2-time World Series champ undaunted by strikeout on Damar Hamlin death theory shares new, wild COVID vaccine
Give Aubrey Huff some credit.
Sure, the two-time World Series champ throws out some disturbing, silly, hateful and ignorant things on social media, but he doesn’t let being wrong stop him.
So, just days after looking ridiculous on Twitter after he posted that he believed that Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin had died or was “in bad shape,” and that the NFL was covering it up, he is back with a new COVID-19 vaccine theory.
And, he flowed right into this one without addressing just how wrong he was in his Hamlin tweet — the 24-year-old McKees Rocks native was hounded by conspiracy theorists to the point that he had to issue a video, which you can see here — but it works for him because he has more than 228,000 followers on the platform.
This time, Huff sandwiched his thoughts on the vaccine between tweets of a young girl getting punched in the face which he says feminists wanted, and another tweet calling marriage a business.
So, anyway, his thoughts on the vaccine should not be surprising.
“It’s my belief that within 3-5 years the people who took the poison will be gone, or will be bed ridden by the common cold,” Huff wrote. “I don’t say this to be mean… but the elites don’t hide the fact they want population control. And what better way than a shot that slowly kills.”
His comments actually came as a retweet of a post that Clay Travis had that referenced MSNBC host Yasmin Vossoughian’s admission on air that she had been out with a case of myocarditis. Vossoughian said that her bout was brought on by a cold.
To be fair, while there is no evidence to date that the COVID-19 vaccines are a long-term health risk, this one somehow isn’t even in the same area code of ridiculous as the Hamlin tweet was.
That tweet?
“Isn’t it weird that @BuffaloBills Damar Hamlin was the biggest story for two weeks,” Huff posted. “Now we have media silence. Not a social media post from him, picture, or live video. Somethings fishy. @NFL is either covering up his death, or he’s in bad shape.”
A follower quickly pointed out that Hamlin has been active on Instagram. Another person responded, “He just tweeted yesterday.”
Both point out the fact that Huff’s “not a social media post from him,” simply wasn’t accurate — along with everything else. The former baseball player’s response?
“Wow dumbest comment in the thread. Congrats.”
Hamlin even poked fun at it all, posting a photo of himself standing in front of a mural painted in his honor and writing “Clone.”
But, somehow, that conspiracy theory spun out of control to the point that Hamlin posted a full video to his Instagram last week.
There has been no connection between Hamlin, the vaccine and his cardiac arrest on the field — after being struck in the chest by Bengals receiver Tee Higgins on a play — several weeks ago. There was a “doctor” who went on social media and claimed to have given Hamlin a booster.
Turns out, that doctor was not a doctor at all.
Huff was a pretty good baseball player in his day. The 46-year-old had stints with Tampa Bay, Houston, Baltimore, Detroit and San Francisco across a 12-year career. He hit .278 with 242 homers and 904 RBIs.
He has continually struck out on social media since.
