Anti-Vax Flat Earth Preacher Rob Skiba Dies From COVID-19

[babylonsister]

https://crooksandliars.com/2021/10/anti-vax-flat-earth-preacher-rob-skiba


10/15/21 4:51am
Anti-Vax Flat Earth Preacher Rob Skiba Dies From COVID-19
"The one scenario that really does appear to be coming into focus is the likelihood that within I’d say 2 to 3 years or so... one of us will probably be dead," Skiba posted to Facebook to those getting vaccinated.
By Ed Scarce


Skiba was calling vaccine mandates the "mark of the beast" from Revelations way back in 2012. He thought COVID-19 vaccinations were dangerous, posting on Facebook, "To those who disagree with my position on our current situation... One of us is right,” he wrote.

Rob Skiba made a really bad bet.

Source: The Daily Beast

Rob Skiba, an influential figure in flat earth and Christian circles, has died of COVID-19, colleagues announced on Thursday. He had been fighting the virus since at least late August, when he began exhibiting symptoms after “Take On The World,” a biblical flat earth conference. “He has been sick since coming back from TOTW,” a Facebook friend posted in early September, adding that Skiba had been hospitalized for low oxygen levels. One of the country’s most prominent advocates of Flat Earth Theory, Skiba was also skeptical of COVID-19 vaccines and some of the illness’ treatments. On the first day of the Take On The World conference, Skiba authored a Facebook post suggesting that the COVID-19 vaccines were dangerous.

‘To those who disagree with my position on our current situation... One of us is right,” he wrote. “Unless YHWH miraculously intervenes, based on what I’m seeing/hearing, the one scenario that really does appear to be coming into focus is the likelihood that within I’d say 2 to 3 years or so... one of us will probably be dead. Truly, I take no joy in saying this, nor will I if I'm the one still standing.”

His Facebook post.

The man truly was a prophet.

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[Lovie777]

1. Another COVID denier and hater bites the dusk . . .

[vanlassie]

2. Yawn.

What are you having for dinner tonight?

[Ohio Joe]

3. "I hope I'm wrong"

Well... He was and is now just another covid suicide.

[Iggo]

4. Oh.

Well then.

[Omnipresent]

5. Now he inherits the flat earth.

[dweller]

6. What's the next step here?

Is he buried, cremated or just pushed off the edge of the Earth?
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[Eugene]

8. ouch

if only one could rec replies...

[viva la]

7. He's sure either "one of the two of us" will be dead in a couple years

Sure glad he took the initiative and saved the rest of us!

So this guy is the center of a weird confluence of anti-science theories-- flat earth and anti-vax.

He has written several books on what would seem like the least fruitful topic ever-- that the earth is actually a disk. (Granted, the great late Terry Pratchett wrote a whole series based on that premise... only his were COMEDIES.)

Somehow he managed to get thousands of people (including now-antivaxxer NBA star Kyrie Irving) to believe what almost no one else has believed since, oh, Galileo? Columbus? Copernicus?

(see, that whole thing the rest of us call "the galaxy" is just a BOWL painted with stars and a sun and moon on a string... I might have some of the nuances wrong, but I think that's the basics.)

[Hortensis]

9. His nuttery got him an admiring following and probably a good life.

Take the RW political mindfuckers away and you'd still have his kind.

Regarding that lake of fire, I wonder if he had any moments of worry about where he was headed before the light was turned out on Sept 8. There's apparently no consciousness or cognition under that kind of sedation, and I certainly hope so.

[Deuce]

10. Played Covid Roulette and lost....

[louis-t]

11. He thought he could 'take on the world' but couldn't even

take on a preventable virus. Somehow, his worshipers will still think he was a genius.

[Solly Mack]

12. Folks like him take being dead wrong to the extreme.

[Grokenstein]

13. Skibby's entry at SorryAntiVaxxer.com

https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/post/rob-skiba-52-dallas-tx-author-evangelical-flat-earther-anti-vaxxer-on-ventilator-with-covid

I like Sorry because they document the assorted media posts of the antivaxxers in question. It's slowed down to about one entry a day, which is a good sign (I guess) but still going, despite some backlash over the gleeful responses in the comments.

[bottomofthehill]

14. Gee, that's too bad, if there was only some way to keep this from happening

Like a vaccine, or masks and distancing, but no, we just have to learn to live with this sad loss of life until we find some way to retard the spread of this virus that has killed over 725000 of our countrymen/women

I hope they find a solution soon.

Sarcasm thingy added.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

16. From the Hoarse Whisperer

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[ProfessorGAC]

17. Ok, This Is News

When I hear one of these drones is sick with COVID, my normal reaction is "It's not news unless they die."
Now, it's news.

[GoneOffShore]

18. Only one thing to say