A Canadian man who denied the existence of COVID-19 and believed that the Earth is flat has died after experiencing multiple symptoms consistent with a COVID infection.
According to Global News, police were called to help paramedics at the home of outspoken COVID-19 denier, Mak Parhar on Thursday morning. Parhar died before officers reached his home.
Authorities have not confirmed the cause of death, but less than two weeks before he died he told his followers in a livestream that he was feeling ill with classic COVID symptoms including fatigue, cough, chills and sore throat.
In the video, Parhar, wearing a ‘Flat Earth gang’ T-shirt said he wakes up in the middle of the night drenched in sweat but still visited the grocery store, maskless, and praised other shoppers in the crowded store for not wearing masks.
He denies that his symptoms could be COVID related because the disease that has killed millions of people worldwide is not real. It’s “not CONVID (sic),” he says “because CONVID (sic) doesn’t exist.”
Parhar believed that a combination of stress ,toxins and negative energy was causing his symptoms.
In a follow up video on Wednesday, Parhar said he felt better after taking Ivermectin, the anti-malarial drug touted on the right as a treatment for COVID even though it is not authorize to treat COVID infection.
He was no stranger to pushing bizarre treatments for the virus even though he believed it did not exist. In March 2020, the business licence for his hot yoga studio was revoked after he falsely claimed that heat could kill the virus and invited people to visit.
At the time of his death, he was reportedly on trial for violating Canada’s Quarantine Act for refusing to self-isolate after returning to British Columbia from a flat earth conference in the U.S. last year, according to Global News.
He fucked around and found out. Dumbass.