Right-wing radio host Glenn Beck has contracted Covid-19 for the second time, and he doesn’t seem to be doing too well.
The former Fox News personality had previously said he didn’t need to get the vaccine in part because of the natural immunity he developed after his first bout with the disease in April 2021.
According to the CDC, fully vaccinated individuals and those previously infected with Covid each have a low risk of subsequent infection for at least 6 months. It recommends vaccination for all eligible persons, including those who have been previously infected.
“I am great, Mark. I am great, Mark,” Beck said during an appearance on Mark Levin’s daily radio show. “Despite having COVID and seeing the destruction of our country,” he added.
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“Do you have COVID right now?” Levin asked.
“Yeah, I do,” Beck said, adding, “It’s starting to go into my lungs today and a little disturbing. I’m on all the medications and treatments and everything else, so.”
Between coughs, Beck told Levin “It’s all good,” and he’s “not concerned about it.”
“I’m really not,” Beck said. “I just am so done with this whole Covid thing. I know it is real. I am a fatty-fat-fatso, so that is probably not the best thing, and I got some other issues.”
Levin asked Beck if he was using a monoclonal antibody treatment, and Beck said yes, but he doesn’t think the treatment is working. Studies have found the treatment to be ineffective against the Omicron varient.
Beck added that he’s also taking the anti-parasite drug ivermectin, a drug that has not been scientifically shown to be effective in treating Covid. It’s become a favorite of the right-wing, anti-vax crowd, and led the FDA to issue this unusual statement last year:
“You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it,” the agency tweeted.
You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y'all. Stop it. https://t.co/TWb75xYEY4
— U.S. FDA (@US_FDA) August 21, 2021
“I have had it for about a week,” Beck said. “I’m not going downhill. I mean, I think I’m feeling better. It’s just getting into my lungs… you will want to avoid that.”
Unfortunately for Beck, the best way to “avoid that” is to be vaccinated and boosted.
“It is clear that if you’re vaccinated, particularly if you’ve had a booster, Omicron tends to produce milder infections,” Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease expert at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, told NBC News last last year.
“What we haven’t seen yet is a substantial body of information about what omicron will do in unvaccinated people,” he added.
Unsurprisingly, folks are having a hard time sympathizing with Beck:
You hear Glenn Beck, sick with COVID in his lungs, talking to Mark Levin, and they run through all the things Genn should do/should have done, none of which include getting the free working vaccine. SMH.
— Mr. Newberger (@jeremynewberger) January 13, 2022
So Glenn Beck fell for his own nonsense & didn't get vaccinated. Now it's spread to his lungs. As someone who has lung problems, I don't wish it on anyone. You'd think Glenn was smart enough to vaccinate himself while peddling the lies like the rest of the RW media has done.????
— Russell Foster for Texas (@RussellFosterTX) January 13, 2022
Glenn Beck Edition:
How it started How it’s going pic.twitter.com/lgCjrfqShE
— connectpoliticditto. (@cpoliticditto) January 13, 2022
Glenn Beck, who still refuses to get vaccinated, has COVID again and said it’s now in his lungs. So naturally, the covidiot is taking ivermectin.
But hey, at least his worms won’t have COVID.
— Gabe Sanchez ? (@iamgabesanchez) January 13, 2022
Nothing says "natural immunity is the best approach" quite so clearly as Glenn Beck getting Covid … for the second time.
— Ward Q. Normal (@WardQNormal) January 13, 2022
Heywood Jablowme
I gotta say, I do like the Republicans’ weird electoral strategy of KILLING their own elderly and “fatty-fat-fatso” voters!
mcflyer54
MAGA – Making America Great Again ….. one obituary at a time.
Bosch
How many anti-vaxx opinion leaders has the US already lost to COVID? And why don’t their followers care?
Kangol2
Check out Sorry, Antivaxxer. It lists quite a few anti-vaxxers and Covid-19 deniers who’ve been taken out by…Covid-19.
Bosch
Wow, so many young people. How ridiculous that the bulk of these deaths could have been prevented with very little effort.
jt1990
I wonder how many fudge packers have lost to AIDS but continue their deviant sexual practices? You liberal fruit loops are the most hypocritical beings in existence I must say
Bosch
@jt1990 HIV infection can also be prevented with very little effort. I’m sorry that our “deviant sexual practices” upset your clan of incels and child molesters.
Den
“Well AIDS has been killing off gays for a long time and that doesn’t seem to deter you fudge packing fruitcakes lol”
The level of stupid you demonstrate must surely, hurt breeder boy! Odd that you are not at all aware of either the history of HIV, its spread among other communities because of stupidity like yours, and the fact that there are ACTUAL drugs that keep it dormant and control its spread (unlike the snake oil the right wingers use for covid).
You are a laugh riot child!
M K
For those who aren’t willing to take the easy, free and painless steps of getting vaxxed/boosted, should also not be entitled the medications and medical efforts to keep them comfortable (and alive)… those options should be for those who were willing to help themselves. There are too many people that were not eligible to get the vaccines because of their preexisting conditions and the medications, hospital space and doctor/nurse time should be kept available for them…. not idiots!
jt1990
Maybe men who have sex with men should b denied medical care when they get hiv, since they brought it upon themselves. Id have more sympathy for someone avoiding a brand new vaccine that best case is only slightly effective and worst could trigger blood clots or myocarditis.
CurtisIsTheOne
Hey there jt1990,
I’m betting your MOM wishes she had an abortion when she got pregnant with you. What a waste your Dad’s load of cum turned out to be. Toodles!
Den
jt1990
Maybe men who have sex with men should b denied medical care when they get hiv, since they brought it upon themselves. Id have more sympathy for someone avoiding a brand new vaccine that best case is only slightly effective and worst could trigger blood clots or myocarditis.
Again you demonstrate a staggering level of both ignorance and stupidity.
You’re pitifully lacking in intellect, child.
HIV is very well controlled.
The safety and efficacy of the vaccines well documented.
The cases of clots and myocarditis are miniscule compared to the death and premanent impairment that covid has wrought.
Stupid, stupid man! (if you are a man).
GayEGO
Sigh! Another anti-vaxx idiot who spreads his fake information about the vaccines.
GrizzleyMichael
Goodbye and good riddance to bad rubbish
jt1990
Im sure you’ll end up feeling sorry for yourself when you inevitably fall ill from playing with the AIDS stick. But go ahead and wish death on this guy, karmas a b!tch
Vortece
@jt1990: Unless THIS is the karma — pay back for all those red-state MF’s who mocked and protested at the funerals of AIDS patients back in the 80’s and 90’s, who tried to block public funding of AIDS prevention efforts, or who encouraged insurance companies to refuse to pay for the care of “reckless” gay people who caught AIDS. I would personally never mock someone who died of COVID from not getting vaxxed, but it’s hard not to notice these deaths are coming from the same corner that brought us all of that.
Jaquelope
It’s not that I wish death on anyone, but if these anti-vaxxing covidiots were to get killed off, it might be seen as a learning experience for all their followers. We are now seeing the Apocalyptical Horseman, Plague, doing his/its run through the world, and these yahoos ignore the fact.
jt1990
Well AIDS has been killing off gays for a long time and that doesn’t seem to deter you fudge packing fruitcakes lol
bkzk100
He is so full of shit. Just wait for the miraculous recovery by using Q medications.
trojanboy
Charles Darwin. Natural Selection.
jt1990
Yep good ole Darwinism, wiping out those nasty liberal AIDS spreading gays
Brian
No, this isn’t an example of natural selection. That would require an impact on a person’s “biological fitness” — a person’s ability to live long enough to have children. This virus is mostly killing people well into their reproductive years. Glenn Beck has multiple children, so his genes have already been passed on.
This evolution comment has been made millions of times over the last two years. I continue to be surprised by how few people understand the basics. It’s kind of ironic that you’re trying to say he doesn’t understand biology when you, too, don’t understand biology.
Mister P
Beck isn’t a horse or a cow but he is an ass
johncp56
Yes and a bad example for his children, I wish no one sickness but come on dumb asses!! 65 got boosted and flu shot same day doing great best better,,,,, what we are heading at 1 mil dead here!
Creamsicle
I know it’s been a while since he’s been on the air, and it’s not like I watched his hack routine, but man has this dude aged terribly and gotten really face fat.
jaimedance3
As a famous quote from a television show goes (and this time can definitely be correct), at least is killing off the right people this time!
jt1990
I wouldn’t laugh dude there’s a strong chance you already have aids
cuteguy
@jt1990
There’s even a stronger chance you’re a right wing troll. Go away GQP trash. You’re not wanted here. Stay in the trailer park with your inbred mom and dad, where there is a strong chance they are first cousins
humble charlie
Hell is filling up. Hail, Trump the antichrist leading his legion marching into hades. Who knew the antichrist would be a bloated orange jackass!
charlieeod74
At this point in the Covid crisis, if you won’t get vaccinated, then just die bitch and quietly we don’t to hear your shit.
jt1990
It’s possible to get vaccinated and die anyway. Either by catching Covid regardless or directly from the shot. I did my research before refusing the Covid vaccine. Unlike you gays I don’t just jump happily at the chance to get poked with something pointy, I consider the pros and cons first.
jt1990
Ive heard cases of the clot shot killing people from Dvt and heart inflammation. Just because it’s long and pointy doesn’t mean you should rush to be penetrated with it. Do your own research, talk to real doctors and medical professionals, not just CNN and other gay news
Bosch
Since AIDS is a gay disease and vaccines kill, I implore you to have as much unprotected sex as possible and never, ever get vaccinated.
Den
Sad to see someone likely older than than 14 who does not understand statistics or anything else about empirical investigation. There have been a few nasty side effects from these vaccinations, as there have been from others as well. But looked at as a percentage of the many millions of doses given worldwide, they are vanishingly small. Amnd the difference between mortality of the unvaccinated and vaccinated is quite significant.
Sad that you will not be able to actually understand that.
As for HIV, Most gay men are HIV negative. And in any case unlike your raging stupidity, HIV is easily controlled these days. Funny, but I get a sense you get an erection from your own ignorance when you post your drivel, Why the hell else would a right wing fool come here?
Leash
Does anyone at queerty even look at the comments?
cliche guevara
That was a particularly weird round of trolling. It’s like Glenn Beck was insulted and some sort of bat signaled went off. I’m somewhat offended that they sent a complete dullard to come insult us. We totally deserve better.
Heywood Jablowme
I hope both Glenn Beck and jt1990 have done their own “research” and learned how they can prevent Covid by drinking their own urine!
Den
They actually did have a moderator at one point, but they were never able to tell the difference between the mean spirited trolls and those who opposed them. Now editing a comment will assure it never sees the light of day, as will a few mysterious words.
Mister P
It should stay off this site
scotty
much like rush limbaughs passing, nothing of value will be lost after glen beck departs either.
Brian
“I’m doing better // It’s beginning to go into my lungs.” “I’m so over covid // I have covid again.”
He’s so good at brainwashing that he has even brainwashed himself.
RTG
It’s beginning to go to his lungs? We can only hope. Sometimes the virus takes a while to do its thing.