A Wisconsin pharmacist left out hundreds of doses of COVID-19 vaccines as the pandemic wreaks havoc on the country because of … an unproven conspiracy theory that the shots would mutate people’s DNA, according to court documents released on Monday.
Why am I not surprised?
I hope he’s prosecuted, convicted, and incarcerated, the fool.
Bless his stupid little heart…it just goes to show that education doesn’t mean common sense or sanity or …
“Officials said the doses could’ve vaccinated more than 500 people.”
500 life sentences works for me.
(Although the knock-on deaths from those 500 potential cases could easily be much higher.)
And then there’s Terri Nunn, who turns out to be both a moron and a disingenuous moral slob …
Uh huh.
As with most Q-lovin’ Trumpers of his ilk, he was a majorly fucked-up dude in all areas of his miserable life.
Last month Mr. Brandenburg told his wife, who is in the process of divorcing him, that “the world is crashing down around us,” according to a motion she filed last week asking for sole custody of the couple’s two daughters, 4 and 6, after she learned he was under investigation in the incident at the hospital. She said she feared his reaction if he lost his job.
In her motion, Gretchen Brandenburg said that on Dec. 6, her husband picked up the children and dropped off a water purifier, a large bucket of powdered milk and two 30-day emergency buckets of food.
“He told me that if I didn’t understand by now that he is right and that the world is crashing down around us, I am in serious denial,” she said in an affidavit. “He continued to say that the government is planning cyberattacks and plans to shut down the power grid.”
I, too, am among the all people who find this unsurprising.
The guy has issues, unfortunately. Pharmacists are overall very smart and well educated in the sciences. Getting into pharmacy school isn’t easy.
Can’t we find a way to put these conspiracy theories back on John Birch Society mimeographs and limit their first hand distribution to that organization’s mailing list?
In a probable cause statement, a detective wrote that Brandenburg admitted to being a conspiracy theorist and that he purposefully tried to ruin the vaccine based off of an unsubstantiated belief that it would change people’s DNA, according to the AP.
I would have expected a pharmacist to have a better grasp of, you know, how pharmaceuticals work.
Maybe Wisconsin needs to review its licensing standards?
So he missed the part where it is Trump’s good and faithful friend Putin that is planning all this reign of terror upon the US.
Welp, here goes my New Year’s resolution against quibbling…
he purposefully tried to ruin the vaccine based off of an unsubstantiated belief
@summer_concepcion, one cannot “base off.” A basis is the underlying support or foundation of an idea, argument, process, or theory. Hence, one can only base on a foundation, not off it.
An editor! My kingdom for an editor!
This reminds me of “pharmacists” who refused to prescribe birth control pills or “the morning after pill” due to “religious reasons.”
Getting into Ivy League Law schools is even harder, and we have Kobach, Cruz, Pompeo & Hawley
Quibble, damn it! Clarity matters!
Did he go to a pharmacy school that teaches blood-letting and mercury pills? I fail to understand how a pharmacist can believe something so utterly at odds with science.
No, this would be more like filling the prescription but using sugar pills instead of the real thing.
This is true - but once they get their degree, they are as free to be batshit crazy as any American. I have known a lot of pharmacists in my time, and more than one has been caught jigging up the dose count. Occupational hazard.
In WI, the default in divorces is joint custody of children UNLESS it’s shown that one parent is a danger to the children.
Hopefully, this incident will constitute such evidence and she’ll be able to keep them away from him.
