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nated; my whole family did not get vaccinated. I What are you willing to give up for your free- John nods in acknowledgement, “And the
don’t care if anybody else does; I didn’t need to, dom? And what are you willing to give? You fact that they do that [pressure people into hav-
I’m healthy. I read copious amounts of the liter- know what I mean? Because it’s all talk until it ing the vaccination] without knowing what this is
ature and I was just convinced there’s no reason starts affecting your pocketbooks…” John stops going to do, and then they act like they did know;
for me and my family to get vaccinated. There for a moment and asks, “Do you say pocket- they’re lying. Even if you look at it in the best
was a time when they were saying that you will books? Do you have that word here? Until your case possible scenario, they’re trying to do
not be able to tour again. There were tours going bottom line, right? Your finances,” he clarifies. something good, but they are lying to me and
out that said, ‘If you don’t get vaccinated you “Until your kid’s going to college, or universities I’m not a moron, you know? That’s how I feel.
can’t come on the tour’. So, we missed those as you might say. The universities in America That’s the American in me talking though, isn’t
tours. I just didn’t know, ‘Is that going to change also wouldn’t let you come without vaccinations, it? We’re all like, ‘Revolution’ all the time!” he
in the future? Will it always be that way? Does so I’m like, ‘Ok my daughter has just graduated laughs. “In the media, and again, I don’t live
that mean I can never come back to Europe? high school. Will she not be allowed to go to uni- here, I don’t know what it’s like here, but in
Does that mean that I can’t go and open up for versity unless she gets the shot?’ There were all America it was just such obvious propaganda
another band?’ There was another tour going these things going on. I was wondering what and I know we’re being lied to and I’m like, ‘Do
out and I was saying, ‘How do we get on that would happen in the future, as in, within the other people know we’re being lied to? This is
tour?’ They were like, ‘It's vaccinated only’. So country.” insane’. So that’s what was getting me sort of
you’re losing business, you’re losing money and We tell John that the situation was similar like, ‘What is the future?’ Not just for Skillet, what
you don’t know if that’s going to change. I think here in the UK. At one point in time people is the future of the country? It was difficult to
that the positive thing is, if you could see a pos- feared that if they did not get vaccinated they know what the future was going to hold because
itive, that it kind of made you think about what is would not be allowed to go places, or be very it just felt like such insanity. And again, every-
important in life. What are you willing to do? limited to the things that they were able to do. body won’t agree with this, everybody’s got their

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