Actor Woody Harrelson spread a conspiracy theory about Covid-19 vaccine brands in his monologue to the Saturday Night Live host this week, adding to previous comments he made about the virus.
During his monologue, Harrelson joked that he had read a crazy script in which “all the biggest drug cartels in the world come together and buy all the media and all the politicians and force every other person in the world to stay locked in their homes,” and other people can only get out if they take the drugs from the cartels and keep taking them over and over again.
Harrelson said he “scrapped the script” because “who’s going to have this crazy idea of being forced to take drugs?I do it voluntarily all day. “
Harrelson didn’t directly mention coronavirus vaccines in his monologue, but his jokes gave the impression of thinly veiled references to pandemic restrictions and vaccine brands (actually, many states began lifting their pandemic restrictions months before vaccines were widely available).
The jokes were applauded by billionaire Elon Musk, who tweeted “fine” in a video of the monologue and “good job @SNL. “
This wasn’t the first time Harrelson shared false claims about Covid-19. In 2020, he shared an article on Instagram connecting the virus to 5G networks, saying he hadn’t “fully verified it [but] find it very interesting,” according to the New York Post. Harrelson then deleted the post. This undiscovered conspiracy theory spread in April 2020, when much of the United States was on lockdown. not in the germ theory. ” COVID-19 spreads through airborne droplet transmission, and the mask saves you “the emission of virus-laden droplets” and “helps decrease inhalation of those droplets” through the wearer, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Musk has publicly criticized vaccines and lockdowns, saying Dr. Anthony Fauci, who was the public face of the government’s reaction to the Covid-19 crisis, deserves to be prosecuted.
This is Harrelson’s fifth time presenting SNL, making him a member of the “Five Timer Club” of ordinary hosts.
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