“Putrid cookers”: Anti-vaxxers slammed for spreading lies about Jock Zonfrillo’s death
Just hours after MasterChef judge Jock Zonfrillo’s sudden death, heartless anti-vaxxers took to social media to spread disinformation.
Zonfrillo died in Melbourne on May 1. While the cause of death has not been publicly announced, police said that his death was not being treated as suspicious, and a report was made for the coroner.
The anti-vaxxers took this as a chance to spread disinformation online, implying that his death was linked to the Covid vaccine.
“Did Jock Zonfrillo get the Pfizer or Moderna RNA vaccine?” one person tweeted the day after his death.
Another commented on the way that his death was described as “sudden” with no confirmed cause- completely ignoring the fact that Zonfrillo’s family have not released that information.
“The mainstream media has been reporting countless such ‘sudden deaths’ with ‘no cause of death given’,” wrote the anti-vaxxer on Facebook on May 2.
“Since when are death reports being provided with no cause given?
“I know since when: since they rolled out those experimental Covid vaccines, which are dropping people faster than they can clue in that it is murdering them. The mainstream media and medical establishment will never admit it – they omit the REAL reason someone died by saying ‘no immediate cause of death was given’,” wrote another.
The ill-informed comments have attracted significant backlash from Aussies who slammed the “cookers” for taking advantage of the tragedy to spread disinformation.
“Of course the putrid cookers have already come out, saying it was the Covid vaccine that killed Jock Zonfrillo. They really are opportunistic scum. RIP Jock,” one person tweeted in response to the lies.
“I’m always unsurprised at the amount of cookers that come out of the woodwork when a celebrity dies. Shame on anyone who is using Jock Zonfrillo’s death to push their anti-vax vile rhetoric,” tweeted another.
“Distance yourself from people who impulsively attribute the death of a celebrity to the Covid-19 Vaccine.
“It demonstrates extreme congruence bias, and a profound lack of empathy. #jockzonfrillo,” wrote a third.
Distance yourself from people who impulsively attribute the death of a celebrity to the Covid-19 Vaccine.
It demonstrates extreme congruence bias, and a profound lack of empathy. #jockzonfrillo
— Nick Holt (@realnickholt) May 1, 2023
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