Candace Owens
(Picture: Getty Images)A conservative commentator has accidentally made the case for universal healthcare and people are loving it.
Candace Owens, the American pundit who supported Donald Trump and is well known for her lukewarm takes, attempted to undermine the coronavirus vaccine by suggesting the government may have ulterior motives for making it free, because if they wanted to really save lives they would make other medical treatments free too...
She said:
“The Covid vaccine saves lives, which is why the government is making it free!”
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) July 20, 2021
K. So explain to me why insulin and asthma inhalers cost so much money.
If the vaccines are really about the government trying to save your life— why do life-saving medicines cost so much?
While she was trying to be conspiratorial about the government, people were quick to note that it sounded like she was making the case for all other medical treatments to be free. So the reactions rolled in as people welcomed Candace to the left-wing cause.
Because one is for a highly contagious disease that has shut down the world and killed millions but can be ended with a simple shot and the other two things are not that at all?
— Zack Hunt (@ZaackHunt) July 20, 2021
Is this Comrade Candace Owens i see 😂 https://t.co/wgY91cTeW4
— romey 👊🏾☀️ (@CheeriRo) July 21, 2021
stunning scenes, stunning pic.twitter.com/00cjGE9nzx
— Hannah Jane Parkinson (@ladyhaja) July 21, 2021
Thank you for supporting universal health care. 🙏
— Daniel A. Parker (@daparker26) July 20, 2021
So you agree, Candace? All healthcare should be free. pic.twitter.com/0t0hPygfeS
— accidentally based (@BasedByAccident) July 20, 2021
So you agree? Insulin, asthma and other life saving medications should be free? pic.twitter.com/uykU2Z9ctE
— Tatiana (@thatgirlpablo) July 20, 2021
Candace I didn't know you were secretly a Bernie bro this whole time.
— THE HELL CURVE (@TheHellCurve) July 20, 2021
Candace Owens went so far right she went left https://t.co/bSVxuWWrIJ
— Lhy 🍒 (@ZaynsFineLine) July 21, 2021
It is not the first time Owens has accidentally moved to the left while expressing anti-vaxxer views.
Earlier this month, she inadvertently made the case for being pro-choice by saying that “medical freedom is an individual right” as a reason why she and her family would not get the vaccine.
Not one person in my family will ever touch the Covid-19 vaccine.
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) July 7, 2021
That is the decision that we have made, unabashedly, as a family.
Medical freedom is an individual right that should NEVER be infringed upon and any person who thinks otherwise has no place in our government.
At the time, people roasted her for this as she has previously been very outspoken against abortion. She then clarified she was still against abortion, in case people had any doubts.
But the incident clearly didn’t make her think about proofreading her utterings before posting them as she is now back at it again.
Perhaps next week we will see her take to the streets to campaign for stronger gun control.
It’s only a matter of time.
