Anti-Vaxx Folk Singer Dies Of COVID-19 After Intentionally Exposing Herself To Infection

A Czech folk singer with strong anti-vaccine sentiments died on Sunday, Jan. 16, after she intentionally contracted the virus from her vaccinated family members in an attempt to get a health pass to enter establishments that have otherwise barred the unvaccinated.

Hana Horká, the 57-year-old lead singer for the band Asonance, reportedly deliberately exposed herself to her COVID-positive family members on Christmas in an attempt to get access to places that were only available to the vaccinated and those who survived a recent infection, BBC reported.

“She should have isolated for a week because we tested positive. But she was with us the whole time,” her son Jan Rek, who was vaccinated when he tested positive for the virus, said.

The Czech Republic’s policies regarding access to places like saunas, theaters, and other social and cultural places require either proof of vaccination or a “recovery pass” that indicated that you were recently infected with the virus, according to the New York Post.

Two days before her death, Horká posted on social media that she was infected with COVID-19, excitedly talking about the activities that she would be able to do now that she herself could get a recovery pass for herself, according to NDTV.

“I survived... It was intense,” she wrote. “So now there will be the theatre, sauna, a concert... and an urgent trip to the sea.”

On the day she died, she reportedly said that she was feeling better; however, her back started hurting and she went down to lay in her bed, where within ten minutes she somehow “choked to death” while in the bed.

Horká reportedly believed in the idea of natural immunity being better than getting vaccinated, and her orphaned son Rek hopes that his mother’s belief and untimely death would encourage other people with similar assumptions to get the vaccine before it’s too late.

“Her philosophy was that she was more OK with the idea of catching Covid than getting vaccinated. Not that we would get microchipped or anything like that,” Rek said.