Okung tweeting COVID conspiracy theories

[mrcompletely11]

I am getting the sense that he really doesnt want to be here

[Harbingers]

Makes you think, if one player is parroting it. How many people on the team think the same way. 

[Jeremy Igo]

Football players aren't known as the smartest bunch.

[Coheed]

11 minutes ago, PanthersNC1984 said:

He is 100% right, there is no doubt this is political. Evidently this virus is so deadly and smart that it knows not to make athletes or prominent public figures severely ill or death. Look at the St Louis Cardinals MLB team, over 20 of them tested positive, not a single one died or got hospitalized, in fact one week later they were on the field playing some of their best baseball of the year and swept a series. But yet, this is such a serious “disease” right?

Name one, just one prominent public figure, celebrity, world leader or pro athlete that has died or fell severely ill from this? Don’t you find that particularly odd? I truly do think the numbers are way inflated by false positives and double counts. Mask? I don’t even own one

Herman Cain 

Nick Cordero 

 

just because you can’t be bothered to do a google search doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened.

 

next.

 

[Waldo]

I really hope we don't extend this guy, I'm already tired of hearing anything he has to say. Just do a good job for a year and gtfo please and thank you. I am so thankful he was never going to be the long term answer, what a chode.

[4Corners]

15 minutes ago, PanthersNC1984 said:

He is 100% right, there is no doubt this is political. Evidently this virus is so deadly and smart that it knows not to make athletes or prominent public figures severely ill or death. Look at the St Louis Cardinals MLB team, over 20 of them tested positive, not a single one died or got hospitalized, in fact one week later they were on the field playing some of their best baseball of the year and swept a series. But yet, this is such a serious “disease” right?

Name one, just one prominent public figure, celebrity, world leader or pro athlete that has died or fell severely ill from this? Don’t you find that particularly odd? I truly do think the numbers are way inflated by false positives and double counts. Mask? I don’t even own one

[NAS]

I'm already tired of this guy and he hasn't even played a down yet.  

[Jeremy Igo]

Buddy of mine , 40 years old with common asthma but otherwise healthy, caught Covid and was dead within a week.

He had two small kids and a wife.

 

[jfra78]

17 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

I am getting the sense that he really doesnt want to be here

I went through his twitter feed a few months ago, he is just a weird dude.  

[MechaZain]

10 minutes ago, PanthersNC1984 said:

He is 100% right, there is no doubt this is political. Evidently this virus is so deadly and smart that it knows not to make athletes or prominent public figures severely ill or death. Look at the St Louis Cardinals MLB team, over 20 of them tested positive, not a single one died or got hospitalized, in fact one week later they were on the field playing some of their best baseball of the year and swept a series. But yet, this is such a serious “disease” right?

Name one, just one prominent public figure, celebrity, world leader or pro athlete that has died or fell severely ill from this? Don’t you find that particularly odd? I truly do think the numbers are way inflated by false positives and double counts. Mask? I don’t even own one

Hermain Cain due to believing this sort of nonsense

[NAS]

1 minute ago, Jeremy Igo said:

Buddy of mine , 40 years old with common asthma but otherwise healthy, caught Covid and was dead within a week.

He had two small kids and a wife.

 

Sorry for your loss.  Only about 2% of the population has been diagnosed with Covid so far and that's why so many people think it's overblown or not taking it seriously because the chances of some of us knowing someone with Covid are still small.  

[Wes21]

Maybe I have to read more of his tweets and hear him speak on the subject.  To me the tweets in the OP seem reasonable on their own.  People don't have to be so all or nothing on this.  You can believe there is an issue while also believing that the issue is being overhyped.  You can also make the observation that politics are driving science at this point, and some scientists are out in the public sphere right now whoring themselves out for money and politics.  As an example I've felt from day 1 that Dr. Fauci was just calling things like he see's it, and my view of that hasn't changed.  But some of these other "scientists?"  I feel like they've got other motives to their "opinion" they are sharing.

[Asurfaholic]

5 minutes ago, Coheed said:

Herman Cain 

Nick Cordero 

 

just because you can’t be bothered to do a google search doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened.

 

next.

 

I guess Herman Cain’s cancer had nothing to do with it .

[MechaZain]

I've lost two family friends, one middle aged and the other in her early 30s. Neighbors on both sides of me also caught it and one of them died.

The death rate is estimated at about 4% of infected and I think it's reasonable to assume that it's probably less for athletes, but to jump all the way to "it's an overblown hoax" is reckless and idiotic. The whole point is to minimize the number of infected so fewer people die.