She practices medicine in Houston, holds her own religious revivals and believes in demon semen.
Who is Dr. Stella Immanuel? A woman of many roles, she describes herself on Facebook as a “Physician, Author, Speaker, Entrepreneur, Deliverance Minister, God’s battle axe and weapon of war”.
Immanuel first came to the public’s wider attention as a speaker in a video on social media that promoted false claims about the coronavirus. It went viral. The video was then later shared by Donald Trump, who highlighted in Immanuel’s message, saying he thought it was a good one. The video, which was also shared by Madonna, (another everlasting immortal attention seeker), has since been taken off social media as it was said to be spreading misinformation about the deadly virus.
But back to the basics. Immanuel is a practicing physician in the US at Rehoboth Medical Center in Houston, Texas. She she studied medicine at the University of Calabar in Nigeria. In addition to being a doctor, she now also spreads her ideas through Fire Power Ministries, a company she started, as a spiritual leader. In fact, Immanuel is so zealous that she held an in-person revival in Texas on August 8, in an area with over 3500 cases of coronavirus as of July 13 2020.
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Immanuel and others are part of the anti-Fauci clan. This group feels that masks and social distancing can do nothing to stop the spread of COVID-19. The pandemic, they say, is all about “big-pharma against the people”. It’s a thick plot that involves vaccine makers trying to make millions and gazillions of dollars off of governments worldwide while simultaneously killing off hundreds of thousands of people. Sounds likely, huh?
While in this day in age, just about anything seems possible, Immanuel’s claims are not true. Trump supports Immanuel because she says that hydroxychloroquine, a drug used to treat lupus and malaria, is the cure for COVID-19. Trump has been taking the drug since the early days of the pandemic. He feels it can stave off severe cases of coronavirus. The drug may do something of the sort. It inhibits the work of white blood cells that are an important part of your immune system’s response to the infection. In this way, some believe it prevents COVID-19 infections from becoming severe and going off the rails.
This has been widely debated and studied, however. The results show that hydroxychloroquine may work sometimes but is not a cure for the coronavirus. It is also a drug that can also cause potentially deadly side effects in coronavirus patients, such as heart arrhythmias.
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But this is not really why you should think twice about Dr. Immanuel’s credibility. She also believes in the idea that male and female sex demons, called incubus and succubus, are what cause problems like endometriosis and ovarian cysts. Demon semen is at work, she says. While incubus and succubus are demon entities whose belief can be traced back to medieval times, they hardly have a place in a modern doctor’s office.
Immanuel also believes in alien DNA, as well as curses, and the existence of microchips in vaccines. Can we say “cashing in”, anyone? For those who don’t follow the crazy trends out there, these are topics that conspiracy theorists love to follow online.
Clearly, Dr. Immanuel is someone who may have a big heart. She also seems to have a misplaced idea of her role as a doctor. She seems to love the idea of throngs of worried people flocking to her messages online, and to her so-called religious services in Texas, both of which could undoubtedly make her very rich. Perhaps Trump and Immanuel have more than just a belief in hydroxychloroquine as a coronavirus treatment in common.
For the real solutions, stick to the scientific facts. Avoid the fears and the crowds, and wear your mask.
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