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It would take a horses ass to want to study a horse drug as treatment for COVID-19...

Rand Paul has entered the chat.

The Kentucky senator really believes scientists hate former President Donald Trump so much that they wont objectively research ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment. For those unaware, ivermectin is a drug used to deworm horses and Paul believes it could aid in the fight against the big bad coronavirus.

And without any kind of approval from the Federal Drug Administration, people have begun taking ivermectin because those people would rather risk their health with a drug they dont understand than a vaccine that is FDA approved. It has gotten so bad that Mississippi officials have urged residents not to take ivermectin, after poison control centers began receiving calls of people falling ill after taking the drug.

From the Guardian:

Ivermectin, an anti-parasitic, does have uses in humans, to treat worms, lice and skin problems. But despite it having been discussed by doctors in testimony before Congress, it is not proven to combat Covid-19.

Doctors have also warned against its potential toxicity. Earlier this month, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a terse tweet: You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, yall. Stop it.

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According to the Cincinnati Enquirer, during a meeting with constituents in Cold Spring, Ky., on Friday, Paul claimed: The hatred for Trump deranged these people so much, theyre unwilling to objectively study it.

So someone like me thats in the middle of it, I cant tell you because they will not study ivermectin. They will not study hydroxychloroquine without the taint of their hatred for Donald Trump.

But lets be clear: neither Trump nor Paul know what the fuck they are talking about. Anyone remember hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug that Republicans, especially Trump, were pushing when he was in office?

It turned out that shit had little effect in doing anything against COVID-19.

Also from the Guardian:

According to the US National Library of Medicine, studies have not produced proof that ivermectin can treat Covid-19. The same source lists 31 completed, withdrawn or ongoing US clinical trials.

The FDA says taking large doses of ivermectin is dangerous and can cause serious harm and adds: Never use medications intended for animals on yourself. Ivermectin preparations for animals are very different from those approved for humans.

In Cold Spring, responding to a womans question about ivermectin, which she said she kept just in case, Paul said: I dont know if it works, but I keep an open mind.

And get this, before becoming a political albatross, Paul was an eye doctor, but hes always been a fucking idiot. Instead of using his political influence to push for his constituents to follow CDC guidelines, hes spent his COVID years getting closer to Trumps backside with his lips. Paul has been reluctant to wear a mask and had his YouTube account suspended for pushing his anti-mask bullshit.

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And then therewere three?

Rand Paul, a trained eye doctor and junior senator for the state of Kentucky, has been challenging the word of Dr. Anthony Fauci and the CDC since the beginning of the pandemic. Paul has recently been spouting ivermectin a large animal dewormer, which is used on humans in very select cases as a cure for COVID-19. This begs the question: if 200 mg of ivermectin is the recommended dose for cows, how many cows make up a Rand Paul?

James Cordon, Billy Porter, Idina Menzel and Camila Cabello all cast members of Amazons upcoming Cinderella were recorded blocking out and dancing in a Los Angeles intersection on Aug. 27. The internet collectively sighed at the event, with a majority of twitter users taking the opportunity to flame the actors. Just another example of an out-of-touch elite class within the American experiment. Is the UK sure they dont want James back?

Laura Beloff, artist and associate professor at Aalto University in Finland, may have discovered a new object of scientific research when she noticed that a plant in her office made a quiet clicking noise as she sat there alone, but would stop when someone else walked in. Although researchers have proven that sound can affect the ways plants grow and produce, it is still speculated whether or not they can audibly communicate or are sentient. Some might say Beloff spent enough time touching grass. I think she might have touched too much of that special grass.

Texas pro-life group live-action tweeted an computer generated image of a fetus on Aug. 31 in support of the anti-abortion senate bill 8. Twitter users were quick to point out visual similarities between the fetus in the promotional image and the H. P. Lovecraft monster Cthulhu. To be fair, if Lovecraft had seen the poorly rendered CGI fetus he probably would have thought it was one of his monsters too.

The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine has received a new name to go with its FDA approval for use in individuals 16 years and older. Their choice? Comirnaty pronounced koe-mirna-tee is a combination of the words COVID-19, community, immunity and mRNA. Considering how hard it is to understand people when Zoom buffers, the name makes more sense. However, if Im going to have to say Comirnaty out loud to other people Im putting myself back into quarantine.

Amazons former CEO and everyones favorite multi-billionaire Jeffrey Bezos has taken to filing complaints and attempting to sue NASA after losing an awarded contract with the agency. Fellow multi-billionaire and CEO of SpaceX Elon Musk was the winner of NASAs $2.9 billion contract, much to Bezoss dismay. The two have been fighting it out in the courtroom and on twitter, as Musk tweeted on Aug. 27: Turns out Besos retired in order to pursue a full-time job filing lawsuits against SpaceX. Musks net worth totals enough money that over 120,000 American households would never have to work again, and Bezos could cover over 130,000. If it were up to me, Id send them both into space. And maybe just leave them there.

On Aug. 26, Kijon Griffin of Atlanta, GA stole a mortuary van from a crematory parking lot while fleeing police. Though the back of the van was open, police didnt expect a gurney to roll out, let alone with a body still onboard. Griffin was able to escape and is still at large despite crashing the van into multiple vehicles and blowing a tire. Not only did he shake the cops but he also shook off some deadweight in his escape. I expect the same theatrics at my funeral.

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Its bad enough that the southern states are battling quickly rising rates of COVID-19, but now comes along Hurricane Ida burying some parts of the south under 18 inches of water.

Im sorry, I cant imagine that amount of water in one storm in one day.

That came after 150 mph winds slashed through areas south of New Orleans, in some cases cutting communities off from the rest of the state.

Communities along the Gulf Coast are now having to contend with storms that start out as a semi-reasonable Category 1 or 2 and then hitting parts of the Gulf that are warmer and exploding into Cat 3 or 4, as was Ida.

Thanks to climate change, the waters in the gulf continue to warm and thats not good for hurricane development. The warmer the water, the stronger the storms.

Even though more and more homes are being built on stilts, there are still large areas of states like Louisiana that are not on stilts and the buildings take the full brunt of winds and storm surges.

I will grant you that some areas downstate are prone to flooding from torrential rains but we are normally spared community-wide flooding events that make towns uninhabitable.

As of Monday the reports were saying it may be weeks before power is fully restored in Louisiana.

I just cant imagine.

The New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie asked a provocative question Tuesday Do Republicans actually want the pandemic to end?

Bouie noted that when President Obama came into office promoting unity, the GOP did everything in its power to thwart that effort. By the midterm elections, Obama had become a divisive president to some.

He writes, Joe Biden, in his 2020 campaign for president, promised to get the coronavirus pandemic under control. With additional aid to working families and free distribution of multiple effective vaccines, he would lead the United States out of its ongoing public health crisis.

I think you can see where this is going.

Rather than work with him to vaccinate the country, Bidens Republican opposition has, with only a few exceptions, done everything in its power to politicize the vaccine and make refusal to cooperate a test of partisan loyalty. The party is, for all practical purposes, pro-Covid. If its sincere, it is monstrous. And if its not, it is an unbelievably cynical and nihilistic strategy. Unfortunately for both Biden and the country, it appears to be working.

It starts in Congress where Marjorie Taylor Greene and others talk about the brown shirts coming to your door to force you to get a vaccine, to SenatorsTed Cruz and Rand Paul and their efforts to keep Americans safe from the vaccine:

Senator Ted Cruz of Texas has attacked vaccine mandates There should be no mandates, zero, concerning Covid, he said ina recent interviewwith the Fox News host Sean Hannity while Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky has urged Americans to resist efforts to stop the spread of the virus. Its time for us to resist,Paul saidin a video posted to Twitter. They cant arrest all of us. They cant keep all of your kids home from school. They cant keep every government building closed, although Ive got a long list of ones they might keep closed or ought to keep closed.

Then on the state level we have governors Ron DeSantis of Florida (currently atop the new cases list) and Greg Abbott of Texas, both of whom are working diligently to make sure masks and vaccine mandates never occur in their state.

And after all of the ways DeSantis has worked to block efforts to stem the pandemic who does he blame? President Biden.

You know, he said he was going to end Covid. He hasnt done that, the Florida governortold the Fox News host Jesse Watterslast week. At the end of the day, he is trying to find a way to distract from the failures of his presidency.

If you want to talk about failures, theres 16,000 people hospitalized in Florida and thousands of those are in intensive care. You can blame the governor.

Are all Republicans resisting vaccinations and fighting mandates and restrictions? Certainly not, although their vaccination rate is about 13 percent below that of Democrats.

One has to wonder how those who arent vaccinated or mask wearing figure this pandemic is going to end. For many it has resulted in their coming down with and dying from the virus. How many more people will have to die before what seems to be a Republican institutionalization of fighting Covid prevention efforts comes to an end.

When will Texans Cruz and Abbot see the light on masks and vaccines for the citizens of their state?

Oh wait, never.

Question answered.

Kendall P. Stanley is retired editor of the News-Review. He can be contacted atkendallstanley@charter.net. The opinions expressed in this column are those of the writer and not necessarily of the Petoskey News-Review or its employees.

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PADUCAH U.S. Rep. James Comer touched on the issues surrounding understaffed law enforcement at Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area while in Paducah on Thursday. The congressman spoke during the Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce's Power in Partnership breakfast.

As we reported Tuesday, the issue was discussed earlier this week by the Lyon County sheriff and U.S. Sen. Rand Paul while Paul was visiting Eddyville.

The sheriff told Local 6 that LBL can hold more people than some of the biggest cities in Lyon County, and when the national recreation area's limited law enforcement staff is overwhelmed, his deputies are often the first to be called. The sheriff said that pulls deputies away from parts of Lyon County they're supposed to be protecting.

Thursday, Comer said he and his office have been in contact with federal agencies to make sure LBL is adequately funded for both programs and law enforcement. He said it's an ongoing conversation.

"There were a lot of commitments made to the families and to the communities when the forestry service took over Land Between the Lakes, and unfortunately a lot of those commitments aren't being met now," Comer said. "So, my office is doing everything it can to work with the forestry service to see that the services they're budgeted to provide, and the services that they're legislated to provide, are actually being provided."

Comer also provided his response to the Biden administration's efforts to ban PFAS. He says banning the use of those chemicals could affect chemical plants in the Calvert City area.

"We're against it, and we're speaking out and doing everything in our ability to stop some of these bad, burdensome regulations," the Republican congressman said.

Comer said banning those chemicals could negatively impact the livelihoods of local families.

"There are 5,000 chemicals that would fall into this classification. And the Calvert City Industrial Plant has several manufacturers there that use some of these chemicals to manufacture things. These provide good paying jobs and provide Americans with goods made in the United States," Comer said. "The Biden regulation would ban some of these chemicals that would shut some of these factories down because they wouldn't be able to produce Freon for air conditioners and refrigerators and that would shift the manufacturing to China."

He said he is actively working on messaging and legislation to fight the effort to ban PFAS.

PFAS short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances refers to a group of man-made chemicals, sometimes referred to as "forever chemicals" that don't break down in the environment and the human body. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, those chemicals can accumulate overtime, and there is evidence that exposure to them can have adverse health effects.

According to the EPA:

"Studies indicate that PFOA and PFOS [the most extensively produced and studied PFAS] can cause reproductive and developmental, liver and kidney, and immunological effects in laboratory animals. Both chemicals have caused tumors in animal studies. The most consistent findings from human epidemiology studies are increased cholesterol levels among exposed populations, with more limited findings related to: infant birth weights, effects on the immune system, cancer (for PFOA), and thyroid hormone disruption (for PFOS).

"Oral exposure studies of PFBS in animals have shown effects on thyroid hormone disruption, reproductive organs and tissues, developing fetus, and kidney. Based on dose-response information across different sexes, lifestages, and durations of exposure, the thyroid appears to be particularly sensitive to oral PFBS exposure. The data are inadequate to evaluate cancer effects associated with PFBS exposure."

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) laughs when asked if she feels any responsibility for the deaths caused by her vaccine misinformation.Photo: Screenshot

Conspiracy theorist and Republican Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has spent part of her weekend sowing doubts about COVID-19 vaccines, even though her home state currently ranks sixth amongst states with the highest number of overall infections.

Over the last 24 hours, Greene has reposted two messages against vaccine mandates. Ever since the Food and Drug Administration gave its full approval to the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, more workplaces have been requiring their employees to get vaccinated.

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Displeased with this development, Greene has taken to spreading anti-vax messages.

Her first was a retweet of Republican Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, a man who spends his time railing against mask mandates and suggesting that taxpayers should fund research into Ivermectin, a veterinary medicine that has been found to have no effect on COVID-19.

Like I have been saying for months, Pauls tweet said, denying the role and value of natural immunity is a serious mistake, and it is not science. Its government propaganda for vaccine mandates, even for those with natural immunity.

His tweet linked to a Bloomberg News article that said that people who recovered from COVID-19 earlier into the pandemic appear to have a lower risk of contracting the Delta variant than those who got two doses of the Pfizer vaccine. Despite the articles claim, the only way that people can develop this natural immunity now is to risk dying from a super infectious respiratory virus that has already killed 637,000 Americans.

Greene also retweeted a message from Republican Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie which stated, Natural Immunity >> Pfizer Shot. The vaccine mandates are unscientific for two reasons: 1) they do not recognize immunity from prior infection 2) SARS-CoV2 can be spread by vaccinated people so whats really going on?

Whether he realized it or not, Massie essentially made an argument for employees being forced to take antibody tests. Also, his second claim about coronavirus being spread by vaccinated people is old news. People inoculated against any diseases are still capable of contracting the diseases and spreading them to others. Vaccinations only reduce the possibility of doing so and lower the severity of those diseases symptoms as well.

This isnt news. Its just how vaccines work.

Its unsurprising that Greene opposes vaccine mandates. Foremost, thats generally the Republican position. Secondly, she has disingenuously said in the past that instead of convincing people to get vaccinated, COVID-19 prevention efforts should focus on reducing obesity. Obesity is a risk factor for being hospitalized and dying from COVID-19. She has also compared vaccination volunteers with the Nazi secret police, and joked that people could threaten them with guns.

In fact, Greene compares COVID-19 mask and vaccination mandates to Nazi during the Holocaust so often that the National Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. had to issue a letter telling politicians like her to stop making such disrespectful and inaccurate comparisons.

As of August 29, Georgia has reported 1.34 million overall infections and 21,826 related COVID-19 deaths. Those numbers make the state rank sixth in the U.S. for new infections and eighth for deaths. The states recent daily tolls of new cases have been so high that theyve broken its previous records for most new cases reported in a single day.

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