Pete Evans Criticised After Claiming 'Hugging' And 'Self-Love' Could Be Vaccine For Coronavirus

Celebrity Australian chef Pete Evans has been criticised after going on a rant about Australia's response to the coronavirus pandemic.

The former My Kitchen Rules judge was speaking with Allona Lahn, a candidate in the Queensland state election for the controversial anti-vaccination Informed Medical Options Party, discussing the potential Covid-19 vaccine.

Evans took aim at politicians and public figures including Bill Gates, suggesting they didn't know as much about the virus as they claimed.

"Maybe these experts know that there are other options out there rather than mandatory vaccines," he said in a Facebook Live video.

"Maybe sunlight could be the best vaccine in the world. Maybe good nutrition could be the best vaccine in the world.

"Maybe self-love, maybe hugging and connecting to other human beings and looking at different points of view could be the best vaccine in the world for our community moving forward."

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As the world edges towards 40 million cases of the coronavirus (with few signs that infection rates are slowing down), Evans said he believes the pandemic is 'over'.

He told Lahn: "The insanity about a Covid-19 vaccine, I mean, I've spoke with so many experts from around the world - they're all basically saying it's gone now, it's done, it's finished.

"Anybody that doesn't believe that it's finished is insane or they have an agenda, because next year another virus or another form of whatever it will be will travel the world again.

"It won't be Covid-19, they'll make up some other f***ing name, excuse my language. I've heard that they're calling it Covid-21 next."

Many were unimpressed with his comments, with Twitter users calling his comments 'dangerous'.

One said: "This is dangerous. Hopefully people who follow this charlatan won't take his advice should they become ill with cancer. Something needs to be done about Pete Evans before people lose their lives."

Another added: "Pete Evans cooks OK. That is the sum of his talents. His intellect, ethics, personality and mental state are open to question."

A third added: "Maybe Pete Evans should go somewhere where we cant hear him?"

Many places in around the world are experiencing a second wave of infections, with more than 400,000 new cases recorded across the world in a single day, which is the highest daily increase since the pandemic began.

Topics: News, Coronavirus, Australia

Stewart Perrie

Stewart Perrie is a Trending Journalist at LADbible. His first job was as a newsreader and journalist at the award winning Sydney radio station, Macquarie Radio. He was solely responsible for the content broadcast on multiple stations across Australia when the MH17, Germanwings and AirAsia disasters unfolded. Stewart has covered the conflict in Syria for LADbible, interviewing a doctor on the front line, and has contributed to the hugely successful UOKM8 campaign.

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