Actor Ryan Reynolds received the COVID-19 vaccine and then used a photo of the moment to mock conspiracy theorists.
“Finally got 5G,” the “Deadpool” star on Wednesday captioned this image of himself getting the needle, referencing the debunked conspiracy theory linking the wireless technology to the spread of the coronavirus.
Actor Blake Lively, Reynolds’ wife, also marked getting the shot.
“Find you someone who looks at you like I look at the heroic nurse vaccinating me,” she wrote alongside this image:
Reynolds’ post prompted a ton of gags on Twitter:
And words of warning from a British telecommunications company:
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