KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons recently spoke with Ultimate Classic Rock and spoke about his feelings toward the current COVID-19 pandemic.
“My druthers would be that everybody is mandated to get vaccines,” he said. “I hope everybody is going to be wearing their masks. But we can only control what we can control and different states and different countries have different rules.”
Simmons also touched on people who say that vaccine mandates infringe upon unvaccinated people’s human rights and civil liberties.
“‘I have my rights, don’t tell me what to do,'” he said. “Which is curious, because you do not have the right to drive down the highway in a car without a seatbelt. You must stop at a red light. That’s not a right you have. And you don’t have the right to walk naked down the street. These are not life-threatening ideas. We’re talking about a fuckin’ pandemic and people are fighting it.
“I blame our former president,” Simmons added. “I knew the man before he entered politics. But he got vaccinated and so have most of the other party.”
KISS is in the middle of their “End Of The Road” farewell tour, which is expected to run right into 2022.