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Eugene

(61,807 posts)
Fri Feb 25, 2022, 07:35 PM Feb 2022

This hospital tried to save a man with covid. Then the threats started.

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Valley Regional Hospital targeted over man's COVID treatment
Valley Regional Hospital (NH) targeted over man's COVID treatment - right wing terrorism

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Source: Washington Post

This hospital tried to save a man with covid. Then the threats started.

By Joanna Slater
Today at 5:00 a.m. EST

CLAREMONT, N.H. — It was still dark when Jocelyn Caple pulled into the parking lot of Valley Regional Hospital one morning in early December.

Nearly two years into the pandemic, covid hospitalizations in New Hampshire were at a record high. The small community hospital Caple leads was full, its employees exhausted.

As soon as Caple arrived inside, a colleague told her that something strange was happening. Calls were flooding into the switchboard, and senior staff members were receiving a flurry of voice messages and emails to their work accounts.

The callers were impassioned and vehement, demanding that the hospital begin treating a covid patient in its care with ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug. As the day went on, the volume of calls grew so large that the hospital shut down its main number.

That morning was only the beginning. The calls and emails — mobilized by a group calling itself the Truth Seekers 88 — ...

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/02/25/new-hampshire-hospital-threats-qanon/

Non-paywalled link: https://wapo.st/3M7kdQW

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This hospital tried to save a man with covid. Then the threats started. (Original Post) Eugene Feb 2022 OP
Why didn't you love him/her enough to take him to a doctor you would trust to treat him as you wante keithbvadu2 Feb 2022 #1
Truth Seekers 88 rsdsharp Feb 2022 #2
That was my first thought when I saw the 88. TreasonousBastard Feb 2022 #3
I was going to point that out but you beat me to it. canuckledragger Feb 2022 #4
88. Aristus Feb 2022 #5

keithbvadu2

(36,655 posts)
1. Why didn't you love him/her enough to take him to a doctor you would trust to treat him as you wante
Fri Feb 25, 2022, 07:48 PM
Feb 2022

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

canuckledragger

(1,636 posts)
4. I was going to point that out but you beat me to it.
Sat Feb 26, 2022, 12:46 AM
Feb 2022

That whole 88 thing reeks of scumbag nazi wannabes. A lot of them use variations of it for naming their hate groups.

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