Four lately prominent anti-vaccine radio personalities have died of COVID in the U.S. Southern states within recent weeks, proving that they practiced the rejection of modern medical science that they preached so easily, but which was no match for the coronavirus when it came for them.
Three of those voices of irrationality now silenced were those of Phil Valentine, a 62-year-old conservative radio host in Nashville, Tennessee, who told his listeners that refusing vaccination was “just using common sense,” and died of COVID on July 30; Farrell Austin Levitt, prominent on two Florida radio stations, WIOD in Miami and WPBR in Palm Beach, and an occasional news anchor on Newsmax TV, who urged, “Why take a vax from people who lied to you?” and died of COVID Aug. 4; and Marc Bernier, 65, who was a mainstay on talk radio WNDB in Daytona for 30 years and called himself “Mr. Anti-Vax,” and who died of COVID on Aug. 28. COVID also silenced Caleb Wallace, 30, of San Angelo, Texas who helped organize the “Freedom Rally” and other prominent protests against pandemic restrictions, masks, and vaccinations.
