With the U.S. already reopening the country amid COVID-19 breakouts, and Australia soon to ease back on restrictions, Kiss frontman Paul Stanley says we’ve still got “a long way to go” with containing the virus.

Kiss members have certainly been vocal about the current global pandemic. First, the hard rock band began flogging ‘Stay At Home’ shirts to help out-of-work roadies. Then, Gene Simmons made not one, not two, but three comments on COVID-19, with the biggest message being: STAY HOME.

Now, it’s frontman Paul Stanley’s turn to give his two sense on the virus, especially with the U.S. on the go for returning back to normal. Likening the current pandemic to the H1N1 influenza outbreak in 2009, where it killed an estimated 151,700 to 575,400 globally, he notes that COVID-19 is, in fact, more deadly.

Taking to Twitter, Stanley wrote: “Just sayin’…H1N1 killed 12,469 Americans from April 2009-April 2010, A FULL TWELVE MONTHS. COVID-19 has killed OVER SIX TIMES AS MANY AMERICANS — 79,696 of them — IN 1/4 OF THE TIME, February-May 2020. Sadly, we have a long way to go. No… This is nothing like H1N1..”

Many fans flocked to his comment, beginning arguments with one saying, “I hate to say this to you because I grew up listening to you guys but you’re wrong the only reason the COVID-19 deaths are so much higher is because they are listing all the deaths as COVID-19 deaths and nothing else and that’s BS” while another commented “If this country doesn’t open people will die of other things such as starvation and suicide. Can’t get immunity by hiding in the house.”

Sadly, America has seen a mass influx of cases, that are continuing to rise with restrictions eased for the fifty states. In comparison to Australia, the states has had 1.36 million confirmed cases, while Australia has fared at just shy of 7,000.

Last night alone saw an increase of over 25,000 nation wide in the United States, showing that the virus has no sign of stopping while President Donald Trump continues the last leg of this term’s presidency.

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