Ex-gay British Republican provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos posted photos to his Telegram account of a vial of ivermectin and a syringe staged to look like he just got an injection, announcing that he tested positive for coronavirus.
As seen in Newsweek, Yiannopoulos posted “Most of you got the normal ‘it’s just flu’ rona last year and most of you didn’t even know you had it. But I don’t have any friends and I don’t leave the house so I only got the deadly superspreader version from vaccinated people and let me tell you THIS IS NOT FUN.”
Yiannopoulos perpetuates a myth among anti-vaccination advocates that the vaccines fail because vaccinated people can transmit the virus. The vaccine, however, isn’t designed to completely prevent transmission, and evidence shows that the vaccine prevents severe progression of the disease.
Besides promoting sex with children and violence against journalists, Yiannopoulos is mostly known for attempting to gain social media clicks by extolling far right practices like Islamophobia and misogyny. As a publicity seeker, his claim of taking a horse deworming should be viewed skeptically.