Conspiracy-pushing COVID skeptic and Florida councilman Fred Lowry hospitalized with COVID: report

[TomCADem]

Source: New York Daily News

A Florida councilman who pushed QAnon conspiracy gibberish and declared there was no pandemic is “darned sick” with COVID.

Volusia County Councilman Fred Lowry, 66, was hospitalized Monday night, according to the Daytona Beach News-Journal. He had reportedly been treated with monoclonal antibodies days earlier. “He is in the hospital wrestling with COVID-19,” County Chair Jeff Brower announced.

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.

Preaching at the Deltona Lakes Baptist Church in late May, Lowry told followers the COVID pandemic was a hoax. “We did not have a pandemic, folks,” he claimed. “We were lied to.”

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

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This is what happens when you have an entire political party and right wing media ecosystem unconstrained by facts or truth and invested in gas lighting America.

[BradBo]

1. Just a matter of time, say your goodbyes.

One less killer on this earth.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. Oh fucking well. nt

[Leghorn21]

3. Ya don't say

Well how about that

[LymphocyteLover]

4. Gasp! No one could've seen this coming

[durablend]

5. *shrug*

It is what it is.

[turbinetree]

6. Don't let the door hit you in the ass.....reputable science data warned you and others...

[Lucky Luciano]

7. I'm Idaho.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. I'm at a point now, where I think his church members share the blame for listening to this tripe.

Without them he would be just another madman shouting in the wind.

[groundloop]

9. No sympathy. My wife's brother-in-law died of covid after listening to idiots like this.

It was shocking how fast he went, felt ill on a Thursday, went to the hospital the next Monday, and was dead on Wednesday.

Thankfully my wife's sister was wise enough to get vaccinated, she tested positive after her husband went to the hospital yet never had any symptoms.

Now he's gone and the rest of the family is left to clean up the mess.

Yes boys and girls, the vaccines work. Don't listen to idiots, go get your shot.

[speak easy]

10. HCFA - Herman Cain Freedom Award nominee

... and the winner is ... wait for it ... wait for it

[lark]

11. Wow, has high risk and got caught, who could have predicted that?

Anyone with a functioning brain?

[SarcasticSatyr]

12. Lowry is human garbage ...

and covid's about to take out the trash ...

[The Unmitigated Gall]

13. It's getting really hard to play my sympathy violin

It so small now that quantum effects have supervened and now it keeps popping in and out of existence in various probabilistic locations.

Real pain in the butt. Sorry, Freddy, you’re on your own.

[GulfCoast66]

14. We can't fix stupid. But Covid sure can.

[dalton99a]

15. Now safely in the arms of Covid

[NurseJackie]

16. I thought he'd have been DEAD by now.