Cain was hospitalized on Wednesday, two days after testing positive for the coronavirus, according to a statement posted to the pizza magnate turned politician turned pundit’s Twitter on Thursday.

While his symptoms were said to be “serious,” he was not put on a ventilator and is “resting comfortably,” the tweet continued. His team asked Cain’s followers to pray for him and fellow coronavirus sufferers.

However, Cain had tweeted his support for South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem’s decision not to mandate social distancing or mask-wearing for the audience at President Donald Trump’s upcoming Independence Day celebration at Mount Rushmore, declaring Americans were “FED UP!” about mask requirements just hours before he was taken to the hospital.

Worse, the radio host was photographed grinning – maskless! – surrounded at a less-than-social distance by fellow Trump fans at the president’s June 20 rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Surely, some on social media ventured, Cain and his full-throated support for the US reopening should serve as a cautionary tale. They called for the president to cancel his Independence Day rally.

Others went even further, openly snarking that Cain’s hospitalization was somehow comeuppance for his opposition to coronavirus orthodoxy. “Herman Cain brought this on himself,” sneered one person.