At a time where coronavirus panic has caused travel restrictions, closed schools, music festival cancelations and sport season suspensions, Lupe Fiasco hopped on Instagram to share some calming thoughts about the growing pandemic.
“In the midst of all of this going on, just remember that the coronavirus is you,” he said on Thursday (March 12). “What I mean when I say this is, [coronavirus] doesn’t make you panic, it doesn’t drive you crazy, it doesn’t push you to do extreme things. It makes you sick, but it shouldn’t drive you to panic, it shouldn’t drive you to overreact. It shouldn’t’ drive you to racism, it shouldn’t drive you to bullying, it shouldn’t drive you to profiteering and price-gouging and all these other things that you see — that’s human nature.”
Despite growing concern over the pandemic, Lupe urged his followers to maintain “discipline” instead of overreacting.
“Remember that corona is what you make it,” he continued. “If you make it a crazy, panic-filled, fear-driven thing, then that is what it will be. The disease isn’t just the disease itself, it’s also the reaction to the disease, and for most of us, [that’s] what we will be experiencing.”
Amidst the ongoing pandemic-related event cancelations, Lupe also informed his fans that he’ll be postponing his upcoming shows in Cleveland and Seatle, which were set to take place this weekend (March 14-15), as well as an April 4 show in San Francisco.
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He left his followers with a final note: “Don’t let this get to the point where you start doing crazy things … Be good and look out for each other.”
Lupe’s Cleveland show has been rescheduled to June 13, with the Seattle show now taking place on June 21. According to his Twitter, original tickets will be honored at the new dates and refunds are available for those who are unable to attend.
According to CBS News, there are over 126,000 cases of coronavirus worldwide reported so far, with Italy’s death toll rising to over 1,000 on Thursday afternoon (March 12).
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Good advice regardless what the outcome is we need to stay positive. my opinion, its blown out of proportion
Blame the news and 24/7 coverage on this thing. Can’t even look the other way without fear being spread in some form or another.
It’s mainly the women panicking
I bet they will use this “pandemic” to restrict travel within the US. We will need permission to visit other states. Get used to this BS. These pandemics will be the new norm. I bet we will see one every year until travel restrictions are out in place.
Pandemic doesn’t need to be quoted. Any national health concern that travels on mass is a pandemic. It isn’t a term invented by media to create hysteria, it is the correct way to describe what is happening in the world. There aren’t conspiracies, it’s man vs cells from here on. FYI.
It does need to be in quotes, because this is controlled chaos. It’s a super flu, bid F deal. Why didn’t we have this much panic with H1N1 or Bird Flu? It is political, pull your head out your…if you trust any of the reporting on this, you are the problem.
No, the problem is a virus. It isn’t controlled chaos, it is uncontrollable. There was panic in the instances you mentioned, just not in predominantly western countries because it didn’t reach them to the extent this one is. Like, I’m all for conspiracies and the media twisting shit and all that, More power to you, but the difference is this particular flu is killing motherfuckers, doesn’t have a vaccine and is spreading so quickly and easily that governments are making decisions that are costing them and their economies billions of dollars. For something to be a conspiracy, or government influenced = governments need to come off in front. In this, they aren’t. They are boarderline powerless, thats why the concern is different here; sociology is making this up as we go. In the world of conspiring and alternative-theories, this one is pretty straight forward.
Damn Lupe too, may he recover
crazy things? such as what?
Fuck coronavirus only weak ass bitches catch that shit!
Its all fun and games till an elder family member catches it you ignorant idiot.
Blow it out your ass Nancy nobody cares
Finally lupe spoke about this so i know what to do. Now can scientists,medical researchers and experts go to bed
Alot of ignorant people in the comment section here lol
STFU BITCH I HOPE YOU GET CORONAVIRUS AND PISS OUT YOUR ASSHOLE!!!!!q!
Join me my fellow compatriants. Lets get the corona and spread it. Lets spread it everywhere and infect everyone. Lets kill the whole world. I will spit everywhere. I will go to mcdonalds and wipe my hands all over the seats. I will go to all your local grocery stores and wipe my corona hands all ober the grocerys. I want the whole world to burn.
Not even a clever or funny troll bro.
Its’ easy for the wealthy to say don’t panic when they can get tested and feed their family. He need to put money where his mouth is instead of trying to promote himself. Trump is lying bout the cure, stopping unemployment and giving out checks. However, he still making sure rich companies get breaks. Telling us to stay put while people still dying and no medical equipment. If we don’t die from the virus we’ll die from being homeless and starvation. This is a time where poor communities living from check to check need more than entertainment from the rich. So if you’re not going around putting money in mailboxes then shut up. If you’re sitting back quietly while we can’t be tested, treated, eat or live then don’t tell us nothing. If we’re gonna die anyway then we need to die in protest on these streets for our right to live. They got us in our homes so we can’t speak waiting on a change that’s not coming. They don’t care about us. We have to take charge.