At 73 years old, and being in a high-risk pool, Ozzy Osbourne is more than eligible to get in front of the line for a COVID-19 vaccine, and yet, the Prince of Darkness reveals, he has yet to receive one.
Speaking on his talk show, Ozzy Speaks, with co-host Billy Morrison on SiriusXM's Ozzy's Boneyard, the Prince of Darkness ultimately said he is ready to take the vaccine, and the two jokes about people paranoid about taking it with the idea that they have done so many drugs in their life, how can they draw the line at being worried about this.
The conversation went like this:
Ozzy Osbourne: I want to get the shot, but –
Billy Morrison: You do? ‘Cause you know, the conspiracy theories, right?
Ozzy Osbourne: I Look at it this way. If I don’t get it, if I don't have the shot, right? I know there’s side effects and b******* and…
Billy Morrison: Well, there's a mutual friend of ours, who I'm not going to name, who is convinced there's a microchip in it. Convinced!
Ozzy Osbourne: When you think about that, what you just said, all these different conspiracies about the f***ing vaccine. I look at it like this. If I don't get the shot and I get the virus, there's a good chance I ain't going to be here.
Billy Morrison: Absolutely. Between us, I mean, I've injected brick dust in the past, and you've snorted pretty much anything that’s snortable. You think about what we've done. Right?
Ozzy Osbourne: I mean, come on.
Billy Morrison: Think about the shit we’ve put in our bodies, and then we go, “Oh yeah, but… Ooh, I don’t know about that.”
Ozzy Osbourne: “I can’t eat that because it looks a bit off. Can’t eat that chip it fell on the floor.”
Billy Morrison: The greatest thing is the next junkie that cleans up and goes, “is it organic?”
Ozzy's family has been dealing with coronavirus in recent months. His wife Sharon tested positive in December. Thankfully, Ozzy tested negative. In September, Sharon came in contact with somebody who ended up positive and quarantined. The couple's two granddaughters ended up testing positive, but thankfully made a full recovery.
Previously, Ozzy said that while he would take the vaccine, he does not plan to be first in line. "I'm trying to recover so I can get… The only good thing about this pandemic, I couldn't work anyway because of my injuries. I'm hoping that I'll be booking 2022, I think.
"To be honest with you, I don't think it's gonna get ship shape until the end of next year. I think this winter is gonna be fucking bad, because you're gonna have the flu. People are, 'I'm not taking the flu shot.' You know what?
"You can give me anything, but I'm not gonna be number one on that fucking new vaccine. I don't know want to be the first one to wake up with a set of fucking antlers in the morning."
