Melissa Joan Hart is ‘really mad’ she has COVID breakthrough case: ‘As a country, we got lazy’
Melissa Joan Hart hopes others can learn from her breakthrough COVID-19 case.
The former “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” star, 45, shared on Instagram Thursday that despite being vaccinated, she has contracted COVID-19 and believes it came from her children’s schools, where they did not have to mask up.
“I never do videos but I feel like this is important,” Hart, who recently moved to Nashville with her family, told her 1.6 million followers. “I got COVID. I am vaccinated. And I got COVID. And it’s bad. It’s weighing on my chest, it’s hard to breathe.”
Already believing one of her three sons to have also gotten sick, the “Melissa & Joey” alum said she’s “praying” that her other two kids and husband are still healthy.
“I’m mad, I’m really mad, because we tried and we took precautions and we cut our exposure by a lot,” she explained. “But we got a little lazy. And I think as a country, we got lazy. And I’m really mad that my kids didn’t have to wear masks at school, ‘cause I’m pretty sure that’s where this came from.”
Noting that one of her sons continued to wear his mask “because he was used to it from last year,” she said if he gets sick, she “can at least tell him he was a superhero to those in his classroom because he protected his teacher and his classmates from it.”
Hart confessed she’s “scared and sad and disappointed in myself, in some of our leaders and a lot of people.
“I just wish I’d done better, so I’m asking you guys to do better,” she pleaded. “Protect your families, protect your kids. It’s not over yet. I hoped it was, but it’s not. So, stay vigilant and stay safe.”
Though Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Monday issued an executive order requiring districts enable students to opt out of mask-wearing, U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said Wednesday that could infringe on districts’ federal obligations to provide a safe setting for in-person learning, the Nashville Tennessean reports.
