Bob Enyart, a right-wing radio host in Colorado who urged people to boycott vaccines against Covid-19, has died of Covid-19.
Enyart’s death was reported two weeks after the Denver Bible Church said he and his wife had been taken to hospital.
“Pastor Bob and Cheryl are in … good hands and getting better every day,” the church said then. “We anticipate and pray for a full recovery. We both mourn and rejoice together during this difficult time. “
On Monday, in a post on Facebook, Enyart co-host Fred Williams said: “It has an extremely heavy heart that my close friend and co-host of Real Science Radio has lost his battle with Covid.
“Bob Enyart was one of the smartest and certainly the wisest person I’ve ever met. All the while being very kind and humble and always willing to listen and discuss anything you want.
“The gain of heaven has left a huge hole here on earth.”
Instead, the Denver Post reported that Enyart was a brutal and practiced provocateur who once used a program on cable television to make fun of people who died of AIDS.
According to a 1999 Westword profile, Enyart “happily read the obituaries of people suffering from AIDS while releasing Another One Bites the Dust by Queen.”
Enyart also called for women who had had abortions to face the death penalty.
Regarding vaccines against Covid-19, Enyart said people should boycott the shots “because … they tried these three products in the cells of aborted babies.”
Last October he successfully sued the state of Colorado over Covid-related restrictions on church attendance.
Enyart is not the first right-wing radio host to oppose Covid-19 vaccines and other public health measures, including mask warrants, before Covid-19 dies.
Four other such hosts have died.
More than 660,000 people have died from the virus in the US. Amid an increase in cases arising from the infectious variant of the Delta virus, the vast majority of hospitalizations and deaths are among unvaccinated people.