{"id":377031,"date":"2021-02-21T06:03:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T14:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=377031"},"modified":"2021-02-21T06:04:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T14:04:55","slug":"video-tito-ortiz-says-he-wants-to-get-covid-19-that-way-i-can-fight-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/video-tito-ortiz-says-he-wants-to-get-covid-19-that-way-i-can-fight-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Video | Tito Ortiz says he wants to get COVID-19: \u201cThat way I can fight it\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC light heavyweight\u00a0champion Tito Ortiz said in a recent interview that he wants to catch COVID-19, so that way he can fight it.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz has been very vocal about his distrust in the COVID-19 pandemic and everything related to it on social media and as part of his role on the Huntington Beach city council. <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/tito-ortiz-explains-why-he-is-anti-mask-and-wont-get-the-covid-19-vaccine\/\">He has even been criticized by fellow politicians for not wearing masks inside buildings<\/a>, as he doesn&#8217;t believe in them. In Ortiz&#8217;s mind, the virus is not all that serious, and in a recent interview, he actually said that he wants to get COVID-19 so that his body can fight it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tito Ortiz says that he hopes that he gets covid. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rU1nsNEmNr\">pic.twitter.com\/rU1nsNEmNr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Borrachinha Depot (@FullContactMTWF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FullContactMTWF\/status\/1363333641464471562?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 21, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wash my hands normally and I have no problem. My friends, I huge them. I hope I get it. I mean, that way I can fight it,&#8221;\u00a0Tito Ortiz said (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FullContactMTWF\/status\/1363333641464471562\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Borrachinha Depot<\/a>). &#8220;And one of those things I can tell you guys right now that my doctor, and five of the doctors I talked to, you go to the hospital for COVID, don&#8217;t be put under a respirator. Do not do that. There&#8217;s medication out there right now that I&#8217;ll post later. They give five of the medications that take care of you and knock it out. 15 of my friends have taken the same medication.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Like everyone else, Ortiz is allowed to have his opinion about the coronavirus and about vaccinations and medications. The problem is, he is an elected official and is in a position of power and authority. If Ortiz was still just an MMA fighter and celebrity who had a vocal opinion about the coronavirus, these sorts of comments wouldn&#8217;t be as big of a deal. But with Ortiz being the temporary mayor in Hungtington Beach, these are the kinds of comments that leave a bad taste in the mouth of people who live in the city he oversees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC light heavyweight\u00a0champion Tito Ortiz said in a recent interview that he wants to catch COVID-19, so that way he can fight it. Ortiz has been very vocal about his distrust in the COVID-19 pandemic and everything related to it on social media and as part of his role on the Huntington Beach city [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54477,"featured_media":352848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10188,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Video | Tito Ortiz says he wants to get COVID-19: \u201cThat way I can fight it\u201d | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former UFC light heavyweight\u00a0champion Tito Ortiz said in a recent interview that he wants to catch COVID-19, so that way he can fight it.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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