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Eric Clapton refuses to play venues requiring vaccines for concertgoers

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I don't ask my doctor to play Tears in Heaven for me, so I'm going to pass on taking vaccine advice from Clapton.

I’ll pose the question again: As a country, society, and humanity as a whole, where do we end this- with everyone vaccinated or seasonally controlled like influenza?

Once that light is clear, everything else will figure itself out.

We don't. Nature is great at self maintenance, much like forest fires we have to let it clear out the dead wood, and suffer when we don't let it. We don't like that because we like to espouse every life is precious and to accept the alternative stabs a whole lotta sacred cows.

He's a genius from his wrists down

Good. No young people should be "required" to take the vaccine. Freedom of choice and respect of the body first.

No one, certainly not any club, is requiring young people to get the vaccine. They're simply saying, as you are, that they have freedom of choice and that choice is to deny unvaccinated patrons from entering.

If you are for freedom of choice on one end, you should also be for freedom of choice on the other end.

So first its not freedom of choice its the government who impose that.

Secondly at the end businesses and governments follow the majority opinion.. And for that, I support Clapton to put pressure on clubs and voice his opinion

Oh, what happened to “my business, my property, my rules?” Nobody is forcing you to go to a concert.

Funny how nobody complains children can’t attend school without a vaccine.

You can always smell a stupid political tribal political opinion when people act like they want to die on a hill in the name of freedom, yet run the nearest ER like little babies when they get sick.

Put your money where your mouth is. Put your name on a public list declaring you irrevocably refuse treatment if you get the virus.

Opposing our reaction to the pandemic is one thing, believing that Schrodinger’s virus simultaneously doesn’t exist and is treatable by something else is hilarious stupidity.

> Oh, what happened to “my business, my property, my rules?” Nobody is forcing you to go to a concert.

So first if you had read the article it's the uk governement not a businesses rule. Secondly businesses and governement follow the majority opinions. It's a good thing people like Clapton voice their optinion

> You can always smell a stupid political tribal political opinion when people act like they want to die on a hill in the name of freedom, yet run the nearest ER like little babies when they get sick.

> Put your money where your mouth is. Put your name on a public list declaring you irrevocably refuse treatment if you get the virus.

Chill down keyboard warrior. The fact it's not treatable by anything else than vaccine doesn't mean it's good or even legal to coerce people into taking the vaccine, or plainly discriminate against those who don't for whatever reason (starting with pregnant women). As a matter of facts it's actually very clearly illegal in europe to do so, since the vaccines are still "experimental drugs". here's a french article with legal sources if you want the details.

https://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&client=ubuntu&q=med...

Alternative headline: Eric Clapton refuses to play venues that aren't open to all concertgoers. Nothing to prevent a vaccinated concertgoer from attending, so what's the problem?

And another one: Eric Clapton doesn't care about the health and safety of his fans; is 100% willing to risk their safety from the distant safety of his stage act.

Eric Clapton isn't forcing people to attend his concerts. Anyone can judge the risk for themselves.

I wholeheartedly disagree with this. I would say a large percentage of people are incapable of judging the risk for themselves, which is why we get people going on ventilators begging to get the vaccine now.

I mean, the entire insurance industry is built around the idea that people are incapable of judging risk.

Good on him. I don't give a dang.

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