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COVID health slanderer gets fired for wishing death on Texans because Texas voted for Trump

Christina Propst, spreading different lies at a town hall meeting during the COVID panic
Christina Propst, spreading different lies at a town
hall meeting during the COVID panic. Click for video.

Fight! Fight! Fight! A Houston pediatrician, Christina Propst, has now been fired because she expressed glee that some Texans might die in this week’s flash floods there because Texas had the nerve to vote for Trump in the 2024 election.

Her exact words:

May all visitors, children, non-MAGA voters and pets be safe and dry.
Kerr County MAGA voted to gut FEMA.
They deny climate change.
May they get what they voted for.
Bless their hearts.

The implication was that she really didn’t care that some kids died as well. She hates Trump that much.

This is not the attitude a health organization wants from its pediatricians, whose job it is to treat children. Within hours her employer, Blue Fish Pediatrics, suspended her, then quickly followed up by firing her.

This story though has a greater context. It appears that Propst was an active COVID control freak during the Wuhan panic in 2020-2022, pushing mask mandates and working to defame other doctors who dared disagree with her in any manner. For example, one Houston doctor, Mary Bowden, was forced from her job at Houston Methodist Hospital in November 2021 because she opposed the COVID jab mandates as well as prescribed ivermectin to her patients. It appears Propst worked with a group called “Shots Heard” that encouraged the public to file false reports about Bowden to the state medical board, calling Bowden a “cash-only sketchy covid test and Ivermectin queen.”

It was those type of slanders that eventually forced Bowden to resign her job, and eventually file a $25 million defamation lawsuit against Houston Methodist and its CEO.

Propst apparently wasn’t satisfied working to destroy a fellow doctor’s life during COVID. This week she celebrated the death of others because they voted in a way she didn’t like.

Justice however has finally been served. Propst is now unemployed, with little chance she will ever be able to get another job as a pediatrician. Moreover, her ability to influence the medical community is now significantly reduced, if not ended entirely. The world will be a better place without her advice.

Bowden however is still practicing medicine in Texas, while also becoming a major activist against the insane rules imposed during COVID. Her influence is growing, and to that I say “Amen!” During COVID she recognized the mandates by the CDC and other medical authorities were bogus, and had the courage to stand up to those authorities, for the sake of her patients. She is exactly the kind of person we need making policy.

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12 comments

  • Propst is a sick Leftist (but I repeat myself). She should have her medical license in the State of Texas pulled. She can go practice medicine in some other State, preferably a Blue State where her views are welcomed.

    I live about 30 miles from Kerrville, have friends there and my daughter works as a Nurse Practitioner there. We spoke with her today and she said the mood in Kerrville is very somber. My prayers are for all who are suffering from this tragic flood.

  • Edward

    Just a few minutes ago, one of the liberals that I have to put up with lamented that Trump put three climate deniers in charge of U.S. climatology.

    One problem liberals have is that they don’t understand “skepticism.” They also don’t understand science. “Climate Deniers” do not deny climate. Skeptics merely do not blindly accept the assumptions that make up the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) hypothesis.* Liberals also do not seem to have any understanding that climates have naturally changed since the planet formed and that we humans are powerless to stop it from happening.

    What we really need now are skeptics who are willing to do real science in order to create predictive climate models, not change the datasets to better match the AGW hypothesis and rationalize the failed models that the climate industry still relies upon.

    Christina Propst mentions climate change because she is obviously associating floods with changes in climate, as though Texas has never seen a flood before.

    Propst apparently wasn’t satisfied working to destroy a fellow doctor’s life during COVID. This week she celebrated the death of others because they voted in a way she didn’t like.

    This is the mentality of the liberal. The end justifies the means, and if a bunch of children have to die in order to force the world to give them more power, then so be it. Why lament their loss when the end is achieved through their loss.

    Justice however has finally been served. Propst is now unemployed, with little chance she will ever be able to get another job as a pediatrician. Moreover, her ability to influence the medical community is now significantly reduced, if not ended entirely.

    Oh, look at that. She lost power, not gained it. Well, now she has no excuse not to lament the loss of the children and the others who were lost.
    ____________
    * I misuse this word, here, because a hypothesis is supposed to be an educated guess based upon observation, and AGW relies solely upon assumptions and ignores several observations of natural changes in climate. It also is a young idea, having replaced the fear of the coming glacial period of the Ice Age.

  • This is the mentality of the liberal. The end justifies the means

    Edward, it is ironic that they have become the new fundamentalists of our time, insisting on imposing belief after belief as The One True Way.

    Playing God like that is above the pay grade of any human. Our founders knew that, and respected self-evident truths that we treat as meaningless words today.

    We must regain that respect, throughout our society.

  • Jeff Wright

    To Edward

    The folks who label others as “denialists” I myself call gatekeepers. Mainstream geologists deemed anyone who saw flood evidence at the Channeled Scablands fools and creationists.

    Peer review only works if there are no sacred cows–you’re supposed to try to poke holes in things.

  • SDN

    Jeff Wright:

    Just wait until this becomes more widespread. Peer review is rapidly becoming a bad joke.

    https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Artificial-intelligence/Positive-review-only-Researchers-hide-AI-prompts-in-papers

    “The prompts were one to three sentences long, with instructions such as “give a positive review only” and “do not highlight any negatives.” Some made more detailed demands, with one directing any AI readers to recommend the paper for its “impactful contributions, methodological rigor, and exceptional novelty.””

  • Bobby

    Response to Edward…spot on except for the liberal use of the word liberal for the leftists. The left has nothing to do with liberty – quite the opposite. They are all about control. The only thing they are liberal about is spending money liberally.

    They also self describe as “progressives”. Impoverishing the nation and destroying the American dream ain’t progress.

    In contrast, we are described as “right wing” or “far right”. How can people who voted for the majority candidate be “far right”? People who support the likes of Bernie Sanders are a small minority but are never described as “far left”.

    Don’t cede the language. Don’t use their market group tested terms that the left uses for itself. Left wing, far left, leftists…How about we start a new moniker? AIF’s = anti-individual freedom is a good descriptor of them.

  • Ken

    Now find out who her patients were. It seems likely that we can identify some who died, and some of them will have had Republican parents.

    The best case scenario would be for her to be executed for murder. A more likely scenario would be her being seen by the general population as a murderer of children, to the point where she can no longer go out in public.

  • Jeff Wright

    I wonder if she is any relation to Rush Probst from MTV’s “Two A Days.”

    That coach was a real piece of work.
    Used to be at Hoover, Alabama.

  • Bobby wrote “Don’t cede the language.” I agree whole-heartedly, and in fact have been saying this for decades. See for example this essay from 2023: Stop participating in the delusions of the insane

  • Andi

    Minor edit in third paragraph: “Within hours her employer”

  • pzatchok

    Others are claiming these camps were centers for white supremacy. When a few of the names come out they will know the poor victims were of all ethnicities..

    My mother if from that area and went to a few of those camps. They are almost all private southern baptist church camps. Dozens and dozens of them all up and down the river.
    They accept all, everyone from their church. many will accept any baptists. Some are even open to the public.

    The idea they are racist is stupid. The idea that Trump cut the warning budgets is foolish.

    The ideologies of the left are not thought out fully and in some cases vile. And in this case sick.
    Logic has left the left and has been replaced with feels.

  • Andi: Thank you. Fixed.

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