Former major leaguer Aubrey Huff, who won a pair of World Series, has joined the parade of conspiracy theorists who believe something nefarious has happened to Bills safety Damar Hamlin, who is recovering from suffering a cardiac arrest on the field.
“Isn’t it weird that @BuffaloBills Damar Hamlin was the biggest story for two weeks,” Huff posted on Twitter on Saturday. “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.”]
Huff, 46, is just another crackpot trying to blame Hamlin’s heart incident on the COVID vaccine. Anti-vaxxers are convinced that a body double has been used to cover up Hamlin’s “real condition.”
It would be quite a conspiracy and would include Hamlin’s family and friends, his teammates and their families and friends, the entire NFL and players’ union, any medical staff that came in contact with him or worked at the two hospitals where he received care ... you get the idea.
Besides, on Tuesday, Hamlin tweeted: “Thankful for all the GENUINE love, thoughts & prayers from all across the world.. y’all will hear from me soon!” Hamlin also goofed on Huff and others by posting a photo of himself standing near a mural painted in his honor and writing “Clone.”
According to NBC reporter Ben Collins — who reports on, and monitors, the far right — “Antivaxxers are convinced Damar Hamlin is being hidden away by Pfizer, and most believe recent public appearances by him are actually a body double. They’re demanding he personally reassure them with a video that he’s not being played by an actor. I’m serious, by the way.”
Collins, who covers disinformation, extremism and the dark corners of the internet for NBC, attached two tweets on the conspiracy theory, and added: “Again, Damar Hamlin was hit in the chest on live television. We all saw it. But antivaxxers think he collapsed because of the COVID vaccine and that Pfizer has somehow entirely replaced him as a person, with his team and family in on it for no reason.”
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