COVID-19?

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date May 27, 2021
65 Comments on Lab Leak: Are the world’s worst people actually right about the origins of COVID-19?

Recently, I had a very unsettling experience: I found myself agreeing with some of the worst people on planet earth. Donald Trump. Tucker Carlson. Scott Adams. The editors of the Daily Caller and (shudder) the Gateway Pundit.

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Women are keeping their masks on to ward off the “male gaze,” and anti-maskers are losing their shit

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date May 17, 2021
72 Comments on Women are keeping their masks on to ward off the “male gaze,” and anti-maskers are losing their shit

Now that the CDC has, perhaps prematurely, given the go-ahead for vaccinated people to dispense with face masks outdoors, you might think the anti-maskers would calm down a little. But the fact that some people are continuing to wear masks despite the new CDC guidance has kept many of the anti-Maskers boiling over with anger.

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California sees population decline; gleeful right-wingers blame “wokester socialism,” “itinerant hipsters” and Critical Race Theory

Apparently you CAN leave Hotel California

Good news for those who hate the west coast: after decades of steady growth, California saw its population drop some 0.46 percent in 2020, according to a new government study.

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Explaining the Babylon Bee, one bad tweet at a time

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date May 9, 2021
32 Comments on Explaining the Babylon Bee, one bad tweet at a time

Fig. 1: Reading the Babylon Bee; Fig. 2: Reading The Onion

If you have to explain a joke, it either means it’s gone over the head of your audience, or — more likely — that it’s just not a very good joke to begin with.

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MGTOW Redditors: Women are getting vaccinated at higher rates than men because they’re a bunch of virtue signaling conformists with no personalities

So it turns out that women are more likely to get the COVID vaccine than men, by about ten percent. It’s not completely clear why.

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The Politics of Spite: Right-winger refuses to get vaccinated to “trigger the libs”

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date April 27, 2021
58 Comments on The Politics of Spite: Right-winger refuses to get vaccinated to “trigger the libs”

There’s an episode of Seinfeld in which the titular character tries to return a jacket to a high-end boutique. When asked why, he answers “for spite” — he doesn’t much care for the salesman to sold it to him in the first place. That doesn’t go over well with the staff at the boutique and they refuse to take the jacket back.

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Masks are a secret Maoist weapon designed to destroy Western civilization or something

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date April 13, 2021
40 Comments on Masks are a secret Maoist weapon designed to destroy Western civilization or something

Wear your masks, fools!

I was somewhere around the first paragraph of a post called “The mask’s insidious symbolism” on the right-wing American Thinker blog when the drugs began to take hold.