Yahoo Finance Dennis Prager Catches COVID And Claims He Did It On Purpose
Conservative pundit Dennis Prager announced Monday that he had COVID-19, and told his audience that he contracted it on purpose.
“It is infinitely preferable to have natural immunity than vaccine immunity and that is what I hoped for the entire time. Hence, I so engaged with strangers, constantly hugging them, taking photos with them, knowing that I was making myself very susceptible to getting COVID,” Prager said, according to MediaMatters.org.
Prager admitted that his health care plan might sound “bizarre,” but he did it in the hope that he “would achieve natural immunity and be taken care of by therapeutics.”
He claimed that is “exactly what has happened” and said “it should have happened to the great majority of Americans.”
Prager ― who has spoken out against the vaccine ― said the condition didn’t warrant hospitalization. Instead, he’s been treating the virus with monoclonal antibodies, zinc, azithromycin, as well as medications like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, which haven’t been proven to be effective against COVID-19.
Still, he insisted: “I have done what a person should do if one is not going to get vaccinated.”
You can see Prager talk about the virus below.
Dennis Prager announces he has COVID-19 while ranting against vaccines and declaring that he was trying to get infected
https://t.co/z12VuK3Wrwpic.twitter.com/0OP0Ge2aYi— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) October 18, 2021
Prager’s announcement attracted lots of Twitter snark.
Congratulations...I guess? https://t.co/RWX3SrucgX
— Max Burns (@themaxburns) October 18, 2021
Thoughts and Pragers https://t.co/qg6AS5QVPl
— Jesse Hawken (@jessehawken) October 18, 2021
DP: "I have natural immunity, it is preferred over vaccines."
gets covid
DP: "I've taken horse dewormer, IV treatments, zinc, snake oil, been sleeping in a tanning bed, hydroxychloroquine..."
He must not trust that natural immunity as much as he thought. https://t.co/cGmqgv0xzD— Brady Goodman (@bradygoodman) October 18, 2021
(Narrator: He was not trying to get infected with a potentially deadly disease.) https://t.co/coNv9FnYf4
— Dan Gillmor (@dangillmor) October 18, 2021
Doing an “I meant to do that” with contracting COVID-19 is madness. I hope Dennis Prager recovers soon and learns something from this. https://t.co/kYHPzjPHg5
— Mark R. Yzaguirre (@markyzaguirre) October 18, 2021
Prager: pic.twitter.com/tHmkjhjZOB
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) October 18, 2021
Prager probably doesn't know it but he's a favorite joke of many teens who spend time on youtube https://t.co/TUsyV65NKO
— manu #BLM 🖖 (@trekonomics) October 18, 2021
Wild to hear "Yes, I'm a bugchaser" from the homophobic host of a major national right wing radio program, but uhhh anti-vax conspiracies have made for some strange bedfellows, shall we say https://t.co/OVXFMGIdi7
— Just UltraDavid (@ultradavid) October 18, 2021
This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.
