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MiniMe

(21,714 posts)
Fri Sep 10, 2021, 01:23 AM Sep 2021

Florida Councilman Who Mocked Dr. 'Falsey' Fauci Is Hospitalized With Severe COVID

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fred-lowry-volusia-county-councilman-hospitalized-with-covid-19?fbclid=IwAR34fnZ_n42lG8Qc-LfYYRnTwB1Qx_IWITOQOnoQURz_LM_vwmmWVARBDRI

Fred Lowry, a councilman for Florida’s Volusia County and a loud COVID-19 denier, is in the hospital with a severe case of COVID-19, according to the County Chair Jeff Brower. “He is in the hospital wrestling with COVID-19. It’s been about three weeks now,” Brower said on Tuesday as Lowry, 66, missed a county council meeting for the second time.

Lowry, a Republican halfway through his second term on the Volusia County Council, spread COVID-19 disinformation and conspiracy theories, going so far as to say the pandemic was a hoax. “We were lied to,” he said in a sermon at Denton’s Lakes Baptist Church. Lowry often criticized Dr. Anthony Fauci, whom he nicknamed “Dr. Falsey,” and insisted the top health official was a liar and pervert. Other conspiracies Lowry promoted had to do with media coverage of hydroxychloroquine and the Wuhan lab-leak theory.

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Florida Councilman Who Mocked Dr. 'Falsey' Fauci Is Hospitalized With Severe COVID (Original Post) MiniMe Sep 2021 OP
Please Lord, Take Him SoCalDavidS Sep 2021 #1
Lol secondwind Sep 2021 #7
Three letters... DNR. lapfog_1 Sep 2021 #2
Gee, I sure hope he makes it through this! Equomba Sep 2021 #3
Ok, it's all good. Embrace the Covid dalton99a Sep 2021 #4
Buh-bye creep. denbot Sep 2021 #5
Awwww. Hekate Sep 2021 #6
said Dr. Fauci was "Sexual deviant" that "powerful liberals drink the blood of babies" Demovictory9 Sep 2021 #8
Oh, that guy. tanyev Sep 2021 #9
Hope he gets what he's been asking for karma. n/t lark Sep 2021 #10
Yet another Republican suicide-by-stupidity Champp Sep 2021 #11
Go to the light Fred durablend Sep 2021 #12
Karma is a bitch ... BlueWavePsych Sep 2021 #13
Well, GoodRaisin Sep 2021 #14

SoCalDavidS

(9,998 posts)
1. Please Lord, Take Him
Fri Sep 10, 2021, 01:27 AM
Sep 2021

The world WILL be a better place without him. Save the hospital the effort, and just end his existence.

denbot

(9,899 posts)
5. Buh-bye creep.
Fri Sep 10, 2021, 03:10 AM
Sep 2021

Too bad he likely took out someone trying to do the right things to protect their loved ones.

Demovictory9

(32,448 posts)
8. said Dr. Fauci was "Sexual deviant" that "powerful liberals drink the blood of babies"
Fri Sep 10, 2021, 04:27 AM
Sep 2021

Lowry, who also a pastor, was said to have been sick for a couple weeks before being brought to an emergency room to be treated for double pneumonia. Brower said a battle with pneumonia a couple years ago left Lowry’s lungs damaged.

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Lowry referred to the nation’s head immunologist, Dr. Anthony Fauci, as “Dr. Falsey,” and allegedly referred to the 80-year-old director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases as a liar and a sexual deviant. He also used his pulpit to share misinformation about climate science and pushed the absurd QAnon theory that powerful liberals drink the blood of babies.

“This is supposed to be rampant, I hear in Hollywood, and among the elite,” Lowry said. “I don’t know if it’s true, but where there’s smoke...”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/conspiracy-pushing-covid-skeptic-and-florida-councilman-fred-lowry-hospitalized-with-covid-report/ar-AAOcAeJ?ocid=uxbndlbing
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