Avengers star Evangeline Lilly outrages fans after revealing she refuses to self-isolate during pandemic because she ‘values freedom’ and dismisses coronavirus as ‘respiratory flu’
- The 40-year-old shared a ‘business as usual’ Instagram post on Monday
- Mother-of -two revealed she was dropping her children off to gymnastics camp
- She said referred to the coronavirus as akin to ‘respiratory flu’, despite pandemic being declared
- She even went on to fuel a conspiracy theory that the coronavirus is orchestrated by the government ahead of the presidential election
- Earlier this month Lilly admitted to having a very ‘rough year’ last year which ‘broke’ her
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Outrage: Evangeline Lilly, pictured here at the premiere of Avengers: Endgame last April, revealed to her fans on Monday that she is refusing to self-isolate because she values ‘freedom’
Avengers star Evangeline Lilly revealed to her fans on Monday that she is refusing to self-isolate because she values ‘freedom’ and dismissed the coronavirus pandemic as a ‘respiratory flu’.
She shared a ‘business as usual’ post to her Instagram account, in which she revealed she was still going out and taking her children to their activities in spite of the fact that everyone has been told to stay home.
Next to a pair of photos of her ‘morning tea,’ as the 40-year-old Ant-Man And The Wasp star hashtagged it, Lilly wrote, ‘Just dropped my kids off at gymnastics camp. They all washed their hands before going in. They are playing and laughing. #businessasusual’
Evangeline is mom to eight-year-old son Kahekili Kali, with her partner Norman Kali, as well as one other child.
The post caused many outraged fans and followers to express concern and ask questions, especially regarding Lilly’s decision to head out and bring her kids to their normal activities.
‘Some people value their lives over freedom, some people value freedom over their lives. We all make our choices,’ the Lost actress responded pointedly within the comments section of her post, clearly making her stance on the world’s reaction to the pandemic known.
‘Where we are right now feels a lot too close to Marshall Law [sic] for my comfort already, all in the name of a respiratory flu,’ Evangeline wrote in another comment.
‘It’s unnerving…Let’s be vigilant right now. And kind. Watchful and gracious — keeping a close eye on our leaders, making sure they don’t abuse this moment to steal away more freedoms and grab more power.’
In yet another comment, Evangeline went so far as to fuel a conspiracy theory that the coronavirus might actually be orchestrated by the government since we’re ahead of a presidential election.
‘There’s “something” every election year,’ she wrote.
The actress’s comments come after another very confessional share earlier this month, when Lilly admitted to having a very ‘rough year’ last year which ‘broke’ her in the caption to a previous Instagram entry.
Saying she ‘felt alone and unseen’, she shared her private battles in an emotional post on March 6th which showed the star sitting on the floor and looking dismayed in a pair of selfies from last year.
‘I had such a rough year last year, ‘ the actress said, explaining that she had kept her struggle private because she didn’t want to make people ‘sad’.