A Canceled Czech

Czech folk singer Hanka Horká died of Covid-19 after deliberately catching the disease.

It appears that she was an anti-vaxxer who wanted to evade pandemic restrictions, and thought that getting the disease was a way to get a pass.

Well, she passed:

A popular Czech folk singer has died after deliberately getting infected with the coronavirus, in an apparent move to skirt restrictions limiting access to some venues to people who have been immunized or recently recovered from infection, her family said.

Two days before she died, 57-year-old Hanka Horká, who was reportedly unvaccinated, wrote on social media that she had “survived” the virus and was looking forward to trips to the theater, the sauna, concerts and the sea.

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Horká’s son, Jan Rek, said she deliberately spent time around him and his father after the two men, who are fully immunized, contracted the virus. She had been seeking a recovery pass, he told the British Broadcasting Corp. In the Czech Republic, proof of vaccination or recovery from infection is needed to enter dining and leisure spaces.

The country, like much of central Europe, is experiencing a surge of cases driven by the omicron variant of the coronavirus, with the Czech health ministry reporting a record 28,469 new cases on Wednesday. As of Jan. 18, only about 63 percent of its roughly 10.7 million residents had been fully vaccinated, below the European Union average of 69 percent.

“She should have isolated for a week because we tested positive. But she was with us the whole time,” Rek told the BBC. On Sunday, the day Horká died, she felt better and dressed to go for a walk. But her back began hurting and she went to lie down in her bedroom.

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Rek told the BBC his mother didn’t believe in conspiracy theories about coronavirus vaccines. “Her philosophy was that she was more okay with the idea of catching covid than getting vaccinated,” he said. But he went public with the story, originally in an interview with Czech public radio station iRozhlas.cz, in the hope of convincing others to get vaccinated. “If you have living examples from real life, it’s more powerful than just graphs and numbers.”

Get the f%$#ing vaccine.