Photo: FACEBOOK HANA HORKÁ / copyright
Hana Horká longed to attend cultural activities, restricted in her country for vaccinated citizens, but she wanted to avoid the covid vaccine at all costs-09.
Czech folk singer, from 57 years old, died last Sunday after deliberately contracting the virus in an effort to avoid vaccination, according to reported Radio Prague International, the public international broadcasting service of the Czech Republic.
Two days before his death he had published a post on his Facebook account in which shared that he was carrying the virus.
The text was adorned with some emoticons of animals, smiley faces and suns, which suggests that the woman believed that her covid would be an anecdote rather than a tragedy.
“I survived delta,” he wrote, describing the experience as “colorful”. Subsequently, he made a short list of things he could do without having to get a vaccination card, a current requirement in his country.
“There will be theater, sauna, concert and an urgent trip to the sea”, expressed Horká.
According to the Czech media, Jan Rek, son of the singer, reacted with fury and indignation against some personalities Czech anti-vaccine activists on their social media, blaming them for her mother’s death.
Hana Horká was the lead singer of Asonance, one of the oldest folk bands in the Republic Czech.
Rek and his father, both vaccinated, were infected with covid during Christmas. And she, instead of staying away, intentionally narrowed contact with them, her son narrated in an interview for the iRozhlas.cz media outlet.
“She asked for it. She was supposed to stay away from us, but she decided to stay home with us, preferring to catch the disease rather than get vaccinated,” Rek said.
“It’s sad that my mom trusted strangers more than her own family,” she emphasized.
Support of anti-vaccines
His attitude was supported by many of his followers and friends, who expressed the hope that they too would be infected with the coronavirus.
However, just two days after publishing the news about her recovery, the singer fell into covid-related complications.
After returning from a walk in the fresh air, he began to complain of back pain and died in his bed after suffocating, as explained by his son in the interview for iRozhlas.cz.
Jan Rek is convinced that representatives of the Czech anti-vaccine movement, such as actor Jaroslav Dušek and biologist Soňa Peková, whose statements his mother eloquently shared on social media are partly to blame for his death.
When he made the news of his mother’s death public on Facebook, he openly accused these people of “having blood on their hands”.
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With her post, Rek hopes you will share her own personal experience with the senseless death of her mother can warn about the importance of being vaccinated against the virus .
Figures published by Radio Prague International indicate that in the Czech Republic to the 63% of the population is fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, a considerably lower percentage than the European Union average, which exceeds 57%.
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