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SAD DEMISE: A Tragic End To COVID-19 Denier And Doomed Figure Mak Parhar
It was a sad demise for a well known Indo-Canadian COVID-19 denier, who died Thursday after battling illness which had many of the deadly virus’s symptoms. Mak Parhar, who gained much online notoriety for his belief the earth is flat and an outspoken denial that COVID-19 exists, was found dead by paramedics at his New Westminster home Thursday morning.
NEW WESTMINSTER – It was a sad demise for a well known Indo-Canadian COVID-19 denier, who died Thursday after battling illness which had many of the deadly virus’s symptoms.
Mak Parhar, who gained much online notoriety for his belief the earth is flat and an outspoken denial that COVID-19 exists, was found dead by paramedics at his New Westminster home Thursday morning.
New Westminster police confirmed they were called to help paramedics at a home in the Sapperton neighbourhood where Parhar was found deceased.
The cause of death has not been determined and will be investigated by the BC Coroners Service.
In a recent live streamed video, Parhar reported feeling ill with a variety of symptoms, including fatigue, chills and a cough, which he said was “not CONVID because CONVID doesn’t exist.”
In a video posted Wednesday, Parhar said he was feeling somewhat better and had recently taken Ivermectin, an anti-parasite drug widely touted in the anti-vaccine community, but which Canadian and U.S. health officials have warned against using, reported Global BC.
Parhar has been one of the most outspoken voices in the anti-mask and anti-vaccine movement in British Columbia.
He was in the midst of a trial on three charges of violating Canada’s Quarantine Act for refusing to self-isolate after returning to British Columbia from a flat earth conference in the U.S. in 2020.
In March of 2020, the City of Delta revoked the business licence for Parhar’s hot yoga studio, after he encouraged people to attend and falsely claimed the heat would kill the coronavirus.
He was also criticized for shooting a video inside a Metro Vancouver hospital at the height of the pandemic’s first wave to get the “truth” about the virus.
In April, the B.C. Supreme Court threw out a lawsuit he filed against the province claiming trespass, malfeasance, extortion, terrorism, kidnapping and fraud by the government on the part of government officials.
