Maskless Churchgoer Settles Lawsuit Over 2020 Arrest, Calls Liberalism a ‘modern-day cult’; Pentagon COVID-19 Case Registry Is Riddled with Errors, Watchdog Finds, and other C-Virus related stories
Maskless churchgoer settles lawsuit over 2020 arrest, calls liberalism a ‘modern-day cult’:
Idaho resident Gabriel Rench was awarded a hefty settlement for his 2020 arrest during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rench spoke out about his case Monday and argued his arrest was the result of liberalism and cancel culture.
Rench was arrested in September 2020 along with two other churchgoers for not wearing masks to an outdoor worship service.
The three brought the lawsuit forward the following year, alleging their First and Fourth Amendment rights were violated.
The city of Moscow ultimately agreed to settle for $300,000.
“I’m very grateful that I got a victory. How many people nationwide didn’t get a victory?” Rench asked Monday on “Fox & Friends.”
He explained to host Pete Hegseth that he believes the settlement is the city’s attempt to pay off a “massive PR problem.”
Rench was arrested in the middle of a worship service.
In a video of the incident, officers are seen taking a hymn book out of Rench’s hands before leading him away in handcuffs. —>READ MORE HERE
Pentagon COVID-19 Case Registry Is Riddled with Errors, Watchdog Finds:
A Defense Department database of military health system patients diagnosed with COVID-19 is incomplete and inaccurate, shortcomings that make it ineffective for steering medical treatment or public health decisions on the illness, the Pentagon’s top watchdog has found.
A DoD inspector general report released this month found that the department’s COVID-19 registry did not contain roughly 7,200 patients who qualified for inclusion and there were errors in 24 of 25 records reviewed by inspectors.
The issues raise questions about the database’s overall accuracy, which was supposed to be right for at least 90% of the records, according to its contract, said Carol Gorman, the assistant DoD inspector general for audit, cyberspace operations and acquisition, contracting and sustainment.
Since last year, lawmakers have raised concerns over the accuracy of DoD medical databases and registries, including the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database, or DMED, a data set that includes current and historical data on patient health conditions, hospitalizations and medical events of service members.
Last week, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., wrote to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin over discrepancies in the numbers reported to his office for 15 illnesses or conditions. Johnson said a whistleblower has questioned the accuracy of DoD data, and the department failed to disclose that it provided incomplete data to the senator when asked.
For example, Johnson noted, the DoD provided his office erroneous information that diagnoses of hypertension rose by 2,181% in 2021, when compared with the years 2016 to 2020. After correcting the data that led to that conclusion, the DoD said the number of cases rose by 2%. —>READ MORE HERE
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