Thread by @DrEricDing

Flat-Earth conspiracy theorist & #COVID19-denier dies. In a recent video, Parhar reported feeling ill with symptoms— fatigue, chills & cough, while claiming “CONVID (sic) doesn’t exist” to his dying breath. Let’s trust science not conspiracy theorists.
globalnews.ca/news/8351684/b…

2) The story is rich… In a video posted Wednesday, Parhar said he was feeling somewhat better and had recently taken Ivermectin, an anti-parasite drug widely touted in the anti-vaccine community, but which Canadian and U.S. health officials have warned against using.

3) Parhar has been one of the most outspoken voices in the anti-mask and anti-vaccine movement.
He was in the midst of a trial on 3 charges of violating Canada’s Quarantine Act for refusing to self-isolate after returning to BC from a flat earth conference in the U.S. in 2020.

4) In March of 2020, the City of Delta revoked the business licence for Parhar’s hot yoga studio, after he encouraged people to attend and falsely claimed the heat would kill the coronavirus.

globalnews.ca/news/6708965/d…

5) He was also criticized for shooting a video inside a Metro Vancouver hospital at the height of the pandemic’s first wave to get the “truth” about the virus. globalnews.ca/news/6777373/b…

6) In April, the B.C. Supreme Court threw out a lawsuit he filed against the province claiming trespass, malfeasance, extortion, terrorism, kidnapping and fraud by the government on the part of government officials.