[Melian]

Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst seemed to embrace on Monday a thoroughly-discredited QAnon conspiracy theory about U.S. deaths from COVID-19 being a mere fraction of what has been reported. As Amie Rivers of the Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier reported, Ernst said she was “so skeptical” of the official death count when asked by an attendee if the government was over-reporting coronavirus deaths.

“They’re thinking there may be 10,000 or less deaths that were actually singularly COVID-19,” Ernst said, seemingly referring to the debunked conspiracy theory that only around 6% of COVID-19 deaths were due to the virus. “I’m just really curious. It would be interesting to know that.”

Going even further, however, Ernst also suggested that doctors were intentionally falsifying coronavirus cases in order to receive more money for caring for the patient.

https://iowastartingline.com/2020/09/01/ernst-suggests-iowa-doctors-falsifying-covid-cases-for-money2/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork

[Melian]

Enjoyable vid “Can Joe Come Out and Play?”

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1300992988718432256?s=21

[TXBubba]

https://iowastartingline.com/2020/09/01/ernst-suggests-iowa-doctors-falsifying-covid-cases-for-money2/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork

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I saw one good reply. That article needs more educated replies.

[little jeremiah]

owa Sen. Joni Ernst seemed to embrace on Monday a thoroughly-discredited QAnon conspiracy theory about U.S. deaths from COVID-19 being a mere fraction of what has been reported.

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The “media” has hit a new level. So the CDC is now in league with Qanon. They don’t say that of course but the numbers are FROM the CDC.

I don’t know how much more I can stand.