Oh Thank Goodness: Willie Nelson Receives COVID-19 Vaccine
Oh thank goodness. And all you wing nuts who believe the vaccine includes Bill Gates microchips or jellyfish plasma or whatever, hush up. We don’t want to hear any of it. We just want to hear that Willie Nelson is one step closer to not being the latest victim of COVID-19—“complications” or otherwise. The disease has taken too many good souls in Willie Nelson’s age group, including from the ranks of legendary country music performers, and folks have been worried about Willie specifically ever since the pandemic started.
The rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine in its various incarnations has been tediously slow and beset with all sorts of problems, especially on the state and local level as health officials struggle to figure out how to get vaccines into arms. But Willie Nelson who well-qualifies to be one of the first in line at 87-years-old and with a history of health and breathing problems got his prick via drive in at the Cedar Park Family ER near Austin this week.
“Getting your COVID vaccine is Willie cool!” the clinic said while posting photos of Willie Nelson receiving his first shot. Willie Nelson drove himself to the clinic in what appears to be a new Tesla, and gave a thumbs up after the shot. Willie will still need his second shot and a few weeks for the full immunity to kick in, but today many country fans are breathing a sigh of relief.
No word at the moment if other older country legends such as Loretta Lynn, Kris Kristofferson, Dolly Parton and others have received vaccine shots as of yet, but hopefully they do soon.
It was also announced earlier this week that Willie Nelson will be the keynote speaker at 2021’s SXSW Conference in March, which is currently planning a hybrid event combining live moments and online content.
“No individual has had the cultural impact on, or been more synonymous with the creative vibrancy of Austin than Willie Nelson, and we are incredibly honored to have him as a SXSW Online 2021 Keynote,” said Hugh Forrest, Chief Programming Officer. “In addition to dozens of incredible featured speakers, today’s announcement also includes more than 200 sessions curated from our global community via PanelPicker, and is a key part of the premium content you can expect from SXSW Online 2021.”
There’s many of us, but only one Willie. Best to keep him around as long as we can.
Daniele
January 14, 2021 @ 9:42 am
well , if it’s good for ol’ Willie is good enough for me!
thegentile
January 14, 2021 @ 9:43 am
“There’s many of us, but only one Willie. Best to keep him around as long as we can.”
definitely. but let’s try to protect people that aren’t famous musicians too. let’s do our part instead of bemoaning wearing a mask because it inconveniences you mildly.
RD
January 14, 2021 @ 10:12 am
Willie drives?
Sam Cody
January 14, 2021 @ 10:34 am
And he’s driving a Tesla…
RD
January 14, 2021 @ 10:36 am
I thought he was always stoned?
I was firmly against self-driving cars until I realized they would be a good excuse to stay bombed all the time. Once I get a self-driving cargo van with a recliner and a bed in the back, I might never know another sober moment….
katfish
January 14, 2021 @ 12:08 pm
I’ve always maintained that for 95% of people smoking and drinking will kill them but there’s that 5% where it seems to just pickle and preserve them like leather and now they’ll never die. That being said I think the old man said he gave the stuff up a year or two ago.
Dylan Rimbaud
January 14, 2021 @ 10:14 am
“you nuts hush up”…sigh… so you’re pro censorship so long as its not your voice being silenced? want to explain to me again the need for a virus 99.7% of all people survive?
i’m fine with whoever wants to take it taking it,but do you honestly think it will stay that way? how long until no one who hasn’t been vaccinated can’t shop here or attend this concert ,
how long until mad tyrants like Cuomo push for bills for Covid Camps in places like NYC? oh wait he already did its called Bill A416, authored by Democratic member of the New York State Assembly Nick Perry, calls for the “removal and/or detention” of individuals who are identified as a “case, contact or carrier” of a contagious disease.
The sweeping powers envisaged in the bill would be invoked in the event of the state government declaring a “health emergency due to an epidemic of any communicable disease.”
the only thing worse than death is a life of slavery propagated by cowards who don’t grasp how science works i.e. the sooner you are exposed to the virus the sooner your body builds ups immunity, and don’t come off high and mighty about Gates you don’t know the first thing about Fauci or his involvement with Moderna and i’d wager you had no idea that Obama gave over 3.7 million to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (where the virus was ‘oops’ created i mean ‘accidentally’ let loose) and did this in 2015 after their first bogus impeachment failed and the same duplicitous criminals who tried to have Trump removed with that RussiaRussiaRussia BS began planning for how to implement a globalist takeover in the next election and did just that where at least 23 states at the last minute changed laws in order so you could not question the validity of ballots specifically if they were from legitimate US citizens, we know from the videos that in many states poll watchers were denied the ability to do their duty, windows were taped up so no one could see inside while votes were counted,evidence of private vehicles dropping of ballots at four am in every battleground state after poll watchers were sent home and told there would be more counting that evening, literally thousands of sworn affidavits from every state from people who witnessed fraud , sworn statements from employess of USPS and UPS of backdating on envelopes delivered after the polls had closed, i can go on for days yet not one court would look at the evidence and all claiming procedural grounds not ONE on merit, never has so much rampant corruption been so out in the open , and i didn’t even vote Trump i voted Jorgensen but i have two eyes and a very clear sharp brain that knows BS when i see it.
forget that all your so called news sources be they CBS ABC NBC or CNN are all beholden to Chinese conglomerates (just ask for the details i am more than happy to prove them or look up this ‘A Rundown Of Major U.S. Corporate Media’s Business Ties To China’
i love Willie and everyone who wants the vaccine is welcome to take it but no one has been been acting more like totalitarian nazis than the maskholes who haven’t got the common sense to realize a life without freedom ,and if you don’t want a free and open debate in your forums then just remove the comments for our ‘protection’ as Yahoo USAToday NPR and countless other so called ‘news’ sources began to last year. sorry Amigo but this virus IS political and IS All about the reset (i know i know just because Time Magazine did a cover story on it and the World Economic Forum have admitted it, I’m still a conspiracy nut right? you know like Galielo when he told the inquisition that the Earth rotates around the sun…..FFS kid,have some common sense , and while its not proof i still want you to research and read Rockefeller Foundation Paper Published in 2010 Predicted How a Pandemic Can be Used as an Excuse to Establish Global Authoritarian Power
and then spend the next years watching your Constitutionally guaranteed rights stripped away by Biden who has sworn to take down the NRA and people like Pelosi trying to remove words like Mother/Father Brother/Sister from your vocabulary, Biden isnt even in office yet and already the first and second amendment are under attack, and most people are so clueless about Biden they have no idea he was forcibly removed from the 1988 Presidential campaign after caught lying cheating stealing and plagiarizing. or that he co authored the racist 94 crime bill targeting people of color,or the numerous lies he told about marching against Apartheid and his grades and graduating at the top of his class , i could provide a list of his lies that would be thicker than the collected works of Dostoevsky or Tolstoy,
ABC news did an entire special on it at the time called Biden The Liar, on the Tonight Show Johnny Carson even openly mocked Biden’s ineffectiveness and consistent fraudulence as did Robin WIlliams in his live stage acts, and yet despite mountains of evidence including demonstrations where Dominion was hacked in front of a Georgia Senate hearing!
so you can complain ‘damn it I didn’t want this to start off political, but the fact is there is NOTHING about Covid19 that ISN’T 100% political. had Trump not been a threat to the ceaseless crimes of those pretending to be the representative of We The People (you know who threw us the scaps of $600 while over 90% of OUR tax payer dollars were sent to foreign countries for BS like ‘gender studies’, then Covid would have never ‘accidentally’ been released,my two cents but what do i know i’m just a nutty conspiracy theorist right?
Quarantine is when you restrict the movement of sick people. Tyranny is when you restrict the movement of healthy people. Stupidity is when you can’t tell the difference. There are 2 different kinds of people in the world, those who think the government are doing things in their best interests, and those who actually think.
It’s just six feet
It’s just a mask
It was just your identity
It’s just two weeks
It’s just non-essential businesses
It’s just non-essential workers
It’s just a bar
It’s just a restaurant
It’s just to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed
It’s just until the cases go down
It’s just to flatten the curve
It’s just a few sex offenders being let out
It’s just to keep others from being scared
It’s just for a few more weeks
It’s just the National Anthem
It’s just a police car being burned
It’s just 1 police precinct being taken over
It’s just a few LE lives ending
It’s just church. You could still pray
It’s just prayer
It’s just until we get a vaccine
It’s just to allow people to have their voices finally heard
It’s just a BLM peaceful protest
It’s just a few more months
It’s just a few city blocks
It’s just a bracelet
It’s just an app
It’s just for tracing
It’s just to let people know you’re safe to be around …. right
Grant
January 14, 2021 @ 10:26 am
From the bottom of my heart, please don’t.
The point of this article wasn’t to get into the politics about covid, it’s about a country hero getting protected from the disease.
Take this shit to facebook if you really want to scream your anger into the void.
Tom
January 15, 2021 @ 9:09 am
Given that logic and facts won’t get through to him, let’s pretend to live in his world.
He says we should ignore the virus because 99.7% of people survive.
That line of thinking means we should be totally okay with 3 in 1000 people dying. That’s nearly 1 million Americans dying. It makes me sad that people are totally okay with that.
CountryKnight
January 15, 2021 @ 10:38 am
1 million out of 330 million Americans.
The fallout from the crippled economy, curtailing of freedoms, etc is much greater than the loss of 1 million lives.
What is life if spent in chains, at least, the dead are free.
Matt
January 15, 2021 @ 6:20 pm
Easy for you to say, you’re alive.
James Fenton
February 15, 2022 @ 10:19 am
According to the CDC drowning is the number one cause of unintentional death between children ages 1-4.
Should swimming pools be banned?
The same could be said about automobiles. Why don’t we restrict driving to heavily licensed professionals and “essential” tasks like grocery shopping and work?
It would 100% save lives.
I don’t want to live in a world in which my safety, rather than my freedom, is the government’s top priority.
I don’t think you do either. You just think you do when it looks scary enough.
Tom
February 15, 2022 @ 10:59 am
No parent would let small children swim without a lifeguard.
Drivers must pass written tests and road tests to have a license. And they get fined for unsafe behavior.
All to say – we have health safeguards everywhere. Having some mandates is not new or unreasonable.
I’m not a fan of lockdowns, especially after vaccines, but other measures I felt were reasonable.
Trigger
January 14, 2021 @ 10:28 am
Seems like a bit of an overreaction to this story.
Even most folks who are either against the COVID-19 vaccine or are leery of it are still on board with it when it comes to people over 65 or 75.
Not sure what any of this has to do with Biden or BLM.
James Fenton
February 15, 2022 @ 10:22 am
If you walk up to someone and push them, you can’t be surprised if they push back.
Calling people who have sincerely held convictions “wing-nuts” is no different.
Why be inflammatory if you don’t want fire?
Sam Cody
January 14, 2021 @ 10:36 am
Fuck. I just pulled my eye rolling muscles. Thanks Alex Jones.
Dawg Fan
January 14, 2021 @ 10:37 am
Dude…you need an editor. Sometimes less is more.
thegentile
January 14, 2021 @ 10:38 am
someone telling you to shut up isn’t censorship. most people complaining about censorship don’t really understand the first amendment it seems. it’s just means the government can’t stop you. people seem to be all about letting businesses act without government intervention until it hurts you. a private company banning someone or not hosting a website is not censorship. private companies are certainly allowed to stop unhinged conspiracy touters from spreading their dangerous lies.
i’m not going point out how wrong you are about what you wrote, but after that rant, i will say, “hush up, nut.”
Jake Cutter
January 14, 2021 @ 12:25 pm
It is absolutely censorship, private company or not. I think you mean it’s not a 1A issue.
thegentile
January 14, 2021 @ 12:35 pm
yes, i misspoke in one part of my response. it should read, “a private company banning someone or not hosting a website is not protected.”
telling someone to shut up is not censorship, the rest was a tangent about people who typically complain about being censored. he has plenty of outlets to spout his nonsense (as we can see).
Trainwreck92
January 14, 2021 @ 10:40 am
Don’t you think this conspiracy theory bit’s done got outta hand, hoss?
sbach66
January 14, 2021 @ 10:45 am
Winner post right there.
Sir Adam the Great
January 14, 2021 @ 10:57 am
TL;DR, Tolstoy.
Ells Eastwood
January 14, 2021 @ 12:36 pm
I do believe Tolstoy used periods…
Try this: On a desktop computer? Press control+F to open search and enter “. ” <- that's "period space" and will search for the end of sentences… it sounds way more ranty when you realize its a non-stop dirge with no breaks or breaths.
thegentile
January 14, 2021 @ 12:53 pm
there’s 11 sentence-ending periods in there. for 1,200+ words. thank you for pointing this out. i love it.
Jbird
January 14, 2021 @ 11:22 am
You ain’t bright.
bob
January 14, 2021 @ 11:27 am
Bro, I actually agree with some of what you’re saying, but please CHILL OUT. There’s a time and a place and this ain’t it, dawg.
King Honky Of Crackershire (Mask free yesterday, mask free today, mask free forever)
January 14, 2021 @ 11:58 am
Hi Dylan,
Thanks for your comment.
Kimberly
January 14, 2021 @ 4:47 pm
I appreciate how you told us you were an idiot right up front with your name
King Honky Of Crackershire (Is a mask free, blue-eyed, handsome man)
January 14, 2021 @ 5:33 pm
I appreciate you rewarding me with the knowledge that something I did offended you. Would you mind posting a link of yourself screaming, or maybe even crying profusely? Pretty please?😘
Oyster Boy
January 14, 2021 @ 12:01 pm
Dude, I think they make a pill now for this.
Ells Eastwood
January 14, 2021 @ 12:14 pm
Wow. That’s… a lot…
CountryKnight
January 14, 2021 @ 12:59 pm
Good old Nursing Home Cuomo.
The guy is now using the same language to push for opening that he previously criticized others for using.
Base hypocrite and a killer.
But he wrote a book on COVID so idiots think he is an expert.
Blackh4t
January 14, 2021 @ 1:01 pm
About that bit of “it’s just a vaccine”
A: You did a very bad logical progression
B: It’s called a slippery slope arguement, and the thing about them is that they slip many ways.
1st they make the vaccination voluntary
Then they make it too expensive for most people
Then the make all medicine only available to elite and the rest of us are just for manual labour.
1st they don’t enforce masks because they don’t always work
Then they don’t enforce a vaccine because it doesn’t always work
Then they don’t enforce road rules because they don’t always work
Then they don’t enforce they don’t enforce criminal laws because they don’t always work
Then they don’t enforce anti-cannibalism laws because some people are happy to take the risk and the rest of us aren’t in danger.
It’s a hobby of mine to make then work in different ways every time I see someone scaremongering.
Anyway, it just proves that ‘Freedom’ is never an absolute, it’s always a balance of your freedom’s with other peoples’.
Kimberly
January 14, 2021 @ 4:42 pm
the tinfoil hat energy is strong with this one
Crsync
January 14, 2021 @ 5:05 pm
Thanks for coming to the audition. Don’t call us, we’ll call you.
Wobblyhorse
January 15, 2021 @ 10:57 am
Spreading far-right anti-vaxx conspiracies is dangerous dude
Vanillasludge
January 16, 2021 @ 7:11 pm
The length of your diatribe is proportional to your delusion.
Turn off your computer and get some fresh air.
Dawg Fan
January 14, 2021 @ 10:36 am
Trig you gonna write a column on Ricky Scaggs and Toby Keith accepting the National Medal of Arts from Trump? I seriously doubt Trump has ever listened to either one of them.
thegentile
January 14, 2021 @ 10:42 am
there’s plenty of evidence that trump doesn’t like music at all. one of many warning signs.
Trigger
January 14, 2021 @ 10:46 am
I have something on this coming…
Jack W
January 14, 2021 @ 11:21 am
Fun fact: I saw Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder at The Birchmere in Alexandria, VA (DC area) in January 2018. Trump’s first press secretary Sean Spicer was in the audience and walked right past me. Not a fan of the dude, but the fact that he was there to see a Ricky Skaggs bluegrass show at least showed he had some musical taste.
I highly doubt Trump knows anything by Skaggs. Maybe “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue” by Keith. I doubt he has much use for country music at all and might not be able to name a single George Jones or Merle Haggard song.
Harpo
January 14, 2021 @ 11:18 am
Good on you Willie.
Jim L.
January 14, 2021 @ 12:08 pm
Unless you read and research voraciously every day, and look at both sides of an issue from multiple various independent sources, and keep digging for verification, you will be easily brainwashed and never even see it coming. Most people just believe whatever the TV news tells them. Follow the money! The other golden rule… Those with the gold make the rules.
That said, I’m glad Willie is still with us and trying to take care of himself.
Kimberly
January 14, 2021 @ 4:45 pm
guess what your ability to Google is still not a replacement for my medical degree
Ells Eastwood
January 14, 2021 @ 12:21 pm
Here in San Diego, CA we just lost a legend to covid-complications. Bluesman Tomcat Courtney was 91 and just passed on Monday, Jan. 11th. Up until the regional stay-at-home-orders in March he was gigging 3-4 times a week and had just recently played his annul b-day bash to a couple hundred people at a local hotel bar/blues jam.
It seems he contracted covid within weeks of the vaccine be released under the Phase 1A rollout here in Southern California.
Carla
January 14, 2021 @ 3:03 pm
Willie for President! Such a legend. I’m really glad he got the vaccine.
Here in New Zealand, we aren’t getting it rolled out until April. We are very lucky that we only have Covid in quarantine facilities – people returning from overseas. None in our communities …. for now. We are very fortunate we can go about life as normal, with the exception of our closed borders.
If this new strain does get out, we know we will be back into hard out lockdown for a couple of months. No leaving the house except for groceries and medical needs. No takeout places are even open.
I know a lot of people out there are suffering right now, sending you all love/aroha and best wishes from Aotearoa/NZ xxx
JR
January 14, 2021 @ 3:20 pm
Glad Willie is safe. I don’t come here for politics and disappointed Trigger needed to lead with his this time.
Unprovoked attacks really don’t look super awesome from either side of any issue. Kind of feels yuck.
NP
January 14, 2021 @ 3:39 pm
Trigger didn’t lead with politics, he just said no to vaccine conspiracy theory comments. Are you implying that being against conspiracy theories is now a political position?
Todd Peterson
January 14, 2021 @ 4:04 pm
Unfortunately, very few of the people who were in the study groups for these vaccines was over 80.
Alex Berenson has been indispensable in dealing in facts about this situation. Two recent tweets form him : Remember: We DON’T actually have any clinical trial data on side effects or mortality risks of the mRNA vaccines in people over 80 (who are most #Covid deaths in many countries). We have assumed because Covid is so deadly to them, the vaccines must be safer. But we don’t KNOW.
Further, almost NONE of the tens of thousands of people in clinical trials who received the vaccines were over 80. The companies didn’t enroll them. This was a disastrous decision; it means that for the most vulnerable people we’re relying on hope rather than data…
I HOPE that these things work but I am skeptical and not because of microchips or whatever .
"Murica
January 14, 2021 @ 5:44 pm
Willie got chipped? Say it ain’t so!
DJ
January 14, 2021 @ 7:54 pm
He, or anyone else can have mine- or stick it up their ass as far as I’m concerned- I will NOT, be tested, or vaccinated- don’t like it? F.U.C.K. Y.O.U.
Wilson Pick It
January 15, 2021 @ 3:33 pm
Chill, no one’s forcing you to do anything. You have the freedom to refuse, go ahead and use it.
Just don’t throw a temper tantrum in the grocery store or the Dollar Tree when some poor wage slave asks you to follow a Covid prevention policy. It’s a private business and if you don’t like their rules S H.O.P. E.L.S.E.W.H.E.R.E.
mouths of babes
January 15, 2021 @ 5:22 am
I got my first shot of the vaccine yesterday. It was sweet! Got the new U2 album with it!
Dogit
January 15, 2021 @ 10:36 am
Willie lives forever! What about the quantity and quality of his output in the last decade? Willie legacy is just incredible. Glad he is trying to protect himself.
Thank you,Trigg, for keeping us in the loop.
ElRay
January 15, 2021 @ 10:50 am
Came to comments section looking for nutjobs, did not disappoint.
Vanillasludge
January 16, 2021 @ 7:13 pm
Murica!
Cholly the Masked Tard Hero
January 15, 2021 @ 11:22 pm
you have got to be kidding me about chinese owning all those tv stations, check the credits to all those stupid shows and news casts, not chinese names my friend keep searching
Leo Needletoe
January 20, 2021 @ 1:08 pm
Holy shit, is that BETO bling hanging in the Tesla?? Willie, Beto’s long gone, dude.
Now party on forever, please.