October 10, 2021
ALL COMEDY IS CONSERVATIVE:
COVID-Infected Allen West Goes on Unhinged Anti-Vax Rant--From Hospital (Kana Ruhalter, Oct. 10, 2021, Daily Beast)
The former congressman, who is not vaccinated, wrote that he and his wife Angela received monoclonal antibody treatments at an emergency room in Dallas on Saturday. "The results were immediate," he claimed before noting that his wife, who is vaccinated, was allowed to go home while he stayed at the hospital due to concerns over COVID-related pneumonia and low blood oxygen levels.The far-right figure, who has increasingly adopted QAnon-adjacent rhetoric and recently quit his post as Texas GOP chairman, praised the "not forcing any harmful protocols on me" and for "making me grits for breakfast!!!"And then, despite the burden placed on hospital staff by people like West who refuse to get vaccinated, he pivoted to attacking vaccines."I can attest that, after this experience, I am even more dedicated to fighting against vaccine mandates," he tweeted. "Instead of enriching the pockets of Big Pharma and corrupt bureaucrats and politicians, we should be advocating the monoclonal antibody infusion therapy." (Monoclonal antibody treatments, of course, are largely manufactured by pharmaceutical giants like Regeneron and GlaxoSmithKline.)
Posted by Orrin Judd at October 10, 2021 2:48 PM
