Posted on 08/10/2021 12:46:31 AM PDT by nickcarraway
In an exclusive conversation with UCR, Gene Simmons revealed his thoughts on touring during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“My druthers would be that everybody is mandated to get vaccines,” the Kiss bassist confesses. “I hope everybody is going to be wearing their masks. But we can only control what we can control and different states and different countries have different rules.”
Kiss is currently slated to resume their End of the Road tour on Aug. 18. The trek spans deep into 2022, with Simmons estimating that the band will add “anywhere between 150 to 200 cities additionally.” In years past, the iconic rock group has offered ticket packages that included meet and greets. However, given health and safety protocols, those have been eliminated for this tour.
“Backstage, we’re not doing any meet and greets. Obviously, we’re giving up a pretty penny, because fans pay a premium to come up and take photos and stuff. That’s gone,” Simmons explains. “We are not allowing roadies or anybody else to be anywhere backstage unless they’re vaccinated and the masks are on the whole time.”
Simmons further explains that he has no time for people who stubbornly insist that COVID vaccinations impede upon their freedoms.
“'I have my rights, don’t tell me what to do.' Which is curious, because you do not have the right to drive down the highway in a car without a seatbelt. You must stop at a red light. That’s not a right you have,” the rocker declares. “And you don’t have the right to walk naked down the street. These are not life-threatening ideas. We’re talking about a fuckin’ pandemic and people are fighting it.”
“I blame our former president,” Simmons admits, referring to Donald Trump, whom he spent extended time with on the reality TV show Celebrity Apprentice. “I knew the man before he entered politics. But he got vaccinated and so have most of the other party.”
Ultimately, Simmons says he’s less concerned with people who choose to stay unvaccinated than those who they may impact.
“I’m not worried -- and it’s unkind to say this -- I’m not worried if an idiot gets COVID and dies,” the rocker matter-of-factly states. “I’m worried he takes other people with him. Who didn’t have a choice. It doesn’t have to be death. Being in a hospital is horrific. There are so many cases of people who were deniers and who are begging in the hospital to get the vaccine. But it’s too late.”
While the End of the Road tour was paused during the pandemic’s height, Simmons reignited his passion for drawing and painting. This fall, the legendary musician will show some of his artwork publicly for the first time. Gene Simmons ArtWorks will run Oct. 14-16 at the Animazing Gallery in Las Vegas.
No, but lived very close to the border in WNY in the days when going to Canada was like going to the corner store for milk.
And there were a lot of Canadians who came to the US just as freely. Many worked in the US.
I could pick the Canadians out all over the valley by that distinctive "eh?" at the end of their sentences when you'd hear them talk.
It impacts him as a businessman doing his business.
A movie star? I agree.
But this guy touring is how he makes a living. He might not “need” the money based on someone’s opinion. But, the ability to get people in a venue to pay him matters very much to him.
I am surprised more capitalist Freeper don’t get this.
I don’t care who gets a vaccine for anything. If you die, you die. Not my problem. I am not pulling the trigger. But don’t mess with my business.
Gene Simmons had sex with over 4,800 women.
He took photos of them backstage and in his hotel rooms. He lost and or burned the boxes of Polaroid photos many years ago of his conquests.
He is a super spreader....
And we don’t have to buy any of his merch or go to his concerts.
If the vaccination is such a great thing, then all those who took it should be sitting pretty and not worrying about the rest of us.
Yup, they are far too obsessed with what I do for me to trust them.
Perfect strangers claiming they care about me?
Not buying it. It’s just a manipulation technique to try to shame me i to complying with what they think I should do. I can see what they are doing.
Dude’s relatively good on issues, much aligned to our thoughts. We disagree with him on one point. It’s a biggee, but it’s only one.
It is truly surprising that now that the children are flooding the hospitals, those previously hostile to the vaccines are not softening their stance a bit.
If that theory is correct (that vaccinated people are spreaders of the disease and/or the cause of variants), why are Moderna and BioNTech developing mRNA vaccines for other diseases? You’d think they would wait and see if you guys are correct. They must pretty darn sure of their product.
I want to hear what all the other men who wear makeup for a living have to say before I decide about taking the vaccine.
Kids should not be getting the vax, and it’s not protecting adults either anyways.
You don’t vaccinate in the middle of an epidemic. It backfires and creates vaccine escape.
And which kids are flooding hospitals? And how sick are they truly?
At this stage of the game, I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re being admitted without really needing it, but rather to boost alleged Covid numbers and maybe make some extra money from the feds.
We’ve been lied to so long and so often about this whole so-called pandemic, that I don’t trust anything they are claiming because they are the ones who stand to benefit the most. It’s too much a conflict of interest.
Let's get something clear right up front. This is not some "theory" of mine. Some "conspiracy". This observation is made because of statements by world-renowned virologists and immunologists. This is the science of viruses.
And I will paraphrase as close as possible to the original, everyone knows not to try and mass vaccinate millions of people in the middle of a pandemic. This is considered a big no-no. This will cause the virus to mutate to stay active and create variants which will be stronger than the original and cause more people to get sick and die, i.e. the Delta variant. This is happening around the world where countries have been successful in vaccinating large numbers of people very rapidly.
I don't know why the drug companies are developing other vaccines for other diseases, but my first guess is the money to be made. Their profits from the corona vaccines are in the the tens of billions of dollars already. Follow the money as they say.
Links to some information I have mentioned and more:
Bombshell: Nobel Prize Winner Reveals - Covid Vaccine is 'Creating Variants'
Indiana doctor drops Vaccine truth bombs on school board…
Dr. Peter McCullough Interview 5/19/2021
A Manufactured Illusion: Dr David Martin with Reiner Fuellmich
Dr David Martin Explains Covid Vaccines are not Vaccines but are Medical Devices
Shouldn’t be a surprise from a failed 5th grade teacher... He just needs to shut up about himself and entertain. Nobody cares what you think until you try to barf it up into everyone else’s face. I saw kiss in 76 and again in 86. they were entertaining but then again they were full of themselves and thought they were above the rest of the world. Maybe he should shut down and retire, go into hiding or go back to Israel.
OOPS, he caught the Batflu anyway!
Peopls have a right to do all of those things. It's just that those in charge developed rules over time to punish people for breaking them, same with the vaccine management...which is still in its infancy and the rules being set still have not found a happy medium.
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