Marc Bernier, a conservative Florida talk radio host, has had his voice silenced.

No, not by the Deep State or Big Tech. Marc Bernier is as dead as a doornail and the cause was COVID-19.

“I’m Mr. Anti-vaxx,” Bernier proudly told his listeners in Daytona Beach on WNDB. “Mr. Anti-vaxx” is one of five conservative radio hosts who have died of COVID in the last month or so, an event that I’ve dubbed the Great Conservative Radio Host Extinction of 2021.

Dick Farrel (also 65 and from Florida– he worked at stations in Miami and Palm Beach as well as the Newsmax channel) bit the big one. Farrel called COVID the “scam-demic” and described Dr. Anthony Fauci as a “a power-tripping, lying freak.”

Nashville-based host Phil Valentine, 61, host of The Phil Valentine Show, has croaked off. He was the anti-vaxxer answer to “Weird Al,” one of his songs being “Vaxman,” a toe-tapping tune about the government holding people down and forcing them to get vaccinated in parody of The Beatles’ “Taxman.”

Valentine’s fellow Tennessean Jimmy DeYoung, 81, a radio preacher who was host of the nationally syndicated Prophecy Today, warned his flock that vaccines were “government control.” He probably didn’t prophesize his death from a disease that has a widely available, free vaccine.

The latest to shuffle off the mortal coil is Bob Enyart, pastor at the Denver Bible Church and host of the Real Science Radio show (which, as you can probably guess, is not based on real science)– he died earlier this month. This guy was a real piece of shit. As The Mercury News notes:

“On his old TV show, Bob Enyart Live, the host would ‘gleefully read obituaries of AIDS sufferers while cranking ‘Another One Bites the Dust’ by Queen.'” Well, guess what, Bob?

Hey I’m gonna get you too
Another one bites the dust

That is 5 radio hosts who told their listeners not to get the vaccine, not to wear a mask, not to listen to the “Nazis” in the government, the CDC, the Deep State, the whatever. All dead.

You would think that will make people say, hey, maybe I should get that vaccine so I don’t die. But it won’t change a damn thing– people just will not get vaccinated no matter what, even if everyone around them dies.

On the other hand, I’ve often thought of how we can stop the firehose of falsehoods and the epidemic spread of mis and dis information, lies, pseudoscience, conspiracy theories, etc. Having hosts spreading misinformation die from coronavirus is not the solution I had in mind, but… there are now five less dangerous voices telling their audience to kill themselves. How high will the body count of the Great Conservative Radio Host Extinction of 2021 go?

Time, something these guys don’t have, will tell.

Tea’s Weird Week, S3 E2, A Panel of Witches: Heidi Erickson talks to Lane Burns and Raechel Henderson, two of the workshop presenters at the Witches Faire, part of the Milwaukee Paranormal Conference September 24-26. Tea and Heidi talk weird news about Real Life Superheroes, wooly mammoths, UFOs, and people going on some wild joyrides. Plus trivia from Miss Information and we close with a track from Puerto Wiccan (who will also be at the Witches Faire) called “Kryptonite.”

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