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Nevilledog

(50,676 posts)
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 11:13 PM Sep 2020

Joni Ernst peddling 2 COVID-19 conspiracies




Ernst Suggests Iowa Doctors Falsifying COVID Cases For Money

https://iowastartingline.com/2020/09/01/ernst-suggests-iowa-doctors-falsifying-covid-cases-for-money2/

Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst seemed to embrace on Monday a thoroughly-discredited QAnon conspiracy theory about U.S. deaths from COVID-19 being a mere fraction of what has been reported. As Amie Rivers of the Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier reported, Ernst said she was “so skeptical” of the official death count when asked by an attendee if the government was over-reporting coronavirus deaths.

“They’re thinking there may be 10,000 or less deaths that were actually singularly COVID-19,” Ernst said, seemingly referring to the debunked conspiracy theory that only around 6% of COVID-19 deaths were due to the virus. “I’m just really curious. It would be interesting to know that.”

Going even further, however, Ernst also suggested that doctors were intentionally falsifying coronavirus cases in order to receive more money for caring for the patient.

“These health care providers and others are reimbursed at a higher rate if COVID is tied to it, so what do you think they’re doing?” she questioned the crowd.

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Joni Ernst peddling 2 COVID-19 conspiracies (Original Post) Nevilledog Sep 2020 OP
I pray she loses her race. madaboutharry Sep 2020 #1
The whole party is full of loons n/t hibbing Sep 2020 #2

madaboutharry

(40,150 posts)
1. I pray she loses her race.
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 11:18 PM
Sep 2020

She is a disgrace. What an insult to all those who have suffered and died.

She is more a pig than the poor helpless animals she grew up castrating.

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