Via The San Francisco Standard
Last month, Dr. Robert Honeyman lost their sister to Covid. They wrote about it on Twitter and received dozens of condolences, over 4,000 retweets and 43,000 likes.
Exactly one month later, on Dec. 12, Honeyman wrote that another tragedy had befallen their family.
“Sad to announce that my husband has entered a coma after being in hospital with Covid. The doctor is unsure if he will come out,” they tweeted. “This year has been the toughest of my life losing my sister to this virus. This is the first time in my life I don’t see light at the end of the tunnel.”
Again, the condolences and well-wishes rolled in. But there was a problem: Honeyman wasn’t real.
The transgender “Doctor of Sociology and Feminist studies” with a “keen interest in poetry” who used they/them pronouns was, in fact, a stock photo described on DepositPhotos, a royalty-free image site, as “Smiling happy, handsome latino man outside—headshot portrait.”
Their supposedly comatose husband, Dr. Patrick C. Honeyman, was also fake. His Twitter photo had been stolen from an insurance professional in Wayne, Indiana.
The two fake doctors, whose accounts urged extreme caution about Covid-19, were part of a network of at least four fake accounts that touted their ties to the LGBTQ+ community, vocally advocated for mask-wearing and social distancing, and dished out criticism to those they felt were not taking the pandemic seriously.
The Honeymans could not be reached for comment, as they do not exist. At publication time, Robert Honeyman’s account was no longer active.
The fake doctors were uncovered by Joshua Gutterman Tranen, a self-described “gay writer” pursuing a master’s of fine arts at Bennington College. He saw Robert Honeyman’s tweet about their husband being in a coma, noticed people he followed also followed them, and thought that they might be part of the LGBTQ+ academic community.
But after 10 minutes of googling, Gutterman Tranen concluded that Robert Honeyman’s photo was a stock image and their biography stretched boundaries of believability: an academic who left no traces on academic websites and had lost two family members to Covid in late 2022, despite masking and distancing.
The character looked like “liberal Mad Libs,” Gutterman Tranen said.
“I’m a self-identified leftist, and I understand that people have a lot of different identities, but it felt concocted in the lab about how many identities and horrible experiences can we put on one person,” he said.
Throughout the pandemic, Twitter has been an important, if complicated, platform. Medical experts have used it to speak directly to the public about Covid and to criticize policies that they feel don’t do enough to protect people from the disease.
But Twitter has also been a site of disinformation and provocative claims that are based in fact or scientific knowledge but lack context. As the pandemic has dragged on, governments have lifted Covid restrictions, and people have shed their masks, more of the burden of charting a path in the “new normal” has fallen on individuals. And public-facing experts like UCSF’s Bob Wachter and Monica Gandhi have become important sources of advice.
But as the iconic New Yorker cartoon states, “On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog”—or a fake doctor, for that matter.
The Honeymans offer one of the most blatant examples of this. It is unclear who created the two doctors, but their bios and personas signpost identities meant to appeal to a certain type of Twitter denizen: liberal, pro-diversity and concerned about Covid. Or meant to provoke the opposite of that type of person.
Both doctors present themselves as members of the LGBTQ+ community. Robert displayed the trans and Ukrainian flags in their Twitter name. Patrick had a rainbow flag in his bio.
Robert wrote openly about suffering from MPX, an infectious disease that caused San Francisco to declare a state of emergency earlier this year and had largely spread among men who have sex with men. “Don’t believe what the media have been sharing. […] it’s a horrible disease that has had me bed ridden,” they tweeted in July. They also claimed to have been the victim of a transphobic attack in October.
Another account associated with the group, Dr. Gerold Fischer, displayed rainbow, trans and Ukrainian flags next to his name and described himself as “an ally for all in the #LGBQT+ Community. #WearAMask.” Fischer’s account has since been taken down.
A fourth account, Dr. Steve “Ste” Ville, who claimed an affiliation with the University of Antwerp, described himself as an “LGBTQ+ Ally” and a “Proud Mask Wearer.”
All four doctors had a few things in common. Three had created their accounts during the pandemic. Fischer’s account dated to 2019, but his earliest visible tweet was from July 2022.
The doctors also frequently interacted with one another. Fischer’s first tweets were, in fact, a retweet, a quote tweet and a response to Robert Honeyman.
Robert Honeyman claimed that Fischer, who said he was suffering from post-Covid brain fog, was “the sharpest individual” they met at university. The two “doctors” sent greetings to each other’s families.
There's this account — Dr. Robert Honeyman — who says their sister died of covid in Nov and now their husband is in a coma with covid. I cannot find any record of them anywhere, from any academic institution. On the left is a stock photo and on the right is their profile photo. pic.twitter.com/DFwxVqv9HL
— joshua gutterman tranen (@jdgtranen) December 13, 2022
All four accounts urged caution about Covid. They also amplified the voices of other Twitter users calling on the public to mask, vaccinate and socially distance. At times, they criticized policies that they felt undermined pandemic safety and individuals who they believed did not take Covid seriously enough.
But as Twitter users responded to Gutterman Tranen’s thread on the Honeymans, they also discovered the accounts expressing views that appeared implausible.
“Come on china! Stop protesting, I wish we had similar lockdown measures here,” Robert Honeyman wrote in a Nov. 27 tweet.
They also claimed to have been a consultant who helped to the make the character Velma a lesbian in the new Scooby-Doo movie.
There's this account — Dr. Robert Honeyman — who says their sister died of covid in Nov and now their husband is in a coma with covid. I cannot find any record of them anywhere, from any academic institution. On the left is a stock photo and on the right is their profile photo. pic.twitter.com/DFwxVqv9HL
— joshua gutterman tranen (@jdgtranen) December 13, 2022
The Standard was unable to establish who created the four fake doctors. But perhaps the most alarming aspect of their nonexistence online is that it is also unclear why they were created.
Gutterman Tranen wondered about the motivation behind them.
“Is this someone who is well-intentioned but perhaps has a lot of anxiety about Covid, and this is a way for them to act out those anxieties?” he asked. “Or is this something more nefarious where someone thinks creating accounts like this is a way to point at them and say: ‘Look how crazy the liberals are’?”
As he watches his initial tweet about the Honeymans go viral, Gutterman Tranen is philosophical about the situation. He believes people are responding so strongly to his discovery because we all know that these kinds of accounts exist, but we seldom delve deeply into whether the person tweeting is actually authentic.
“We’ve just accepted that disinformation is an essential part of how Twitter works,” he said.
But as Twitter users marveled over the four fake doctors, at least one “person” wasn’t having it: Ville.
“Disgusting to see the accusations being thrown my way, it’s truly incredible to see how quick ‘good’ people can switch up on you in the blink of an eye,” he tweeted on Dec. 13, “that age old saying rings true, ‘The one thing they love more than a hero is to see a hero fail, fall, die trying.’”
Rage on, Dr. Steve.
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To use a tired expression which actually applies here:
Fake and gay.
Maybe these two are fake, also?
That’s some fake and gay shit, right here !
I knew Covid was fake from day one. Everything since then has only confirmed it. Twitter and other social media was CIA funded to brainwash the masses. They have been highly successful.
That’s largely due to the brainwashing having begun before anyone alive today was born. The main part, though, is still what it’s always been: the masses being willing to be told what to do by ordained “experts”. Lead your own life, and refuse any system of beliefs or institution that arbitrarily and forcibly controls others.
Not to insult the author here, as the article was informative and further confirms what we’ve suspected, but can we PLEASE stop using the Matrix terms?
Dis and mis-information are lies. Things that are untrue.
Just call it what it is, for God’s sake.
Speaking of calling it what it is:
Why are incels turning themselves into girls?
https://unherd.com/thepost/why-are-incels-turning-themselves-into-girls/
Clickbait. And a new term for the clownworld lexicon: transmaxxing. Antisocial media strikes again.
Found here:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/political-theatre/why-are-boys-turning-themselves-into-girls/
Brain dead zombies.
I’d add dropped dead over died suddenly and censored over cancelled too.
And MPX is MONKEYPOX!
BTW what happened to Monkey Pox?
People never bought it, so it stopped serving the narrative; then, MSM dropped it. Remember when for a day or two, they claimed that several children had contracted it, who’d been “in contact” with gays?
Magnificent collection of links – not on Google SEO Censoring Services, Inc., but on Russia’s old, reliable Yandex search engine:
https://yandex.com/search/?text=monkey+pox+children+contracted+adopted+gay&lr=223
Also, 99.99% of people never experienced the first symptom of infection: a pounding sensation in the rectum, during a week of drug-fueled, sleepless naked tropical dance festival debauchery (including most fags).
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This ain’t rock ‘n’ roll
This is . . . genocide!
Apparently is was an inappropriate term. Not sure why. Not a black disease, just a homo disease. Not sure what the monkeypox name problem was. MPX is their new name. Shitboxpox, pooboxpox, backdoorpox, all acceptable alternatives.
I thinking about taking the “Un-English 101” course at the college so I can get with the times.
Incredible how some people are just brain washed idiots and will follow a lie until their death shot takes them down. The same idiots will still support the death jab on their death beds.
But then again, are these idiots you are talking about really even people at all, or are they demon Judas goats leading others astray with their vaccine examples and then returning to inhabit yet another body?
They’re the same idiots who keep believing in the need for .gov and vote and enlist.
Over 43000 likes means 43000 more to perish. Stupid people
Where’s Glock N Load?
We gotta do Vindicators 4 !!!
Fake and gay like everything else related to covid.
Fake can be fun. Gay, OTOH, is no laughing matter.
Glock- You asked if they would put fake doctors up to support the narrative…..WELL???
Worldender prequel for sure.
ZFG, out.
P.S. you can make anything sound bad when you rearrange the words enough.
Not reading any article not in English.
An author continually referring to an individual in the plural is not writing in English.
Everyone will tolerate this until it is just normal.
That bothered me, but I guess he did it because the of the pronouns on the fake account.
I went to Walmart in Schererville Dyer area on Indianapolis Blvd. And route 30 to pay a credit card bill the other day. The young black girl working the service counter had a facemask a face shield and plastic gloves on . Needless to say I could not understand what the fuck she was saying.I notice the people masked up are 90 percent bobongo around here.I also went to Strack and Van Tils for some over priced cold cuts from the deli where I had a conversation with an 88 year old gentleman. He was white unmasked, and intelligent compare that to the 20 yo sexually confused entitled weirdos running around today.
Peoples IQ’s are dropping thru the floor. Especially the unvaxxed with a fully contaminated partner.
You lost me at
“Last month, Dr. Robert Honeyman lost THEIR sister to Covid.”
To be honest, I’m lost when is see “Dr.”. Dr.’s are just certified clowns if they didn’t object right off the bat.
Babble- Thank God lifeguards at swimming pools across the nation are not as lackluster as MDs, I guess you can’t see bodies floating in a pool and say, undetermined? Public health and safety has gone out the freakin’ door while these fat paycheck medical excuses for doctors just play along with the scam.
Actually they would see the bodies increasingly bob’n around in the pool and state, They’re not dead, They’re pining for the fiords in british communista
Oh my god, “the Parrots just stunned as all.”
The Pandemic was a Media Driven Hoax and this article is more confirmation. Anyone who actually did get sick just had seasonal flu or cold. There is no Covid19. No lab on earth has ever isolated this imaginary virus. The CDC even admitted this. It was a worldwide MSM driven Psyops.
A powerful, well-funded coalition is working to bring the transgender movement to red America.
And it’s winning—even in deep-red South Dakota.
This is the story of how one of the most conservative states in the country was conquered by gender ideology.
The first reports of this dynamic came when Sanford—a $7.5-billion medical giant that employs nearly seven times more South Dakotans than any other business in the state—was linked to the death of HB 1217, a 2021 bill that would have banned men from competing in women’s sports…
When Governor @KristiNoem surprised conservatives by vetoing that bill, we looked into it. What we found was that a Sanford lobbyist named Matt McCaulley had worked with Noem’s office to kill HB 1217 — and a number of anti-gender ideology bills, too…
But Sanford’s influence pierces much deeper than Noem’s office. The company and its activist allies have lobbied increasingly aggressively against conservative bills that threaten its interests.
In the past few sessions, dozens of those bills have died in the state legislature..
How do these bills keep dying in a state controlled by Republicans?
Well, active Sanford employees currently serve as Republicans in the legislature; and the local GOP establishment enjoys generous donations from Sanford-backed healthcare lobbying groups like SDAHO and SDSMA.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1610987138635497472.html
Sometimes it’s difficult to tell if the globalists pushed the MRNA shot in order to kill off the homosexuals, or if the perverts were just a stepping stone to killing everyone.
TPTB always support useful idjits and other termites . . . until they don’t:
THE FOUR STAGES OF IDEOLOGICAL SUBVERSION – YURI BEZMENOV (1984) (CONDENSED INTERVIEW – 7 min.)
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YURI BEZMENOV: DECEPTION WAS MY JOB (Full 1+-hr. version of above sampler)
One of my FB friends (a high school acquaintance) might as well be a lefty NPC. Trots out every lefty “cause” like clockwork. She currently has a Ukraine flag, adorned with a dove carrying an olive branch, on her page. I feel like asking her if she knows that Zelenskyyyyyyyyyyy wanted us to preemptively nuke Russia, and what part of that denotes peace? But I didn’t because it’s not worth the hassle.
What happened with the protests about that Iranian girl?
not surprising. everything in this nation is fake, save the jailing of patriots and shaking down those who still bother to work.
And the ones who do exist, shouldn’t.