Slipknotin Shawn ”Clown” Crahan: ”En ole koskaan ottanut influenssaan rokotetta mutta aion ottaa rokotteen koronavirukseen kun siihen saan mahdollisuuden”

Yhdysvaltalaisen metalliyhtye Slipknotin perkussionisti Shawn ”Clown” Crahan on haastatellut hiljattain omaan The Electric Theater With Clown -nimiseen ohjelmaansa Behemothin laulaja-kitaristi Adam ”Nergal” Darskia. Clown on haastattelussa kertonut varsin avoimesti omista ennakkoluuloistaan koronavirukseen annettavaa rokotetta kohtaan mutta on samassa yhteydessä todennut, että koska maailman kiertäminen kuuluu isona osana hänen työhönsä tulee hän myös rokotteen ottamaan heti kun se on mahdollista. Clownin mukaan elämä muusikkona maailmalla vaatii sen koska tapaamisia tulee fanien kanssa kuitenkin kokoajan ja on tärkeää pysyä terveenä että pystyy keikat soittamaan läpi täysillä. Clown avasi omia ennakkoluulojaan ja ajatuksia koronarokotteesta seuraavasti:

”I haven’t had a flu shot in 20 years, and I haven’t had the flu in 20 years. But let me take it a step further. Do I agree with the vaccine? I don’t know what I agree with. I know I don’t wanna be told to do anything. I’ve never been told I had to get the flu shot, but I’m being told — and this could have changed… I don’t like talking about things unless I know they’re facts, but I have heard this from a reliable source, that Canada is gonna make it mandatory, to be able to come into Canada, you’re gonna have to have proof of the vaccine. So, I’ve never had to get a flu shot to go anywhere, but now to do my living, I’m gonna have to have a vaccine — proof of it — to go to Canada. So, normality for me is that now I just need Japan to say that, I need North America to say that, I need South America to say that, Australia, New Zealand… Once everybody jumps on, then I know we’re in it together. I don’t think we’re not in it together now. I think the right people were offered the shot first, and then it opens up as it’s created knowledge.

”Am I gonna get it? Well, no one can even prove I’m the real Clown anyway. So if I don’t want it, I can continue that and just play it off and just disappear — like maybe I have already. I mean, this [conversation] could be a simulation. But I believe in it, and I wanna tour. And most importantly, as long as my family gets it and wants me to get it, then I’ll get it, because I wanna be able to hug my fans again; I wanna be able to embrace the people that have needed me and that I’ve needed. And the way that I’ve been explained by the doctors I go to, they basically say, ’Hey, get the vaccine,’ because what we do, we’re gonna be around a lot of people that aren’t gonna take it, and they’re gonna be sick. There’s gonna be a lot of healthy people, but there’s also gonna be a lot of people that are naysayers that aren’t going to [take the vaccine].

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”You and I are around great amounts of people very day — tremendous amounts of people. Meet-and-greets, handshakes, people coughing in our face, blah blah blah. So, I believe in it, and I believe what the doctors say. It’s, like, look, the idea is to keep me out of the hospital, and if I’m gonna be around people that choose to make it a conspiracy or they don’t believe in it or they just are out, whatever, I risk being in a different country and getting a different strand [of the virus] that I might never leave that country again and not see my family.

”So, I’m definitely gonna get it, but we’re waiting for everyone to get it. I’m healthy. I feel like those that really need it here in our location should get it. They’re already trying to make me get it. One of the guys that’s here is, like, ’Oh, I had you signed up.’ And I’m, like, ’You didn’t even ask me.’ But I know that I might not be able to get in anywhere, and I should just do it now.”

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