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Kelly Dodd’s public image has still not recovered from her statement that the pandemic is God’s way of thinning the herd, but she’s already back at it.
This time, the Real Housewife of Eugenics is mocking concerns over the mounting death toll while spreading blatant misinformation.
“But how many people die on a daily basis of the flu?” Kelly asks in a challenging tone on her Instagram Stories.
Speaking to her companions, she says: “Nine million? Eight?” Those numbers are well above even annual flu deaths.
“Well, people are gonna die!” Kelly announces, before sarcastically adding: I’m sorry to tell ya.”
In case you doubt the veracity of this transcript, you can see Kelly’s unwise rambling for yourself, as we included the video in this post.
Outside of whatever lies people tell themselves for comfort, COVID-19 is much deadlier than the flu by any measure.
Careful analysis based upon the experience of doctors as well as statistics says that COVID-19 is 10 to 44 times more deadly than the flu.
Even more conservative estimates put flu deaths at under 1% of patients, while globally, COVID-19 deaths are at around 3.4% of patients.
Many people build up resistance to the flu virus and never even become sick. The novel coronavirus is new and much more dangerous.
Additionally, the flu has an entire year during which to rack up its annual death toll — a year during which no one social distances.
Even if COVID-19 death counts were comparable to flu deaths, which they are not, they could not be compared.
With bars and restaurants and schools closed down, with social distancing, with masks, with all of these measures, people are still dying.
No person can honestly look at the facts and conclude that the flu is in any way comparable to this pandemic.
Statistics aside, COVID-19’s effects cannot be compared to the flu, dspite “flu-like symptoms” being a simplified early symptom.
Doctors are learning more about what makes this disease deadly every day, but one thing that has been observed is deadly blood clots.
It seems that COVID-19 is also inflicting permanent organ damage to some of the people who recover, and it is not only impacting the lungs.
It is baffling that Kelly would make such casual statements about a pandemic ravaging the world — especially that she would make them publicly.
We get it — Kelly Dodd is rich and feels entitled to live her life with all of its conveniences.
And perhaps she has trouble caring about people who are not in her immediate circle.
Perhaps she should look at this from another perspective — if she keeps saying vile, inexcusable things, she could lose her job.
Rhetoric minimizing the risk based upon lies and misinformation isn’t just dumb, it’s dangerous.
Some people, including a politician or two whom we could name if we chose, are truly incapable of understanding this pandemic.
Some people do a math problem in seconds, others in minutes, but some people will never be able to do it correctly no matter how hard they try.
But Kelly is not actually stupid. If she wanted to look at the numbers, the evidence, and the testimony of medical experts, she could understand.
Kelly has the same Google as the rest of us. She is only talking out of her ass like this because she does not wish to understand it.
There is no easy way to explain to someone why they should care about other people. Either they do, or they do not.
However, Kelly’s cavalier attitude does not seem to be exclusively directed at the peasantry, so to speak.
She has been flying back and forth between New York and California, spending time with fiance Rick Leventhal and daughter Jolie.
As if that unnecessary travel weren’t risky enough, Kelly participated in a recent and deeply unwise gathering of Housewives.
We could not possibly tell you what was going through their minds when they assembled like this … and shared the photos online.
Braunwyn, Emily, Shannon, and Kelly gathered to show off a particular brand of face masks.
They seem to have genuinely believed that they were complying with safety rules despite being well within six feet of each other.
It’s a mask that contains most of the particles of your breath and helps to prevent you from infecting others. It’s one safety tool among many.
Remember in March when health experts were leery of recommending that people wear masks? This nonsense is what they were afraid of.
Some have suggested that these are politics at play. Orange County is notoriously conservative (though they did go blue in 2018).
Emily is an outspoken Trump enthusiast. And Kelly is engaged to a dude from Fox News. Is that why they seem to be laughing off a pandemic?
It could also simply be that they are rich and aren’t worried because their wealth will insulate them from harm better than any mask. How sad.
Fans aren’t the only ones who are disgusted with the way that some of the Housewives have conducted themselves.
Tamra Judge — who was one of them just a few months ago — reacted with dismay when she saw that her erstwhile castmates had gathered.
She replied with a facepalm emoji, illustrated above, showing that she was bewildered by the foolishness of it all.
So yes, even Real Housewives — past and present — not only should know better, but can.
But let’s be clear — Braunwyn, Emily, and Shannon may have made some mistakes with social distancing, but they didn’t do what Kelly is doing.
Kelly has now, not once but twice, opened her mouth and made senseless, pointless comments trivializing the deaths from the pandemic.
If she’s going to say ignorant things, could she at least save it for her friends?
Talking to your friends and not airing your own worst moments on Instagram is free. All that you need is a smidge of common sense.
We get it — Kelly has a certain reputation to maintain. But bad behavior off-screen does not have the benefits of on-camera shenanigans.
But Kelly isn’t doing this to get headlines or give herself a redemption storyline when filming picks up. At least, we don’t think so.
She has had such success as a Housewife because she just blurts out whatever is on her mind.
Having no filter can make someone a wonderfully entertaining reality TV personality, but it can also make them a lousy human being.
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The world has finally seen the photo of Olivia Jade on a rowing machine that Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli allegedly used to commit fraud.
Now, the young vlogger whose life was turned upside down feels even more humiliated than before.
E! News spoke to an inside source who reported on how Olivia Jade Giannulli feels about the world seeing her infamous rowing machine pic.
According to the insider, Olivia “is fully aware [that] this predicament is ongoing.”
“And,” the source continues, “she will have waves of sadness and anger.”
Considering that she is once again in the spotlight in the worst day, this time in photographic form, that is very understandable.
But Olivia is not in this alone.
She and her sister, Isabella Rose, were both the subjects of the same alleged admissions scheme.
According to the insider, the sisters have “definitely been leaning on each other.”
“And,” the source continues, “it’s been helpful that they are going through this together.”
But sisterly support can only go so far.
“The family is constantly stressed,” the insider describes, “and there are a lot of ups and downs.”
“They try to stay positive,” the source affirms.
“But,” the insider characterizes their emotional state, “it’s a cloud over their head at all times.”
For her part, Olivia reportedly feels like this scandal is getting worse by dragging on and on.
The insider says that she “just wishes this [were] over.”
Many have remarked that Lori and Mossimo should have tried to be the first to grovel and strike a deal, as Felicity Huffman did.
Instead, they have been fighting the charges from the start, and the result is that the family’s trauma has been prolonged.
The COVID-19 pandemic may not impact the rich in the same ways that it impacts most people, but everyone is feeling some effects.
“Olivia has seen her parents during quarantine,” the source reveals.
“But,” the insider dishes, Olivia “is spending most of her time at her boyfriend’s house in Malibu.”
The source adds that her boyfriend “[Jackson Guthy]’s parents have a compound in Montecito that they have been spending time at as well.”
Immediately after the college admissions scandal story broke, reports said that Olivia was pissed at her parents.
After all, they had humiliated her and spent a tremendous amount of money (allegedly illegally) so that Olivia could live out their dream for her.
It has never been clear how much Olivia or Bella knew about their parents’ efforts to get them into UCLA.
“Olivia is trying to move forward with her parents,” the insider shares. It sounds like the stressed out family is healing.
It’s not easy being the child of famous parents who are embroiled in a humiliating and frankly infuriating national scandal.
it has to be even worse when that scandal revolves around you and your short-lived college career.
Many have suggested that Lori and Mossimo would have been wiser to just gift her six figures in cash than to allegedly spend it on bribes.
Fortunately, Olivia has her good looks, her boyfriend, and her insanely wealthy family upon which to fall back.
As we all know, Lori Loughlin is facing decades in prison as she goes to trial for her alleged involvement in the college admissions scandal.
At the heart of this story were photos of her daughters posing on rowing machines. Now, you can see those images for yourself.
Lori and Mossimo Giannulli filed to dismiss the case against them. Now, federal prosecutors have filed back.
E! News got a hold of phone transcripts, emails, and photos from that filing.
The accused ringleader of the scam, William “Rick” Singer, emailed Lori and Mossimo in August of 2016.
“I need a PDF of her transcript and test scores very soon while I create a coxswain portfolio for her,” Singer wrote of Bella, their eldest daughter.
Singer suggested: “It would probably help to get a picture with her on an ERG in workout clothes like a real athlete too.”
According to the documents, Mossimo replied: “Fantastic. Will get all.”
Then, the following month, he emailed Singer the above image of Isabella Rose.
One month later, she was accepted to USC and Mossimo was directed by Singer to make a payment of $50,000.
“For accounting purposes would I categorize this as a donation?” Mossimo asked in an email.
To this, Singer replied: “Yes.”
Bella was formally admitted in March of 2017, at which point the parents were directed to make another “donation” of $200,000.
This time, it was to Key Worldwide Foundation, Singer’s non-profit organization.
“Good news my [older] daughter is in [U]SC,” Mossimo allegedly wrote to his financial advisor. “Bad [news] is I had to work the system.”
Prosecutors allege that it was only 4 months later that Singer prompted the parents to “send an ‘Action Picture’ of their younger daughter.”
This photo would be “for use in an athletic profile that he noted would falsely present her as a coxswain for the L.A. Marina Club crew team.”
Mossimo responded with this photo:
Olivia Jade Gianntulli is shown here pretending to row.
Interestingly, Olivia’s fake experience as a coxwain (the world’s funniest word) and her passion for vlogging collided during all of this.
Apparently, one of her counselors at school expressed dismay and downright disbelief at her alleged rowing career, which was never mentioned.
This counselor could not imagine Olivia having time for all of this alleged boatwork considering her rigorous schedule of beauty vlogging.
According to court documents, Mossimo marched down to the school to meet with the counselor.
He accused the counselor of trying to sabotage Olivia’s chances of getting into USC.
The counselor assured him that, hd he read the recommendation for Olivia, it was nothing short of glowing.
The counselor — wisely choosing to not pick a fight with a millionaire bully — made it clear that Mossimo had laid out the details of Olivia’s coxswain experience.
The farcical absurdity of all of this is that Olivia herself openly stated that it was never her dream to go to college, let alone USC.
It’s not just that her parents have so much money that they spent enough to buy a large, nice house to get her into school.
It’s that Olivia is passionate about being a beauty vlogger and an influencer.
Lori and Mossimo would have been better served just giving each daughter a pile of cash.
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