An antisemitic conspiracy theorist who called Covid-19 a hoax has died from it.
A former CIA officer who claimed to be the first person to call Covid-19 a hoax, died from the disease after battling for life for nearly a month in a hospital.
Robert David Steele, a veteran of the US marine corps and a QAnon supporter, promoted several conspiracy theories, including one that said Covid-19 was a hoax. He also promoted an anti-vaccination campaign.
Earlier this month, Steele was hospitalised with coronavirus symptoms, including severely damaged lungs. The former marine, however, continued calling the infection a hoax and refused to get inoculated.
“I will not take the vaccination, though I did test positive for whatever they’re calling ‘COVID’ today, but the bottom line is that my lungs are not functioning,” Steele wrote in his final blog post on 17 August, accompanied by a picture of him on a ventilator.
“We will never be the same because now we know that we’ve all been lied to about everything,” Steele wrote. “But, now we also know that we can trust each other. I’m alive today because I had a network that put me into a good hospital in Florida.”
Sounding positive about his recovery, Steele wrote: “The good news is that I will survive with a few days off. I should be back up and at least functional soon. This is been a near death experience, very much like a new death experience the whole country is going through right now (sic).”
Naturally, his friend and fellow conspiracy theorist has a conspiracy theory about his death:
At least he doesn’t seem to be blaming the Jews.
Speaking of which, Steele certainly did, and he hated us so much, he wanted us dead.
An article penned by Steele for a far-right website in 2019 was littered with viscerally antisemitic themes, including the claim that there was no distinction between Judaism as a faith and Zionism as a political movement. Describing the Nazi Holocaust as a “contrived myth,” Steele asserted that the “current spread of perversion and transgenderism is a direct consequence of Zionist subversion intended to dilute, weaken, and destroy America’s moral fiber.”
Elsewhere in the same piece, a glowing review of a book by the white supremacist Kevin MacDonald, Steele declared: “For me, in the here and now this book documents the heart of the Zionist agenda of subversion, and the importance of giving Jewish citizens a choice: be loyal to the Republic or go to jail.”
Calling Zionism “a cancer on humanity,” Steele added: “First, shut down Israel and restore Palestine; and second, eradicate every Zionist who refuses to be loyal to their country of citizenship and the rule of law.”
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