If there is one thing for sure about the Coronavirus, it's that it has brought out the worst in some people. COVID-19 has led to the spread of misinformation and some wild conspiracy theories that even include 5G towers and a whole lot of anti-vaxx sentiment. The latest high-profile person to go off on the conspiracy side of things was none other than New Orleans Saints wide receiver, Michael Thomas. 

Today, the superstar wide receiver took to Twitter where he said that vaccines have never been the cure for viruses and that God gifted us with plenty of mechanisms for defeating illnesses on our own. He also expressed doubt in the severity of the virus and even took shots at Bill Gates, saying the guy who created Microsoft could never be responsible for a real cure.

What you say can come back to bite you, and M.I.A. has learned that. Recently, M.I.A. took to her Twitter account to share a few thoughts about modern medicine. The rapper tweeted that if a vaccination should present itself, she would rather choose death. The backlash was swift, and soon, M.I.A. would return to clarify that she isn’t anti-vaccination or anti-vaxx, but she does take issue with the pharmaceutical industry.

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The rapper resurfaced on social media with a gripe after she claims she was nixed from British Vogue. According to her, she was all set to be featured in the coveted magazine, but because of her recent anti-vaxx comments, they decided to cancel it altogether. “Considering our August is an issue where we’re chronicling the struggles of the NHS to cope while a vaccine is tried to be made we don’t feel we can have her involved,” a screenshot of a text message shared by M.I.A. revealed.

According to Forbes, the rapper retorted, “I missed a lot of vaccines and PLOT TWIST: I’m still alive. If I don’t make it past this age, that’s okay, I don’t have to live as a hypochondriac and inject myself with five hundred million zillion vaccines to stay alive.” She added, “If you don’t have the vaccine, are you invisible in society? Should you be canceled? You’d be tracked and quarantined to a space where you’re not allowed to go to certain concerts—not allowed to do certain things? What is the structure of society that’s going to be built based on this.”

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After getting an onslaught of criticism online and in the media, M.I.A. is backtracking on her recent comments about vaccines. The topic of conversation every day, almost all day, is COVID-19. Tens of millions of people are under "Stay At Home" orders by their respective governments as researchers attempt to find a cure for coronavirus. Last week, M.I.A. took to her Twitter to share that she'd rather see the grave than use a vaccine.

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"If I have to choose the vaccine or chip I'm gonna choose death," she tweeted. M.I.A. followed up her ominous anti-vaxx statement encouraging her followers, telling them not to live in fear. On Friday (April 3), the rapper returned to clarify her true feelings about vaccinations as she explained that she's not anti-vaxx at all.

"I'm not against vaccines. I'm against companies who care more for profit then humans," M.I.A. tweeted to a Twitter user. "I care for better track record that proves this. I care that African countries are not always the testing ground. I don't want it coming from banks / tech /hedge fund sector and I want a choice." Check out her original tweet and her follow-up below. Would you reject vaccination for COVID-19 if you contracted the virus and there was a cure?

In a world where the masses are hoping for a cure to coronavirus, M.I.A. revealed that she is against vaccination. She made a declaration on Twitter that "If I have to choose the vaccine or chip I'm gonna choose death." Some people thought that the artist's remarks were inappropriate, especially because medical professionals are working overtime to find a vaccine to COVID-19.

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Users began to condemn M.I.A. but she shared her story of why she decided to become Anti-Vaxx. "Yeah in America they made me [vaccinate] my child before the school admission," she wrote. "It was the hardest thing. To not have choice over this as a mother. I never wanna feel that again. He was so sick for 3 weeks then Docs had to pump him with antibiotics to reduce the fever from 3 vaxins."

She later sent out tweets telling the public not to live in fear while encouraging them with affirmations of health and positivity. However, people continued with disapproving comments while some called for M.I.A. to be "canceled." It would do much good since she said it was "irrelevant" anyway. It's clear that vaccinations continue to be a polarizing topic of conversation. Check out a few tweets below.

A few rappers have expressed anti-vaccination views with Royce Da 5’9″ being the most recent to take it on wax. Fresh off of the release of his latest project, The Allegory, the rapper recently elaborated on lyrics from “Tricked,” explaining his controversial stance. On the song, he raps, “From day one at the hospital they target our children/Say they gonna immunize ’em they somehow get autism.”

Speaking to Complex, Royce explained that the stance isn’t one that he’s actually pushing others to believe. He explained that he and his wife don’t even share the same beliefs in this and that all of his children have been vaccinated. 

“I have a child on the spectrum. All of my kids have been vaccinated. Within the last couple of years, I started being just real, real information junkie,” he said. “I found that I was able to draw a correlation between autism and vaccination. I found vaccinations link back to autism in many ways. And my wife is not anti-vaxx. So if I was ever going to have any more kids, we’d probably have to figure out a way to meet halfway. So I’m not in any way trying to encourage people to not get their kids vaccinated. I encourage you to believe what you want to believe.

The journalist, Shawn Setaro, pressed the topic further, asking whether it’s dangerous that, as a public figure, he’s pushing this message, even though the link between vaccines and autism has been disproven.

“It’s not a danger, because I’m speaking the facts. People who are against the anti-vaxxers, where are their facts at? What facts do they have? Was there something that America told them? Because I operate under the edict that America is guilty until proven innocent,” he said before asking Setaro whether he has a child on the spectrum. 

“You’re telling me what you want to believe, and I’m telling you what I want to believe. It’s just that simple. You don’t have any facts that can say that I’m wrong. You’re just telling me what you believe, and I’m fine with you believing that. But don’t try to tell me what I can say and what I believe. I believe what I want to believe. And I say what I want to say. So you feel like I can believe it, then it shouldn’t be anything else to talk about.”

Peep the interview here.