B.C. COVID-19 denier Mak Parhar dead, coroner investigating
Posted November 5, 2021 10:26 am.
Last Updated November 5, 2021 10:27 am.
An outspoken COVID-19 conspiracy theorist in B.C. has died and the cause of death remains under investigation.
The BC Coroners Service is looking into Mak Parhar’s death.
New Westminster police confirm officers were called to a home in the Sapperton area of the city Thursday morning to a “sudden death on behalf of the coroner.”
Parhar recently stated in a livestreamed video that he had a cough and chills, and felt fatigued, but insisted it was “not CONVID (sic) because CONVID (sic) doesn’t exist.”
“What happened to my immune system? How did this manifest?” he asked.
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Parhar was charged in 2020 with three counts of breaking the Quarantine Act for failing to self-isolate for two weeks after he returned to B.C. from a flat-earth conference in South Caroline, an event called “Flatoberfest 2020.”
Last November, speaking at an anti-mask rally at the Vancouver Art Gallery, he said he “played their game” on the flight by wearing a mask on board but removing it when he was off “the radar.”
Parhar also admitted to the crowd that he ignored multiple warnings from officers before being handed tickets.
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Last year, Parhar also came under fire and faced controversy when the business license at his Delta Hot Yoga studio was pulled after he made several false claims about COVID-19, including that the virus could not survive the heat in his classes.
In early 2021, Parhar also broadcast video from a gathering of approximately 14 people in an apartment in Vancouver’s West End, in which he is seen laughing and imagining the execution of Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry.
With files from Tarnjit Parmar, Martin MacMahon, Kathryn Tindale
