“Pro-life” Republican social media hero Candace Owens bragged on Twitter how no one in her family would be vaccinated against COVID, which has killed over 600,000 Americans. Owens created an imaginary “medical freedom” right to back up her science denial.
Not one person in my family will ever touch the Covid-19 vaccine.
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) July 7, 2021
That is the decision that we have made, unabashedly, as a family.
Medical freedom is an individual right that should NEVER be infringed upon and any person who thinks otherwise has no place in our government.
Media Matters notes that Owens has a long history of pushing anti-vaccine misinformation:
The Daily Wire’s Candace Owens pushes inaccurate and misleading claims about the COVID-19 vaccine on her Instagram and Twitter accounts. Owens, who has a large following on both platforms, regularly violates these platforms’ guidelines on spreading vaccine misinformation.
Owens incorrectly compares mortality rates to vaccine efficacy rates, suggests that the COVID-19 vaccine will be forced upon Americans, and baselessly asserts that the vaccine is “poison” and similar to decades-old vaccine experiments.
Owens has a well-documented track record as a COVID-19 conspiracy theorist. Throughout the pandemic, she has fearmongered and lied to her social media audience about COVID-19 vaccinations while touting anti-vaccination spokespeople and attacking the HPV vaccine.
Owens’ continued misinformation on major social media platforms comes at a time in which it is critical for Americans to receive a COVID-19 vaccination in order to end the pandemic. Currently, conservatives are among the most vaccine-hesitant, posing an obstacle to herd immunity.
(Source: Candace Owens/Twitter, Media Matters, Photo Credit: C-SPAN/YouTube)