More worst responses to the coronavirus

[Ferris]

We got a load of emails from Ferris Jr's nursery admin about regular testing, checking if you're sick, staying home if you have a single symptom etc etc. Fair enough, small kids aren't vaccinated so makes sense.

Turns out she came in symptomatic Thursday and Friday, now 6 kids and two teachers got it. Superb effort.

(Son is fine, tested negative. I think he's been exposed several times - not least to me before my positive test result came back - and has consistently tested negative by rapid test and PCR so he must have some level of immunity at this point. Not as good as a vaccination, but it is nice to think about, even if there's no practicable way of knowing.)

[katzenjammer]

A folk singer from the Czech Republic has died after deliberately catching Covid, her son has told the BBC.
Hana Horka, 57, was unvaccinated and had posted on social media that she was recovering after testing positive, but died two days later.

The description of her death is scary, goes to show Covid isn't something anyone should be taking lightly despite the supposedly 'milder' variants

On Sunday morning, the day she died, Ms Horka said she was feeling better and dressed to go for a walk. But then her back started hurting, so she went to lie down in her bedroom.
"In about 10 minutes it was all over," her son said. "She choked to death".

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60050996

[Fambo Number Mive]

Covid deniers have apparently been reporting "crimes" related to Covid vaccination in Oxfordshire

Thames Valley Police said it was aware of 'a number of incidents' where vaccination centres had been targeted and people had tried to report 'what they believe to be criminal offences' relating to the vaccine.

...POLICE were said to be stepping up patrols in response to sceptics challenging staff at vaccination sites and visiting police stations to report supposed crimes relating to the Covid-19 jab.

Thames Valley Police said it was aware of 'a number of incidents' where vaccination centres had been targeted and people had tried to report 'what they believe to be criminal offences' relating to the vaccine...

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/19862474.thames-valley-police-patrol-covid-vaccination-site-protests/

[Ferris]

If you're motivated by barmy libertarianism, shouldn't you recognize the rights of other people and their choice(s) to get vaccinated?

No logic to these people, that's their problem.

[Huxleys Babkins]

I love the logic of these nutters. Deep state plot. Trust no-one. Report it to Thames Valley Police.

[SpiderChrist]

Like a lot of "anarchists" of my acquaintance who think Kropotkin is a kind of vodka and mutual aid was a gig at Wembley in 1986. Selfish dicks.

[monkfromhavana]

Danny Rampling on Twitter today with a little video talking about how he isn't a citizen, but is a "sovereign being", whatever one of those is.

[olliebean]

Presumably whatever Rees-Mogg's daddy was on about in his book about "Sovereign Individuals."

[Fambo Number Mive]

Antivaxxers try to have a police officer arrested for not arresting vaccine centre staff: https://twitter.com/BadVaccineTakes/status/1484556238759370757

[evilcommiedictator]

lolololololol can anyone say "mass spreading event"? Get all the unvaxxed in a studio and begin the coughing
https://twitter.com/bbcquestiontime/status/1484944075337912321

[mothman]

Picture the scene. The antivaxxers file dutifully into the theatre, fury already etched into their piggy little faces. They sit down as recording begins. But soon a sense of unease begins to percolate through the auditorium. Who ARE these people on the stage? Where is Nige? Lozza? One of the Fairbrasses maybe? Shouldn't there be a Tory? And an independent who's really a Tory? The other two up there don't look like a Labour or a Lib Dem... Was that sound the doors at the back being locked? And why does everyone on stage - and the BBC staff - all have machine guns all of a sudden?

Then the firing starts...

[buttgammon]

lolololololol can anyone say "mass spreading event"? Get all the unvaxxed in a studio and begin the coughing
https://twitter.com/bbcquestiontime/status/1484944075337912321

The panelists will be Piers Corbyn, Ian Brown, the bloke from Right Said Fred and (fingers crossed) Keith Starmer, Graham Linehan, the entire government and other people I don't like.

[mothman]

I'm kidding of course - they'd use gas. A nice ironic touch for all these cunts who equate lockdown measured and mask mandates with the way the Nazis behaved!

[Dayraven]

he isn't a citizen, but is a "sovereign being", whatever one of those is.

This is Sovereign Citizen/Freemen on the Land type stuff, which is an utterly bizarre pile of 'what if the law worked like a conspiracy theory' thinking.

I think, with that, he'll be trying to assert a distinction between his status in law and his existence as an actual person, which in Sovereign Citizen thinking is a really important disconnect rather than an incidental philosophical point.

[Crenners]

I love all that shit. Reciting a sentence from a revised Magna Carta which they don't understand, with no relevance to anything, which they think sounds emphatic, authoritative and grandiose.

Palliative tier Dunning Kruger losers.

[Fambo Number Mive]

Anti-vax campaigners are using a "crime number" issued to them by the police to claim vaccination centres are breaking the law.

They were given the number after making a formal allegation to the Metropolitan Police that vaccines are dangerous.

Police say it "merely acknowledges" an allegation has been received but there is currently no criminal investigation.

On Thursday, campaigners tried to close a centre in Stockport, falsely claiming police were investigating a crime.

Greater Manchester Police say officers were called by a group saying a crime was being committed at the health centre and it wanted the police to "seize the evidence".

In a video shot by the protesters, one man falsely claims there is a "live criminal case", which will be "fought through the courts"...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60083474

[Crenners]

Cargo pants, army surplus jacket, stinking of fried eggs and a massive fucking bulging red head. *POP*

[SpiderChrist]

Danny Rampling on Twitter today with a little video talking about how he isn't a citizen, but is a "sovereign being", whatever one of those is.

An acquaintance of mine started sharing Rampling's videos on Facebook. Supposed to be working alongside him at a festival in June, but right now I think I'd be happy if I never saw him again.

[Kankurette]

CW: Mumsnet

This absolute fucking idiot thinks you can't call yourself pro-choice if you think vaccines should be mandatory. Because having an abortion and getting a jab are exactly the same thing.

[katzenjammer]

And lots of commenters agree with them. I was a bit unimpressed to see someone here hijacking pro choice slogans to support their vaccine hesitancy too

[buttgammon]

And lots of commenters agree with them. I was a bit unimpressed to see someone here hijacking pro choice slogans to support their vaccine hesitancy too

The anti-choice set who campaigned against the legalisation of abortion in Ireland for years like to steal the slogans to complain about having to wear a mask in shops.

[Kankurette]

Comparing abortion to having a vaccine is apples and oranges, but when have antivaxxers EVER been logical?

And lots of commenters agree with them. I was a bit unimpressed to see someone here hijacking pro choice slogans to support their vaccine hesitancy too

Same.

[gilbertharding]

I love all that shit. Reciting a sentence from a revised Magna Carta which they don't understand, with no relevance to anything, which they think sounds emphatic, authoritative and grandiose.

Palliative tier Dunning Kruger losers.

It's like a sketch from Jam. The one where Julia Davis tries to get her friend's car out of the pound. Too stupid to realise they've lost the argument.

I see that Neil Young has told spotify to delete all his music or ban antivax propaganda. Nice one Neil.

[buttgammon]

That must be a bit of a pickle for Spotify, because I'm sure antivax nonsense is pretty lucrative.

[Fambo Number Mive]

Very sad in Italy, where a 28 year old who did not believe in covid and was not vaccinated has died. This person initially refused treatment and had to be persuaded to keep his oxygen mask on.

His father, who also does not believe covid exists, is on a ventilator.

You wonder how many people like this could have been saved if there hadn't been so much covid denial and antivax nonsense on social media and in the press.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/man-28-who-didnt-believe-26040044

[beanheadmcginty]

Can't believe Zangief died of covid

[Ferris]

The sovereign citizen stuff is enjoyably bonkers.

Imagine if it worked like that - no I don't recognize the State's right to exist so now I'm not going to pay any taxes or follow any laws unless I fancy it.

I'm assuming it never works, so why does it have such a following? It's like a "one weird trick! Governments hate it!" thing for politics that got out of hand that presumably has a ~0.00% success rate.

[Kankurette]

It doesn't matter how many antivaxxers die, the stupid twats will tie themselves in knots to insist COVID is just flu.

[Zetetic]

I'm assuming it never works, so why does it have such a following? It's like a "one weird trick! Governments hate it!" thing for politics that got out of hand that presumably has a ~0.00% success rate.

That's an interesting question, because - in contrast to the 'ViD - I'd have thought it's pretty deterministic.

[Ferris]

Yeah if you make up a "cure" for covid, either it "works" because "look: I didn't die from it! See?! it's proof!" or it doesn't work, in which case you're too dead to correct the record.

But pretending you don't have to abide by legislation or whatever will likely never work so why do people abide by it? Why does anyone gravitate to any conspiracy theory I suppose.