Boebert Floats Wild Anti-Vaccine Conspiracy As Cause Of Biden’s ‘Decline’ – Forbes

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Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., on Thursday weighed in on the discussion surrounding Joe Bidens mental fitness for office by posting a series of photos of the president being vaccinated against COVID-19 and implying the immunizations could be to blame for what she called a rapid physical and cognitive declinedespite no medical evidence the shots cause such symptoms.

U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., speaks with reporters as she leaves the U.S. Capitol on May 17, ... [+] 2024.

Boebert on Thursday morning tweeted I wonder what could have caused Joe Bidens rapid physical and cognitive decline? alongside four photos of the president being vaccinated for COVID-19 over the course of almost two years.

The photos, taken between January 2021 and October 2022, show the president receiving the first two doses of the vaccine and two booster shots.

Boeberts post was made despite a lack of medical evidence showing the coronavirus vaccines cause any kind of long term mental or physical decline in patients who receive them, and contribute to a dangerous misinformation campaign that experts estimate caused millions of people to go unvaccinatedleading to hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths.

Biden, who has been under fire from opponents and allies alike since he appeared confused and unable to keep up in a presidential debate on June 27, has in the past been accused by Boebert and others of having dementiaa general term for loss of memory, language and other cognitive abilitiesdespite the White House earlier this month denying Biden has "any form of dementia."

There is no evidence to suggest that cognitive decline or symptoms are caused by Covid vaccinesno studies exist to indicate an increased risk of neurological disorders or memory loss from the COVID-19 vaccine and and there is no evidence the coronavirus vaccine causes or worsens dementia, according to the Alzheimer's Society.

A recent study published in the The New England Journal of Medicine found that while cognitive and memory impairment have been reported by those who have been infected with COVID-19 or who are suffering from long Covid, those who were vaccinated experienced less cognitive symptoms than those who were not.

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319,000. That's how many Covid deaths could have been avoided after vaccines became available if those affected had been immunized, as of May 2022, according to NPR.

Biden has faced concerns about his fitness for office since the June 27 debate, in which he stumbled, lost his train of thought and appeared confused throughout the event. He and his team later blamed the poor performance on exhaustion and an illness. Despite his repeated assurances he is prepared to be president for another four years, previous allies have come out of the woodwork to encourage him to drop out of the race and allow the Democratic nomination to go to someone else. The New York Times editorial board said Biden should leave the race in a call later echoed by The Chicago Tribune, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Boston Globe. Big-name supporters like Walmart heir Christy Walton, billionaire Michael Novogratz and actor George Clooney have all repeated the request, and a dozen Democratic representatives have suggested they've lost confidence in the presidents ability to beat Trump in November. In an interview with ABC days after the debate, Biden was asked whether he would be open to taking a neurological and cognitive test. Biden responded by saying, No one said I had to, and then said: every day I have that test.

U.S. President Joe Biden receives his updated COVID-19 booster at the White House on Oct. 25, 2022.

This isn't the first time Boebert has supported far-right conspiracy theories. She has, on multiple occasions, repeated the claim that the 2020 election was "stolen" from former President Donald Trump despite no evidence to support the claim. Rolling Stone later reported that she was involved in helping to organize a deadly riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, that sent elected officials fleeing armed insurrectionists, but Boebert later denied her involvement. Boebert expressed support for the conspiracy theory QAnon in July of 2020 and has made several white Christian nationalist statements, including speaking against the separation of church and state. She also accused a judge in Trump's hush-money trial, in which the former president was convicted of dozens of felony counts, of being "corrupt."

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Boebert Floats Wild Anti-Vaccine Conspiracy As Cause Of Biden's 'Decline' - Forbes