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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.”
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...”
Councilwoman Billie Wheeler said she’d been in touch with Lowry and that he is indeed not well.
“He’s pretty darned sick,” she told the News-Journal.
According to Wheeler, doctors could send Lowry home by Thursday. The Orlando Sentinel reports that Lowry, a registered Republican, also pushed debunked claims the 2020 election was rigged. He last attended a city council meeting on Aug. 17.
