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If you have ever found ants in your kitchen, you talking to the ants and telling them to leave isn't going to solve your ant problem and talking will not solve America's MAGAt problem either. The best way to exterminate ants is with poisonous bait. We put bait in the places where ants are and they bring the bait back to the colony where it is consumed by other ants and eventually the queen ant. It works to eliminate infestations of ants and other vermin. America has a huge and growing MAGAt infestation that started long before Trump came on the scene. Many people have figured out that MAGAts are immune to truth and logic and are incapable of normal thinking and in spite of that, many Democrats are still naive enough to thinks that MAGAts can and will succumb to truth and logic. Wake up Mary Poppins!
As the Delta variant picks up steam it will infect and kill almost entirely MAGAts. It is illogical to waste energy and resources on the terminally evil MAGAts. COVID is legally doing to MAGAts what many patriots wish they could be doing to them. It's killing and maiming them. Even as many of these MAGAts lay on their death beds they remain in full denial that COVID is deadly. Clearly, wasting educational resources on them is folly.
MAGAts are perhaps the biggest enemy America and the free world has ever faced. Why would anyone in their right mind want to warn their enemy of the COVID minefield that awaits them? We should be entering their ranks and luring them into the COVID minefield. We don't even have to fire a proverbial shot and by April 2022 10's of thousands of MAGAts in the Bible Belt will be dead on their way to hell unable to hurt America.
We can bait social media with the deadly lies that the MAGAts crave that will remove any doubt in the pea brains that COVID may be real. All we have to do is repeat their own COVID vaccine lies to them again and again and again. If think this is morally repugnant, you need to think again.
The Thanksgiving surge is just getting its legs. Before someone dies from the coronavirus the languish in the hospital for a week or two and sometimes much longer. The Thanksgiving super spreader is still at work infecting anti-maskers which will make the Christmas surge even deadlier and more long lasting. As of today, 12/17/2020 2:50 pm, more than 316,000 Americans have seen an early grave due to the coronavirus. With COVID-19 being the gift that keeps on giving, by February the death toll could easily reach 550,000 especially when you factor in the New Year boost in the surge. By April fools day we could be looking at 750,000 mostly non human deaths. Trumpers are dropping like flies.
Humans have begged and pleaded with the MAGAts to wear masks and practice social distancing but that plea has fallen on deaf ears. Reality has failed to motivate them to mimic the behavior of human. MAGAts are still ignoring truth and logic and defying commonsense. There is no reasoning with MAGAts so why bother trying? In case you haven't figured it out yet, Trumpers are dangerously ignorant and profoundly evil. The more of them that die, the better the world will become.
Vaccines will not be deployed on a large scale until June of 2021 so we are a long way from reaching herd immunity. When you add that fact to the huge number of MAGAts who will not be getting the vaccine, the COVID-19 virus will not be eradicated in the US until at least sometime in 2022. Media coverage will mostly stop but the coronavirus deaths won't.
Keep in mind, COVID-19 deaths are being under reported in most red states. The reported coronavirus deaths and cases is much lower than the actual cases and deaths because of the dishonesty of the Republican run parasite states.
In a war soldiers are told that the more enemies they kill the more lives of their comrades in arms they will save. This is true. We are a war with evil. The more MAGAts that COVID-19 kills the more humans it will save
Conservative pundit Charlie Sykes on Monday warned what to expect from some of Donald Trump’s most zealous supporters when they finally realize that his plot to overturn the election won’t allow him to continue as president.
Sykes told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace that “a lot of people in the MAGA-verse, in Trumpland” still “honestly believe” Trump will beat President-elect Joe Biden ― even though Trump decisively lost the election and dozens of lawsuits challenging the result.
“They do not understand that the election is over,” said Sykes, the founder of the conservative website The Bulwark. “And when reality strikes and they realize that Donald Trump is not going to be sworn in as president, it’s going to come as a shock to them.”
Sykes said “we haven’t reached that point with some of the more deranged and deluded supporters out there” and asked: “How many of these sociopaths do you need to act out on this?”
“If they sincerely believe that this election has been stolen, that it’s an act of fraud, and they are heavily armed, what possible things could go wrong?” he said, pointing out that armed demonstrators showed up at the home of Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson over the weekend to protest Trump’s loss.
“It’s a very, very scary scenario and I think that we ought to be prepared for it,” said Sykes, who condemned other politicians “who are feeding into this, who are putting out the rhetoric and spreading the misinformation and giving oxygen to the various conspiracy theories.”
“It’s dangerous now, but I think it’s going to get much more dangerous over the next few weeks,” he added.
'What are we doing this for?': Doctors are fed up with conspiracies ravaging ERs
At the end of another long shift treating coronavirus patients, Dr. Hadi Halazun opened his Facebook page to find a man insisting to him that "no one's dying" and that the coronavirus is "fake news" drummed up by the news media.
Hadi tried to engage and explain his firsthand experience with the virus. In reply, another user insinuated that he wasn't a real doctor, saying pictures from his profile showing him at concerts and music festivals proved it.
"I told them: 'I am a real doctor. There are 200 people in my hospital's ICU,'" said Halazun, a cardiologist in New York. "And they said, 'Give me your credentials.' I engaged with them, and they kicked me off their wall."
"I left work and I felt so deflated. I let it get to me."
Halazun, like many other health care professionals, is dealing with a bombardment of misinformation and harassment from conspiracy theorists, some of whom have moved beyond posting online to pressing doctors for proof of the severity of the pandemic.
And it's taking a toll. Halazun said dealing with conspiracy theorists is the "second most painful thing I've had to deal with, other than separation of families from their loved one."
Several other doctors shared similar experiences, saying that they regularly had to treat patients who had sought care too late because of conspiracy theories spread on social media and that social media companies have to do more to counteract the forces that spread lies for profit.
Coronavirus (COVID-19) statistics
United States cases
Updated May 16 at 2:20 PM local
Confirmed
1,473,415
+13,256
Deaths
88,237
+1,019
Recovered
260,146
+5,159
Image: Anti-stay-at-home protesters in Oregon (Terray Sylvester / Getty Images)
Dr. Duncan Maru, a physician and epidemiologist in Queens, New York, said he had heard from colleagues that a young patient had come into the emergency room last week with damage to his intestinal tract after having ingested bleach. The incident occurred just days after President Donald Trump suggested that "injection" of disinfectants should be researched as a potential coronavirus treatment.
"Folks delaying seeking care or, taking the most extreme case, somebody drinking bleach as a result of structural factors just underlines the fact that we have not protected the public from disinformation," Maru said.
The structural factors in this case include Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, which have struggled to contain the spread of misinformation, some of it coming from positions of authority.
Social networks have taken a variety of steps in recent weeks to thwart misinformation, such as providing dedicated portals for vetted information from public health officials and banning content related to conspiracy theories around 5G wireless technology.
Despite the efforts, the distribution networks built up in recent years by fringe media personalities and activists on tech platforms and through websites have proven resilient.
Whitney Phillips, a assistant professor of communications who studies the spread of disinformation at Syracuse University, said the coronavirus outbreak offers a look at how conspiracy thinking is now, in some ways, more organized.
"With conspiracy theories, the reason they're impervious to fact-checking is that they have become a way of being in the world for believers," Phillips said. "It isn't just one narrative that you can debunk. It is a holistic way of being in the world that has been reinforced by all the other bulls--- that these platforms have allowed people to consume for years."
'It scares me more than anything'
Organized harassment campaigns, lies and urban legends targeting doctors are a real-life symptom of what the World Health Organization dubbed the "infodemic" as the coronavirus started to spread throughout the world earlier this year.
Halazun has since stopped engaging with the trolls on Facebook, some of whom claimed that "the hospitals are empty" and that the virus was part of a plot to vaccinate or microchip U.S. citizens — just two of the many conspiracy theories that have swirled around the coronavirus.
But he was still left with big questions: How can people believe this stuff? And do they understand the algorithms and opportunistic extremists that led them to believe it?
"It scares me more than anything that there are people who are basically controlled — and in the same way they feel they're fighting against that control," he said. "They go to YouTube, where they're really being controlled, and they don't realize it. That's what's scary."
Maru also said he felt that tech platforms need to do more to deal with disinformation, but he acknowledged that there is no easy fix.
Facebook ads, conspiracy theorists push harmful bleach consumption and UV ray cures
NBC News reporter Ben Collins joins Brian Williams to talk about his latest: Unfounded and harmful coronavirus treatments, including those that were floated by President Donald Trump, continue to spread online, evading efforts to crack down on misinformation. Collins says, “The idea of ingesting bleach is not a new thing on the internet, especially on the fringes of the internet."
"I do think it's a monumental task to hold these companies to account, but in the COVID case, they truly have blood on their hands," Maru said.
Beyond emergency rooms and internet platforms, there are hints of how far some coronavirus misinformation has spread. Dr. Rajeev Fernando said that when he takes questions about the coronavirus on radio shows, one out of every two callers refers to 5G towers or conspiracy theories about labs in Wuhan, China.
On the phone, sometimes they'll listen to reality, said Fernando, an infectious diseases specialist at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital in New York.
"Some people have an agenda, and you can't help that," Fernando said. "But for other people, I say, 'Let me try to answer your questions and see why you think this way and why I think this is an appropriate answer.'"
Still, Fernando believes social media networks need watchdogs, including physicians, to identify disinformation before it once again becomes a public health crisis.
"We have to understand these [conspiracy theorists] are criminal organizations which really stop at nothing to get disinformation out," Fernando said.
Bill Gates and 5G
Well-organized, professional disinformation peddlers in the QAnon and anti-vaccination movements have gained new audiences during the coronavirus pandemic by coalescing around two primary boogeymen: Bill Gates and 5G towers.
Halazun heard it all firsthand. He didn't know where it all began or how to stop it.
"These anti-vaccination people were telling me I'm a sheep," Halazun said. "Dr. Fauci this, Bill Gates that. And I don't really care what you think about Bill Gates. It doesn't affect me. But it does affect me when they tell me what we're doing is not real and that the hospitals are really empty. It hurts."
In January, a well-known promoter of QAnon, the baseless conspiracy theory that Trump is secretly dismantling a pedophile-cannibal cabal that runs the U.S. government, pushed a conspiracy theory that Gates "patented" the coronavirus based on a mischaracterized public patent search.
The patent was created by a Gates-aligned research institute to research a vaccine, a common practice among researchers, and it covered a previous coronavirus, not the one that causes COVID-19.
Still, the tweet helped spark a focus on Gates that has permeated the various conspiracy theory networks that have developed on the internet in recent years.
The same QAnon promoter later promoted a diluted form of bleach called "Miracle Mineral Solution" as a possible way to kill the coronavirus.
Similarly, the anti-vaccination movement has pushed a false conspiracy theory that 5G towers are weakening immune systems throughout the world and that COVID-19 is a cover story for the colossal death tolls around the world.
After a prominent anti-vaccination figure posted a video on Instagram of a man alongside a destroyed 5G tower, several arson fires were set on towers across Europe and Canada.
Brian Keeley, a professor of philosophy at Pitzer College in California who studies why people believe in conspiracy theories, said some people in times of crisis look to far-fetched ideas with simple answers for complex problems.
Providing a straightforward, extinguishable enemy — whether it's a well-known celebrity like Gates or a mysterious concept like the illuminati — gives conspiracy theorists hope, agency and power in a time of chaos. In reality, those recognizable, often mortal figures are simply scapegoats for an act of God.
"People are looking for these kinds of explanations to control something in their lives," Keeley said.
Keeley, who's been researching conspiracy theories for over 20 years, said he has abandoned using Facebook because of the "depression that comes from looking at that."
"It's sort of an informational quarantine," he said. "You don't want to be exposing yourself to a different kind of virus."
Quitting Facebook
After researching why people believe in the conspiracy theories, Halazun has come to the same conclusion: Right now, it's not worth it for a doctor to spend any time on Facebook.
"We're limited in our emotional capacity. I'm not going to spend whatever I have left after a long day of work trying to convince a conspiracy theorist," Halazun said. "They're immune to any evidence. You're not going to change their mind."
As Halazun stepped outside after his Facebook experience, he heard the bang of pots and pans and whoops and hollers. It was 7 p.m., and New York City residents were participating in their nightly salute to health care workers on the front lines of fighting the coronavirus pandemic.
"I just started crying," Halazun said. "I thought, 'What do I believe here?' It almost made me question myself. Some people are out there who are sitting in their homes, going on these videos and then telling us it's fake while we're saving lives.
"I felt like 'What are we doing this for?'"
My Op Ed: Trumpers aka MAGAts are immune to facts, truth and logic and that makes them very very dangerous. Keep those assholes believing COVID 19 is a hoax. While it puts the rest of us in danger COVID 19 will most certainly kill a lot of MAGAts and the more it kills the better for America and the world. I would be willing to stay quarantined to as long as it takes if doing so will help the MAGAts to commit suicide and cause the deaths of their genetically contaminated offspring. We're in a fucking war and the MAGAts would gladly kill you and your family. It's in their DNA same as it is for any other Nazi type.
Trump's disciples can be described in many ways -- ignorant, foolish, dishonest, toxic, traitorous, asshole, racists, pigs, malevolent, xenophobic or just plain evil and know damn good. Don't even try to analyze them and don't underestimate them the way the Jews underestimated the Nazis of their time. Don't go thinking the government will protect you from them or that they will listen to reason because they can't, won't and don't. PROOF FROM A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE
If you are Christian and tend believe all people are redeemable, think again and learn about what the Bible says about predestination and you will learn that according to the Bible, some people are no damn good and you don't have to be religious to know that. Christians and Muslims believe that evil scumbags receive divine justice and burn in hell for all eternity. That bullshit was used to control the masses so that wouldn't go after the evil filthy rich. Ya know what? fuck that! Don't waste your breath on those bastards. They cannot be saved from themselves. In fact help them spread their bullshit so that more of them will get sick and die. If you care about the next generation you should do what you lawfully can to cleanse the gene pool of their decadent DNA. Help lead these evil lemmings off the cliff. Saving them, even it you could will cause more people to die.
