Guitar legend Eric Clapton Actively oppose Based on COVID vaccine personal experience Provoked the anger of the left and said that he would Refuse to play Any place that requires a vaccination certificate to enter.Before Clapton’s statement, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that as of the end of September this year Vaccine passed, Will need to enter nightclubs and larger venues.
The 76-year-old Clapton was attacked by left-wing publications such as Rolling Stone with independent Expressed his initial suspicion of various vaccines, and then elaborated on his own reaction. After receiving the first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca variant vaccine, Clapton said:
“I went to get the injection… A few hours later, I was shaking like a leaf, I went to bed early, I couldn’t keep warm… I thought, I was having a fever. I was so hot and sweating, and then cold again, I went out to count About a week.
“I have been preparing for a project. I will play acoustic guitar with a few musicians, and then we will shoot it. That week was exhausted and I had to start from scratch. I was okay, but it didn’t turn out to be me. I want so good, because professionally speaking, this is a huge setback…”
Nevertheless, Clapton agreed to take a second dose. To put it mildly, it didn’t go well.
“I realized bit by bit that I probably shouldn’t have the first jab, but then I got the second jab, and I thought, okay…what’s the point of stopping now. So I went for the second One, and then it became very bad. In about a week… my hands were really useless.”
Clapton suffers from incurable but controllable peripheral neuropathy, and he has spent weeks unable to function normally, let alone playing the guitar.
“[When I had the second jab] This increases from level 10, for example from level 3 to level 8 or 9. Pain and chronic pain. When you know that nothing will work, you don’t have any medicines you can take to help. The worst thing is that you don’t know when it will disappear or when it will disappear.
“So this is what scares me the most. In medicine, in terms of health, it is still the same, because I have to do performances, I have recording work to do, but I can’t play the guitar… It’s not fun… When I put it down, it stayed there until I went to sleep, and I took sleeping pills because I couldn’t sleep because of the pain. This is not a good way of life.
“It’s not entirely because of the vaccine, but the vaccine has affected my immune system again, and this situation continues. Then I read a lot of the evidence that I have been reading about people with adverse reactions, these evidences On the list… damage to the immune system.”
Although the symptoms have gradually subsided to the point where Clapton can participate in the competition again, he is still highly critical of the vaccine and the government’s tough mandatory requirements.
Clapton admitted that his position proved to be costly personally, but he believed that it was necessary to continue to raise his voice.
“I believe most in freedom of speech and freedom of movement, choice of action and life, love and kindness, and all these exposures to political, medical, and scientific polarization. I find it difficult to remain neutral because I have seen both sides’ contempt and contempt. , I often get caught in the crossfire.
“…I speak today on behalf of someone like me who may be lost, and perhaps need to hear someone talk about it from a human perspective without condemnation… There must be a way to bring people together. I believe that music can do this, But there is still a long way to go. I believe we still have time to get together.”
Clapton plans to conduct a short American tour in September of this year. His next scheduled concert in the UK is to be held at the Royal Albert Hall in May next year.
Clapton is the only person inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame three times. He is a solo artist and a member of Cream and The Yardbirds. Along with Jeff Baker, Jimmy Page, and later Rory Gallagher, Clapton is widely regarded as the person who promoted the American blues in Europe and the United States.He was recognized by the original electric blues artists, such as BB King Provide all possible testimonies required on a professional and personal level.Clapton overcomes personal adversity such as drug addiction and the tragedy of losing him Little son It has become a rare accident among any type of artist: a living legend who has truly earned this title.
