Republican says she is in ‘a lot of pain’ from Covid after saying she hopes to get it

far right Republican Laura Loomer has said she is in “a lot of pain” from COVID-19, just months after saying she hopes she gets it.

In December, the anti-Muslim and anti-vaccine conservative wrote at the parlor that she hoped she would be infected with Covid-19, so that she could “prove to people that I had suffered food poisoning which is more of a Serious and deadly than the hyped-up virus”.

“Have you ever eaten a bad fajita? That will kill you faster than covid,” she wrote at the time.

Posted by Ms. Loomer on Thursday gettrow, a social media platform created by Trump aides after the Twitter ban of the former president after he tested positive for Covid-19.

“Yesterday I was feeling sick,” she wrote. “I had fever, chills, runny nose, sore throat, nausea and severe body aches that made my whole body feel like I had been hit by a bus, and after sleeping for a few hours, My symptoms started reminding me of how I felt when I had a bad case of flu a few years back. So I took a COVID test and it came back positive.”

It has spread a baseless conspiracy theory to bash the Covid vaccines and that the vaccine is “unsafe and ineffective”.

He said that instead he began taking drugs promoted by anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists that have not been proven to combat COVID-19, such as hydroxychloroquine, which FDA says “Have not been shown to be safe and effective for the treatment or prevention of COVID-19”.

Ms Loomer also said she had received the Regeneron antibody treatment, which has been used by former President Donald Trump.

Late on Thursday, she wrote on her Telegram channel: “Just pray for me. I can’t even begin to describe how brutal the body aches and nausea that come with COVID is. I’m in a lot of pain.”

But she kept posting still more vaccine conspiracy theories, saying the government “doesn’t want you to know what [the vaccine] really does,” even though she was suffering from a largely preventable disease.

Ms Loomer, who has been promoted by Mr Trump, lost a race for a US House seat in Florida in 2020 and was banned from most social networks, and apps such as Uber and Lyft, for aggressive Islamophobia.

He was kicked off a cryptocurrency conference in Florida in June after harassing Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey about the ban from the social media platform.