#ReOpen Maryland co-founder catches coronavirus, won’t help contact tracers

The leader of a group that fought against Maryland’s coronavirus lockdown measures is now seriously sick from the contagion — but refusing to help contact tracers, according to reports.

Tim Walters, the co-founder of ReOpen Maryland, whose protests included flashmobs of people without masks, revealed in a video that he “crashed” last Wednesday and “had to go to the emergency room.”

“I thought I was actually having a stroke … turns out I had COVID,” he said, asking for prayers.

Walters, a two-time Republican candidate for the General Assembly, warned friends to keep an eye on possible symptoms — but insisted he would not help official contact tracers, according to Capital Gazette.

“I will not share anybody’s information with the government. I will not do it,” he said in other since-deleted videos, according to Capital Gazette.

“I did the right thing and contacted everyone I could think of that I had contact with … I don’t know what more the Government could do,” he later told Wrongthink Radio. “It isn’t my business to give other people’s information to the government.”

He later told Maryland’s Daily Record that he had to remove some of his videos because his wife and son were targeted with “vitriolic messages,” with some praying for his family’s death, he said.

Despite how sick he felt, he said it “hasn’t changed” his views against the lockdowns.

“In the end, I think everyone is going to get it, anyway,” he told the Daily Record.

“I knew this was a possibility and I got sick. OK, I’m going to take accountability for it,” he told the paper.

Walters also insisted it has not changed his view on masks, saying “there’s too much proof that masks don’t work.”

“They’re not really going to do anything,” he told the Daily Record, insisting he has “no idea” how or when he got sick.

Calling the contagion “capricious,” he also called it Satan’s attempt to “stifle my voice.”

Instead, he plans to continue preaching his message on social media, he said — including his ongoing resolve to fight official stay-at-home and mask-wearing orders.

“We have to decide as a nation if this fear is worth our liberties because once we lose them, we don’t get them back,” he said.

“Anybody that’s waiting for the government to tell them to do the right thing because they couldn’t figure it out, they’re going to be sorely disappointed,” Walters said.