Anti-vaxxer hospitalised with Covid after saying vaccines would wipe out ‘stupid people’

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Rick Wiles, a right-wing Christian talk show host and anti-vaxxer has been hospitalised with Covid-19 after saying vaccines would wipe out “stupid people”.

Less than a month ago, Mr Wiles said he would never get vaccinated. His website, TruNews, announced over the weekend that had been infected and taken to hospital where he had been given oxygen. The announcement was reported by Right Wing Watch.

TruNews has pushed conspiracy theorists considered to be racist, antisemitic, homophobic, and Islamophobic. The outlet has called President Obama a “demon from hell” multiple times. Mr Wiles has said that Mr Obama “spiritually sodomised the nation”.

The right-wing broadcaster told his audience last month that he wasn’t getting vaccinated because he believed the vaccines were being used to commit a “genocide,” to kill hundreds of millions of people.

“I am not going to be vaccinated,” Mr Wiles said. “I’m going to be one of the survivors. I’m going to survive the genocide ... The only good thing that will come out of this is a lot of stupid people will be killed off. If the vaccine wipes out a lot of stupid people, well, we’ll have a better world.”

TruNews has said that eternal damnation would await anyone mocking Mr Wiles’s affliction.

“Already, the naysayers and mockers have started with their taunts,” the website said. “Let them speak their foolish words and let them mock. It will only serve to be used to fuel their flames of torment in hell unless they repent.”

TruNews suddenly suspended its broadcast last week, announcing that it was “experiencing a sudden cluster of flu and COVID among some employees and their relatives”.

The outlet then said on Sunday that Mr Wiles had been hospitalised.

TruNews has announced that Lauren Witzke, a Republican Senate candidate in Delaware in 2020, will fill in and co-host his nightly TV programme for the next two weeks.

The Daily Beast reported that Ms Witzke has pushed conspiracy theories related to QAnon, antisemitism, Flat Earth, and 9/11.

kenziethemom on June 2nd, 2021 at 17:13 UTC »

I know a couple that has spent the last year trying to convince people that covid doesn't exist and we're brainwashed for wearing masks.

The wife died last month from Covid. Spent the last two weeks of her life on a ventilator, in horrible pain. Now the husband is pushing for everyone to get the vaccine.

Lost the love of his life, married for like 40 years, all because they wanted to feel smarter than experts.

Ostendenoare on June 2nd, 2021 at 14:56 UTC »

'Why do things that only happen to stupid people keep happening to me?' --Homer Simpson/Rick Wiles.

Astra7525 on June 2nd, 2021 at 14:22 UTC »

Somewhat related, but if you have about 2 hours of free time, I can recommend hbomberguy's Vaccines: A Measured Response about how the modern Anti-Vax movement got started.

And...Holy fuck is it staggering how empty the foundational elements of the Anti-Vax position are... Watching all the investigations into the shady background deals that lead to Wakefield faking a study for personal profit...