Posted on 08/08/2021 3:35:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Queen’s Brian May called anti-vaxxers “fruitcakes” in a new wide-ranging interview.
The guitarist and astrophysicist offered that criticism to The Independent. He reportedly shook his head upon the journalist’s mention of artists like Eric Clapton questioning vaccine safety and refusing to play concerts with strict COVID-19 protocols.
“I love Eric Clapton, he’s my hero, but he has very different views from me in many ways,” May said. “He's a person who thinks it’s OK to shoot animals for fun, so we have our disagreements, but I would never stop respecting the man. Anti-vax people, I’m sorry, I think they’re fruitcakes. There’s plenty of evidence to show that vaccination helps. On the whole they’ve been very safe. There’s always going to be some side effect in any drug you take, but to go around saying vaccines are a plot to kill you, I’m sorry, that goes in the fruitcake jar for me.”
May also lambasted British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, saying his “bad decisions” in handling the pandemic led to “hundreds, if not thousands” of deaths. “I think it would have been impossible for anyone to make worse decisions than Boris,” he said. “At every point he did too little, too late. … If he’d taken the precautions of shutting down the borders a year earlier, we wouldn’t have been in the situation we were.”
On a lighter note, May recently noted in a separate interview that he’s still amused by a Queen-related joke from the 1990 fantasy novel Good Omens. “I love that quote about every CD that stays in a car for more than a year turns into Queen’s Greatest Hits,” he said. “I should know where that comes from, but it makes me laugh. It is great – I mean, it’s the ultimate compliment for an artist, really, I think, to be sown into people’s lives to that extent.
wait- so the guy whose career was made in part on the tails of Freddie Mercury is calling others fruticakes?? That’s rich.
He’s a fruitcake expert.
“Fruitcakes” is probably not the best word to use, Brian.
I mean...considering what caused the untimely death of your brilliant former lead singer.
Just Sayin’.
So all my guitar heroes are busily making giant a$$es out of themselves.
Great.
The Queen owns a Brian May? WTH is a Brian May that speaks? A talking donkey or dog?
Tell that the Eric Clapton and Van Morrison
He’s a nobody, and I don’t care about nobodies telling me anything.
“Queen” brought homosexuality mainstream in the 70s when it was still taboo. It is fitting that these perverted geezers would push medical experimentation in the current days of Sodom.
The left has zero compassion for anyone who doesn’t share their entire world view. Basically they want us dead. Yet, we’re supposed to give a rat’s ass what they think? They’re very stupid people politically speaking.
Shut up drama queen.
I always like to get my personal medical advice from rock stars.
Very smart man.
I like him a lot.
I disagree with him on this.
I’m moving on.
Medical advice is outside his field, but he’s brighter than the typical rock star. PhD in astrophysics and has collaborated with NASA.
If it were really science they would use scientifically valid arguments and transparent evidence.
All they ever use is emotion and ad hominem attacks.
That tells you everything you need to know.
If he suffered the same vaxxx side effects as Clapton, he might have a more scientific view
A guy from the band “Queen” calling other people fruitcakes............
i see an upcoming babylon bee article
Winning hearts and minds...LOL
So,according to him clampton..his hero ..is a fruitcake?
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