While Minaj didn’t specify what kind of “loose one” she was referencing (I’m not gonna even touch that one), and later added that she would get a Covid-19 jab in order to go on tour, recommending workers do so as well, it seems there was another important message the artist wanted to broadcast loud and clear to her platform of nearly 23 million followers – her cousin’s friend apparently has some really swollen nuts.
“My cousin in Trinidad won’t get the vaccine cuz his friend got it & became impotent,” Minaj later wrote. “His testicles became swollen. His friend was weeks away from getting married, now the girl called off the wedding. So just pray on it & make sure you’re comfortable with ur decision, not bullied.”
Aside from providing an instruction manual for how unfaithful men can attempt to convince their spouse-to-be that their swollen balls are most definitely not the byproduct of a bachelor party gone wild, the post also alluded to the spread of another disease, one that is somehow not sexually transmitted – the epidemic of misinformation surrounding the Covid-19 vaccine.
For some time now, The CDC has debunked bogus claims connecting the jab to infertility and other reproductive conditions. On their website, the agency states that Covid-19 vaccines have not been shown to cause infertility, erectile dysfunction, or massive ballsacks, a sentiment Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who must surely be exhausted with a population that’s gradually growing more and more nuts (pun entirely intended), reiterated during an interview with CNN.
“There’s no evidence that it happens, nor is there any mechanistic reason to imagine that it would happen,” Fauci told host Jake Tapper when asked about the rapper’s statement. “So the answer to your question is no.”
Fauci later went on to advise the musician to be mindful about the information she spreads to her tens of millions of fans. “There’s a lot of misinformation, mostly on social media, and the only way we know to counter mis and disinformation is to provide a lot of correct information,” he added later in the interview. “And to essentially debunk these kinds of claims, which may be innocent on her part. I’m not blaming her for anything but she should be thinking twice about propagating information that really has no basis.”