Country music superstar Dolly Parton performed during halftime of the Thanksgiving Day NFL football game between the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Commanders, and while fans in attendance at the game were delighted by Parton’s mini-concert, conspiracy theorists wasted no time trashing her just because she helped finance creation of the COVID-19 vaccine.
According to Newsweek:
Parton’s set included some of her biggest hits, such as “Jolene” and “9 to 5,” before she treated audiences to a cover of Queen’s classic track “We Are the Champions.”
However, the singer-song-writer’s presence on the stage drew objections from a number of social media users, who criticized Parton for helping to fund the development of a COVID vaccine at the height of the pandemic in 2020.
The star donated $1 million to the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, leading to the creation of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. She has since donated another $1 million to Vanderbilt for pediatric infectious disease research.
That was all it took for snowflake anti-vaxxers to post hateful invectives aimed at Parton on Twitter.