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Rightwing idiot Allen West is unvaccinated, as is his wife, and they both get COVID. Like your typical dumbass Rightwinger, he and his wife ingested Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin - and surprise! They didn't work.

So he and his wife went to the ER (NOTE: Almost all ERs are out of network and insurance companies hardly pay anything towards them these days) and they get the $2,500 monoclonal antibodies.

Now West is tweeting that if you do get COVID, no big whoop, just get the monoclonal treatment.

So dumbass West won't get the $10 jab because it's experimental, but he'll get a $2,500 experimental treatment + ER + hospital stay.

...and Rightwingers wonder why they're so loathed by decent society.

Most people can't get the MAB's even if they HAD the 2500 bucks, for the simple reason that it's a boutique item, not manufactured in massive quantities sufficient to treat the world, or even the USA, or even the entire population of Burundi.

WORLD-O-METER: Burundi

In fact, it's a stretch if they even tried to supply enough MAB's to help a single city IN Burundi!


Why Burundi? I just pulled it at random out of my head.

So

Q: What is the name of that curious and questioning a little swine from Mexico?

A: Porque Pig!

MABS, like vaccination, are actually covered by the US government's pandemic free stuff policy. The hospital might charge you (quite a lot) for the IV infusion, but the MAB itself is paid for by the feds. IF you can find it, and IF you qualify, and IF your disease progression permits it. Most people don't even know about it, so won't do the leg work to find it. Qualification is pretty liberal now: If you are at risk of serious Covid it's enough, which is fairly subjective. Not hard to find a doctor who will agree, but that takes resources most people don't have. Of course, if you are rich or connected, you have people for that.

Timing is essential. Eight days after symptom onset, it does nothing for you. Five days after, it helps a little. You probably won't die but might wish you had. Right after exposure is ideal. Very likely you will be asymptomatic. Prophylactic use works for about 3 months, but I think it's Merck that has a MAB in trials that works for one year. $$$$$!

Grone...

So wait a minute. Aside from Columbus Day today is also indigenous peoples day? When did that come about? En serio! Forgive me father, but I have been sleeping. “Father” gleefully rubs his hands together displaying a demented smile, but that is a topic for that other thread.

Which is already there.

Although it does make sense:

“This land was my land, now it’s not your land, from Eastern Maine… to Hawaiian islands…… From North Dakota to Gregor’s Flo-or-ri-da…. this land was made for “only me.”

Oops. I forgot Alaska. And they are in the same time zone as is Hawaii.

Inexcusable!

Berkeley had it in the 1990s.

Pretty much recent state adoption of Indigenous People's Day came about circa 2017-2019.

I only learned that about a week or so ago.


You know these internet rabbit holes we go down when we look something up? That's how I learned they were n the same time zone...not that I was looking for that information

I see the Governor of Texas has forbidden all vaccine mandates in the state, including government employees, schools, and even private businesses. He's equating it with a constitutional right, though the US Supreme Court long ago said vaccine mandates are constitutional. This doesn't seem very Republican of him, telling businesses what they can and can't do! I wonder how that's going to hold up against federal rules where they conflict. I also imagine the courts will toss his order about businesses.

It would be hilarious if every airline cancelled all flights in the state of Texas, since they have required mask mandates. I don't see how they can land there and obey both Texas and federal rules.

I suspect he's looking for an ass-whupping.