This is not the primary time that Harrelson has banged this specific drum. He beforehand shared a conspiracy principle on Instagram that linked COVID-19 to the set up of 5G networks, with the caption, “I have never totally vetted it [but] I discover it very fascinating.” Harrelson later deleted the publish, however in a Could 2022 interview with Vainness Honest he derided the usage of masks on set through the pandemic, saying, “As one who does not consider within the germ principle, I discover it slightly absurd.”

Exterior of China, which notoriously had the strictest COVID-19 lockdown insurance policies on the earth, nobody was truly pressured to “keep locked of their properties” through the pandemic. Lockdown measures usually relied on voluntary compliance with stay-at-home orders, self-quarantining, and social distancing. In the US vaccines are solely federally mandated for healthcare staff (alongside vaccines for hepatitis B and different communicable ailments) and noncitizens touring to the U.S. from elsewhere. 

Harrelson’s monologue has, after all, already been extensively and gleefully shared by anti-vaxxer influencers. However sarcastically, the hyperbole, misinformation, and extremism embedded in “Large Pharma” conspiracy theories solely muddies the waters in terms of legit criticism of pharmaceutical firms — one thing that Hollywood hasn’t shied away from.