The vehement anti-vax rocker Eric Clapton has just dropped what looks like a musical scoundrel against pandemic restrictions and vaccines.
The animated music video for the legendary guitarist’s apparent anti-vax anthem “This Has Gotta Stop” features an evil puppeteer and protesters waving placards reading “Liberty” and “Stop”. (Watch it in the video above).
It also includes an illustration by Jam for Freedom, the British anti-lock action group that supports Clapton, noted Rolling Stone, which was the first to report on Clapton’s latest.
“I can’t stand this BS anymore. He has gone far enough, ”Clapton sings on the court.
“I knew something was wrong / When you started setting the law / I can’t move my hands / I’m sweating,” he added referring to the side effects Clapton said he experienced after the vaccination.
The 76-year-old veteran British musician has launched vaccines against COVID-19 from what he called his own health struggles “disastrous” after receiving the AstaZenica vaccine. After the first blow, “he immediately had serious reactions that lasted ten days,” he explained in a note that was shared on social media in May.
After the second injection, “the hands and feet were frozen, asleep, or burning, and practically useless for two weeks; He was afraid of never playing again, “added Clapton.
He has characterized assurances that COVID-19 vaccines are safe as “propaganda”. “It’s hard to bite my tongue with what I know now,” wrote Clapton, who refuses to act anywhere vaccines are required.
“I will not act in any scenario where there is a discriminated audience,” he declared last month on social media. “Unless there is a provision for everyone to attend, I reserve the right to cancel the show.”
Health experts around the world claim that the serious side effects of COVID-19 vaccines are infinitesimal compared to saved health and life.
Last year, Clapton produced an anti-lock solera with Van Morrison, “Stand and Deliver.” Clapton challenges the song: “Do you want to be a free man / Or do you want to be a slave?”
Earlier this month, Queen guitarist Brian May removed Clapton’s stance on vaccines in an interview.
“I love Eric Clapton, he’s my hero, but he has very different opinions from me in many ways,” May told The Independent.
And he added: “Anti-vax people, I’m sorry, I think they’re fruit cakes. There is a lot of evidence that vaccination helps. “
Clapton’s complaint about “discrimination” by unvaccinated fans at a concert is ironic, given his recently resurfaced racist comments. A visibly drunk Clapton asked the stages during a 1972 concert for the “foreigners” to raise their hands, and then advised them to leave. He mocked “keeping Britain white” and said he “used to be drugged” but then “was in racism”.
He has since apologized for the comments.
Clapton is scheduled to act next month in Louisiana, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida and Texas, the states with some of the highest leak rates of COVID-19 cases in the nation.
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