Ted Nugent is backpedaling on comments he made about the pandemic now that he’s tested positive for the coronavirus.
Having once said, “It’s not a real pandemic,” he now says, “Saying that I claimed COVID-19 was a hoax. False… Of course there’s a Chinese virus. Hello? Who thinks that I claimed there’s no Chinese… There’s a Chinese virus. They call it COVID-19. I’m well aware of that…
“You know, comfortably numb is actually uncomfortably dumb, because when I said, ‘What about COVID-1 through 18?’, they missed the whole point.
“I know there was not a COVID-1 through 18, but there were past COVIDs prior to COVID-19 that nobody ever shut down any mom-and-pop businesses, never encouraged the economic destruction of the entrepreneur engine that drives America. So I was merely commenting that prior to COVID-19, nobody ever shut down anything — not for Ebola [virus], not for the Spanish Flu, not for AIDS, not for the Black Plague. But they’re doing it for COVID-19. So I was referencing those past epidemics-slash-pandemics as maybe a generalization of COVID-1 through -18.”
No word on how Nugent contracted the virus, but he did say it knocked him for a loop, so much so that he thought he was “dying.”
Despite this, Nugent says he is still not getting the vaccine, nor does he encourage anyone to wear a mask or practice social distancing.
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