Sammy Hagar won’t let coronavirus stopping him from rocking out. The musician revealed that he’d be comfortable returning to the stage before a coronavirus vaccine is developed.
In a new interview with Rolling Stone the stalwart musician revealed “I’ll be comfortable playing a show before there’s a vaccine, if it’s declining and seems to be going away,” he claims, referring to the coronavirus pandemic.
“I’m going to make a radical statement here. This is hard to say without stirring somebody up, but truthfully, I’d rather personally get sick and even die, if that’s what it takes.”
The musician mused that the dire economic consequences of the pandemic are going to cause more harm in the long term than the virus.
“We have to save the world and this country from this economic thing that’s going to kill more people in the long run,” Hagar revealed. “I would rather see everyone go back to work. If some of us have to sacrifice on that, OK. I will die for my children and my grandchildren to have a life anywhere close to the life that I had in this wonderful country.”
“That’s just the way that I feel about it,” he concludes. “I’m not going to go around spreading the disease. But there may be a time where we have to sacrifice. I mean, how many people die on the Earth every day? I have no idea. I’m sorry to say it, but we all gotta die, man.”
Though I appreciate the chaotic, heroic nihilism, I am very much of the opinion that eradicating the virus should probably take precedence over indulging our core desire to rock out.
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The ex-Van Halen vocalist has been very online during the coronavirus pandemic. His social media feeds is littered with videos of him cooking, live performances, and even attempts at social justice rhetoric.
Earlier this month, the musician delivered a bizarre take addressing the Black Lives Matter protests that unfurled across the US.
“Why would anyone kill innocent people and take it out on the whole race, the whole society we are living in because of a bad guy?” Hagar shared. “A bad cop? A bad black man? A bad white man? A bad Chinese, Japanese, Hispanic, South American? What’s the difference? Why would you take it out on the whole human race – people with families and children that are innocent?”
The musician’s message was confusing, though ultimately you get the sense that he was pleading for the violence to stop.
“There are bad guys everywhere, every walk of life,” he says. “I know it, you know it – we all know it. Stop the violence. Stop racism, prejudice, please.”
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