Cardinal Who Expressed Skepticism About Vaccines Has COVID-19, Is On Ventilator

[packman]

Source: Huffington Post




A conservative former archbishop of St. Louis who has spread unfounded theories about COVID-19 vaccines has been hospitalized with the disease and placed on a ventilator, according to his official Twitter account.

Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, 73, recently tested positive for the coronavirus, the account tweeted last week. On Saturday, another post said he had been admitted to hospital.
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Burke has also referenced conspiracy theories about vaccines: one about microchips and another that claimed the vaccines were created using aborted fetal cells.

He has repeated false claims suggesting vaccines may inject microchips that allow recipients to “be controlled by the State regarding health and about other matters which we can only imagine” and also said that “it is never morally justified to develop a vaccine through the use of the cell lines of aborted fetuses.”

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/raymond-burke-covid-ventilator_n_6119cf30e4b0a2603b7f24bd

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God does have a sense of humor - I guess the Cardinal's faith wasn't strong enough to ward off the virus

[niyad]

1. May he receive everything he deserves.

[FoxNewsSucks]

2. I'm sorry for all the gullible people

that listened to him and then got sick and died.

He, on the other hand, will hopefully soon be chatting with Satan in person.

[IronLionZion]

3. Those microchips must be super tiny to fit in a needle

that's why we have a global chip shortage. The state is controlling us to keep us from being hospitalized or killed by severe COVID.

[NurseJackie]

7. I've heard them called "nanobots" that reassemble themselves into working chips.

[IronLionZion]

11. They use nanotechnology and messenger RNA

so that means they send subliminal messages to alter your DNA. This is proved by the data that most people who got the shots have been brainwashed into becoming liberal sheep. You can't trust anything nano.

Conservatives could just take the J&J viral vector vaccine to avoid mRNA but they're too dumb for that.

[aggiesal]

27. I think it's ROFL as well ...

I believe the movie iRobot referred to them as Nanites, which I've heard
AntiVa use as well.

[Owl]

8. I wonder how long the battery lasts for those things.

[Tommymac]

30. No worries - they are powered by hydroxychloroquine

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. Karma works

[Bleacher Creature]

5. Karma's going to need a nice long vacation after the pandemic is over.

I'm guessing that this is just the beginning of idiots getting sick.

That said, the worst of the right wingers sowing misinformation about the vaccines are clearly vaccinated themselves.

[RKP5637]

6. Really, WTF is wrong with people like this and especially those that listen to jerks. n/t

[packman]

10. What is disheartening, discouraging and all those other "dis's"

Is this is a FUCKIN' CARDINAL- one step away from being a possible Pope at one time. I can see the brain dead Bible-thumpers and money grabbing preachers on TV, but this guy had to have some smarts.

I suppose idiocy knows no bounds.

[Dustlawyer]

15. I would wonder how he ever became a Cardinal, but then again, we elected Trump.

[rpannier]

41. John Paul II

Burke was sufficiently orthodox in his beliefs

[RKP5637]

16. Yep, often education does not cure stupid!!! n/t

[wnylib]

36. On the positive side, he is now removed

from the general public and can do no further harm to them, especially to children.

[HUAJIAO]

9. Shit for brains, heartless pig....

[BlueIdaho]

12. I have no shits to give.

Sorry pal, you are on your own.

[Major Nikon]

13. ...

[Mr. Evil]

14. This fucking child molesting scum should've been eviscerated

and expelled from this country years ago. All of them. The entire Catholic church and their kiddie raping cult. Gone! Because if anyone really cared about our children that's what would've happened. Why haven't they? Big money.

Why haven't Epstein's pals, TFG included, been arrested, convicted and imprisoned? Big money.

Why hasn't Murdoch and his Nazi cabal been banished? Big money.

Anyone notice a pattern?

As for Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, turn his ventilator up all the way and blow up what's left of his lungs. Fuck him!

[RKP5637]

17. Exactly!!! The Catholic church is a major multinational corporation for profit. Big Money!!! n/t

[Mr. Evil]

23. I also add this:

Why does Exxon/Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell, Chevron, et al, continue to be allowed to turn this planet into an unlivable, dystopian hellscape? Big money.

[RKP5637]

26. Yep!!! The planet will die in Big Money, the end of life on earth. n/t

[SWBTATTReg]

18. God does have a sense of humor -

Maybe God is sending this Cardinal a message.

What gets me is that in some manner, aborted fetus cell cultures created decades ago were used in some obscure manner to help develop the vaccines for COVID-19? I'm not really 100% sure if this is a true statement either, is everything 100% based upon some long ago cell cultures from an aborted fetus, since then?, I somehow doubt this. But they seem to apply this to every single vaccine (this logic).

I thought that current vaccines for COVID-19 were developed as a result of studying the structure of the COVID-19 virus, and identifying the particular protein spike(s) of these COVID-19 viruses so effective counter measures could be developed to block these protein spikes (a poor way of saying this, I'm not a medical person or medical techie), but there has been quite a few articles in the DU world on these vaccine developments so I won't go into details here.

It's kind of funny in a way, especially since the church had to dictate that its priests etc. get vaccinated, as well as take other measures, since they have lost so many priests to the COVID-19 epidemic (over 60 in Italy alone, probably way more now, and definitely more world-wide), when COVID-19 started rearing its ugly head.

[Raster]

19. Play stupid games. Win stupid prizes.

[Lemon Lyman]

20. Huh

Why not just pray to get better?

[Mawspam2]

21. There is no God*, ergo no "sense of humor" ...

...and viruses don't play.

*in the monotheist Biblical/Quran/Talmud way. There is Karma in a 'what goes around, comes around' way.

[pandr32]

22. A belief in God is already a conspiracy theory

[LeftInTX]

24. I read that his anti-viral stance was actually against the church....

If he survives, I wonder if he can be recalled?

[Warpy]

25. His age, sex and girth are against his survival.

I just wonder if he realized he was a damned fool before the drugs went in so he could be intubated.

[Bengus81]

28. Yep....it's those Bill Gates microchips again dammit!!!

Die you fucking KOOK. Don't want to read about you begging for a vaccine. How many others have died buying into his BS theory about the vaccine?

[Comfortably_Numb]

29. Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman.... "God doth have a sense of humor."

[Orrex]

31. Good. Fuck him.

[SarcasticSatyr]

32. I feel bad for karma, it never gets a day off ...

...

[twodogsbarking]

33. He should have someone drive him around in a car

so he can wave to everyone.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

34. Say Hi to Rush and Rummy...

When you get down there, Cardinal Fuckstick.

[C Moon]

35. Cardinal?--he's more like a cuckoo.

He probably also believed trump would be reinstated
...yesterday.

[Crowman2009]

37. Isn't the first time any high-ranking official in the Catholic church has made unfounded theories.

Take family planning for example.

[rpannier]

40. This individual is a special whack-job

He is friends with Steve Bannon
Wants Mass to be pre-Vatican II
I think he also opposes the humanitarian assistance to fleeing immigrants and believes in the white replacement theory

[LiberalFighter]

38. Is he getting special treatment ahead of others because of his position?

[rpannier]

39. Saw that and laughed

The only question I want answered is, "Is he dead yet?"

[Shellback Squid]

45. really?...........

I thought the same thing

[Gore1FL]

42. Burke has always been an asshole

The fact that he managed to hurt himself with his behavior this time at least feels like justice.

I don't wish ill on anyone, but if people are intent on creating ill, I would rather they be the receptors of it rather than an innocent.

[Demnation]

43. God in his wisdom...

[Shellback Squid]

44. and he does not believe Darwin