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Anti-Vax Podcaster Who Got COVID at a Conspiracy Conference Has Died (archive.is)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A QAnon and anti-vaccine podcaster has died from complications due to COVID-19 after contracting the virus at a conspiracy theory conference that turned into a superspreader event, and where fellow attendees baselessly blamed their illness on an anthrax attack.

The Herman Cain Award goes to....

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 years ago (18 children)

Its sad to watch empathy erode over disagreement over an experimental pharma product that does not stop the spread or infection

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (17 children)

Experimental? The COVID vaccines currently in use have been trialled with appropriate ethics and then approved. MRNA technology has been researched for some 30 years. Doesn't stop the spread or infection? The vaccines limits transmissibility of the virus by reducing viral load and induces immunity - no vaccine is 100 % effective.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

So much faith and rhetoric it feels like I'm listening to a religious fanatic talk.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Allah snackbar troll inshallah

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