Eric Clapton claims people vaccinated against COVID-19 are under ‘hypnosis’
nypost.comwent on the Real Music Observer YouTube channel to discuss how his life has changed since reluctantly taking AstraZeneca’s therapy in 2021.
Clapton has since become outspoken about his anti-vaccination stance. He claimed that he’d been duped into getting the COVID-19 jab by subliminal messaging in pharmaceutical advertising — and urged others not to fall for it.“Whatever the memo was, it hadn’t reached me,” he said, referring to the “mass formation hypnosis” conspiracy theory, which gained traction in 2021 as part of anti-vaccine propaganda. (In related circles it’s also been called “mass formation psychosis.”) Credited to Belgian psychologist Mattias Desmet, the theory essentially points to a sort of mind-control that has taken over society, allowing for unscrupulous leaders to easily manipulate populations into, for example, accepting vaccines or wearing face masks. “Then I started to realize there was really a memo, and a guy, Mattias Desmet [professor of clinical psychology at Ghent University in Belgium], talked about it,” Clapton continued. “And it’s great.
The theory of mass formation hypnosis. And I could see it then. Once I kind of started to look for it, I saw it everywhere.”Clapton recalled “seeing little things on YouTube which were like subliminal advertising,” he said.
The Cream guitarist also talked about his efforts with fellow British songwriter Van Morrison to speak up on behalf of other artists against vaccine requirements. “My career had almost gone anyway.
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