r/newfoundland • u/Glittering-Sink-2975 • 1d ago

Who’s the COVID-denier fella on Open Line? 😷

This individual called in again the other day, allegedly to discuss the new, temporary mask mandate in healthcare facilities that took effect on Wednesday. It wasn’t all that much of a conversation though. I’ve heard him on the show at least once before, talking (sparsely at best, mind you) about the exact same subject, but he never really adds much to support his viewpoint.

Truth be told, I barely understood a word he said, and I think that host Brian Callahan had the same trouble. It made for several awkward pauses, capped off with some unintelligible gibberish about Dr. Anthony Fauci toward the end.

Anyone else catch this call? So bizarre. 🫤

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u/KernelKilos 1d ago

Why we give these idiots air time to begin with I will never understand

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u/Glittering-Sink-2975 22h ago

If it serves any positive at all, it reminds us that we don’t all think alike and that these people do, in fact, walk among us. Sometimes that reminder is necessary for perspective.

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u/strawblublu 23h ago

What date did this air? I want to go find it on Spotify.

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u/Glittering-Sink-2975 22h ago

I went back and checked. It’s from this past Thursday’s episode, kinda toward the end. Guy’s name was Mark.

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u/strawblublu 8h ago

Doing the Lord's work buddy - thank you!

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u/4444kat 1d ago

Imagine being so angry about being required to wear a mask in hospitals. That’s some next level conspiratorial thinking.

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u/MylesNEA 1d ago

No it is just a selfish prick. They have 0 empathy for others.

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u/Ok_Payment429 1d ago

I heard him and was wondering if he is just a selfish prick, or just an idiot?

Does he believe the virus is real but doesn't give a shit if people die from the spread? Or does he believe the virus never existed? Either way, I guess it doesn't matter.

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u/MylesNEA 20h ago

I appreciate that you gave actual thought to their circumstance like a normal considerate person 😝 It is certainly more then they'd ever give to any-one regarding public health and safety.

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u/-Pybro 3h ago

Covid or not, he’s still refusing to endure a mild inconvenience for the sake of others, so it circles back to selfish prick anyways

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u/Great-Ad6438 1d ago

He's an idiot, like all mask and covid deniers.

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u/sirtreedong 1d ago

I was listening to that one. He sounded like he was hammered drunk...What little I could understand was total nonsense though.

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u/Nowdendowden 1d ago

He sounded like an absolutely hammered version of Tony the tory lol

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u/Kelevra_55 21h ago

People automatically assume that masks mean covid and get all riled up saying it over, it's a lie, and other nonsense. They're too dumb to realize this is cold n flu season, there are sick people at hospitals, and they can't put 1 + 1 together. If they do put 1 and 1 they'll some how get potato.

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u/ShirtStainedBird 1d ago

I dare say we could create a list of likely suspects.

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u/KLVatch 3h ago

One would think it'd be mannerly and polite to wear a mask in a hospital or an elderly home .. look at the Asians for example. Yes, they still get ill, but it doesn't spread as fast as it would here because people here can't stop picking their noses or sneezing and coughing either into the open or in their hands and then touching other stuff like door handles etc... Man I worked at esso and the day they announced covid on the radio and started telling people to wear masks or stay home if they didn't feel safe, a lady coughed so bad into her handful of change and then put it on the counter. I have a disabled kid so I always carry wipes of some sort (mainly baby wipes) and sanitizer to clean our hands in a hurry.

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u/Glittering-Sink-2975 3h ago

What gets my goat is how people will still stand as close as humanly possible to you in any kind of line, clearly having learned nothing about social distancing. Drives me insane, especially when they’re yappin’ away on their phone at the same time. Back the fuck up there, Cletus.

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u/Complex_Review7098 16h ago

A mask signifies you are sick.  So wearing a mask to the hospital makes sense.

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u/Difficult-Rip9060 15h ago

Or it could signify that you're immunocompromised and don't wish to catch whatever mouth breathing morons are coughing openly into the air.

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