Anti-vaxxer broadcasts his number, has regrets
CALLERS `LAZY'
A Toronto man who has for months railed against vaccine and mask mandates gave out his phone number during a protest last week, repeating the digits into a microphone while telling a crowd he has nothing to hide.
Chris Saccoccia, who goes by the name Chris Sky, told a crowd objecting to vaccine mandates in Toronto on Saturday that unlike politicians, “I'm not afraid of anybody.” He was giving out his phone number, he said, so people with resources who “actually want to help the country” could contact him.
Two days and “literally thousands of phone calls” later, Saccoccia took to Twitter to tell people to stop ringing his cell.
“I gave my number out in Toronto and specifically said it was for people who either need help, or people, more importantly, that have the resources to actually help make a difference,” Saccoccia said. “It wasn't so people could call me every five seconds and ask me the exact same question that I've already answered a million times.”
Saccoccia, who shares baseless claims about the coronavirus, said public health measures enacted during the pandemic are meant to “enslave” people. He has repeatedly called into question the safety of the coronavirus vaccines, referring to them on Saturday in front of the Toronto Eaton Centre as “an experimental death jab.”
Data from the hundreds of millions of coronavirus vaccines administered around the world have been studied for safety. Studies and data also show fully immunized people are far less likely to be hospitalized with severe COVID infections than those who are unvaccinated.
Saccoccia said he was unhappy with questions from “lazy, weak people” who called after he gave out his number. “If you're going to call me and ask me what to do about a vaccine mandate at your job or anywhere else, I'm just going to hang up on you because I already answered that question a hundred thousand times.”
He could not be reached at the number he gave out on Saturday and did not respond to a request for comment submitted to his website. Saccoccia tweeted on Wednesday that he made the video asking people not to call him with “stupid questions” because he gets upset when Canadians “show weakness.”
Saccoccia has participated in protests regularly during the pandemic. He has been arrested after police said he violated travel quarantine requirements and charged with threatening politicians.
Wearing a tank top with block letters reading “Just Say No” on Saturday, Saccoccia told vaccine protesters “everyone in the world” now had his phone number.