SF News Stanford Upholds Its Conservative Bona Fides, Hosts Symposium For COVID Skeptics and Anti-Maskers "What's happening at Stanford?" writes one medical school dean on social media, regarding the Pandemic Policy symposium at Stanford University today, featuring a number of Fauci-hating anti-maskers who took constroversial stances on public health policies during the pandemic.
Business & Tech Meta Is Abandoning Their COVID-19 Misinformation Policy on Facebook and Instagram Great news for your crazy uncle: Facebook and Instagram will no longer remove posts with COVID misinformation in countries that no longer have a COVID-19 public health emergency declaration, which is basically most of the world.
SF News Pandemic Rule-Flouting Church In San Jose Loses Latest Court Battle, Ordered to Pay $1.2M In Fines Calvary Chapel in San Jose continues to spend a lot of time and energy fighting Santa Clara County in court over pandemic-era public health rules that it openly defied. And a Superior Court judge has just ordered the evangelical church to pay $1.2 million in fines to the county.
SF News COVID-Restriction-Flouting San Jose Church Wins Appeal for Flouting COVID Restrictions San Jose’s Calvary Chapel gained notoriety for defying COVID-19 restrictions throughout the pandemic, and the California Supreme Court just shot down $217,500 in fines the church had racked up.
SF News Napa Natural Medicine Quack Who Sold Fake COVID-Fighting Pellets and Vaccination Cards Gets Three Years Juli Mazi, the non-MD naturopath who misled patients during the pandemic into believing that vaccines are "toxic" and she'd made her own natural pellet versions, has been sentenced to three years.
SF News San Jose Church That Defied Pandemic Public Health Orders Wins Appeal Based on Supreme Court's Rightward Shift The evangelical Calvary Chapel in San Jose was ordered to pay over $200K in contempt-of-court fines over its defiance of county public health orders in 2020, but a state appeals court has just overturned that and ruled in favor of the church, because of Amy Coney Barrett.
SF News Napa Quack Set to Be Sentenced In Case Involving Phony COVID Pills and Vax Cards, But First She Tried to Vacate Her Plea Napa-based naturopathic doctor Juli A. Mazi, the loon who was nabbed by the feds last year for prescribing bogus COVID-19 immunization pills and handing out fraudulent vaccination cards, just tried to vacate her plea agreement after firing her lawyers. But the judge wasn't having it.
SF Politics Watch: Trumper Trucker ‘Convoy’ Gets Pelted With Eggs in East Bay, Tries But Fails to Find Pelosi’s House A weekend appearance in the Bay Area by the trucker “People’s Convoy” was greeted by a pelting of eggs in Rockridge, they unsuccessfully tried to find Pelosi’s house in SF, and ultimately dragged their tails back to Sacramento.
SF News Naturopathic Quack In Napa Takes Plea In Federal Case Involving Fake Vaccine Cards and Fake Vaccine 'Pellets' A Napa-based naturopathic doctor took matters a little too far in her homeopathic advice to patients about COVID-19, both discouraging them from getting "toxic" vaccines and duping them into taking pellets she claimed would provide lifelong immunity from the virus.
SF News Berkeley Yoga Instructor Fired For Helping Boyfriend Run Anti-Semitic Website The same group that spread “the COVID agenda is Jewish” flyers across the Bay Area is linked to a popular Berkeley yoga instructor, and her Jewish boss had to fire her amidst a growing public relations mess.
SF News DoorDash Driver Pleads Guilty to Strangling, Threatening to Kill Someone Who Told Him the Mask Goes Over Your Nose A South San Francisco DoorDash delivery went south when a liquor store clerk reminded a DoorDash driver that the mask goes over your nose, which resulted in a death threat and attempted strangulation.
SF News Marin County Parents Who Sent COVID-Positive Kid to School Could Face Criminal Charges Public health officials in Marin County are talking with prosecutors about the possibility of criminal charges for a couple who ignored a positive COVID test and sent their two children to school to spread the virus around.
SF Politics Anti-Vaxxers Bring Chaos to Healdsburg, Rallying Around Unvaccinated City Council Member A Healdsburg city council meeting turned into a mini-January 6 insurrection Monday, as anti-vaccine zealots stormed city hall and forced a council meeting onto Zoom.
SF News Anti-Vaxx Protest on Golden Gate Bridge Snarls Traffic, Leads to Five Injuries Two California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers and three Golden Gate Bridge workers were injured by a vehicle during a chaotic protest scene Thursday evening relating to vaccine mandates in the workplace.
SF News Horse Deworming Drug Ivermectin Flying Off Shelves at Bay Area Tack and Feed Stores Joe Rogan’s wholly unqualified endorsement will likely only increase demand for the roundworm medication for horses that has become the Covidiots’ latest perceived miracle drug.
SF News Hugely Popular Anti-Vaxx Misinformation Website Is Just Some Lady in Piedmont Vaccine misinformation hotbed OpenVAERS is one of the leading sources of bad info about COVID vaccines on the internet, and an investigation finds that it’s run by some woman in the Oakland-surrounded suburb of Piedmont with too much time on her hands.
SF News Mendocino Anti-Mask Cafe Booted by New Landlords, Who Cite ‘Threatening’ Messages The cafe that gained wingnut fame for a $5 fee for orders placed while wearing a mask won’t be charging that fee anymore, as a new landlord refuses to renew the cafe's lease unless the owner stops proselytizing.
SF News [Update] Uber Assault Suspect Arrested in Las Vegas The woman who yelled at, insulted, coughed on, and assaulted an Uber driver on Sunday because he told her to put on a mask, as seen in widely publicized video of the incident, has been arrested in Las Vegas.
SF News [Update] Awful Woman Coughs on SF Uber Driver, Tries to Steal His Phone After Being Told to Wear a Mask An Uber driver picked up a classy trio of young women during the brunch hours of Sunday in San Francisco, only to have one of them swear at him and cough on him after being told she needed to wear a mask.
SF News New CDC Studies Say Group Fitness Classes, Heavy Breathing at Indoor Gyms Led to COVID Outbreaks Two new case studies by the CDC have found that indoor group fitness classes in Honolulu and Chicago led directly to COVID outbreaks that infected dozens of people.
SF News COVID Outbreak Hits North Beach Catholic Church That Hosted Illegal Wedding A San Francisco church that violated state and local public health orders to host an indoor wedding ceremony with about 100 people last July — only to be caught in the act by city officials — is now the center of a COVID outbreak in its rectory.
SF News UC Berkeley Sees COVID-19 Surge, as Frat House Parties Are Becoming A Problem More than 7% of all positive UC Berkeley student body cases in the last six months came in just this past weekend, and school officials are scolding kids for letting their guards down.
SF News SF Archbishop Flouts COVID-19 Restrictions Again, Hosts Hundreds for Indoor Mass The nutty archbishop rises again in opposition to COVID-19 precautions, this time holding mass indoors for hundreds of congregants, and saying some combination of Proud Boys and Antifa forced him to do so.
SF News Stubborn Scofflaw Yoga Studio Owner In Pacifica Makes Apparent Threats Against County Supervisor's Family As the Trumpists continue their wails of false fury about an election that they lost, a local battle that epitomizes the idiocy of politicizing the pandemic and denying basic science rages on just south of San Francisco.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chevy's Restaurants In Santa Rosa, Fairfield, and Vallejo All Apparently Defying State Orders A district manager the Chevy's Fresh Mex chain, who's based in Seattle and apparently responsible for the whole West Coast, is being blamed for keeping California Chevy's locations open for dining despite public health orders keeping all other restaurants closed.
