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.<\/p>\n
The post read:<\/p>\n
\"Does anyone ever wonder why EVERYONE'S not getting the virus where it's supposedly at?<\/p>\n
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?<\/p>\n
Come on!!!<\/p>\n
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?\"<\/p>\n
Later in the post, Hunter spoke about his restaurant:<\/p>\n
\"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!<\/p>\n
So just watch for that :)\"<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.\"<\/p>\n
In one exchange, Hunter accused a customer of smoking meth.<\/p>\n
Hunter didn't help his situation any on Thursday morning with a post that blamed a supposed 'marketing rep' for making the coronavirus post.<\/p>\n
\"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!\"<\/p>\n
The post was taken down Thursday morning at and replaced with the following apology:<\/p>\n
\"One more time,<\/p>\n
We at Wings N Things do sincerely apologize to everyone that has been offended by a previous post, which has now been deleted.<\/p>\n
We do take this Coronavirus pandemic very serious and will continue to take all the extra precautions in our restaurant.\"<\/p>\n
Within three hours more than 500 comments were posted to the apology, many of the comments screenshots of Hunter's prior clashes with commenters.<\/p>\n
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