Celeste Barber is one of a number of high-profile Australians to chronicle getting their vaccine, as the country fights to lift its low rates. Photo / Instagram
Celeste Barber is one of a number of high-profile Australians to chronicle getting their vaccine, as the country fights to lift its low rates. Photo / Instagram
Celeste Barber has delivered a brutal response to an anti-vaxxer on social media who called her a "fat slob" for encouraging people to get a Covid-19 jab.
The comedian, who first rose to fame on social media platform Instagram, recently shared a video poking fun at Australia's bungled vaccine rollout.
It was in her classic style of mimicking an influencer's original post. In it, a model kicks a skateboard to flip a can of beer into the air, which she pierces with her heel and drinks from.
On her Instagram, she also posted a photo of herself after receiving her vaccination with the caption: "Get it if you can and let's kick this in the d***!"
That was enough to earn Barber the ire of an irate TikTok user, who attacked her vaccine encouragement with a vile video rant.
But in it, the unknown woman, sporting a shaved head dyed pink and a nose ring, hilariously mispronounces the funnywoman's name.
"You tell me why a fat slob like Celestie Barber should be able to post on their Instagram and encourage other people to get the shot when people are being maimed and are dying by this?" the woman screams.
Barber shared a recording of the clip to her own profiles with a blunt but effective message at the end.
A woman attacked Celeste Barber, right, but mispronounced her name in the process. Photo / TikTok
While there's a serious but extremely rare blood clotting risk attached to the AstraZeneca jab, which decreases significantly for older people, the overwhelming evidence shows the developed vaccines are safe and effective.
That hasn't stopped anti-vaxxers from spreading misinformation and bizarre conspiracy theories online.
Barber is one of a number of high-profile Australians to chronicle their receipt of a Covid-19 vaccine, as the country fights to lift its low rates.
Her dry clapback sparked a flood of support and kudos from her army of fans and followers.
As of Thursday, just over 13 per cent of the eligible adult population in Australia has been fully vaccinated, while 17.5 per cent have received one of the two doses.
That puts Australia dead last out of all 38 OECD nations.
Despite repeated claims from the Federal Government that constrained supply is to blame for the slow pace of the rollout, it emerged overnight that three million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine are sitting unused.
Vaccine hesitancy caused by constantly changing official advice and concerns about the rare side effects is seeing many choose to wait for a Pfizer jab.
Celeste Barber shared that she had received a Covid-19 vaccine on her social media. Photo / Instagram
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been criticised for not ordering sufficient doses of Pfizer's shot early enough. Additional supply is forecast to arrive in coming months.
He has been attacked for his lack of urgency and repeatedly describing the massive effort to protect the population as "not a race".
The latest data out of the UK shows people fully vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine were 88 per cent protected against severe illness with the Delta variant.
AstraZeneca's effectiveness against the Delta strain and the original iteration of coronavirus were found to be similarly high.
In current coronavirus outbreaks in the US and across Europe, almost all of those hospitalised with acute symptoms are unvaccinated.
