If only KI’s toxicity was limted to just some bball bubble, though, I certainly wouldn’t have posted the story in this forum.
Isn’t he the Pumaman of MST3K fame?
With the PG being the main driver of the offence, I’d compare it more closely to a quarterback. (if we’re really givng any shiznitz about this). I could really dorky about this and proclaim that a shotstop would be closer to a “third man” in cricket, but given I’m next to clueless about the game it would behoove someone “of the Commonwealth” to kick my ass with a fine tuning on said defintion, given this being a thread about maskholes, of course.
Yeah, sing it!
Every time I see a news story about him, I’m hoping he’s not getting paid for sitting on the bench. I know he’s getting fined, but I’m not sure about the rest of his compensation. I’ll take it further. I think they should just cut him. It’s not like he’s helping the team.
(quoting a newspaper article)
Just a reminder that he does in fact have the right to keep his vaccination status out of the public eye.
What he doesn’t have is the right to play in international opens without agreeing to their terms. That’s not “blackmail”; that’s the Open’s right to decide under what conditions players are allowed to participate.
I mean, if they can give a tennis player shit just for not wanting to do pointless press conferences, they can certainly give one shit for being a potential legitimate health risk to everyone involved in the tournament including the other players.
Do tennis players at the Open have the right to randomly punch other players, officials and even spectators in the face with no warning?
No? Even if they sincerely believe that it’s fine to cause injury to others? Like really sincerely?
No?
If their toxic advice only hurt their fans it would be an improvement. Tucker Carlson’s medical advice is responsible for the deaths of more Nazis than anyone since Eisenhower, so he does have that going for him, Unfortunately there’s collateral harm to other individuals, so it isn’t an unalloyed blessing.
snerk! 
Indeed. I’m stealing that, too.
Maskhole? Vaxhole? You decide!
So my wife’s niece and her 4-year-old daughter now have Covid, thanks to the girl’s pre-school teacher who came to school sick on Monday unmasked and hugged all the kids.
The niece is quite obese and, while vaxxed, is probably at high risk of serious complications.
The daughter is obviously un-vaxxed and as of last night was running a fever of 102.
It’s a maskhole state, so I doubt there will be any repercussions for the teacher, but in a sane world she’d be fired and barred from ever teaching again. I’d sue the shit out of the school, too.
A friend of mine posted a clip from commentary in “The Law Magazine and Review” of 1872 (London) he came across while doing research on something unrelated. It’s a major pain to link to it so I’ll just type it in:
(TIL that “Peculiar People” refers to both a Wesleyan sect and, sometimes, the Quakers. I’m not sure who the “Contortionists” are in this context unless they’re related to the Shakers.)
I followed that rabbit hole for a while and found lots of old (19th century) antivax publications spouting the same ridiculous rhetoric we still see today (the Anti-Vaccination League was, I believe, founded in 1854). One of them claimed that smallpox “could be controlled without vaccination” on the same page as citing the statistic that smallpox had a 90% infant mortality rate. Stupidity + paranoia = death cult.
Fortunately vaccination eventually won the day and smallpox is no longer massacring our children.
Kyrie Irving, first and foremost desperately wants and needs attention. If trolling accomplishes that, swell. From ESPN:
“This is not even a conspiracy theory,” Irving (said in a podcast) “The Earth is flat. The Earth is flat. … It’s right in front of our faces. I’m telling you, it’s right in front of our faces. They lie to us.”
"He later reiterated those beliefs to ESPN’s Arash Markazi and commented that it was “hilarious” to him that his comments became a “social phenomenon.”
I highly doubt he has much against Covid-19 vaccination, other than that complying with league rules would make him one of the common herd of players, and mean that far fewer people would be talking about him.
Later he claimed he was just trolling about this, and then apologized, which I (at least hope) is a complete repudiation.
Or he could just be talking out his ass. Still pissed the Nets caved and brought him back into the squad. I wonder if teammates were cool about this. Sure, there’s the argument that they’re young, strong and healthy and would likely recover quickly from an infection, especially with the Omicron variant being less toxic than the Delta, but nah, this just further confirms what a selfish headcase he is. He can only play on the road, and I hope NYC doesn’t lift its vaccine mandate simply to illuminate Irving’s silly douchery of not being able to pay in his hometown.
(Well, ok - I do hope NYC obviously lifts that mandate when the time is right, but this just rankles me with Irving. Conversely - Australia better stand up to keeping out Novak Djokovic, whose lawyers are still trying to get him into the Aussie Open.)
A large group of Canadian anti-maskers decided to take a vacation together to Mexico. During the flight, they refused to wear masks, stood on the seats, and vaped. The airline has announced that they will not fly them home, and two other airlines have said they won’t take them, either.
Ron DeSantis let a million covid tests expire, even as he claimed that anybody who wanted a test could get one, and people lined up for hours to get tested.
Toss-up for which thread this could have gone in.
Nothing like saying that quiet part out loud…
Well, then.
Oh pish - try this at a Ted talk.
Ah, the Jewish Pope. Of course. Masterstroke. Bravo, Jews - bravo.
Every once in awhile I see somebody make the claim that antisemitism in the US is largely a relic of the past, confined to a smallish number of ignorant backwoods yahoos and/or Muslim radicals. Sometimes it almost sorta seems like that (Republican evangelicals - “we LOVE Israel”), but then something like this always crawls out.
There’s even more crazy once you get past the lede:
The nice thing about never stopping wearing a mask is that I don’t have any social anxiety over wearing a mask.
When I think of all the self inflicted emotional pain suffered by people over this decision, that makes me realize that the Internet has perfected sado-masochism: We can both punish ourselves and enjoy the pain.