Joplin cardiologist: Mainlining and spreading misinformation about COVID-19 kills

(Dr. John Cox, a Joplin cardiologist, posted this message on his public Facebook page this morning.) 

Mainlining. 

That’s what it’s called when folks inject drugs directly into a vein. Rapid onset of effects. 

Disinformation in the world has reached that point. People see and hear on their favorite media site or do a deep dive into the dark recesses of the web and instantly believe it is true because it reinforces their prejudice. 

For some, they become Renfields. This character was subservient to Dracula in every way. “Yes master." So it is with them. “Yes Internet conspiracy master. I’m a true believer. Everyone else is lost.”

Because I have written a lot recently about Covid mostly I have been witness to these folks who have mainlined. The POTUS says something and within minutes these folks parrot. I have an associate who would come to work daily and I need not to have turned on Fox. He spouted their daily rant nearly verbatim. And this is a highly educated man. 

When it’s political as is the factless claim that “Biden is a crook”, it is laughable and so predictable as this is the go-to slam from the right about all who are not them. 

When it is about a deadly epidemic it kills.

 
The manure that flows through their tiny typing fingers: “masks don’t work, it is going away, we have turned the corner, hydroxychloroquine is a cure, it is nothing serious, almost no one is dying, we shouldn’t need to change our lives, and now most outrageously doctors profit from falsely claiming people have or have died from Covid when they haven’t is potentially deadly. 

Oh yes maybe not to the young and healthy but to some healthy folks there is now a heart condition or lung condition and to someone on chemo or frail next door or at church or at the supermarket a death sentence. 

A friend related her daughter was heckled for wearing a mask. So much for that “freedom” these fools yell about. 

Wasn’t she free to protect herself? 

It seems “freedom “is really the right to impose your views and will on others. Same with “religious freedom” in those circles. 

So it goes. From the mouths of the disinformation machine to the ears of the fools who do not fact check and then vomit the propaganda to others. Sad that we have come to this point. Sad that you can’t simply say: maybe the doctors know something here or I disagree with Mr. Biden’s policies but know he’s a good person. 

Sad. So very sad. 

Be safe

Fact check in legitimate fact checking sites.

Find peace.

Mainlining. That’s what it’s called when folks inject drugs directly into a vein. Rapid onset of effects. ...

Posted by John Cox on Saturday, October 31, 2020