Anti-Vaccine Cartoonist Ben Garrison Says He’s Got Covid-19, Won’t Go to Hospital

Ben Garrison, a right-wing cartoonist recognized for his opposition to vaccines and his extremely flattering drawings of former President Donald Trump, instructed Gizmodo late Sunday that he contracted covid-19 and has been sick for about two weeks. But allegedly getting covid hasn’t modified Garrison’s thoughts about fashionable medical science.

Garrison, who lives in Montana, believes that he received covid-19 whereas eating out at a restaurant a few weeks in the past. Montana has seen a disturbing rise in coronavirus instances in current weeks, with about 900 new cases each day.

“Yes, it’s definitely Covid and we’ve had all the symptoms. My wife and [I] went out with a couple to a restaurant and the next day all four of us were sick. One of us went to see a doctor and was told she had Covid, and that was the clincher,” Garrison instructed Gizmodo through e-mail. (Garrison has been banned from Twitter for supporting the rebel on the U.S. Capitol on January 6.)

“We’re taking Ivermectin and various vitamins including a lot of Zinc,” Garrison continued, explaining what he’s doing to deal with the illness. The cartoonist additionally notes he’s taking beet root juice. None of this has been confirmed to deal with or stop covid-19, with monoclonal antibodies and vaccines being the solely actual methods to battle this pandemic, which remains to be raging in lots of elements of the world.

Garrison has promoted ivermectin in his numerous cartoons, together with the illustration above, the place a horse is seen kicking Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s prime infectious illness knowledgeable. The cartoon horse seems to have a “cents” image on his hooves as he shouts, “get some horse sense!” and kicks Dr. Fauci, who’s holding a droopy needle with greenback indicators.

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Ivermectin has not been shown to help treat covid-19. While ivermectin is being studied as a potential covid-19 treatment, much of such research is plagued with alleged fraud, errors, oversight, and bad data. In proper doses, the drug is relatively safe and a useful antiparasitic. Its popular use is for treating parasites in livestock such as horses. Recently, some people, particularly those influenced by Facebook misinformation hubs, have taken the livestock versions of the drug in a mistaken belief that it can cure or prevent covid-19, leading to ivermectin’s association with horses. Garrison is clearly referencing this with his recent cartoon.

With 1,440 instances this 12 months thus far, ivermectin poisoning has more than tripled since 2019 and 2020, based on the American Association of Poison Control Centers. The New York Times reported Sunday that in New Mexico, two folks have died; their deaths are being attributed to the usage of ivermectin as a substitute of confirmed covid-19 therapies. State well being officers say that ivermectin precipitated kidney failure in one of many sufferers.

Garrison told Gizmodo that he and his wife are not feeling well and that he’s completely lost his sense of taste and smell. Garrison seems to believe that he and his wife are struggling to overcome the disease because they’re in their mid-60s.

“Both Tina and I feel slightly better after two weeks, but it has been rough. I lost my taste and smell as well as desire to eat any kind of food. I lost 15 pounds as a result. Young people tend to bounce back more quickly, but we’re in our mid-60s,” Garrison wrote.

When Gizmodo asked Garrison whether he’d been vaccinated against covid-19, he repeated many of the same conspiracy theories that appear in his cartoons.

“We will never take their foul spike protein-producing jabs, which are neither safe nor effective. They’re not real vaccines. They’re gene therapy,” Garrison wrote in an email to Gizmodo.

The numerous covid-19 vaccines which were permitted to be used within the U.S. by Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson, have been shown to be safe and effective.

“15,000 have died as a result of the Covid vaccines and hundreds of thousands others have had serious side effects. The mainstream media will not mention a word of this—not one peep. Instead we get the ’safe and effective’ malarky over and over as well as government pushers urging us to take the free poison. Don’t do it. The Pfizer CEO certainly won’t. Bill Gates and his family won’t, either,” Garrison claimed.

Severe uncomfortable side effects to the covid-19 vaccines, corresponding to loss of life, are extremely rare and any American is more likely to die from covid-19 than vaccines. Garrison’s rivalry that the CEO of Pfizer received’t get vaccinated is simply untrue. Bill Gates has also been vaccinated in opposition to covid-19, regardless of conspiracy theorists claiming he received’t get the jab over fears about uncomfortable side effects.

Garrison says he’d by no means go to a hospital to deal with his covid-19. (Last week, NBC News reported that anti-vaccine Facebook teams have been influencing members to not search hospital therapy for covid-19 and even instructed them to tug their sick members of the family out of ICU.)

“I would never go to a hospital with Covid. Robert David Steele did it a few weeks ago and they killed him. The hospitals get extra money for Covid death reports, which is necessary to keep fear ramped up,” Garrison claimed in an email to Gizmodo.

The man Garrison is referring to, Robert David Steele, was a conspiracy theorist who ceaselessly appeared on InfoWars with Alex Jones. The 69-year-old Steele believed some extremely weird issues, together with that NASA had imprisoned kids on Mars to work as slaves. Steele, who claimed to be a former CIA officer, reportedly died of covid-19 in August.

Garrison insists that your complete covid-19 pandemic response is absolutely about authorities management, not public well being—a recurring mantra within the covid hoaxer group. He repeated his false claim that vaccines don’t stop covid-19, advert nauseam. “This is about vaccine passports, tracking, government control and tyranny,” Garrison added.

The U.S. is currently averaging over 119,000 new instances every day and over 2,000 new deaths. And with solely 55.9% of the inhabitants totally vaccinated, the illness is prone to preserve circulating by means of the inhabitants through the winter.