A correct - wing preacher who made a number of highly nonsensical and plain wrong statements about COVID-19 and vaccinum for COVID-19 has been hospitalized with , you think it , COVID-19 .

From the beginning of the pandemic , radiocommunication horde Rick Wiles has come out with gonzo claims about the disease . He began by calling it a   " death angel on the loose " and tell that it was a pestilence post by God to scour the public of sin , Right Wing Watch reports .   On his   “ TruNews ” show , he   has since used the virus for anti - Semite and homophobic purposes , claiming that God was circulate the disease to Jewish masses because   they " oppose his son , Jesus Christ . That is why you have a plague in your synagogue " and that deaths of   a board member of the LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York ’s expiry was God ’s discernment .

He has since actuate on to saying Dr. Anthony Fauci should be " taken to Guantanamo Bay and waterboarded " until he confesses to puzzle out with China on the instauration of   " the coronavirus with bats " .

“ I am not plump to be vaccinated,”Wiles said   last monthin a picture for TruNews . “ I ’m going to be one of the survivors . I ’m going to survive the racial extermination , adding " the only good thing that will come out of this is a flock of stupid the great unwashed will be killed off " and " if the vaccinum wipes out a muckle of stupid people , well , we ’ll have a sound cosmos . I ’m going to survive . I ’m going to survive by God ’s blessing ; by his will , I ’m going to survive the genocide . ”

He has since been hospitalise with Covid , follow anoutbreak at the place .

In an updateposted by TruNews , it was announced that he had been taken to the emergency room , admitted to infirmary where he is now on atomic number 8 and expected to remain for a number of days .

" Rick is very much in indigence of your continued prayers,“the update read . " We now inquire that you will come along side of us , unite us in prayer for healing , for deliverance , and for victory . "

Dr Raymond Burkhart , who pen the statement , take that this will only beef up Wiles ' resolve .

" If I know Rick , and I conceive I do , this attack of the foe will only serve to tone up his resolve to speak against the forces of darkness . We will say it again : NO artillery formed against us shall thrive ! NONE ! "

For anyone thinking of mocking him , they also added :

" Already , the naysayer and mockers have started with their taunts . Let them speak their goosy words and let them mock . It will only process to be used to fire their flames of torment in hell , unless they repent . "

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