"Something's making these people sick, and I'm pretty sure that it's not coronavirus," board member Allen Banks told medical professionals who testified. "So the question that you should be asking is, 'What's making them sick?'"

"Board member Walt Kirby said he was giving up on the idea of controlling the spread of coronavirus.

"I personally do not care whether anybody wears a mask or not. If they want to be dumb enough to walk around and expose themselves and others, that's fine with me," Kirby said. "Nobody's wearing the damned mask anyway. ... I'm sitting back and watching them catch it and die. Hopefully I'll live through it."

Another member, Allen Banks, denied COVID-19 exists.

"Something's making these people sick, and I'm pretty sure that it's not coronavirus, so the question that you should be asking is, 'What's making them sick?'" he told the medical professionals who testified."

  • S_____B [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    I unironically respect the first dude way more than any other Covid denier. The majority of them hide behind faux-empathetic statements like "We need to think about the small business owners who need our business", but this guy just straight up says "I don't care, I'm taking my chances and watching my community die in the meantime." It's what every one of these Reopen The Country idiots actually believes, this guy just has the stones to say it out loud.