Sargon of Akkad defends Bolsonaro and Trump’s unproven, dangerous coronavirus cure
Sargon of Akkad, a far-right conspiracy theorist, broadcasted a video titled “The Coronavirus Tyranny Is Upon Us,” in which he fearmongers about the U.K. falling “in danger” of becoming a police state, and falsely claims Trump’s promotion of unproven chloroquine for COVID-19 cure is not harmful. A man in Arizona died “after ingesting chloroquine phosphate because he thought it would protect against the coronavirus.”
Sargon defended Brazil’s “President” Bolsonaro from an accurate criticism by Journalist Glenn Greenwald. Glenn wrote, “hyping hydrochloride as a cure, and encouraging an end to isolation — are the first of a world leader to be deleted by Twitter for rules violation.”
Sargon responded, “I’m not exactly sure that Glenn Greenwald got this exactly right — whether he meant this anti-malaria drug that Trump has been talking about,” or “the FDA has issued emergency authorization of the use of it. Its a well-known drug already,” he claimed, regardless of evidence proving Chloroquine is not a miracle drug for coronavirus.
Physician Eugene Gu, MD highlighted in a March 20 tweet, the risks of testing drugs on patients “without rigorous clinical trials.”
Sargon complained that we would have to be in quarantine for the next few years potentially, ‘these things should be undone, as soon as possible,’ Sargon warned, referring to the measures.
Further adding, “its better to not have the ground laid” for a ‘dystopian society,’ where we give up rights that took a thousand years to obtain.
“This is really quite terrifying. I don’t like the precedents being set here, like, this should not be considered a normal and acceptable thing,” Sargon declared.
Just in March, Sargon has rejoiced that everyone is out enjoying the sunshine, saying if you’re going to spread coronavirus at the beach, why don’t you get a Sargon beach towel — it will likely trigger someone.
He also parroted white supremacist language and white genocide conspiracies on YouTube, arguing “you shouldn’t be trying to unionize non-white people against the white people in order to displace them as a race.”
Carl Benjamin ignored data revealing US trajectory, as the new center of the coronavirus outbreak, on March 26, and consequently was debunked on March 27, when the US surpassed Italy and Spain in coronavirus infections.
And urged viewers to not panic during the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak, comparing it to the flu, in lock-step with Rush Limbaugh’s take.
Yesterday, he collaborated with white supremacist Stefan Molyneux, in a video available on YouTube.
He asserted in a March 31 video that the World Health Organization had been compromised by the Chinese, and livestreamed a video on March 28, saying the mortality rate for COVID-19 is really low.
The novel coronavirus outbreak has caused the deaths of tens of thousands of people, and has infected nearly a million.