# Omnibus Stupid MFers in the news thread (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 31, 2021, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945 "2021-01-31T21:25:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 67
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2021, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1329 "2021-09-27T20:29:08Z")
MAGAt political cartoonist says he has covid, and is treating it with ivermectin, vitamins, zinc, and beet juitce. > **[Anti-Vaccine Cartoonist Ben Garrison Says He's Got Covid-19, Won't Go to...](https://gizmodo.com/anti-vaccine-cartoonist-ben-garrison-says-hes-got-covid-1847749901)** > > The pro-Trump cartoonist says he's lost about 15 pounds and is taking ivermectin. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2021, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1330 "2021-09-27T20:38:00Z")
I would say good on him for at least having the courage of his convictions. Except, his convictions would have him infect bystanders from his insanity/inanity, some of whom may even conceivably be innocent. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2021, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1331 "2021-09-27T20:48:00Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > MAGAt political cartoonist says he has covid, and is treating it with ivermectin, vitamins, zinc, and beet juitce. As he lays dying, as I predict he might since he has a serious illness and is taking things that will probably exacerbate it, I hope he feels pretty stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2021, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1332 "2021-09-27T20:53:17Z")
Remind me again how the covidiots are spinning these non-vaccinated, un-hospitalized and home treatment Covid deaths? Fake news? Crisis actors? Extra-terrestrial intervention? Spiritual sublimation? ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2021, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1333 "2021-09-27T20:57:37Z")
They wind up in the hospital when their home remedies don’t work, then blame the hospitals for the deaths. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2021, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1334 "2021-09-27T21:33:52Z")
My guess is that most of them ignore the deaths, and talk up the ones who recovered. As long as they don’t take too many poisons, a lot of them are going to recover, after all. And pointing out that they’d have recovered faster and easier, or wouldn’t have caught it at all, if they’d been vaccinated will go straight in one ear and out the other. And, of course, if the person who dies is over 60 or so, there’s always ‘they were just about to die anyway!’ (A particularly annoying technique to me, as I – and a lot of my friends – are well over 60 and nowhere near ready to go yet.) ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2021, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1335 "2021-09-27T21:38:25Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > My guess is that most of them ignore the deaths, and talk up the ones who recovered. As long as they don’t take too many poisons, a lot of them are going to recover, after all. I’d like to point out that the most recent subject of this thread is an unvaccinated man in his 60s, refusing to treat it with actual medicine meant to treat the illness. Even if he doesn’t poison himself I don’t like his odds. (I know you’re speaking in generalities and I agree that most often they will recover but the cartoonist is in a worse position.) ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2021, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1336 "2021-09-28T04:25:10Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > a lot of them are going to recover For certain values of “recover.” Maybe they won’t die, but some of them will have problems for a long time/the rest of their lives, that they wouldn’t have had if they hadn’t caught it in the first place. Of course, those cases are even easier to ignore, the details get lost in the wash. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2021, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1337 "2021-09-28T19:01:47Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Even if he doesn’t poison himself I don’t like his odds. Given that he appears to be a hammerhead PoS bent on disseminating dangerous bullshit, I like his odds very much. I mean, they do not look particularly good for _him_, but … ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1338 "2021-09-29T16:06:24Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > Remind me again how the covidiots are spinning these non-vaccinated, un-hospitalized and home treatment Covid deaths? Fake news? Crisis actors? Extra-terrestrial intervention? Spiritual sublimation? In my neck of the woods at least, the families of the dead person immediately set up go-fund me sites to grift off the gullible. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1339 "2021-09-29T18:09:20Z")
I wonder if there are fake gofundme sites popping up all over. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1340 "2021-09-29T18:44:08Z")
I’m seeing claims that Gabby Pettito (the formerly missing white girl whose body was found in Wyoming) is a crisis actor who appears in Sandy Hook videos. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1341 "2021-09-29T20:46:03Z")
Anti-vaxxer gave out his phone number at an anti-vaxx rally because “I have nothing to hide.” He’s now begging people to stop calling him. > **[A prominent anti-vaxxer gave out his phone number at a rally because 'he has...](https://www.insider.com/chris-sky-phone-number-anti-vaxx-rally-toronto-canada-2021-9)** > > Chris Saccoccia, known by the pseudonym Chris Sky, said he's received thousands of calls since giving his phone number out at the rally. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1342 "2021-09-29T21:01:16Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Anti-vaxxer gave out his phone number at an anti-vaxx rally because “I have nothing to hide.” He’s now begging people to stop calling him. I need to get a burner phone, for just such occasions, ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1343 "2021-09-29T21:39:43Z")
We really do have a mental health crisis in this country. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1344 "2021-09-29T21:43:16Z")
The guy’s Canadian, ftr ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1345 "2021-09-29T23:36:06Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > I wonder if there are fake gofundme sites popping up all over. Oh yes. Grifters gotta grift. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1346 "2021-09-29T23:42:06Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > I wonder if there are fake gofundme sites popping up all over. Oh, sure, my site’s going great guns! _**[gogriftyourself.com](http://gogriftyourself.com)**_ ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2021, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1347 "2021-09-30T03:52:21Z")
Illinois man gets bit by a bat, refuses treatment, dies of rabies. > **[Illinois Man Turns Down Treatment After Bat Bite, Dies a Month Later From Rabies](https://gizmodo.com/illinois-man-turns-down-treatment-after-bat-bite-dies-1847767191)** > > The man woke up to a bat nipping at his neck, and a colony was later discovered in his home. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2021, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1348 "2021-09-30T05:33:11Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Illinois man gets bit by a bat, refuses treatment, dies of rabies. > In mid-August, a Lake County resident in his 80s woke up with a bat at his neck. The bat was captured, and an entire colony was later discovered to be living in his home. Once the bat was known to have rabies, the man was advised to seek post-exposure treatment. But for whatever reason, he declined. I’m guessing that since he was in his 80s, he figured he’d gamble on the possibility that he’d turn into a vampire and no longer have to worry about the effects of old age. If that’s the case he was only half wrong; he no longer has to worry about the effects of old age. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=66) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=68)