Kanye West Says He Had COVID-19 Yet Takes Anti-Vaccine Stance

In the past month, we've heard Kanye West on two new songs and seen him donate $2 million to the families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery. We've also seen him announce (again) a 2020 presidential candidacy bid, despite reportedly filing no actual paperwork.


Yet Kanye is Kanye, and with his Travis Scott group effort "Wash Us in the Blood" also came the announcement of a new album, titled God's Country, apparently coming soon. You know what this means: Kanye's in album promo mode. And with that comes a freewheeling new feature in Forbes, out today (July 8) that sees him, among other things, come out as an anti-vaxxer.


as soon as they mention the way we're going to repair [COVID-19] is with a vaccine, I'm exceedingly careful West mentioned. "That's the mark of the beast. They wish to put chips indoors of us, they wish to do all kinds of things, to prepare it where we can't cross the gates of heaven. I'm sorry Once I mention they, the human beings that have the Devil indoors them."


The Center for Infection Control, nevertheless, likens vaccines to plugging up a boat that's sprung a leak: "Unless we can 'stop the leak' (eliminate the infection, it is crucial to keep immunizing. Even if there really are only a number of cases of infection today, if we take away the protection given by vaccination, increasingly people will become infected and will spread infection to others. Soon we'll undo the progress we have made over the years."


The topic of vaccines came up in the Forbes conversation because West claims he did, case in point, have COVID earlier this year — "Chills, shaking in the bed, taking hot showers, looking at videos telling me what I'm supposed to do to get over it" — and that any time once he heard Drake also might have had it, he thought, "Drake can't be sicker than me!"


there really are countless other portions of the interview that have already grabbed plenty of headlines and attention. He mentioned that, despite saying he's running for office although, again, taking no official steps to do so with the FEC), he's never voted in his life. He mentioned he's done with President Trump, who he's long supported and has met with in the Oval Office, and considers his latest interview to be him "taking the red hat off." He mentioned he'd run not as a Democrat or Republican, nevertheless under the "Birthday Party," with the guidance of his pal Elon Musk, and that he'd run the White Residence like Wakanda from Black Panther.


But West also mentioned that offered Parenthoods have been placed indoors cities by white supremacists to do the Devil's work." He mentioned that "God appoints the president. If I win in 2020 then it was God's appointment." He mentioned he doesn't have policies in mind, nevertheless designs: "We need to innovate design have the ability to free the mind at this time."


As with most conversations regarding West, it's a lot to dig into, and it's all obtainable to read over at Forbes.