“It wasn’t perfect, but he loved his family and daughters more than anything,” said his wife, Jessica Wallace, on the Go Fund Me funding site. Caleb was 30 years old at the time of his passing and awaiting the birth of his fourth daughter.
Wallace became famous in the United States and much of the world after, on July 4, 2020, he organized a protest in the city of San Angelo, Texas, to demonstrate against the use of face masks and confinement measures such as closures business, amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
He was a co-founder of the San Angelo Freedom Defenders
With this step, the San Angelo Freedom Defenders group was born, whose stated objective on Facebook was to “educate and empower citizens to make informed decisions about local, state, and national politics and to encourage them to actively participate in their duty to ensure rights. granted by God and protected constitutionally ”.
Dangerous “conspiracy theories” that reject scientific evidence, encouraging practices that, in fact, endanger public health, were strengthened around his speech. Among them, the rejection of the efficiency of the mask as a protection measure against the circulation of COVID-19 in the air that is breathed.
Caleb Wallace took ivermectin and refused to go to the hospital
And it is that Caleb Wallace was so persistent in his opposition to public policies to face the pandemic that he refused to take a test when he began to feel ill, on July 26. At first, he also opposed going to the hospital, he made his wife known in a New York Times interview .
“He didn’t want to see a doctor, because he didn’t want to be part of the COVID-19 test statistics,” said his wife, according to the newspaper. Daily news .