I would avoid this event as it seems likely to be a superspreader, even if turnout is low.
Pierre Kory is the one who founded FLCCC which got funding from The Brownstone Institute. Pierre Kory and Jordan Vaughn were interviewed together at the FLCCC conference in Phoenix Arizona early in 2024, and reportedly prescribed ivermectin for covid and long covid (which Pierre Kory wrongly claims without evidence that long covid is largely caused by vaccination.) Pierre Kory has disparaged all vaccines including the vaccines for smallpox and polio.
Bret Weinstein was a darling of “the intellectual dark web” PR of 2018, and has been a covid contrarian pundit from the get-go in 2020, and is so extreme he’s been covered on 2 episodes of the podcast I Don’t Speak German, which covers the extreme far right, often actual Nazis. Voting by mail is good, the military does it, it’s accessible to the elderly and disabled, and it’s legitimate. But on The Majority Report show they played a clip of an interaction on the Joe Rogan podcast with Bret Weinstein, and they said voting by mail is “mostly for soldiers serving overseas right, exactly it was for people who just simply couldn’t vote in person and it never really mattered except in very rare cases.” Excuse me, but every vote matters, because you can never know what’s rare in advance. This seems like a very anti-democratic attitude, not to mention disparaging to members of the military, and disabled and elderly people, and also, every single voter in the state of Oregon. The bizarre part is that these right-wingers seem not to have gotten the memo. For many months now in Pennsylvania I’ve been seeing get out the vote Republican and Trump-specific ads, promoting signing up for mail ballot. But now they’re reversing course again, after convincing senior citizen Trump fans it’s a safe option, which is particularly cruel, and could confuse people and depress their own turnout. Not that I’m complaining about less votes for Trump, but it’s anti-democratic, and eligible voters, including MAGA voters, should have accessibility and not be bombarded by conflicting stories and conspiracy theories. Bret Weinstein also has platformed the dangerous urban legend targeting Ohio right now.