Tony Rebel Latest Reggae Artist To Shun COVID-19 Vaccine
Tony Rebel is the latest Jamaican Reggae artist to publicly declare that he will not be taking the COVID-19 vaccine, when it arrives in Jamaica even if rejecting it, hinders him from travelling overseas.
Speaking during an interview with entertainment journalist Anthony Miller on Television Jamaica’s Entertainment Report, which was aired on Friday night, Rebel said he had numerous misgivings about the vaccine.
He also said he is confident that the natural foods which he eats daily will give him the immuno-protective wherewithal to combat the infection, if he gets exposed to the virus.
“First of all, yuh caan give mi sinting dat all of the elements or all of the substance that you take to make it, is detrimental. Mercury… aluminum is in there.., they don’t have enough time to really test this vaccine to see what would really be the consequence of it,” he stated.
When asked by Miller whether he was indulging in ‘conspiracy theories’, Rebel said he was not. He also glossed over Miller’s remarks that he had received vaccines long ago as a child, without any problems or after-effects, and said he had been studying about vaccines since he was 18 years old.
He then declared that he was going to make a bold statement to show how serious he was about not being vaccinated:
“Hold on deh, meck mi look inna di camera deh. Mi nah, expletive deleted, teck oonu vaccine. Fire bun!” he stated.
Rebel for the most part has been silent about the vaccine, up until three weeks ago when he posted a video of a crowd in London singing “stick the vaccine u your arse” which he captioned: “What do these people know that they want others to know ???”
Tony Rebel joins his musical compatriots Sizzla, Chronixx, and Spragga Benz who have been vocal opponents of the COVID-19 vaccine. In late October Sizzla, in an Instagram live session, rained condemnation on the heads of those whom he said are pushing for a COVID-19 vaccine to be administered globally.
The Good Ways artiste also declared that the vaccine, when developed, must be rejected by black people, as it will be micro-chipped and outfitted with “nano-particles used to manipulate DNA activities” to obliterate people of African descent.
Spragga Benz, who now resides in the United States, has also been staging a longstanding anti-vaccine campaign on his Instagram page in which he called for people to live healthily and eat wholesome foods. He though, called for people of African descent to not fear the virus, as many people have “beat it with vitamin D and other simple remedies”.
In his pronouncements in a now-deleted post, Chronixx had stated that “tech heads and war heads can’t talk to Rastaman about human health. The Spanish Town native had also said he would only be “going online for a concert if it’s an action against global vaccination”.
In contrast, their colleague, Dancehall megastar Shaggy, had declared that he would be at the “front of the line” whenever the COVID-19 vaccine becomes available in Jamaica.
The Boombastic singer had subsequently come under fire from Jamaicans for his statements, in which he also brushed aside what he described as “conspiracy theories about COVID-19 vaccines”.
Shaggy also rejected claims that the coronavirus was artificially created and that any treatment for the virus was designed to track people, arguing that smartphones were already capable of doing that.
Shaggy had, in a bid to allay consternations of many Jamaicans about the speed with which the two most prominent COVID-19 vaccines have been developed by the pharmaceutical trio of Pfizer, BioNTech, and Moderna, posited that “scientists have been working on vaccines for the longest time”.