Candace Owens says private COVID testing center CANCELED her appointment after accusing her of 'politicizing' the virus and spreading misinformation
Candace Owens says the owner of a COVID-19 testing center canceled her appointment and accused her of 'politicizing' the virus and 'discouraging' people from protecting themselves with masks and vaccines.
The conservative host posted an email exchange with Suzanna Lee of Aspen COVID Testing on her Twitter Wednesday.
'I've just learned of this testing request and as the owner of this business am going to refuse this booking and deny service,' Lee wrote her on Tuesday, according to Owens' screenshots.
'My team and myself have worked overtime, to exhaustion, unpaid and underpaid this year, spending our own capital to ensure that our community remains protected. It would be unfair to them and to the sacrifices we have all made this year to serve you.'
Candace Owens, 32, says the owner of a COVID-19 testing center cancelled her appointment
She posted the email from Suzanna Lee, owner of Aspen COVID Testing, on Twitter
Lee suggested that Owens try the 'free kiosk by city hall' with 'inconsistent result times' instead.
Owens ranted about the incident on Instagram Live, where she explained that she's 'willing' to get tested and has gotten about '50' tests since the start of the pandemic.
Owens hosts a late-night show for the conservative Daily Wire and has appeared as a guest on Fox News. She says she became a conservative after she was harassed by progressives during the Gamergate controversy of 2014.
The 32-year-old staunch Trump supporter has downplayed the COVID-19 pandemic multiple times, calling the vaccines 'purely evil' and telling her followers, 'Don't wear a mask.'
On Wednesday, she said that she's pledged not to travel to New York City or Los Angeles due to the 'totalitarian' vaccine mandates there.
Owens called Lee 'emotionally unstable' and 'hysterical' in a reply email.
Owens has downplayed the pandemic and criticized COVID-19 vaccines many times
'I wanted to let you know that this might objectively be the most hilarious e-mail I have ever received in my life. Truly, I've never laughed harder.
'Nothing screams "this virus isn't political" quite like googling the names of the people who book tests with you and determining on a case by case basis whether or not you will let them comply with your community covid measures.
'Nothing screams "I love my local community" quite like refusing to test people who are going to a local event and wish to ensure they are negative and therefore do not spread the virus.'
Users took to Twitter to lambast Owens for putting the clinic owner on blast
Some Twitter users lambasted Owens for complaining about being denied testing for a virus she's downplayed before.
'If it’s so fake, then why did you want to get tested? Make it make sense!!!!' wrote one user.
'For someone who doesn't care what happened, you sure seem to have a lot of feelings about it,' another person said.
Owens talked about the subject on her account well into Thursday, adding:
'They Left wants to MANDATE that the unvaccinated keep getting tests. Then when we comply with their MANDATES, they want the right to decline us. I cannot comprehend this level of circular stupidity.
Owens hosts a self-titled talk show published by conservative website The Daily Wire
'WE DONT WANT TO TEST. WE ARE BEING FORCED TO IN ORDER TO TRAVEL, WORK, ETC.'
Owens films her show from Nashville, Tennessee, which has no widespread mask or testing mandate.
She appeared to be visiting Aspen, Colorado, which also does not have a widespread mask or testing mandate, but the host said Wednesday that she sought a test there so she could travel somewhere that required test results later after.