He didn’t wear a mask and called the coronavirus ‘a fake crisis.’ Then he was infected
A Florida ride-share driver who said he didn’t wear a mask out of skepticism about the coronavirus pandemic has been hospitalized after contracting the virus.
Brian Hitchens of Jupiter detailed his suspicion on Facebook, WPTV reported.
“I didn’t really think nothing of it,” he wrote. “I still thought it was being blown out of proportion.”
Hitchens claimed to “not fear” the virus, decrying it as a “fake crisis” in a subsequent Facebook post.
“I thought it was maybe the government trying something, and it was kind of like they threw it out there to kinda distract us,” Hitchens told WPTV.
With both Hitchens and his wife in the hospital following their positive COVID-19 tests, it seems his outlook has changed.
“Don’t be foolish like I was so the same thing won’t happen to you like it happened to me and my wife,” Hitchens wrote.
Hitchens said he’s feeling better, but his wife’s condition has yet to improve. She was still sedated and on a ventalitor.
“After 3 weeks I have come to accept that my wife may pass away and the peace I have about it is that I know without a shadow of a doubt that she will be going home to be with the Lord,” Hitchens wrote May 12, “but I also do believe in miracles and I’m holding on to the chance that she may get healed but if not I am thankful for her I know we’ve been married for 8 years.”
Toward the end of his May 12 post, Hitchens asked for forgiveness as well as implored others to take the virus more seriously.
“We don’t have to fear this and by heeding the advice doesn’t mean that you fear it that means you’re showing wisdom during this epidemic,” he continued.
Hitchens wrote that he tested negative for the coronavirus Monday morning, according to his Facebook pafe.
