AKA shares his controversial take on the spread of COVID-19
The rapper's tweets concerning the spread of the virus had tweeps wondering if musicians should rather just stick to what they know best - making music.
AKA is once again making headlines, and it's only Tuesday.
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During 2020 and the coronavirus pandemic, many celebrities have faced the wrath of the public (and even medical professionals) by stating their controversial opinions and sometimes very interesting views on the virus.
Some of them have even done irreparable damage to their reputations and careers.
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Now AKA has decided to join the mix, but luckily he doesn't seem to be cancelled just yet.
Taking to Twitter, the star revealed his true feelings regarding the spread of the COVID-19 virus:
Where is the PROOF that someone can infect another person with a deadly virus 🦠 without showing ANY symptoms of the virus that they are carrying? Does that even make sense? How does that even sound logical?
— AKA (@akaworldwide) December 20, 2020
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With such an influential artist making these types of statements, it obviously grabbed the attention of users who took it upon themselves to try and clear up the possible confusion:
Covid is not the 1st virus that can be asymptomatic... TB can also be asymptomatic if the person's immune system is strong enough but such people are called carriers as they just carry the virus/bacteria around and spreading it while it does not affect them in any way pic.twitter.com/NyhkuuKKXR
— Vuyo Hugo (@hugo_vuyo) December 20, 2020
There is lots of scientific literature on this. You need to read it or get someone to explain it to you if you can’t do it yourself.
— CarpeDiem (@jasperlionel) December 20, 2020
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Others were out for blood and suggested that AKA rather try and stay in his lane, which is music, but he was also not going to take it laying down:
Science & Health affects us ALL ... not just those who are “experts” at it. It’s the same mentality that says ... Discussions about Politics should only be for those who have “an understanding” ... when Politics affects us all. https://t.co/aLeac96Jcs
— AKA (@akaworldwide) December 21, 2020
Anyways what do I know 🤷♂️ ... let me just make my lil racks here in my corner nicely. 🙃
— AKA (@akaworldwide) December 20, 2020
The powers that be don’t need to censor people from discussions around COVID, the people already censor each other.
— AKA (@akaworldwide) December 21, 2020
The moment we start monitoring EACH OTHER and telling EACH OTHER who can and who can’t talk about a particular subject, is when we start putting sheep & mob mentality over free thinking and the right to find one’s own answers.
— AKA (@akaworldwide) December 21, 2020
QUESTION EVERYTHING.
— AKA (@akaworldwide) December 21, 2020
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He later backtracked a bit by clearly stating that he is not a COVID-19 sceptic and he does believe it is a very real disease.
The COVID Symptoms I had was probably the sickest I’ve ever been in my entire life. No lie. So it’s not like I’m saying it’s not out there and we shouldn’t be safe but there’s a lot of confusion around a lot of things regarding this pandemic.
— AKA (@akaworldwide) December 20, 2020
But that did not stop some tweeps from throwing major shade his way:
There is lots of scientific literature on this. You need to read it or get someone to explain it to you if you can’t do it yourself.
— CarpeDiem (@jasperlionel) December 20, 2020
But AKA once again made it obvious that he is still out here living his best life and could not care less about the opinion of others:
In the same time you spent trolling my tweets from this morning, I’ve eaten maybe ... I dunno ... 20 Oysters. No 🧢
— AKA (@akaworldwide) December 20, 2020
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If you would like more official COVID-19 updates, feel free to read more here:
- Over 700 Covid-19 hospital admissions in KZN since Friday
- Mkhize confirms ‘concerning’ new variant of Covid-19 in SA
- KZN a key driver in rise of second COVID-19 wave: Zweli Mkhize
- KZN patients diverted as two hospitals confirm COVID-19 outbreaks
And remember to stay safe!
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Main image courtesy of AKA Official Twitter