Popular Canadian singer Bryan Adams has apologized for one of his social media posts in which he accused as “bat eating, wet market animal selling, virus making greedy bastards” for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), reports Reuters.
Adams, who is mostly known for his global hits like “Summer of ‘69” and “Heaven”, made the remarks in the caption of an Instagram post on last Monday. In the post, he addressed the cancellation of his performances at the Royal Albert Hall in London due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bryan Adams is currently living in London and he is a vegan by his choice.
The post was widely condemned on social media. Regarding this post, president of the Chinese Canadian National Council for Social Justice ms Amy Go told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp that Adams’s comments were “just so, so, so, so racist.”
In his apology, Adams repeatedly posted on Instagram that he had no excuse about the post, he “just wanted to have a rant about the horrible animal cruelty in these wet-markets being the possible source of the virus, and promote veganism.”
Many researchers assume that the coronavirus started from a wet market in Wuhan, China, although a theory that the virus emerged from a lab in Wuhan has gained ground in recent weeks. The Chinese state-backed Wuhan Institute of Virology has dismissed the allegations.
