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Post by Admin on Apr 20, 2021 20:12:01 GMT
Musician Ted Nugent said Monday he tested positive for COVID-19 and had been experiencing intense symptoms, though he’s called the pandemic a “hoax” in the past.
In December 2020, the 72-year-old entertainer dismissed the global coronavirus pandemic as “scammy.” Monday, he changed his tune, mentioning the “pandemic clusterfu–.”
During the Facebook Live broadcast in which he announced his diagnosis, in fact, he used that colorful word twice.
“I have had flu symptoms for the last 10 days and I thought I was dying,” he told viewers. “Just a clusterfu–.”
Previously, Nugent declared that the ongoing global crisis was somehow “not a real pandemic” and people who choose to wear masks — often in compliance with local ordinances — are “sheep.”
Nugent is a political conservative who expressed support for former president Donald Trump’s policies and even performed at the Republican’s events. Trump, like Nugent, contracted COVID-19 at one point, requiring hospitalization last fall.
Nugent has attacked school shooting survivor and gun control advocate David Hogg and praised Fox News’ Laura Ingraham.
Earlier this month, Nugent expressed no fear of the virus in another Facebook Live, instead quipping, “Why weren’t we shut down for COVID one-through-18?”
Of course, COVID-19 was not named sequentially, but for the year the infection was initially reported, 2019.
Read original story Ted Nugent Tests Positive for COVID After Calling Pandemic a ‘Hoax': ‘I Thought I Was Dying’ At TheWrap
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Post by Admin on Apr 21, 2021 4:59:18 GMT
Right wing rocker and Michigan native Ted Nugent took to Facebook this week to announce he tested positive for COVID-19 and experienced severe symptoms for 10 days.
In a live video Monday night, Nugent said he had “flu symptoms” for 10 days that made him feel like he was “dying.”
“I literally could hardly crawl out of bed the last few days ... I was officially tested positive for COVID-19 today,” he said in the video laden with graphic language and completely false statements about vaccines.
Nugent, 72, had called COVID-19 “not a real pandemic.” In his video Monday he said people told him he shouldn’t announce that he tested positive.
Nugent, a loud supporter of ex-President Donald Trump, also has called the pandemic a scam and complained about public health restrictions.
A poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research in late March found that 36% of Republicans said they will probably or definitely not get vaccinated, compared with 12% of Democrats. The seven-day national average of cases remains over 60,000 new infections per day.
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