Chet Hanks railed against vaccines and the use of masks on Instagram
(CNN) -
Chet Hanks posted a critique of vaccines, telling those suffering from the virus to "get over it," a year after their parents, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, were hospitalized with severe cases of COVID-19. 19.
Hanks shared a video on Instagram in which he initially intended to encourage his followers to get vaccinated.
Then he yelled "
Sike
!"
(English slang for "joke") and yelled, "You're not going to poke me with that damn needle," before wrongly comparing COVID-19 to the flu.
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The musician's parents were among the first celebrities to contract the virus in March and were isolated in an Australian hospital with severe symptoms.
"My wife lost her sense of taste and smell, she had severe nausea, she had a much higher fever than me," Hanks told The Guardian last year, adding that she had "crippling body aches, I was very fatigued the whole time and I couldn't focus on anything for more than 12 minutes. "
Covid-19 vaccines approved in the United States have been found to be safe and highly effective, and data from around the world shows that vaccines reduce transmission and dramatically decrease the chances of hospitalization and death.
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More than 99.9% of those fully vaccinated have not had a serious post-vaccination infection, according to the CDC
Chet Hanks told his followers that he will not receive an injection because he "never had covid", and said that those with the disease should "get over it."
He also criticized the use of masks in his untested analysis, saying he was "tired" of covering his face.
Last year, her father told reporters that wearing a mask is "so simple, so easy, if someone can't find those three basic things on their own, I think it's a shame."
"Jeez, it's common sense," added Tom Hanks about wearing face masks and other health precautions like hand washing and physical distancing.
Tom Hanks and Wilson contracted Covid-19 just as the disease was beginning to spread around the world and days before Europe and the United States imposed their first lockdowns.
During his illness, Chet posted a video saying of his parents, "They are not even that sick."
But the couple later described "crippling" symptoms, especially affecting Wilson.
"I felt extremely sore, uncomfortable, didn't want to be touched, and then the fever started," Wilson told Gayle King last April, adding that she suffered from "chills like never before."
About half of Americans are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
The launch of vaccines in the country has slowed in recent months, but has now started to increase, as the most transmissible delta variant spreads across the country and transmissions increase.
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