Liar, liar, facemask on fire
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I call bullshit
Young, unvaccinated patients are begging for the COVID-19 shot as they fight for their lives at an Alabama hospital.
But Dr. Brytney Cobia has to deliver a heartbreaking dose of reality, instead.
“One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that I’m sorry, but it’s too late,” Cobia, who works at Grandview Medical Center in Birmingham, wrote in a Facebook post on Sunday.
Cobia said she has been forced to turn down the desperate pleas from coronavirus patients about to be placed on ventilators.
“I’m admitting young healthy people to the hospital with very serious COVID infections,” she wrote.
The doctor’s account has drawn scrutiny by skeptics, who have pointed out online that the number of deaths in the state is far below last spring.
Author Jeffrey A. Tucker described Cobia’s post as “just too perfectly crafted in some way. It tells a story that fits a prevailing narrative in every respect, but leaves out any details about age and health of severe effects. And it ends predicting ‘impending doom’ for maskless kids in school.”
While Alabama has the lowest percentage of fully vaccinated people in the country – just 33.7 percent of the state’s population – the seven-day average of coronavirus deaths stood at eight as of Tuesday, far below the peak of 154 deaths that was reached in late January.
Putting people on ventilators is a desperate, last-gasp (so to speak) measure that has been found to cause far more harm than good in most cases; if a patient is well enough to speak to her at all, whether to discuss the weather, Meghan and Harry’s woes, ask for a bedpan, or a Trump shot, that patient is not a suitable candidate for a ventilator. Better Doctor Fish Tale try snake venom, or aspirin, or bleach.
Over at Twitchy, others are doubtful, too. One person asks if the patient was Jessie Smollett, which is a very good question. I particularly like these three:
(10:00) PSAKING BACK: Okay, I’m just a little disappointed with you readers here. This post on Dr. Cobia’s been up for 90 minutes now, so where are the puns? “Something’s fishy”, “On a scale of one to ten …”, and so on. I gave y’all a start with “fish tale”, but surely there’s more to be had, and I’m not going to let you off the hook. And yes, I’m trying to gillt you.
