Mark Rylance ‘opted out’ of taking the Covid vaccine, he took a garlic solution instead

The pandemic really revealed so much about just how many people are utterly stupid. It’s not just the anti-science morons, but the utter lack of logic. The rise in crimes against Asian-Americans during the pandemic was horrifying in itself, but the lack of logic behind it, because Donald Trump called Covid the “China virus,” thus Asian-Americans were seen (by morons) as responsible for the virus. Then the stupidity continued with the vaccines – suddenly, all of the “China virus” dumbasses were expert immunologists and they had big, dumb questions about the Covid vaccines. And by “questions” I mean “unhinged social media rants about how Moderna was trying to inject them with 5G.” I never would have thought Oscar-winner Mark Rylance would be one of those dumbasses, but here we are:

Mark Rylance revealed “alarm bells” rang when he along with the rest of the population were urged to have the Covid-19 vaccine leading him to opt for a garlic solution and vitamin C instead. The actor, 63, only had a change of heart when he had to travel to the US to see his father.

He co-wrote Dr Semmelweis with the playwright Stephen Brown before the coronavirus pandemic happened. The actor, in an interview with The Sunday Times, said the play acts as a warning not to take the scientific establishment at its word since the start of the pandemic.

“Science started to sound like a religion,” he said. “And really science is no different than religion, just an attempt by men to describe reality… I was not convinced I needed it. I took a very distilled garlic solution every morning, and vitamin C, and I sailed through Jerusalem.”

On writing the play he was focused on the alternative cancer treatments that were available to patients. He doubts the impact of chemotherapy as a friend of his “broke up the cells of a tumour” by relying on vibrations from a Tibetan sound bowl.

“The body knows how to heal itself,” he said. “We don’t need to go in and bombard it with poison. It’s like bombing a city to try and get rid of a little sect of terrorists. You may wipe them all out, but you’re going to breed 25 or 30 [more].”

[From The Telegraph]

This man is supposed to be one of the most brilliant actors of his generation, and he’s out here saying that the body will heal itself of CANCER? How does he explain the millions of people who died from Covid? Did their bodies just… not know how to heal themselves? They weren’t trying hard enough to heal? That irritates the f–k out of me – like, I believe in positive thought and prayer – because those things are scientifically proven to help people, alongside MEDICINE. Alongside vaccines and chemotherapy. “No, I’m not going to take a vaccine, not when I have a distilled garlic solution!” GTFO.

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  1. PIp says:

    Used to be one of my favourite actors. Used to be, that is. Dick.

    • ELX says:

      Dude is, seemingly a poorly educated, actor. I enjoyed his Thomas Cromwell, but I would never assume he has anything worthwhile to say about anything else. He’s practically holding a sign that says “Not a Serious Person.”

    • Erin says:

      Really disappointed. Loved him in Wolf Hall after reading the books.

      • ama1977 says:

        Ugh, I JUST found out that the BBC did the Wolf Hall series after flying through the trilogy and was looking forward to starting it, but I don’t want to give him a penny in doing so. And that means that I don’t get to see the lovely Claire Foy portray Anne Boleyn, booooo.

    • laurie says:

      Seen him a number of times on Broadway in different plays. He truly is an amazing actor. Don’t know about his movies.
      This is so disappointing. Never would have pegged him as a woo woo nutcase. 😔

    • SummerMoomin says:

      I’ve met him a few times, and seen him act many times on stage, he is honestly the greatest actor of his generation. And a sweet man. And soooo ignorant it hurts. He’s fantastic when he stays in his lane (acting) and should just stay out of public discourse because he isn’t educated and he isn’t clever. I’m sorry he’s being a fool about the vaccine because I want him to stay healthy so I can see him act many more times. As for the rest of us we should know better than to take advice from actors about anything other than acting.

  2. The Hench says:

    I’m sorry. I’ve never been able to understand why Mark Rylance is such a thing. People say he’s a ‘brilliant’ actor – to me he seems to do nothing on screen than look miserably serious. And these quotes from him are moronic. A Tibetan sound bowl breaking up the cells of cancerous tumour? Garlic working better than a vaccine? Science is no different to religion?

    Please.

    • Jais says:

      Also confused by him saying he drank garlic every morning and sailed through Jerusalem. Like he literally went on a trip to Jerusalem or he was being symbolic? As in sailing through Jerusalem is a good thing for him which sounds religious anyways. Which is also just the same as science according to him.

    • Orangeowl says:

      “Science is no different from religion” is a truly breathtaking statement. And explains why so many people are so completely mixed up right now. So much bad stuff to pack from his statements.

      Interestingly, and old classmate of mine who was virulently anti-vax and anti-mask on FB is suddenly pro-science and pro-pharma now that she needs aggressive cancer treatments. We really are in the dumbest timeline.

    • Chaine says:

      The Tibetan sound bowl quote is like something you would see in The Onion. My god, people, get a grip!

    • BeanieBean says:

      I bet doctors everywhere are banging themselves on the head thinking, arghhh!! All that money wasted on med school when I could have interned with a Tibetan monk!!

      • kirk says:

        😂😂😂
        Sry, don’t know who Mark Rylance is, so I got a Wikipedia primer on how he received an actual (not acted) BJ for a film. So brave 🙄

      • Cynicalgirl says:

        I’m absolutely a proponent of vaccination, but Rylance is a longtime activist who spoke out against BP and the Sacklers and refused to work in theaters that took their money. He made an ignorant comment about science and vaccines but is not an ignorant man.

      • Anna says:

        People won’t believe physicians and health authorities because „suspicious” but will swallow every idiocy that is in line with their simple way of thinking. Science is simply too complicated to understand so let’s go with the sound healing cancer. I just can’t. I hear this from people from my circle, smart people!, and I have given up to explain. I am a pharmacist, worked in drug safety departments in pharma companies and it is not that easy to “fake” clinical data or however you want to call criminal behavior that was known in the past, but now regulations are veryyyyy tight.

    • SummerMoomin says:

      He’s not really a screen actor, you have to see him on stage to get the full effect. And he is astoundingly good, when people say he’s the greatest actor of his generation it’s for his stage work. Screen acting, he’s very good, but it’s another discipline. I’ve seen Rylance hold an audience spellbound when we were all outside and being rained on really quite heavily, it didn’t matter, we were so caught up in his acting. It’s magic.

      But yeah, don’t listen to a word he says about anything other than acting.

    • Elizabeth Phillips says:

      Me, neither.

  3. BizzatchExtrordinaire says:

    Yeah…this is super disappointing. I’m such a fan of his work.

  4. Izzy says:

    What an idiot. Alternative therapies can be useful for managing side effects of treatments but a bowl did not cure his friend. Any time someone makes any such claim about a disease they had, my first response is “let’s see your medical records to prove it.” There should be scans or tests showing the progression or regression of disease over time. If the alternative therapy is so effective, we should still be able to see the results using standard diagnostic tools.

    For some reason, they never produce the evidence. Go figure.

    • WiththeAmericann says:

      Exactly and I think, “the Tibetan bowl AND the chemo you forgot to mention”

      I’m all for eastern medicine, alternative medicine, AND western medicine.

      • SophieJara says:

        Ugh I hate this. I was raised in this, I was one of the only vaccinated kids in my school. And I’m lucky my mom agreed to that, I was never exposed to the dangerous chemicals of Advil or decongestants. I have seen MANY people die from treatable cancer because they treated it with this hogwash.

    • SarahCS says:

      YES to all of this.

      My aunt had some sort of holly based therapy to help her deal with the side effects of chemo and it really made a difference for her.

      It makes me so angry when people with a platform share nonsense like this that will help convince others not to engage in potentially life saving treatment. You have blood on your hands.

  5. Mimic says:

    Sigh. I did not need to know this about one of my favorite actors. Damn, he’s a moron.

    • Evies Mom says:

      Big thoughts from the guy who, it sounds like got the vaccine anyway to travel…. So who’s to say his garlic patchouli infused paste didn’t protect him? Inventing a ‘cure’ can make you feel like you have some power over a situation … but honestly I’m tired of these donkeys.

    • Josephine says:

      To me, it’s not stupidity, it’s extreme arrogance and privilege. If we knew how to cure cancer, there would be no cancer. Famous and super wealthy people would not die from cancer. But these pr*cks always have to pretend that they know more, that they have the inside knowledge, that they are not followers. Except that they seem content to follow cult leaders. I suspect that deep-down they think they are uneducated or plain stupid so they have to pretend otherwise with this nonsense. Aaron Rodgers follows this formula as well.

  6. M says:

    “Science is no different than religion” Hell to the no dude. I cannot stand this age of anti-intelligence. WTF are we doing??

    • Mia4s says:

      I think that was the line that broke me. Science is no different than religion???? FFS how does his brain generate enough signals to keep him breathing

      Although this is a good reminder that many actors can sound amazing and smart reading OTHER PEOPLE’S WORDS. But couldn’t be less so when left to their own devices.

    • Twin Falls says:

      I can’t even. Science uses evidence, measurable, observable, verifiable. Religion is none of those things. What an absolute tool.

    • Kebbie says:

      Lol science is literally the opposite of religion. You don’t take things on faith, you test it and demonstrate verifiable facts with evidence and proof. How is that anything like religion?! What an idiot.

    • Doodle says:

      My cousin is a pretty well known scientist whose team just discovered how to collect dna from the air – she and her team did it in a zoo in England. There was nothing religious about that experience, although her findings will eventually over years make it to police and hospitals im sure. Science is science bro.

      • ME says:

        Wow that is AMAZING. Collecting DNA from the air??? So would people’s DNA get mixed in the air though? I have so many questions about this discovery lol.

    • SophieJara says:

      Maybe science feels no different than religion if you choose not to read about it or have any information literacy. Everyone just decided to believe in a mystery invisible force called gravity! I never hear anyone question it, what a bunch of sheeple.

  7. BlueSky says:

    Me and pharmacist friend of mine talked about these idiots during the height of the pandemic. Don’t trust science? Fine! Stay out of the hospital when you get sick and get a f@cking bowl to cure you when you are throwing up blood. Don’t take Tylenol or ibuprofen. Do these people know that vitamins are not regulated by the FDA so there’s no telling what is in some of these supplements.

  8. PeanutButter says:

    It’s astonishing how overprivileged people like him bundle their blinding stupidity in such smug, misbegotten overconfidence. He should be doubled over in shame and regret at being such a twit.

  9. Mrs. Smith says:

    I wonder what he’ll do if, God forbid, he gets diagnosed with something. Stay home?

    • BeanieBean says:

      I was about to type the same thing. Say he gets a heart attack, he just stays home? Does some deep breathing? Breaks his leg after falling off the stage? Then what, stay home with his leg propped up on a pillow & an ice pack?

  10. Khadijah.R says:

    That whole interview was just… yikes. Antivax, holocaust revisionism, conspiracy theories. A good actor? Yes. A complete moron? Also yes.

  11. Julie says:

    This guy is an f-ing idiot but i have tempered down my vociferation regarding the vaccine.

    2 people from my immediate family have had severe reactions to it. The first had a brain thrombosis and the second, my MIL had a violent allergic reaction that resulted her being in ICU for 2 days. Both nearly died and the first is now disabled.
    I have been vaccinated 4x and will continue to do so, since ive had no adverse reactions, but i no longer will persuade people to do the same. It was because of me that my MIL got her vaccine and i dont know how i would have lived with myself had she died from it.

  12. Janey says:

    Common sense is not a flower which blooms in everyone’s garden.

  13. Mrsfonzieface says:

    What a sad disappointment. His work as Flop in Bing changed my life.

    • Ocho says:

      Flop!!!

      Flop is everything. Kindness, compassion, empathy, common sense.

      Everyone should be more Flop. Including Ryland, it appears.

  14. BeanieBean says:

    idiot. That’s it, that’s all I’ve got.

  15. Miss Jupitero says:

    Man, this is a face of cold water. I thought highly of his acting. Looks like he’s an idiot. The hell with him and any of his projects.

  16. hangonamin says:

    the fact that he equated science with religion…just means he has no idea what science is. sure, science isn’t perfect and some theories turn out to be wrong…but that’s what science is? exploring, testing, and reaffirming? whatever, just bc he can write a script and act doesn’t mean he’s smart. people can be both smart in one area and completely a moron in another. and generally the ppl that reject science are people that reek of white privilege and buy into the whole thing that they’ve somehow unlocked a special talent for healing their body or some truths no one else has.

  17. Ameerah M says:

    Being an amazing actor doesn’t mean anything other than…being an amazing actor. I knew some actors in my time in the industry that were amazing at their craft. And utter morons about literally everything else. In fact a lot of them were. Because they did nothing to educate themselves outside of acting and had no curiosity outside the scope of the art. Rylance is a perfect example of this.

  18. Dani says:

    He is a brilliant actor. But that is all. Just an actor. No one should be taking medical advice from an actor, period. What a moron.

  19. HeyKay says:

    Always disappointing to hear such nonsense.

  20. LOLA says:

    Nooooo! Not Mark Rylance. I heart him! Don’t ruin it for me, Mark!

  21. Ocho says:

    His interview in The Guardian was something else too. How sets should not require actors to be professional and polite. They are artists! Temperamental!

  22. Traveller says:

    OMG……….what an effing disappointment. I had such respect for this man as an actor.
    He sounds like a moron.

  23. Grant says:

    I’ve lost all respect for him after the “science is the same thing as religion just under a different name” nonsense. Um, no. One is centered on conclusions derived from quantifiable data that can be replicated in controlled situations. The other is … not. Just absolute peak lunacy and willful ignorance in a time where willful ignorance seems to be a badge of honor for some people (this guy included). Whatever, I was rooting for Sylvester Stallone to win the Oscar for Creed that year anyway!

  24. Gelya says:

    My husband & I were talking about Covid yesterday. We were talking about how stupid people were. Here’s another stupid person. I did laugh about the garlic water & Vitamin C. If you can’t laugh at it you will just get ragey. I am over ragey. I have lost so many to this virus. All I can do is cry now.

  25. Cait says:

    When my breast cancer inevitably recurs, it’s so nice to know that vibrations from a Tibetan sound bowl can prevent me from needing chemo.

  26. JustChelle says:

    Steve Jobs also thought alternative treatments were better options for treating his cancer… until they weren’t.

  27. j.ferber says:

    He is a dick because he could spread COVID to babies, elderly people and sick people with poor immune systems. Selfish and stupid. Good luck with your garlic, asshole.

  28. Polly says:

    He’s been saying for years that he doesn’t believe Shakespeare wrote his own plays and called him “an uneducated man from Stratford” which is not only inaccurate but extraordinarily snobby. That was my first clue that this guy, whilst being an amazing actor, isn’t particularly smart.

  29. Isadora says:

    We had the late Anthony Sher and Dame Judy Dench defending Kevin Spacey and he making a comeback in the midst of all the sexual accusations.

    We had the late Robbie Coltrane defending that transphobic crap from JK Rowling.

    Let’s just say i’m really not surprised anymore that respected actors saying and/or doing dumb sh*t suddenly makes headline news.

    • ISadora says:

      Isa: I dont know why it makes headlines either that he didnt take a jab that does nothing.
      Its weird. Also weird that you all still care =)

      • Isadora says:

        I took 3 jabs. I’m obviously still here. He didn’t want to take the jab. Fair enough but then opt out all together instead putting fellow actors and other people at risk.

        The vaccinations were not promising imunity but lower the risk the virus develops into much severe cases . People still could get sick despite being vaccinated that’s why the actors had to come and do daily testing.

        Also you mimicking my name and come here reacting in a snarky manner doesn’t make you smart. Just plain dumb.

  30. msd says:

    I am pleased to say I have had issues with Rylance for many years. Basically ever since his all-male Shakespeare performances that were so popular. When people criticised him because theatre already has too few opportunities for women, he banged on about ‘authenticity.’ Then when people pointed out that in Shakespeare’s time adolescent boys, not middle aged men played the female parts he dismissed it. He just wanted to have a juicy, attention grabbing role for himself. That same endeavour reinforced how cool Christopher Ecclestone is, one of the few actors to criticise Rylance at the time if I remember rightly.

  31. Boombox says:

    ” He doubts the impact of chemotherapy as a friend of his “broke up the cells of a tumour” by relying on vibrations from a Tibetan sound bowl.”

    WOW! This man is disturbed!!

  32. henrysmith says:

    he also said that he took the vaccine to visit his dad in America…..could have been worse he could have had a stroke or Myocarditis