Dr. Kon about "threats" spoken from car: I feel completely safe, in Belgrade and everywhere

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Epidemiologist Dr. Predrag Kon, who has received threats several times so far for advocating in favor of vaccination against coronavirus, explains that, despite the threats, he feels safe.

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The last event that Dr. Kon informed the public about via Facebook is that someone unknown to him told him in a threatening tone to stop talking about vaccines. The person was in a black, expensive car, reports Kurir.

However, Kon stressed that he does not take it as a threat.

"That someone in an expensive car told me, "Enough already with those vaccines" is not something I perceive as a threat. The point is that he believes this is an exaggerated story, that it should not be done, while it's completely the other way around. And when I post that, I want to stress that's the wrong belief, I'm not mentioning it because of my safety. I feel completely safe, both in Belgrade and everywhere. People much more often say hello, to congratulate me and wish me all the best, while these unpleasant (situations) are rare," said Dr. Kon.

Kon addressed the public immediately after this event.

"'Enough already with those vaccines', another, quiet, but threatening voice from an expensive polished black cars was directed at me this morning," Dr. Kon wrote and added:

"I smiled, because there is no answer to such a 'message'. I guess this person believes that it is 'healthier' to receive the virus. But it's not. It's a thousand times better to get vaccinated," Dr. Kon wrote.

This is not the first time that threatening messages have been directed at Dr. Kon.

Last November, a video from a party appeared on social networks, in which curses and threats addressed to Dr. Kon were heard, and the video was published along with the comment, "Underground Bgd (Belgrade) does not give two f***s about corona."

Dr. Kon reacted by posting on Facebook.

"Heroes, merrymakers, who threaten me through social networks... turn your anger against the virus and and the epidemic. Leave me alone to do my job. Attack the virus, not the measures that slow it down. Keep healthy! WEAR MASKS," he wrote at the time.

Shortly afterwards, a graffiti reading, "Impale Kon" appeared in Novi Sad. It was located a few hundred meters away from a Novi Sad Covid clinic, in Novo Naselje, where about 400 Novi Sad residents were examined daily.

(Telegraf.rs)