Daryl Hunter, owner of the Anchorage restaurant Wings 'N Things earned the wrath of hundreds of commenters with a post on his business Facebook page Wednesday night suggesting the coronavirus crisis is a hoax and a conspiracy. At 8:16 p.m. on Wednesday night, Hunter posted a status under the Wings 'N Things Facebook page that he deleted by Thursday afternoon.
The post read:
"Does anyone ever wonder why EVERYONE'S not getting the virus where it's supposedly at?
I mean if it's a virus that is in the air or wherever is there only so many viruses that are out there? And only a specified amount in each state or country or continent that has divided itself into only a specific amount?
Come on!!!
Or could it be maybe just a big distraction for what's to come by promoting possibly digital IDs and digital health certificates and digital currency using a "virus" as a means to do that?"
Later in the post, Hunter spoke about his restaurant:
"Anyways, there is definitely no virus at Wings 'N Things and I GUARANTEE THERE WON'T EVER BE ANY CORONAVIRUS AT Wings 'N Things unless the men in black come over and decide that there is!
So just watch for that :)"
Hunter wound up in a back and forth of insults, especially after commenters pointed to Facebook posts of Hunter's daughter, who apparently returned from a trip to Arizona and was not obeying the state's 14-day quarantine requirement.
Commenters also posted links to a 2011 Alaska Journal of Commerce article from 2011, which detailed Hunter's guilty plea to charges that included "using drug money to put a $200,000 down payment on the business."
In one exchange, Hunter accused a customer of smoking meth.
Hunter didn't help his situation any on Thursday morning with a post that blamed a supposed 'marketing rep' for making the coronavirus post.
"Looks like we're going to have to fire our marketing rep, which we did," Hunter's post read. "Our sincerest apologies to everyone that has been offended, but to our customers a double apology! One person's belief was never intended to be offensive in anyway!"
The post was taken down Thursday morning at and replaced with the following apology:
"One more time,
We at Wings N Things do sincerely apologize to everyone that has been offended by a previous post, which has now been deleted.
We do take this Coronavirus pandemic very serious and will continue to take all the extra precautions in our restaurant."
Within three hours more than 500 comments were posted to the apology, many of the comments screenshots of Hunter's prior clashes with commenters.
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