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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Wed Nov 18, 2020, 07:58 PM Nov 2020

Delusional COVID Truthers Try to Invade Hospital

They decided that the small number of cars outside the Provo facility was evidence that the pandemic is a hoax. They entered the hospital with video cameras seeking to film what they believed would be an equally empty ICU.

“It’s conspiracy theorists that believe what they’re being told is not accurate,” hospital administrator Kyle Hansen told the Provo city council last week. “They’re determined to videotape and capture the proof of that by accessing our facilities. We’ve had some people get really creative in how they’ve lied about coming in for an appointment or other things.”

None of the intruders seem to have gained entry to the ICU. But had they succeeded, they would have only been able to document it was in fact at full capacity, with a brave and dedicated staff under great physical and emotional strain. Had the intruders been less deluded they might have understood that the small number cars in the parking lot is explained by posted restrictions on visitors that are standard at hospitals during the pandemic. COVID-19 is not some minor illness where you might drive yourself to the hospital and leave your car outside for a few hours.

“They’re idiots,” Bryan Grossman (widower of a CONVID-19 patient) told The Daily Beast on Tuesday, adding, “The hospital is filled with COVID people. COVID patients who don’t have cars… I just don’t understand people sometimes.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/covid-truthers-try-to-invade-utah-valley-hospital-where-patrice-grossman-died

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Delusional COVID Truthers Try to Invade Hospital (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Nov 2020 OP
I Really Thing One Of These Mobs Needs "A Whiff Of Grapeshot" To Serve As An Example nt smb Nov 2020 #1
Or buckshot. louis-t Nov 2020 #2
Trying to invade the ICU packed with covid patients Midnightwalk Nov 2020 #3
Maybe they should let them in. Mike 03 Nov 2020 #4
I was thinking the same thing. Problem is, I wouldn't want to waste any PPE's on them Vivienne235729 Nov 2020 #15
Any mental health professionals here? Is being brainwashed by conspiracy theories NoRoadUntravelled Nov 2020 #5
They are zombies at this point... 2naSalit Nov 2020 #11
My thoughts as well. NoRoadUntravelled Nov 2020 #14
let 'em in, have them take nice deep breaths to steady their video cameras elias7 Nov 2020 #6
Providing them with video access would invade patient privacy. Beakybird Nov 2020 #7
Maybe they could have a Covid denialist wing, Crunchy Frog Nov 2020 #16
And what happens when they do get in and start trying to pull the Covid "actors" out of their beds? hadEnuf Nov 2020 #8
Hear, hear! MrsCheaplaugh Nov 2020 #13
The stupid burns The Genealogist Nov 2020 #9
Scores of countries shutting down their own economies just to trick some yokels in the Dakotas. Crunchy Frog Nov 2020 #17
Additionally, myccrider Nov 2020 #22
It's Utah County in Utah... Enterstageleft Nov 2020 #10
In otherwise normal, meaning non-pandemic times, PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2020 #12
Go ahead morons, breathe the air. Get a good, strong inhale going. Initech Nov 2020 #18
Disinformation feeds the death cult. Hermit-The-Prog Nov 2020 #19
Let them enter and breathe in the truth. TeamPooka Nov 2020 #20
Let the evil bastards in, all the way in, let 'em get a good shot & tell them to inhale deeply... Hekate Nov 2020 #21

Midnightwalk

(3,131 posts)
3. Trying to invade the ICU packed with covid patients
Wed Nov 18, 2020, 08:13 PM
Nov 2020

and not wearing masks. The would have gotten covid and spread it further in the community.

Criminal stupidity.

NoRoadUntravelled

(2,626 posts)
5. Any mental health professionals here? Is being brainwashed by conspiracy theories
Wed Nov 18, 2020, 08:15 PM
Nov 2020

a mental health diagnosis? These people are so far from reality that it's dangerous.
Would someone in a position of power who deliberately pushes these theories while knowing better be diagnosed as a sociopath?

elias7

(3,997 posts)
6. let 'em in, have them take nice deep breaths to steady their video cameras
Wed Nov 18, 2020, 08:20 PM
Nov 2020

These people need a big dose of reality, a giant can of whoop-ass, or both

Crunchy Frog

(26,579 posts)
16. Maybe they could have a Covid denialist wing,
Wed Nov 18, 2020, 10:48 PM
Nov 2020

Where they would sign a consent to allow video streaming.

hadEnuf

(2,188 posts)
8. And what happens when they do get in and start trying to pull the Covid "actors" out of their beds?
Wed Nov 18, 2020, 08:22 PM
Nov 2020

There is no bottom for this type of scum. These subhuman assholes are fascist terrorists and should be treated as such. Enough of this "what's wrong with some people?" attitude about these evil bastards. They deserve no hint of credibility and should be dealt with using a zero tolerance method.

The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)
9. The stupid burns
Wed Nov 18, 2020, 08:34 PM
Nov 2020

I keep hearing them cite few cars being in the lot as one proof that this is a hoax. FUCKING SHIT, you idiots! They keep visitors to a minimum. Many hospitals are sending anyone they can to work from home, to keep staff exposure down. Stupid, stupid brainwashed idiots. This is to say nothing of the MASSIVE level of coordination it would take to pull off a hoax of this size. Thousands of doctors, Thousands of Nurse Practioners, Physician's Assistants, RNs, CNAs. Billing and coding staffs. Health care executives. Hospice providers. Insurance company workers. Hundreds of thousands of people pretending to be sick. MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WOULD HAVE TO BE IN ON THIS! Literally, the utter STUPIDITY of this hoax crap is breathtaking. Fucking breathtaking.

myccrider

(484 posts)
22. Additionally,
Thu Nov 19, 2020, 04:31 PM
Nov 2020

when the f%$k is a hospital parking lot empty?!?!

We have a major hospital less than a mile from our house. We’ve lived here for 30+ years. We’ve both been in that hospital for minor and major issues or to visit patients. Those lots were only semi-empty from the middle of the night to the early morning during normal times. The rest of the time there were only a few open spots or you ended up driving up and down aisles until someone left.

An empty parking lot means something unusual is going on...like a flipping pandemic, maybe????

I’m so done with these idiots. Don’t let them in, nothing will convince them. There was that South Dakota ER nurse a couple of days ago who said some of them don’t believe when they’re dying of Covid!!!!

Enterstageleft

(3,395 posts)
10. It's Utah County in Utah...
Wed Nov 18, 2020, 08:36 PM
Nov 2020

The reddest county in Utah, & that's saying a lot.

The amazing thing is that most of them are highly educated, and doing well financially. I blame the mormon church (small m intentionally) for making it a one decision race. Vote against women's rights & the ability to control her own body.

I am so fucking glad I'm gone from Utah, just for the stupidity, not the scenery.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,848 posts)
12. In otherwise normal, meaning non-pandemic times,
Wed Nov 18, 2020, 09:50 PM
Nov 2020

hospitals would NOT allow a wholesale invasion of the ICU. It is beyond obvious that NONE of those idiots has any connection to the health care world.

Hekate

(90,645 posts)
21. Let the evil bastards in, all the way in, let 'em get a good shot & tell them to inhale deeply...
Thu Nov 19, 2020, 03:22 AM
Nov 2020

Inhale deeply the smells of the sickroom, get a good video of people gasping their lives out, choking to death.

At a certain point, you just want to give up on certain segments of humanity.

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