Hospital Locks Down ICU Over 'Online Attacks' for COVID Treatment

[L. Coyote]

Source: newsweek

The wrath of a local religious leader forced an Oklahoma City, Oklahoma hospital to lock down its intensive care unit (ICU) and bolster security measures after the hospital refused to offer an unproven COVID-19 treatment to one of the leader's followers.

The Reverend Daniel Navejas, founder of The Ekklesia of Oklahoma evangelical group, led a protest outside of Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City demanding that doctors offer his "beloved brother," 70-year-old Robert Barth, a higher dose of a steroid known as budesonide, which was a request originally made by Barth's wife, The Oklahoman reported.

After the demand went unmet, the pressure for Barth's doctor to administer the drug mounted on social media after Navejas made a post describing one of Barth's doctors as a "murderer." This led one user to post the doctor's address and another to suggest they run him out of town.

"[The doctor,] his wife, and his small children are in fear for their lives," hospital attorneys wrote ......

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/hospital-locks-down-icu-over-online-attacks-covid-treatment-1679986

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[ck4829]

1. If Muslims did this, it would be called "terrorism", but for Evangelicals it's "FREEDOM"

[Warpy]

6. Medical care prescribed by Facebook

instead of evidence based medicine.

It's time to transfer these folks who clamor for unproven drugs and won't listen to reason to a palliative care unit. Give them their poison of choice and keep them as comfortable as possible while it kills them.

It's also time to start regulating Facebook and other promoters of quack medicine. Irresponsible libertarians are killing people.

[keithbvadu2]

16. Treat them as they want.

[wnylib]

31. Absolutely. Let them establish their own

alternative care facilities. They could turn their own church social halls into care units. There are quack doctors and nurses who promote Ivermectin and oppose vaccines and masks. Let them treat their followers in their own facilities and free up hospitals for people who believe in medicine.

[Lonestarblue]

41. I agree. If patients insist on using harmful medications, they should be sent elsewhere.

Hospital beds are still scarce in some areas. Let people who want to be treated have those beds. Right-wing media and the internet are turning too many people into raving lunatics.

[Chainfire]

2. It is terrorism, it should be treated as such.

Nobody has the guts to push back against the rightwingnuts. It will get a lot worse before it gets better.

[Jilly_in_VA]

4. THIS

Right here. Especially in Okiehoma. Geez.

[LoisB]

13. Yes. They are a minority with the loudest voices.

[riversedge]

38. True. This is domestic terrorism and should be treated as such

[paleotn]

3. Who would Jebus threaten?

[Guilded Lilly]

5. Patriarchal "Christian" terrorism at its finest. Suuuure, they have Jesus in their hearts.

[chowder66]

7. I guess their prayers don't work. nt

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

9. Which is why they need to SHUT THE HELL UP and

let the hospital do their job trying to save this antivaxxer's life.

Add to post: I know Barth ended up passing away.

[chowder66]

10. +1

[dixiechiken1]

8. "Beloved brother" Bob Barth died on Feb 11th...

And Mercy Hospital filed a restraining order against these Ekklesia of Oklahoma idiots. These people are fucking nuts.

https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/post/robert-barth-70-edmond-ok-retired-anti-vaxxer-dead-from-covid

[riversedge]

39. NOt only nots but dangerous!

[packman]

11. Fom The Lancet regarding Budesonide---

Early administration of inhaled budesonide reduced the likelihood of needing urgent medical care and reduced time to recovery after early COVID-19.

https://www.thelancet.com/article/S2213-2600(21)00160-0/fulltext

[SergeStorms]

32. Sounds like Brother Robert....

was already in late stage COVID by the time they took him to the hospital. I imagine they tried to pray it away for quite some time before they took the last ride to the hospital.

God gave him an immune system, right?

Budesonide would have been a waste of time anyway. You can't administer it when you're intubated.

[LoisB]

12. Boy, these christians sure aren't very Christ-like. I guess they no longer hold to that WWJD

b.s. they had all over the place a few years back.

[keithbvadu2]

14. Why didn't you love him/her enough to take him to a doctor you would trust to treat him as you wante

Why didn't you love him/her enough to take him to a doctor you would trust to treat him as you wanted?

[AllyCat]

29. Right?

[Turbineguy]

15. Why do these health experts

go to a hospital?

They should know by now they will get the wrong treatment.

[PatrickforB]

17. Ah, yet another example of evangelical hate, ignorance, stupidity and intolerance.

Too bad we cannot simply shake the dust off our shoes and get rid of this dirtbag.

[BlueIdaho]

18. Maybe his "beloved brother" should be released from the Hospital

Oops! Just read the update. Looks like “Beloved Brother” has now been released from all his earthly woes. Tots and Pears…

[L. Coyote]

20. He died.

[BlueIdaho]

21. Thanks - just read the update

And corrected my post.

[L. Coyote]

22. They know it all until it is too late.

[BlueIdaho]

23. So true...

Just once I’d like to see one of these sanctimonious Bible bangers accept responsibility for their own words and actions instead of looking for someone else to blame.

[L. Coyote]

25. How ironic for the ones who have a Come to Jesus moment realizing their religion was wrong

and that they need a hospital instead.

[Initech]

19. God these people are truly awful on every level!

[dchill]

24. "My medical knowledge is equalled only by my...

... knowledge of Chris Channity!"

[orangecrush]

26. They should have given it to him

Right up his •••

[Farmer-Rick]

27. Religion

Making our everyday lives miserable yet again.

[paulrevere2018]

28. Put him in a guerney and tell the pastor he can collect

Him in the front of the hospital entrance. There must be a quack somewhere in town that'll give them what they want. Let the hospital get back to doing what they should be.

[SergeStorms]

30. What do these people think a hospital is?

Do they think it's like Burger King, where you can "have it your way"?

Is it like a Chinese Restaurant, where you get one from column A, and one from column B?



Don't take your loved one to a hospital if you want to make every decision about their treatment. Doctors know what to do, you don't, no matter what you read on Facebook, or your church newsletter.

Fucking idiots!

[calimary]

33. Makes me wonder how they'd feel if we started posting THEIR addresses.

[PurgedVoter]

34. Why did they even go to a doctor?

Clearly their lack of faith and clear prayer are the issue here.


So I looked up the Reverend Daniel Navejas

His twitter label, "Husband • Father • Minister • Abolitionist • Founder of The Ekklesia of Oklahoma • Entrepreneur • Chairman of OKGOP CD3" tells it all.

When a person says Entrepreneur and Minister at the same time, it is usually a very clear warning sign that they are all about the money.

The Ekklesia of Oklahoma is even more interesting. It is a business. https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.the_ekklesia_of_oklahoma_inc.97a72b803d5bcacf9f7f4084942b2bf9.html

A religious business and they give this quote on their various web presences; "The Ekklesia by definition and historically, is known as the legislative & judicial branch of the Roman Empire."

This declaration makes it sure sound like they are Christian Taliban.

The more I look the more dangerous they appear to be. This man is looking for a fight, calls it oppression when he breaking the law and twists things around in a way that anyone but a tRump follower would see through in an instant.

[Marcuse]

35. The Reverend Daniel Navejas thinks he's Lord Vader.

[rockfordfile]

36. Arrest them. they attacked a hospital

[SunSeeker]

37. Right? Why are these terrorists being treated with kid gloves?

[riversedge]

40. ..The FDA has not approved the drug, nor has it been recommended by its panel as a treatment for COV

Sad case for everyone.



.................The FDA has not approved the drug, nor has it been recommended by its panel as a treatment for COVID-19, although it is currently under clinical trials. Nonetheless, its use as a treatment for the disease has gained traction after a West Texas doctor hailed it as a "silver bullet," claiming, at the time a report was conducted by News West 9, that he had seen a 100 percent success rate treating his patients with the drug.................