Candace Owens, right-wing pundit, denies she has COVID after missing speaking appearance due to ‘sudden illness’
Right-wing pundit Candace Owens is denying that COVID was the reason she was unable to honor her commitment to speak at the Texas Youth Summit over the weekend.
Speculation that the 32-year-old Connecticut native had become the latest COVID skeptic to be struck by the virus began when a Salon reporter noted her absence from the Lone Star state forum, due to “sudden illness,” according to another speaker at the event. Owens has boasted about putting herself at risk on multiples occasions and suffering no consequences.
“I’m unvaccinated. I’ve been to six countries and 28 states since the start of this pandemic (maskless outside of planes) and I still don’t have Covid,” she tweeted prior to the Texas summit last weekend. “I slept next to my husband every night that he had it (what amounted to a light chest cold) and I still never got it. How?”
I’m unvaccinated.
I’ve been to six countries and 28 states since the start of this pandemic (maskless outside of planes) and I still don’t have Covid.
I slept next to my husband every night that he had it (what amounted to a light chest cold) and I still never got it.
How?— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) August 25, 2021
After Twitter users including pithy actor Ken Olin wondered if COVID might be what sidelined Owens, the election-denying conspiracy theorist said that talk of her illness itself is a conspiracy theory.
“This might rank as the best conspiracy theory ever drafted about me,” she tweeted. “Unfortunately for you — I’m at the top of an Aspen mountain with my family and limited reception. I’m still proudly unvaccinated and unmasked. And you are the definition of a leftist loser, Ken Olin.”
This might rank as the best conspiracy theory ever drafted about me.
Unfortunately for you— I’m at the top of an Aspen mountain with my family and limited reception.
I’m still proudly unvaccinated and unmasked.
And you are the definition of a leftist loser,@kenolin1. pic.twitter.com/eQbaMhlair— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) August 30, 2021
The Evansville Courier & Express reported that Owens spoke in Indiana Thursday but, according to a speaker at the two-night Texas event, she was unable to keep that engagement due to a scheduling change that would have moved her to an earlier time slot.
Right-wing activists including Marc Bernier, Phil Valentine, Dick Farrell and Robert David Steele have all recently succumbed to the COVID virus for which they’d expressed skepticism.
Other conservative speakers on the Texas Youth Summit guest list were Sen. Ted Cruz, Donald Trump Jr., congressman Louie Gohmert and former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany.
