There has been an abundance of
coronavirus related scams,
and unfortunately,
people are getting hurt.
In some cases, people are dying
as a result of these grifters
exploiting the panic, or
the worries that people have about
the pandemic.
And in one case, a Las Vegas man
has just gotten arrested after
he was caught selling dangerous
chemicals as an alleged COVID cure.
His name is Elias Beltran Suarez,
and he was charged with acting as
a medical practitioner without
a license after police learns that
he was manufacturing and
selling miracle mineral solution
from his apartment.
A woman had recently contacted
Beltran after his after her
6-year-old son was diagnosed with
the corona virus, and police said
the 53-year-old offered to sell her
equipment to make chlorine dioxide
for $800 So, here you have a mother
who's panicking, she's desperate,
and this awful person decides to
exploit her panic, and her need
to make her son feel better, her
desire to make her son feel better,
charges her $800 for garbage.
Here he is, garbage person, I'm
glad that he's now facing charges,
I'm glad that he was arrested.
I mean, but
really isn't this what Americans
have been conditioned to be like?
I mean when you look at
the behavior of the US government
and how there's really no crisis
that they refuse to capitalize on.
You're going to have situations
like this where people are like,
I mean, yeah, doesn't it make sense
to be a massive grifter in a moment
of crisis?
Now, 6-year-olds obviously can't
get vaccinated.
The vaccines have not been approved
for people under the age of 12 yet.
So they're still studying it,
they want to ensure that it's safe.
But that's something that people
should pay closer attention to,
the fact that vaccines actually go
through a very rigorous process
to ensure its safety before it's
available, before it's out there.
And by the way,
the vaccine is free.
Now here we're talking about
a 6-year-old who can't
get vaccinated.
But for those who are still
skeptical about the vaccine,
are you also hitting up some dude
in Las Vegas who's selling crap
out of his apartment?
Does that make you feel safer?
Let me give you more of
the so-called miracle cure.
What was in it?
Well, it contains potentially
unsafe levels of chlorine dioxide,
a chemical commonly used
in industrial bleach.
I don't know, industrial bleach
sold from some rando's apartment in
Las Vegas or the vaccine?
I don't know.
You want to spend $800 on this?
Have at it.
But look,
I also can't blame individuals,
right?
I'm not mad at this mom, I'm not
mad at people who are desperately
searching for other solutions.
Because there's a giant amount of
disinformation out there by people
who have a vested interest in lying
to people about the vaccine, and
that vested interest is to sell
whatever it
is that they're selling.
They're hucksters.
There's more though, okay,
he's not the only one.
Then there's the self-described
AntiVaxMama, who sold hundreds of
fake COVID vaccine cards.
So this was discovered by
a TikTok user.
TikTok user who goes by the name of
TizzyEnt spotted an Instagram post
that caught his attention.
A woman with the handle
AntiVaXMomma was advertising
coronavirus vaccine cards with
real serial numbers available to
be mailed to any state for
the low, low price of $200 a piece.
Yeah, I mean,
the vaccine is free and it prevents
people from getting hospitalized,
it prevents people from dying.
Maybe that's a better option than
getting a fake vaccine card,
but okay.
Manhattan district attorney
announced that the person behind
the Instagram account,
Jasmine Clifford,
31 year old from New Jersey, has
been charged with selling hundreds,
hundreds of fake vaccination cards.
Some allegedly went to front-line
workers, including hospital and
nursing home employees.
Those front-line workers should be
fired.
They should be fired, okay?
That's it, they should be fired.
I mean, do I really need to provide
an argument for
why they should be fired?
They're using fake vaccination
cards as front-line healthcare
workers, they're supposed to be
keeping their patients safe.
I mean, no,
you're not going to do your job.
You're not going to do the bare
minimum of keeping your patients
safe because they're not just
treating coronavirus patients,
they're treating other patients.
So what are they doing?
You're using fake vaccine cards?
And also, I just question
the judgment of someone who's
literally a professional in
the healthcare industry, but
somehow isn't smart enough to
understand that there are hucksters
out there intentionally spreading
misinformation about the vaccine.
If you're not educated enough to be
able to make these important
distinctions, then I don't know,
should you really be tasked with
caring for the health and
well-being of others?
I would argue, no.
There you go. I gave you an
argument that they should be fired.
But I'm not done yet.
Nadayza Barkley,
a 27 year old was also charged in
the alleged conspiracy.
Prosecutors allege that Barkley
entered at least 10 people who
bought the cards into
the New York State Immunization
Information System database.
Okay, so let's pause for a second.
We keep hearing about breakthrough
infections.
And so, I want to know if there's
a robust investigation into
people who have had breakthrough
infections, who maybe didn't really
get the vaccine.
Because if we have people who have
access to the state databases
on vaccines, and they're committing
fraud and entering people's names
in when they
haven't actually been vaccinated.
Well then how do
we know that a person who gets
coronavirus actually had
a breakthrough infection?
That's a little bit of
an issue, no?.
I'm glad that this
woman got caught.
But how many others across
the country are doing something
similar?
I don't know and
it should be investigated.
A Chicago pharmacist was arrested
and charged with obtaining
authentic vaccination cards and
listing them for
$10 a piece on eBay.
So I mean,
the grift that we're seeing all
across the board, whether it
be with unproven medications,
or fake vaccination cards,
how are we supposed to get past
this pandemic like it's just never
going to happen?
Feel like this is going to be
a reality forever because we can't
get adults to behave like adults.
And at the same time there's
a profit motive behind what
they're doing.