Rolling COVID-19 Notably Infected and/or Fallen Thread

Wait, did I hear that someone's looking for marks? Where do I send them my money and is there a limit to how much I can send?

ok, fine. then here's a real one:

Caleb Wallace, head of ‘San Angelo Freedom Fighters’ to “end covid tyranny” is sedated on a ventilator. He has 3 kids and wife pregnant. He treated himself with ivermectin. Here he in interview: “The science is out there, and it’s saying this is perfectly fine to live with.” pic.twitter.com/zCgUdwbbuC

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 27, 2021

[the next day]

Caleb Wallace just died. https://t.co/q0dOPJtjYg

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 28, 2021

It truly is fine to live with. Until you die, anyway.

Lee "Scratch" Perry, or at least it seems likely -- vocal opponent of vaccination and masking, said in interviews a couple of months ago he didn't need the vaccine because he was extremely healthy, no coverage of him being sick that I can see up to the announcement of his death this morning

Also, tbf, he was 85.

Joe Rogan

Joe Rogan got Covid and decided to take Ivermectin Jfc Stop taking horse dewormer and get vaccinated pic.twitter.com/S4fkgnNf3R

— Zach Schwartz (@zachzachzach) September 1, 2021

sigh. is this reality?

not really surprising is it?

seems he took everything under the sun for it. bar the vax of course

Does it do any good to get vaccinated once you're actively infected?

I thought I heard there's some evidence it can reduce the severity of some symptoms?

no, obviously not. i mean more that it is more ironic that he is happy to ingest all sorts of odd things due to covid but not the vaccine

that was an xp

Paul Stanley had it and gave it to Gene Simmons.

are regular people even able to get monoclonal antibodies right now?

i think so. is milo yiannopolous (sp?) dead yet? he took the horse paste

lol good timing to repost this

Joe Rogan Starting To Make A Lot Of Sense To Man Who Gets All His News From Joe Rogan https://t.co/GVlHMvP5Hc pic.twitter.com/QN9sOK7q6p

— The Onion (@TheOnion) September 1, 2021

if he dies, will I get a discount on my spotify subscription?

a cursory search shows that there are actually some studies that indicate that the horse paste is possibly somewhat effective.

there are also studies that say it isn't.

i think so. is milo yiannopolous (sp?) dead yet? he took the horse paste

― criminally negligible (harbl), Wednesday, September 1, 2021 2:49 PM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

feel like milo probably just pretended to take the horse paste

xp it is indeed plausible that ivermectin is effective, in fact there are numerous trials involving it right now, unfortunately no large scale studies seem to support that conclusion, and most of the ones that show it to be effective wind up being flawed in fairly major ways. there is also the problem that ivermectin does not bind particularly well to cell proteins and you would probably need to take like 15x the recommended dose to prevent viral replication. regardless there appears to be a major grift involving this drug right now so its no surprise those favorable studies are popping up a lot

are regular people even able to get monoclonal antibodies right now?

You can even have someone set you up at home now IIRC.

tbh i think it's lazy that journalists are now calling it "horse dewormer." it has people applications. you can even give it to your wild fox and raccoon friends. the point is not that it's a dewormer for animals. i just think it's funny because it reminds me of "toad's horse yogurt" ad on check it out with dr. steve brule.

everyone goes on about ketamine being horse-tranquilizer as if it isn't used on humans all the time

tbh i think it's lazy that journalists are now calling it "horse dewormer."

Rogan will 1000% be ok and then turn even more antivax

yeah I hate to say it but if this guy succumbs it would do a lot of fucking good

Unfortunately, I doubt that Rogan's death would be the sudden 'come to Jesus' moment that spurs people to suddenly re-embrace rational thought.

Not even the appearance of Jesus himself.

Rogan will 1000% be ok and then turn even more antivax

Yeah I made the same point the other day that it’s like the “horse tranquilliser” hysteria around ketamine — one difference here tho is that many of these people are literally taking horse paste because doctors won’t prescribe ivermectin for covid, so they are going to vets, feed stores &c and buying medicine meant for livestock (apparently creating a shortage for those who actually need it for their animals)

The vast majority of recreational ketamine is cat/dog tranquiliser aiui, people just call it horse tranquiliser for the good and right reason that it's funnier.

Funniness, and a large side order of ridicule, is the overriding reason for mentioning its equine usage.

I knew what ivermectin and levamisole were because in the early to mid-2010s, there was a big scare in San Francisco party circuits about cocaine cut with levamisole. There are...lots of bad side effects if you snort the stuff, apparently!

gonna be hard for drug dealers to get their hands on it now, silver linings!

tapeworms are taking over the party scene

It's morbid to think "whose death from this disease could save the most lives," but it does seem like Joe's near the top of that list.

it's this kind of stuff that pisses me off the most about right-wing anti-vax celebrities getting covid and then surviving to tell their followers to double-down on anti-vax. from the last paragraphs of the washington post write-up:

On Wednesday, Rogan told his followers his diagnosis forced him to reschedule his upcoming show in Nashville until late October.

“My apologies to everyone, obviously it’s nothing I can control. It is what it is, crazy times we’re living in,” he said. “But a wonderful heartfelt thank you to modern medicine for pulling me out of this so quickly and easily.”

would it trouble the writer too much to add a little note reminding readers that Joe Rogan has $100s of millions of dollars now and can afford the best treatment of all time? and that so many other people are just fucked?

come on everyone, it's not that hard. just use your awesome health insurance to get the best treatment and then pay off the tens of thousands of dollars you still owe! don't put it on yr credit card ya dummies, pay it off with that giant stack of cash you have that you don't even have to think about! wait, you're not rich? bro. bro. did you put the $1200 stimulus into bitcoin like we all told you to do? have fun staying poor and dying from covid!!!

The data on the monoclonal antibody treatments look pretty good so if Rogan is willing to stand up and say "I got the expensive cutting-edge treatment that Donald Trump and Greg Abbott got and I came through OK" instead of "no need for vaccination when ivermectin's right there in gallon tubes at the tackle shop" more power to him

If he survives, I expect he won't be at all disingenuous about how + why he survived, and I'm sure his followers will be suddenly very sobered by the facts on the ground, and also monkeys are most likely going to fly out of my butt

If a komodo dragon doesn't come and bite it first

(backstory: he used to use that phrase, about a komodo dragon biting people on the ass. I only know this because I had a boss who made us listen to this shit during the early years)

The vast majority of recreational ketamine is cat/dog tranquiliser aiui, people just call it horse tranquiliser for the good and right reason that it's funnier.

it is indeed plausible that ivermectin is effective, in fact there are numerous trials involving it right now...

You know what else is effective? The various Covid vaccines.

“My baby does K all day”

Quick multiple choice test: Which is the best option?

A) Decreasing the symptoms of covid.
B) Shortening the duration of covid.
C) Preventing covid altogether.
D) All of the above.

If you chose option D, then you should be vaccinated. Because it alone accomplishes all of those things, while nothing else is proved to do so.

Yeah but what about freedom!

Yesterday I found out that one of my creative mentors had contracted the Delta variant earlier in August, which developed into Covid Pneumonia and a hospitalization a couple weeks ago...and now his death about an hour ago.

He apparently wasn't vaxxed, which I would like to think was due to some other medical issues he had rather than plain ignorance.

i'm really sorry to hear that. :(

Really sorry to hear that. Sounds similar to what happened with my friend (before vaccines were available and not Delta).

Oh, so sorry for your loss.