On today’s BradCast: It’s not only Trumpers who are wildly misinformed when it comes to the COVID vaccines. Callers ring in today (many who claim they are not Trumpers) to explain their reasons…as deadly and misinformed as they may be. [Audio link to full show is posted below summary.]
First up, however, as the clown show “audit” theater by the Cyber Ninjas continues into its third month in Maricopa County (Phoenix), Arizona, Associated Press has published their own analysis of voter fraud in the state last November, as based on actual evidence. Through public records requests filed in each of AZ’s 15 counties, the news organization has found there is evidence for fewer than 200 potential cases of voter fraud last year out of more than 3 million votes cast. That’s a very far cry from the “massive voter fraud” our disgraced former President has claimed was carried out to give Joe Biden his 10,400 vote victory in the state. The evidence comes via both Democratic and Republican County and State officials, including investigations currently under way by Arizona’s Republican state Attorney General. To date, indictments have been filed in just four (4) cases. Two of those cases involve Democrats, two involve Republican voters. Most of the known cases are unlikely to result in charges, as many of them could be book-keeping errors or innocent mistakes by voters who attempted to vote twice (once by mail and once in person, or even in two different states) for perfectly understandable reasons we discuss on today’s show.
Then, as the Delta variant of the coronavirus tears through largely unvaccinated pockets of the country, COVID infection, hospitalization and death rates are on the rise again in the U.S. While the vast majority of those who become severely ill and/or die are unvaccinated (more than 95%), the threat of new variants which may not respond as well to existing vaccines looms — as mask mandates are being restored in some places and as the nation’s economy is once again under threat.
We recently covered heart-breaking stories of deadly — because they were completely unnecessary and avoidable — spikes in Trump-supporting states like Missouri, Mississippi and Tennessee. Today, Arkansas is taking the lead in new cases for no good reason other than usually misinformed, unvaccinated residents in the rural areas of the state. The New York Times, over the weekend, ran a devastating report out of the state, detailing the surge in severely ill patients and hospitalizations — almost all of them unvaccinated and many of them now MUCH younger than during previous COVID surges.
But, it’s not only in Trump Country. Even here in Los Angeles County, there are many among the vaccine hesitant. Over the weekend, L.A. chose to reinstate its indoor mask mandate as rates, even here, are beginning to increase again.
We wondered why this is, and what sort of information people are receiving that would lead them to avoid the live-saving vaccines, so we opened up the phones to exactly that today. The reasons, apparently, are many and varied. Some are certain that Big Pharma is pulling a hoax on all of us. (Though one caller cited information from “the inventor of the mRNA vaccines,” Robert Malone, who, as it turns out, isn’t the inventor at all, despite his claim. One wonders why anybody would therefore take his advice — that the mRNA vaccines are dangerous — seriously.) Others cite racial elements, buttressed by the tragic Tuskegee Experiment. But, as one caller notes, the tragedy of that study occurred because black men were not given life saving medicine as part of the study.
At least one caller believes evolution should be allowed to run its course, no matter how many tens or hundreds of millions are likely to die on the long and deadly road to “herd immunity”.
In any event, it was an interesting hour (we hope) that may shed some light on the mess we are now in, as the nation — with plenty of life-saving vaccine for all — could, nonetheless, soon find itself locked down all over again due to massive misinformation that continues to pollute the body politic…
A longer debunk of the “Malone is the inventor of mRNA vaccines.”
https://respectfulinsolence.com...bout-covid-19/
1.20.21 + 6 months = 7.20.21
I haven’t seen a peep anywhere about Dotard’s extended Secret Service protection order ending for the spawn and Mnuchin/Meadows et al.
Pence’s statutory six month extension should also terminate.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/...8bf_story.html.
Nothing owns the Libs more than being unvaccinated and dying from Covid.