Covidiots in music

MIA is quoted in the Guardian as 'knowing three people who died from the vaccine' (with the Guardian adding that there are fifteen known vaccine-based deaths total in the UK). Just surprised she didn't go with 'doctors have been paid to put Covid as cause of death'.

"11.5 million for the new booster is insanely low"

it is, but it's also 1) still relatively new, so if you got boosted again in the summer I don't know that you can get it yet (ie: I got boosted on July 31st, and it seems too soon? i'll probably get it in november) and 2) hard to get, it seems. Scheduling these for my kid was fucking painful, had to get it 25 miles away scheduled a week out.

In Maryland and Virginia you can get the new boosters two months after the last booster.

So there are 30 thousand doses of the latest vaccine being administered per day in the US. At that rate we could expect everyone in the population to have this dose in about 29 years.

also, it's about to no longer be free in the US

The public health emergency declaration (which makes vaccines, testing, and treatments free) was just extended another 90 days by Biden. The problem is that Republicans in Congress are refusing to authorize funding for additional rounds of boosters after this one (170 million doses have been purchased), more tests in the mail (funds for those have run out), etc.

(This is against the backdrop of the new BQ.1 subvariants which may have potential to fuel a winter surge, and which the reformulated boosters are still expected to be effective against… as BQ is some kind of offshoot of BA.5.)

Isn't there at least one other thread this conversation could be taking place on?

Ice Cube Confirms He Lost $9M Film Role Over COVID-19 Vaccine: “Fuck That Jab”

THR summary / youtube panel show thing

Cube tweeted some Q anon bullshit a couple of times

He's posted some Q adjacent stuff too

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 29 October 2021 23:39 (one year ago)

After watching Roland Gift on Jools Holland last night found his Twitter feed, oh boy.

A noted twat at the best of times

what a card

Well! That was fun.

More like Roland Git, amirite?

Roland Grift

Is it him or someone using his picture? The account is just retweets.

Yeah it isn't verified and it has a low follower count, also Later... didn't tag it in the posts last night, doesn't rule it out though.

It’s followed by The English Beat (official), if that means anything…

She [an antivax influencer I found on Youtube] drove me crazy, oooh ooh ooh

Cassandra “Qassandra” Wilson is still kind of a bummer, she’s gone full redpill though seems to have chosen to downplay it of late (while still emphasizing being a “patriot”), maybe wisely for her career. Plenty of her fans were genuinely shocked about that.

oh man I didn't know about that, she's such a rare talent, that sucks

She and Moe Tucker are the right wing musicians that bum me out the most.

+ Exene Cervenka

oh man I didn't know about that, she's such a rare talent, that sucks

Me neither! Just looked up her Twitter feed. Sweet Jesus, honestly the last thing I would’ve suspected. Ugh….

There’s an indie pop artist who was briefly incautious with her anti-BLM chatter on Instagram but I think she similarly decided to get careful, I won’t name her but it really bummed out my wife (who is a fan.)

Back to antivax artists — Summer Walker is someone whose music I love, and whose… views… I try not to pay attn to.

Pretty sceptical that Gift account is anything to do with him xps

As CAAL said, this was Later's tweet about their NYE show

Join us on NYE for another star-studded Hootenanny line-up!🎆

⭐️ @catburns
⭐️ Tom Odell
⭐️ @SELFESTEEM___
⭐️ @rachaelnvilray
⭐️ @rubyturnersoul
⭐️ @LMarshallSinger
⭐️ @realthinguk
⭐️ Andy Fairweather Low
⭐️ @GabrielleUk
⭐️ Roland Gift
⭐️ @george_ezra

Saturday, 11:30pm @BBCTwo🎉 pic.twitter.com/aCkuKtUNMO

— Later...with Jools Holland on BBC Two (@BBCLater) December 27, 2022

I checked out a few 2020/21 interviews (out of curiosity/boredom), and he solely talks about music... don't see anything relevant when I search his name plus "covid"... so if that is his account, he keeps his views pretty close to the vest.

(FWIW, I did find this health quiz from 2017: ‘Hereditaries’ can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. How you think has a direct effect on your health: winter comes and some people tell themselves they’re going to get a cold, and they do.)

well, that's a relief *returns to playing FYC's "Don't Look Back"*

Hey, suspicious minds gonna suspicion.

Meanwhile, Roland's Gifts sporadically tweeted about its personalized plaques and planters in 2012-13 before reemerging in 2019 with a retweet of Mollie Hemingway on the "Russia hoax."

She and Moe Tucker are the right wing musicians that bum me out the most.

Tucker and I used to be Facebook friends. She blocked me once I started replying to her questionable posts with factual rebuttals during the height of the pandemic.

+ Exene Cervenka

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remember watching some of her rants on twitter or youtube and she really just seems mentally unwell, it's sad

I had to look it up to refresh my memory but yes, years before Covid (or even before Trump ran for office), she was a full blown conspiracy nut for matters big and small.

I haven't followed Moe Tucker too closely outside of her music, but I was under the impression she wasn't a conspiracy nut so much as a politically right-wing extremist, with cult-like belief in libertarian ideas and also racist beliefs as well (I recall some pretty disgusting posts against Muslims). I almost want to put up a Venn diagram showing how Exene and Moe's philosophies really overlap rather than being one and the same.

It's funny/sad to read old articles about Tucker from the 80s and 90s, where the writers are at pains to paint her as an authentic, woman-of-the-people type (unlike those arty dilettantes Reed and Cale), as if working at Walmart is proof of moral virtue.

When they did that talk at the NYPL in 2009, a little of that did come out where she criticizes NYC for doing nothing to keep it more affordable, pointing out that artists living under the poverty line and who were just starting out could no longer find a place in Manhattan. Lou gently disagreed, saying there were still places like that in Brooklyn - to be fair, there were (Bushwick comes to mind), but less so now. Anyway, the whole talk is streaming somewhere on the NYPL website, and fortunately there isn't any extremist nuttery that comes pouring out.

I knew about her Tea Party stuff from 2010, but hadn’t heard anything else lately (just looked up a few recent interviews, and thankfully politics doesn’t come up).

(The main thing she rails against here is cymbals…)

mo otm about cymbals

although of course i end up ring a ding dingin on them all the time when i play

No kidding about cymbals. I'm not fussy at all about mixes or arrangements, but too much cymbal will ruin a song for me. Why put so much "SHHHHHHHHHH" in there? First Snail Mail album is very guilty of this.

Don’t tell Moe about mid- to late-80s Grateful Dead soundboard recordings

Yeah she's suffered enough

“Maureen, dear, there’s something I need to tell you about. You’re not going to like it.”

lol

Scout Niblett’s Twitter started retweeting anti-vax stuff yesterday. Possibly hacked though, lasts post before it was November 2021. OTOH she is an astrologist.

Howard Donald off the deep end …

FYI, Howard from Take That is headlining this while these are in his likes https://t.co/JWZIrVzJB6 pic.twitter.com/6BU4rhn2Gy

— dylan (@ohlookitsdylan) June 16, 2023

fucking pod people