What if you never heard about Covid? Well, that sounds like a dream you’d do anything for, right?
According to recent reports in media, it has been reported that a man living in a cave for 20 years gets a Covid-19 shot after learning about the pandemic. Panta Petrovic has been living in a cave atop the Stara Planina mountains in southern Serbia for 20 years. Yes, it is true that he is literally living under a rock for these long years.
When Petrovic found out about coronavirus during a rare trip to the supermarket in his hometown Pirot last year and he managed to get his Covid shot.
The time Petrovic got to know about the ongoing pandemic, he knew he was going to get vaccinated as soon as he could.
Meanwhile, the social distancing king told AFP that, “It [the virus] does not pick. It will come here, to my cave, too.”
The cave-bound hermit said that he “doesn’t understand the fuss” about anti-vaxxers make about the vaccine. He said, “I want to get all three doses, including the extra one. I urge every citizen to get vaccinated, every single one of them.”
While explaining why he decided to live in isolation, Petrovic said, “I was not free in the city. There is always someone in your way – you either argue with your wife, neighbours, or the police. Here, nobody is hassling me.”
Petrovic’s home is only accessibly by a steep climb. He receives welfare as well as food donations and supplies for the animals he owns. The 70-year-old before deciding to relocate to the caves, he worked as a labourer. Now, he spends his days searching for leftover food from bins and goes fishing at the local creek and eats mostly mushrooms.
Inside the cave, he has an old rusty bathtub which he uses as a toilet (two for one), some benches and a stack of hay which is his bed on which he sleeps on.
Before leaving Pirot, he donated all his money to the community by funding the construction of three small bridges in the town.
He said, “Money is cursed, it spoils people. I think nothing can corrupt a human like money.”
