Neil Young was protesting the fact that Spotify hosts the Joe Rogan anti-vax podcast. He told them it was either him or Rogan and Spotify went with anti-vaxxer Rogan.
An aspect of the story that has gotten not nearly enough reporting explains why Neil Young feels so strongly about vaccines.
In 1952, at the age of seven, Neil Young contracted a severe case of polio (four years before the vaccine came out). Obviously he survived, but the thought of how his childhood pain could have been eased if the polio vaccine had come just a few years earlier haunts him.
The idea that someone would be discouraging people to get inoculated against a new life-threatening virus absolutely disgusts his sense of decency.
Now he has been joined by Joni Mitchell, who is also having her songs removed from Spotify, and hopefully the many other classic rock icons whose songs she wrote will soon follow soon.
Hopefully the media careers of Spotify and Joe Rogan will be brought down by their anti-science campaign to kill people with a deadly plague.
Neil Young was protesting the fact that Spotify hosts the Joe Rogan anti-vax podcast. He told them it was either him or Rogan and Spotify went with anti-vaxxer Rogan.
An aspect of the story that has gotten not nearly enough reporting explains why Neil Young feels so strongly about vaccines.
In 1952, at the age of seven, Neil Young contracted a severe case of polio (four years before the vaccine came out). Obviously he survived, but the thought of how his childhood pain could have been eased if the polio vaccine had come just a few years earlier haunts him.
The idea that someone would be discouraging people to get inoculated against a new life-threatening virus absolutely disgusts his sense of decency.
Now he has been joined by Joni Mitchell, who is also having her songs removed from Spotify, and hopefully the many other classic rock icons whose songs she wrote will soon follow soon.
Hopefully the media careers of Spotify and Joe Rogan will be brought down by their anti-science campaign to kill people with a deadly plague.