American tech entrepreneur and tycoon Steve Kirsch is under fire after reporting on Twitter that he offered a woman who was with him on a flight worth more than 14 million ISK to remove a face mask.
Kirsch has been one of the most vocal and important in the debate against Covid vaccinations.
“I’m on a Delta flight right now.” The person sitting next to me in first class was refused $100,000 (ISK 14,250,000) for leaving the face mask on the entire flight,” Kirsch wrote on Twitter last week, posting a photo of himself in the photo. ‘plane.
“I’m not kidding. This was after I explained that masks don’t work. She works for a pharmaceutical company.”
Steve Kirsch has long been a big name in the industry.
Kirsch has long been a big name in the tech industry. He is the man behind the luminous mouse in the early eighties. He founded Frame Technology Corp, which was acquired by Adobe in 1995. He then founded the search engine Infoseek, which was acquired by Disney in 1999.
In 2020 he launched a research fund into potential Covid treatments, but has since become skeptical of the vaccine and has been accused of sharing misleading information about the pandemic on social media.
I’m on a Delta flight right now. The person sitting next to me in first class refused $100,000 to remove their mask for the entire flight. No kidding. This was after I explained that they weren’t working. She works for a pharmaceutical company. pic.twitter.com/Q8Hwzhkmxf
—Steve Kirsch (@stkirsch) March 10, 2023
Kirsch’s Twitter post got a lot of attention and a heated discussion ensued on the thread. Many criticized his behavior.
“What a ram explanation. I bet that woman wished she had another seat,” one user said.
“You were harassing a woman who didn’t bother anyone, in a closed and small space where she couldn’t get away from you…Lovely,” said another.
He has also been called “disgusting” and an “arrogant fool”.
She took off her mask as soon as breakfast was served!!!! Because everyone knows you can’t get infected by eating!!
—Steve Kirsch (@stkirsch) March 10, 2023
Kirsch said the woman removed the mask to eat, saying all protection was gone for the bee. But doctor Judy Melinek spoke up, saying the masks worked and he should have apologized to the woman.
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— Judy Melinek MD (@drjudymelinek) March 11, 2023
Several said they had no hesitation in accepting the invitation.
“Even if I had caught Covid, I would have taken the 14 million,” said one.
