— October 6, 2026

Sen. Ron Johnson apparently feels that he has milked his conspiracy theory about the COVID vaccine as far as he could and has moved on to decrying the medical response to the COVID pandemic. You know, things like universal precautions, distancing, and trying to keep people alive.

Again, we got 583 testimonies from 46 states. This wasn't one or two hospitals. This was nationwide.

What was common about this is how many, you know, if the doctors and nurses found out you're unvaccinated, I mean, you were the unwashed. And the cruel statements, again: your dad's unvaccinated. What is, he's gonna die. You're gonna watch him die.

That was not a one-off. That was common in the 583 testimonies we received. I mean, the separation of loved ones, never being able to even be there and hold their hand as they died. You know, a hospital allowing a priest to administer last rites if they agreed to give their loved one remdesivir. I mean, I mean, it's just, it's, it's sick.

So what I said, it's, I, I did not, I have not, because we keep getting testimonies. I've not read all 583. I've read a lot. They're on our website. You can go, you can read them. It's really hard to read those, but It was far more difficult for, you know, the, the people that testified yesterday, those family members have to relive that experience and testifying. So God bless all of them for their courage and for being able to tell their stories, because those stories have to be heard.

I'm sure it was very traumatic for a lot of people to learn that their loved one had a serious illness that had a high chance of death. It's probably all the harder if those people made the mistake of getting their medical advice from people like Trump or RoJo, who were telling people to drink bleach or eat livestock dewormer.

But you know who else it was hard on? It was hard on the doctors and the nurses and the other hospital staff members who were working long hours every day and still unable to keep up with the huge volume of people coming in already close to death. It was hard on these medical professionals and caretakers to see patients pass away in such large numbers that hospitals were forced to get refrigerator trucks to use as backup morgues.

I personally know nurses who went through those traumatic times while people like RoJo were pissing and moaning about having to wear a facemask or not making it to all the fundraisers you had scheduled. I remember those nurses checking themselves every few days to make sure they were OK, even while RoJo was exposing countless people to the virus he was spreading like the selfish ass that he is.

I think that RoJo, who is feeling bad for the 583 people who testified that the mean old doctors and nurses were trying to keep people alive, should now listen to the millions of people who had loved ones who died because they listened to his nonsense. I personally know of at least two families who were wiped out by COVID. Entire families. I'm willing to sit down with RoJo and share their stories, but something tells me that RoJo wouldn't want to hear that. It wouldn't fit his template of faux outrage.

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