Long before a pandemic divided the nation, Arthur was a well-regarded musician with some famous benefactors.įirst earning attention in the 1990s as a key member of Peter Gabriel’s label Real World, Arthur has issued more than a dozen albums, most recently a 2018 collaboration, Arthur Buck, with R.E.M. Joseph Arthur, left, performing in 2008 in New York. This is what Nazis did with the Jews when comparing them to vermin before rounding them up and taking them to camps.” He says forces are conspiring to muzzle questioners and "chastising them as evil or vile or below consideration - evil even worthy of total annihilation, disregard and disrespect. "If you say 'segregation,'" Arthur says, "the woke crowd comes at you with knives out."Īrthur, who's tall and yogi-lean and wears his brown hair long, aligned the pro- and anti-vaccination camps with Nazis and Jews on a video on his Facebook page.
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Last week, the Offspring's drummer Pete Parada announced via Twitter that he'd been kicked out the band for being unwilling to get inoculated.Īn advocate of fitness, wellness and homeopathic remedies - he recently documented a five-day water-only fast and a series of "dopamine fasts" - Arthur has gone so far as to use the term “segregation” while discussing the blowback that he and other vaccine-hesitant artists have been experiencing. She added, "These vaccines are - even with the Delta variant - are holding up really well."īy going public with his anti-vaccination position, Arthur has aligned himself with a small group of like-minded musicians, including Eric Clapton, M.I.A. Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer told The Times that most fully vaccinated people who later tested positive “only experienced either no illness or very mild illness.” Christina Ghaly told the county Board of Supervisors in July, “We have not admitted any single person for COVID who is fully vaccinated - with either the, Pfizer or Moderna vaccines.” 7 and June 7, 99.6% of the region’s coronavirus cases, 98.7% of COVID-19 hospitalizations and 99.8% of deaths were among unvaccinated people in L.A.
County accounted for 99.8% of COVID-19 deaths and between Dec. As of July 19, unvaccinated people in L.A. In truth, the COVID-19 vaccines have proven to be remarkably effective against the virus, including the more communicable Delta variant that has overtaken the country. It's going to take me in a different direction, for sure."Īrthur, who once counted such luminaries as Peter Gabriel, Lou Reed and R.E.M.'s Peter Buck as mentors and friends, is not only against receiving what he calls “the jab” but has taken to Instagram to declare, “If the clubs and venues force it, we’ll take it to the streets." “It’s a heavy thing to deal with right now,” Arthur tells me by telephone of the shake-up. Arthur’s former longtime booking agent, Steve Ferguson of Paladin Artists, did not reply to multiple requests for comment. “I wish him the best,” said Arthur's former manager, Keith Hagan, declining further comment. Arthur's newly formed band quit en masse and he says he lost a record deal that would have distributed a new double album to his fans. This year his longtime music manager dropped him as a client, followed by his booking agent.
Arthur said it was "like a three-day bad flu." Both, he says, have fully recovered.īeing the relentless voice of what he considers a disaffected minority has cost him.
Last year both he and his girlfriend, Anna Sophia, contracted COVID-19. The Brooklyn-based Arthur, 49, believes that a coordinated effort is afoot - "end-times type of stuff,” he calls it - by pharmaceutical companies, the medical-industrial complex and the government to silence those like him who are "questioning" the science behind the COVID-19 vaccines. The uptempo rocker - it's "jokey," Arthur says of the lyrics - sets to music his argument, made repeatedly on his Instagram, YouTube and Facebook accounts, that the COVID-19 vaccine represents a danger to humanity, despite all scientific evidence to the contrary.
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