Number 9 Curt Carpenter
In 2021, an Alabama woman vowed to educate others on the dangers of the coronavirus
after her 28-year-old son, a Covid denier, had caught the disease and succumbed to it.
Curt Carpenter, who reportedly had had no prior health issues, had been hospitalized with the
virus since March. His mother, Christy, and his sister had contracted it as well but recovered.
Christy revealed that she and her family had initially been hesitant about getting vaccinated,
because of her son’s suspicions that Covid was a fabrication and that the vaccine would jeopardize
their health. Curt died in May and, according to Christy, his harrowing last words had been
“this is not a hoax, this is real”. At the time, just over 30% of Alabamians had been
vaccinated and Christy was determined to use her son’s story as a cautionary encouragement for
others to take the disease seriously and get the potentially life-saving injections.
Number 8 Lucy Richards In 2016, a Florida woman
who denied the existence of one of the most horrific massacres in US history was arrested for
making death threats to a family afflicted by it. 57-year-old Lucy Richards believed that the 2012
Sandy Hook mass shooting, which left 26 dead in Newtown, Connecticut, was a hoax. There’d been
a longstanding conspiracy theory that it had been staged in order to pass gun control legislation.
Some of the theory’s most prominent supporters included radio personality Alex Jones and
former tenured Florida Atlantic University professor James Tracy, who was terminated
from his position at the learning institution after publicly expressing his denial. Jones has
since recanted his claims that the massacre was a false flag and blamed “a form of psychosis”
for his previous statements. He is, as of March 2022, in an ongoing defamation suit with six of
the victims’ families. A week before the tragedy’s 4-year anniversary, Richards sent death threats
to the unnamed parent of one of the victims, who was living in South Florida at the time.
Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Schall didn’t comment on how the threats were delivered but the
indictment noted they’d been sent on the same day and included messages that read “you gonna die,
death is coming to you real soon” and “look behind you it is death”. In early December,
Richards was charged with four felony counts of transmitting threats, each of which carried a
maximum term of five years in prison. Number 7 Kelly Ernby
A deputy district attorney from California who regularly spoke out against vaccine mandates
died in early January of 2022 after contracting COVID-19. True to form, Orange County prosecutor
Kelly Ernby hadn’t gotten vaccinated which, as argued by multiple medical experts,
led to her developing more severe health complications. Ernby, who’d recently run
for the state assembly, had spoken at an anti-mandates rally outside Irvine city hall
roughly a month prior to her death. She was quoted as telling those at the protest, organized by the
conservative youth group Turning Point USA, “there’s nothing that matters more than our
freedoms right now”. Her position against vaccine mandates predated the pandemic. In 2019, she spoke
publicly against a new California law tightening immunization rules for California schoolchildren.
There were rumors in the aftermath of Ernby’s death that she had, in fact, been vaccinated but
her husband took to social media, urging others to stop spreading false information and confirming
that his late wife had not received the vaccine, adding “that was the problem”. Reactions to the
prosecutor’s passing were characterized by an exacerbation of the existing polarization on the
topic of mandates. Some suggested that 46-year-old Ernby bore sole responsibility for her demise by
repeatedly denying the efficiency of the vaccine. Number 6 Frederic Sinistra
A kickboxing champion from Belgium succumbed to COVID-19 in late 2021, after checking out of a
hospital and opting to treat the “little virus” with oxygen at home. 41-year-old
Frederic Sinistra was forced to seek medical help by his coach, after developing symptoms, and was
admitted to a medical facility in late November. His coach, Osman Yigin, had threatened that he
wouldn’t train him in the future if he didn’t get treatment. The three-time world champion,
who was known as The Undertaker, posted a photo to social media of himself lying on a bed in the
intensive care unit with an oxygen tube in his nose. From his hospital bed, the heavyweight
combatant dismissed the virus and rallied against his government’s efforts to contain it through
mandatory vaccines. Convinced that his youth and physical fitness would protect him from the
disease, Sinistra eventually discharged himself. On December the 13th, he responded to comments
on his Facebook page and told his followers that he’d come back much stronger than before.
Three days later his death was announced on the social media platform. Many expressed their
condolences online, including Sinistra’s former coach who described him as a “force of nature
with a heart of gold” while also remarking upon the fact that his death could’ve been avoided.
Number 5 Mak Parhar
A Canadian Covid denier who’d broken lockdown restrictions to attend a Flat Earth convention,
passed away from complications associated with the virus, just days after posting a video in
which he reaffirmed his belief that the disease was a fabrication. Mark Parhar had gained a small
following online through his support of various conspiracy theories. At the time of his death,
in the fall of 2021, he was on trial for three charges of breaking Canada's quarantine laws
as he returned from a flat-earth conference in the US the previous year. During a Twitch
stream filmed 12 days before his passing, Parhar complained that he was hot and had a severely
sore throat in addition to aches and phlegm. He maintained, however, that it wasn’t “Con-vid”
and mocked people who’d suggested so, emphasizing that he couldn’t be suffering from health
complications associated with the virus because it didn’t exist. Less than two weeks later,
paramedics were called to his home in Sapperton, New Westminster, where they pronounced him dead.
Number 4 Ursula Haverbeck
German woman Ursula Haverbeck, aged 88, was sentenced to six months in jail, in 2017,
after openly stating, once more, that the Holocaust had never happened. As per German law,
those who publicly deny it’s existence face up to 5 years in jail as it’s regarded as incitement of
racial hatred. The January 2017 incident marked the 5th time that Haverbeck had been convicted on
similar grounds but, by then, she hadn’t faced any jail time as all her cases were under appeal. In
her latest controversial statements, the elderly woman, dubbed Nazi Grandma by some media outlets,
maintained that there were no gas chambers at the Auschwitz death camp and disputed that over one
million people had been killed there. In the past, Haverbeck had referred to it as “nothing more
than a labor camp” during a televised interview. The woman, a reported friend of Gudrun Burwitz,
elderly daughter of Nazi S.S. chief Heinrich Himmler, was once chairwoman of a far-right
training center that was shut down in the late 2000s for spreading extremist propaganda. In 2020,
Haverbeck was sentenced to a year in prison after publishing an interview online in which she once
again made claims that there was no historical context for the Holocaust. Updates on the matter,
from March of 2022, indicated that her appeal had been denied and that the 93-year-old was
sent to jail with no further possible legal modifications to her sentence.
Number 3 Kristen Lowery
Kristen Lowery, a mother-of-four from Escalon, California, was passionately against the COVID-19
vaccine and manifested her opinions through social media posts and by taking part in protests. In one
of her online photos the woman was seen holding a placard that read “give a voice to the vaccine
injured” while also wearing a t-shirt through which she identified as an ex-vaxxer, vowing never
to trust those who abide by them. 40-year-old Lowery posted on one of her social media profiles
that she was “unmasked, unmuzzled, unvaccinated and unafraid”. It was on that same profile that,
in September of 2021, her family announced that the woman was in the hospital battling pneumonia
and the deadly virus. While she was receiving treatment for the disease, her sister, Cassie,
wrote messages of support which stated that Lowery had a long life ahead of her. Unfortunately,
on September the 15th, her family posted on Facebook that the woman had passed away,
after which the settings of her profile were changed to private. As news of her death spread,
a number of commenters paid their respects while others expressed thoughts in the vein of
a lack of empathy towards people who refused to wear masks or get vaccinated.
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Number 2 Hans Kristian Gaarder In April of 2021, shortly after hosting two
illegal gatherings at his home, a Norwegian Covid denier and conspiracy theorist passed away due to
complications related to the virus. In spite of regulations that limited social gatherings,
60-year-old Hans Kristian Gaarder had hosted two events at a barn on his property, in the
municipality of Gran, about 40 miles from Oslo. They’d taken place on March the 26th and the 27th
with the former event advertised as “Trump, Biden and the way forward for the USA and the world”.
Gaarder was a prominent conspiracy theorist who edited an online magazine and had appeared
on television to voice his arguably controversial opinions. In 2009, he’d reported a national health
institution and the NRK media organization to the police, accusing them of extreme fear
propaganda regarding the swine flu. In recent years, Gaarder had shared anti-vaxxer views
and wrote about the Illuminati. Throughout the pandemic, he’d compared the virus to a
cold and made posts that were flagged by Facebook as false information. He died on April the 6th,
after a short battle with the virus, and was confirmed to have been positive post-mortem.
As reported by local newspaper Hadeland, at least 12 people had tested positive for the virus after
attending Gaarder’s gatherings but the severity of their condition wasn’t elaborated upon.
Number 1 Luigi Cossellu Italian man Luigi Cossellu passed
away from complications associated with COVID-19, in January of 2022, at a hospital in Latina, south
of Rome. Both 28-year-old Cossellu and his father, aged 55, had denied the virus’ existence and were
strongly against the vaccine. Cossellu maintained his ardent stance even after he was admitted to a
hospital with breathing difficulties. Doctors had immediately recognized the severity of his
condition and diagnosed him with acute respiratory failure. While receiving treatment, Cossellu
reportedly tore off his oxygen mask, insisting that he didn’t have the virus. By the time that
staff at Latina’s Local Health Unit convinced him to cooperate, his condition had deteriorated
beyond recovery. He succumbed to the complications associated with the disease on his fifth day in
the hospital. His father was also hospitalized and placed on a ventilator, according to the
Italian news agency Ansa, but no furthers updates were made available regarding his condition.
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