In the middle of October, right-wing radio host Dennis Prager told his audience that he had contracted COVID-19. He told his audience that he had purposely “engaged with strangers, constantly hugging them, taking photos with them knowing that I was making myself very susceptible to getting COVID. Which is, indeed, as bizarre as it sounded, what I wanted, in the hope I would achieve natural immunity and be taken care of by therapeutics. That is exactly what has happened.” It was a special kind of madness that only Prager could generate. Prager, like all ultra right-wingers, has been on the bleeding edge of profound misinformation, promoting an anti-flatten-the-coronavirus-curve model of living over during the pandemic. This is the same Prager who told women during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings to just get over sexual harassment and assault. On Monday, video of Prager being interviewed on the Chris Salcedo show, ostensibly to carry oil for his billionaire fracking backers, drew what can only be called one of the most offensive comparisons concerning unvaccinated Americans and the LGBTQ community during the HIV/AIDS crises in the 1980s and 1990s.  Read more