Just in: Ivan Fischer gets 3rd jab on stage

Just in: Ivan Fischer gets 3rd jab on stage

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norman lebrecht

August 26, 2021

Iván Fischer had himself vaccinated last night with his third COVID-19 vaccine shot in front of thousands of people during the Budapest Festival Orchestra’s free open-air concert in Budapest.

Ivan said he wanted to set an example and to draw the public’s attention to the importance of fighting the epidemic. Along with their conductor, members of the orchestra also bared their arms for the jab.

 

Comments

  • Brian says:

    He bared his arm? It looks like he’s getting it through his shirt. This sort of PR stunt is nauseating.

  • Karl says:

    What vaccine did he get? I looked up a March article by the AP and see this:

    “Right-wing populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban broke with the EU’s common procurement program to purchase millions of doses from Russia and China that were not approved by the EU’s medicines regulator. He has been harshly critical of the speed of the EU’s vaccine rollout.

    In February, the country became the first in the EU to begin using China’s Sinopharm and Russia’s Sputnik V vaccines, even as polling showed that public trust in non-EU approved vaccines was low.”
    https://apnews.com/article/europe-budapest-coronavirus-pandemic-china-coronavirus-vaccine-59d7eaf2dfbb47fea28c004b9da13727

    • John Borstlap says:

      The problem with these non-EU vaccines is that there is a lingering suspicion that they include coded spyware that pick-up anti-Chinese and anti-Russian thoughts, or that they are another propaganda instrument to undermine Europe and the rest of the West. This suspicion was further fuelled by a story that an inhabitant of the town Jaszbereny suddenly felt overcome with a warm sympathy for both countries within 3 hours after her first injection.

    • BRUCEB says:

      Doesn’t matter, though, does it? There would still be ample “room for doubt” (for some people) no matter what vaccine they used.

    • Peter San Diego says:

      I hear that at present, Pfizer and J&J (Janssen, in Europe) are the most commonly available vaccines in Hungary, though Sinopharm is also widely available.

  • ken says:

    Get your shots, folks !
    Like Ivan !

    • TruthSeeker says:

      Why? So we can end up like these people?
      https://brandnewtube.com/v/o1U3Lb

      • michael says:

        Exactly. There is a mass psychosis akin to the dancing plague (look that up, it us very disturbing) people are dancing to death via the mRNA. President Ford stopped the shot in 1976 after just 50 deaths in the states. A whistleblower is putting it at over 200,000 dead from vax.

      • Amos says:

        Post comments from emergency room nurses and physicians in Florida and Louisiana pleading with people to get vaccinated rather than troll sites funded by trolls.

  • NotToneDeaf says:

    Ivan is that rare thing: an honorable conductor. Bonus points for also being a brilliant musician.

  • audience member says:

    No, the orchestra members did not “bare their arms”, they were playing at the same time. At another point in the concert the all took a self-test, though.

    Hope the video material will be released some time because it really was hilarious. (You can also see there, that it wasn’t through the shirt but the shirt had a hole.)

  • PineNeedleTea says:

    If you still don’t see the extent of the propaganda and the revolution happening under our noses… you’re in for a world of confusion over the next few months/years.

    It appears that rational thought is under attack and it has NOTHING to do with politics.

    • barry guerrero says:

      “Tell me, are you member of a syndicate with international contacts, or do you get all your information by simply eavesdropping?” . . . (from “Murder, My Sweet” with Dick Powell).

    • michael says:

      Mass psychosis. Also, I am about to order some tea.

  • mate says:

    As a Hungarian, I’d like to clarify a few things in the comments section.

    In Hungary you can get the following vaccines: Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson, Sinopharma, AstraZeneca, Sputnik.

    Since Mr. Ivan Fischer is a musician who has to travel a lot, he probably got one of the western vaccines, but I don’t know. Anyway, he cut a hole in his shirt, that is very the needle got in.

    And yes, that’s a PR stunt, a bit nauseating for me too, but that doesn’t mean that I am antivax, nor that I want to take the Capitol. In fact, I hope many people get the jab asap.

    And finally, that comment field was disappointing.

    Bye!

  • freddynyc says:

    We should give him the benefit of the doubt that he – as well as the others in the orchestra – actually received the Covid vaccine……

  • Osterholm is God says:

    Everybody will be mandated to get at least 3 shots!

  • Gustavo says:

    What was he conducting?

    The Right of Pring
    Babi Jab
    The Lark Vaccending
    Jab – A Mask for Dancing
    The Cunning Little Vaccine

  • Gustavo says:

    Die Drei-G-Oper

    by Kurt Wieler

  • mel says:

    Folks, before you start to comment, please note Maestro Fischer is 70. I know there’s consternation about vaccine sharing before boosters, but do you know his health status? Really, what if he was immunicompromised? I know a LOT of people in the classical music world who ARE IMMUNOCOMPROMISED but are keeping such info private (for obvious reasons) — so please let’s keep the judging secondary. He who casts the first stone, and all…

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