Wayne Allyn Root COVID Misinformation Watch, Civil War Edition

Wayne Allyn Root is ramping up the fearmongering to go along with his COVID misinformation. In his Jan. 17 WorldNetDaily column, he melted down over Washington, D.C.’s mandate regarding vaccinated people:

Thursday wasn’t a good day for President Joe Biden. First, the Supreme Court shouted “LET’S GO BRANDON” by killing his prized private-employer vaccine mandate. Then Democrat Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema destroyed his dreams of banning voter ID to ensure one-party rule in America.

After hearing all that bad news, I’m guessing Biden put a lid on it and headed for the White House basement where his wife prepared baby food, fed him milk from a bottle and then tucked him in with his favorite blankie.

But we can’t afford to rest because of two short-lived victories. We have much work to do to save America from a communist/fascist takeover.

Washington, D.C., is Exhibit A. Did you hear the latest plot twist in Washington? Two steps forward, one step back.

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser just announced people cannot leave their home or hotel without proof of vaccination, or “papers,” 24/7. You can’t enter any restaurant, bar, retail store, department store or gym, or even walk the streets, without government-issued photo ID, plus proof of vaccination.

This is happening in America.

People “like me” are banned from Washington, D.C. I’m not certain: Is it because I’m Jewish, Republican or unvaccinated? Maybe all three?

Nobody cares that you’re a right-wing Jew, Wayne. They do care, however, that you’re overly proud to be a COVID superspreader. Nevertheless, he continued to go Godwin:

Today’s unvaccinated American is being called the same words Jews were called in Nazi Germany: dirty, filthy, dangerous, diseased, criminal, disloyal, selfish, someone who should be banned from society, no longer allowed to eat at restaurants or have a drink among normal people. 

What’s next? Yellow stars? Well, that’s already happening. In many schools in America, children are being separated by vaccination status.

Why? Because COVID transmissibility was highly elevated and vaccines work. Root just doesn’t want to admit those inconvenient facts.

Root went off on a really weird tangent in his Jan. 24 column, insisting that Democratic support for vaccine mandatesmakes them just like pro-slavery confederates:

Understand I’m not talking about today’s American South. I love the South. If it weren’t for the patriots and conservatives of Southern states today, we wouldn’t have a Republican Party. We wouldn’t have lower taxes, prosperity, plentiful jobs, economic freedom or capitalism. We wouldn’t be America. God bless the Southern states. You are my heroes.

But the Confederate South of the Civil War period is a different story. The Confederate South was built upon slavery. The Confederate South believed one group of Americans was subhuman and had no rights. Enslaving any group, for any reason, is pure evil. Slavery is the biggest stain on America’s history.

I repeat, today’s Democrats are the new Confederates.

It’s happening again today. It’s time to admit demonizing one group of Americans, taking their rights away and enslaving them is evil. It’s un-American. These views don’t belong in American politics. They don’t belong in America.

It’s time to tell the raw truth – no matter how ugly. Democrats hate us: Republicans, conservatives, capitalists and, most intensely, the unvaccinated. Democrats want no dissent. No freedom of speech. They want to destroy our lives. It’s all out in the open now. They want to imprison us, censor us, ban us and take our jobs and businesses away. They even want to take our children away.

In short, they want to make us serfs and slaves. Over a mild flu, or common cold bug, with a 99.9% chance of recovery. The excuse for slavery in the 1800s was cotton. Today it’s COVID-19.

Root tried to top that in his Feb. 7 column by calling for a Canada-esque trucker blockade outside the Super Bowl:

It’s time to use civil disobedience to kill the vaccine mandates. In America we need our courageous “Mother Truckers” to blockade the Super Bowl. It’s time for thousands of 18-wheeler trucks to surround SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.

Just like 57,000 trucks in Canada have blockaded Ottawa, Canada’s capital. They aren’t leaving until Canada is free again. Until they’ve driven a stake through tyranny. Until the vaccine mandate is dead.

That’s how we catch the attention of America’s corrupt media, corrupt politicians and the dumb, clueless NFL that demands both vaccines and masks the entire game (outdoors) for the Super Bowl. I think truckers should blockade the Super Bowl.

And after that, if the morons of the Biden administration and the corrupt, clueless Democrat governors and mayors won’t listen, it’s time for “A Million Man 18-Wheeler Mother-Trucker Convoy” across this nation, to blockade every state capital and, most importantly, Washington, D.C. No one gets in, or out, until this vaccine mandate is dead. No goods get delivered to market until this vaccine mandate is dead.

The truckers of America are uniquely positioned to win this battle – because they can single-handedly shut down this nation. Without truckers, there’s no gas, no goods, no groceries. And if they block the streets of government capitals, there’s no more hot air from politicians. Good riddance.

Of course, Root had some misleading information to attempt to bolster his call for civil disobedience. He hyped that “More Israelis have COVID-19 infections (per capita) than anywhere else on the globe,” though that’s actually more of a function of aggressive testing than actual infection levels. He added:

How about hospitalizations? According to professor Yaakov Jerris, director of Ichilov Hospital’s coronavirus ward: “Right now, most of our severe cases are vaccinated. They had at least three injections. Between 70 and 80 percent of the serious cases are vaccinated. 

Root is repeating a viral anti-vaxx claim. In fact, the name of the professor and hospital are wrong, and the claim about vaccinated patients was taken out of context — he actually said that hospitalized vaccinated patients typically have other comorbidities. Root also wrote:

Life insurance giant Aegon just announced life insurance payouts skyrocketed 258% in the third quarter of 2021 compared to 2020. What changed? Vaccines didn’t exist in 2020.

In fact, higher payouts were being driven by deaths from the Delta variant and deferred medical care during the pandemic, not vaccines.

Root has a track record of dishonest COVID claims, and he lived down to that yet again.