I saw the initial posts floating around last week. First thoughts were that rural hospitals don't take much to be over run, so while the claim seemed unlikely, it wasn't impossible. Poked around a bit and found Sequoyah is a town of 8000 with two hospitals. Nothing found quickly about stats of ER visits. Also found nothing locally about gunshot victims in the area. There are occasional shootings in OK, usually hunting accidents or "hold my beer" moments, with some hot tempers sprinkled on top. Not a super common events.
This all struck me as a bit odd, but, having a real life, didn't get to do any further follow up. Later in the weekend, the RS starts circulating, getting moonbats all fired up. Then, I believe it was Sunday that the Sequoyah hospital posting that Dr. McElyea hadn't been there in months, and they were not backed up for any reason.
There is a lot of media attention surrounding remarks reportedly made by Dr. McElyea. While we do not speak on his behalf, he has publicly said his comments were misconstrued and taken out of context.
https://kfor.com/on-air/seen-on-tv/more-of-dr-mcelyeas-interview-with-kfor/ His whole spiel. Downloaded before memory holed. There's no out context or misconstruing. He said exactly what he was quoted as saying, and the left on this local news station took it and ran, social media took it and ran, and RS, Rachel Maddow, and other supposed journalists ran with it, without getting off their butts to verify anything, and as the old saying goes, a lie goes round the world before the truth gets it shoes on. This doctor needs to be punished, possibly by losing his license for lying publicly like this, RS needs to be punished for being idiots and not practicing anything remotely close to journalism, just feeding more panic and false information because it fits the narrative they are pushing, and all the moonbats who fell for this need the taste slapped out of their mouths for being gullible idiots.
None of that will happen, sadly, but the false information will be parroted by useful idiots somewhere until doomsday.
I want to know why this doctor went on the air with this fertilizer. He is the source, what was his purpose? Who paid him to go lie to people like this? On the off chance he really did see any of this garbage, where was it so someone can go verify his claims.
The story is a microcosm of so much of what is wrong with our society today. A little BS doesn't just get spread around a town, and maybe make it to another town or state slowly as people move and turn into urban legends. If it feeds someone's agenda, it is spread and magnified a billion times over without any questions within hours. Even when proven inaccurate, or flat out false, large portions of the people who fell for it won't see that it's false, because their sources won't admit the messed up, or will bury the correction in some tiny footnote somewhere, while the falsehood is still on big banners.