The Daily Show: Ears Edition - TDS Time Machine | Klepper vs. Anti-Vaxxers

Episode Date: March 24, 2025

Five years in, Jordan Klepper continues to Fingers the Pulse of Covid-19 anti-vaxxers from coast to coast.  Join him as he checks in on people on the streets of New York City and Los Angeles, a Canadian trucker convoy in Ottawa, and a group of protesting parents in North Carolina.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You're listening to Comedy Central. anti-science, deep state, vaccine, microchip, conspiracy jazz, I head to the heartland of America. But it turns out I can find those very same people right here in my own backyard in New York City. That's right. Last week, outside of Mayor Bill de Blasio's home, there was a group protesting his new mandate that customers show proof of vaccination in order to enter restaurants, gyms, and theaters.

It was a mix of hardcore anti-vaxxers, people who are okay with vaccines but hated the mandate, and then, of course, some people who put together a Joker costume once loved the attention, so now that's pretty much all they do. I'm the only one in my family that hasn't gotten the vaccine. It's not approved by FDA.

I don't know what's in that. Women are miscarrying. People are having their DNAs wiped out. What? What do you mean? Like, completely wiped out? Yeah. They're telling women that it's okay for you to get the vaccine. What does it mean their DNA is wiped out? Like, their immunity, their immunity is getting wiped out.

Because I was saying, like, COVID wiped out 600,000 DNAs. Yes, of course, you know? Actually, some people have died from the vaccine. Don't believe me. Go to the media. Go to the Google or... Some people have died from the vaccine. Don't believe me. Go to the media. Go to the Google or... Some people have died from COVID. Yes.

So many more than from the vaccine. One thing with me, I try not to argue facts. I don't believe that suggesting strongly and coming out with mandates for a vaccine is a way of medical intervention. This is not what I believe in. That's a lot of quotes. People from both sides of the issue came from far and wide to express their hate or love of vaccines.

I think you're killing people. I think you're killing people. Go get your vaccine! Come over here, let me cloth on you. Oh, full of shit. You know, Rhonda Santus and Ted Cruz have both been vaccinated. Bullshit.

This is why I love doing interviews in New York. You're from Pennsylvania. Yes, because we know it's coming to Pennsylvania. How important is it like that to think ahead to protect something before it gets out of control? It's everything. It's everything, because once it's gone out of control, you don't reel it in.

Right, like, that's why it's important for everybody to get a vaccine, squash it, before it gets out of control. That's why what? It's important that we take the vaccine, squash it, get it out of control. Oh, my God, what side are you on? Are you nuts? No, what were you talking about? I'm not talking to you.

What were you talking about? I am not for the vaccine. Are you out of your mind? Well, you were just talking about getting ahead of it. Getting ahead of the mandate. The mandate is what's spreading. Yes. We don't want the mandate to come to PA.

We don't want to take the vaccine. Oh. Why should I? You see why I'm confused, though. Clearly putting potentially harmful toxins into your body was something these anti-vax mandate health nuts were very concerned about. My name is Edwin de la Cruz.

I'm running for city council. Running for New York office. As a Republican. As a Republican. The science is still new. We still have question marks. We rushed the science. We were moving at warp speed.

Well, we moved at warp speed. So Donald Trump rushed it. Not correct. Who rushed it? Who rushed it? Uh, can I ask you, how about if we change places and I start attacking you? You're the one who's running for public office. The Republicans of New York were clearly trying to move on from the past, and in some cases,

forgetting it completely. My name is Vish Burra and I'm the Vice President of the New York Young Republican Club. This is a protest against the anti-freedom mandates from a petty tyrant like Bill de Blasio. Do you think this is something the Founding Fathers would support? The Founding Fathers would support vaccine mandates. Yeah. No, I don't believe so.

George Washington had a vaccine mandate. Well, that's okay. Oh, you said- That's okay. Oh, he's a lower Founding Father. I mean, I love the lore, but at the end of the day, we are the ones who have to deal with

what is going on in America today. What are you gonna miss out on if this mandate prevents you from doing it? I just tried to get some Thai, I love Thai food. I just tried to get some Thai food around the corner. They told me I couldn't sit down and eat. I can't go in a restaurant, I can't go to a music club. Fifty percent more people who are not going to go out to eat.

How are they going to get food? Exactly. Yeah, right? So maybe they'll go out of state and come back. Who knows? If only the city had a seamless way to get food to their door. Fresh, direct way to get there, you know? Maybe that's if.

Their point is this mandate is a slippery slope that only leads to hyperbole. So many don't get it. It's 1937 and never again is now. Do not comply to showing your papers. This isn't Nazi Germany. Maybe you can help me out. I'm seeing signs that say vaccine mandates are fascism

and also signs that say vaccine mandates are communism. Which one is it? It's both. It's both. Those are diametrically opposed ideologies. I don't think it's communi- It's more like a dictatorship. Like, we're living in, like, a Nazi Germany, and the only thing that's missing is the camps and the gas.

That's what's happening right now? Yes. Because you can't go to a concert? I can't go to a concert. I can't go to a gym. Do you think that's what it was like in Nazi Germany, people were bitching about not going to a gym? Regardless of our differences, this was still New York,

a melting pot crammed onto an island, then pushed into a subway car with a rat eating pizza. You're not left or right. You're a new f***ing Yorker. And we're in this together. I mean, I've heard the we live in a society line a million times and we're over it. The we the people thing holds no sway for you. No, we the people is...

Then who are the people of the we the People that you are willing to support? Definitely not the illegal immigrants that are bringing COVID over our border right now, that's for sure. I do not believe that vaccine mandates are constitutionally supported. Which is a bummer because the Supreme Court has upheld it many times. It's not my court. Alright, well enjoy. I hope you don't get sick. Good luck to everyone out there. And may you get the pad see you. Our founding fathers said you deserve to eat.

Inside, during a global pandemic. ["The Daily Show Theme"] The discussion around vaccines and mandates tends to pit red state versus blue, but I had heard there was vaccine hesitancy and misinformation in the elitist of the elite blue corners of the U.S. So I headed to a protest in sunny Southern California. I came to California curious if the anti-vax mandate crowd would talk to me.

Then I realized I brought a camera and we're in Southern California. I think I'll be fine. Is this an anti-vaccination? It is not an anti-vax, so don't go there. Don't go there? Please don't. Are you vaccinated? I am not. So you're anti-vaxed?

I do not want to get the vaccination for COVID. What do you support? People's freedom of choice. Don't you benefit from a society that supports that by getting vaccinated? You shouldn't be able to force that stuff on people. Step one, then there'll be on people. It's step one. Then there'll be step two, step three. What's step two?

Who knows? I'm not a conspiracy theorist here. It isn't, so we have step one with polio? They didn't really mandate that. The people were docile back in the industrious age. They were more than willing to take these shots. Polio is mandated for students going to school. Polio has to be because we know what it's done.

Don't we know what COVID's done? I mean, there's 750,000 people who have a pretty good idea. Dig it. Do you trust the vaccine whatsoever? Zero, like, zero percent. And because I know what the end goal is. What's the end goal? Bill Gates said in 2015,

if we can get all these health things, vaccination, we can reduce the population by 10 to 15 percent. What's 15 percent of 7 billion? That's a billion people. The vaccine is all about depopulation. They've said that. So this is just Bill Gates' pet project to depopulate the globe. He's probably a puppet of the people above him.

Which are who? No clue. It's a big claim to say there is a giant plan to kill half the population and not have a Thanos to point to. So why does the conversation on this SoCal boardwalk sound like Ashoney's in Lancaster, PA? I talked to Derek Barris who's been tracking this coastal elite anti-vax movement for years. You've had a long anti-vaccine sentiment here. Specifically in 2017, there was a measles outbreak

right over there in Brentwood in Santa Monica, where an eradicated disease in America sprung up again. This idea of bodily sovereignty has really come about since the pandemic, but that has been taught for decades inside of yoga studios in America. Bodily sovereignty sounds a lot like what I told my parents I was doing freshman year of high school. You have pretty liberal parents then. Yeah, this is my body, I can do what I want with it as often as I want to do, wherever I want, in the living room.

You're still here. People hear about anti-vax and they think MAGA world, but now we're seeing this wellness, which we see maybe more to the left. The Center for Countering Digital Hate identified 12 practitioners in the wellness space that were responsible for something like 70% of the vaccine disinformation on social media. Turns out ignoring the advice of the medical experts and sacrificing the health of the community at large can actually be quite profitable for the wellness business. Everyone knows about ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine

at this moment. The idea that that could help. You have meditations that are sold that are supposed to ward off COVID. You also have different breathing techniques. Some practitioners, including here in Los Angeles, teach breathing workshops because COVID is a respiratory illness. And so their belief is, well, if you're breathing properly, it won't actually affect you.

You can breathe your way out of COVID. Absolutely. That's a class you can pay for. Yes, that is absolutely a class you could pay for. So like, how many smoothies does one have to ingest to get to the point where they can completely disregard the health of the community they live in?

In Los Angeles, one, because they're usually $25. I never knew there was that many parts of honey to ingest. And the honey is blessed by a shaman from Tibet, so you're paying for that as well. You have to remember that. I wanted to talk to these people, so I set up outside of the bougiest health food market in Venice Beach, and I also had a hankering

for an activated charcoal bone broth rose hip smoothie cure-all. Are you vaccinated? Uh, maybe. No. I'm not. You're not? No. Are you fearful of Uh, maybe. No. I'm not. You're not? No. Are you fearful of catching COVID?

No. No? I think that it's more about the lifestyle versus like vaccinated, not vaccinated. What is the lifestyle? Like being healthy. Like taking care of yourself, like your mind, your body. If you live a lifestyle of wellness wellness then your body should be able to handle COVID. So what do you recommend for basic public health? Eating healthy, boosting your immunity system and don't watch the news because it's just

brainwashing you with fear and the fear is lowering your frequency. I only eat fish and only certain kind of fish like for example I don't eat tuna and I actually found that out when I was trying to feed tuna to my cat and she shook her head and walked off. Do you often take medical advice from a cat? In general, from nature. From nature. What do you think of the COVID vaccine?

I don't think it's a vaccine. I think it's snapping the DNA in half. Where did you hear this? Siamese cat? You recommend for public health people meditating? Of course. People working out in groups? Definitely. Eating healthy? Definitely. COVID vaccine? No. No. Coffee enema? Possibly. Okay maybe on the coffee enema. Definite hard no on the COVID vaccine? No. I'm not an anti-vaxxer, per se. I'm a staunch, anti-mandate person. Can I ask, are you both vaccinated?

Sorry, I don't want to put a status. You don't want to put a status? No. If you don't want to share your vaccine status, that's okay. I'm vaccinated. And look how I look. Don't judge me.

I know everybody in LA is judging people. I'm an LA Five, a New York six, and a DC 12. I can tell. Cold, but fair. Now what say you, dude? I wanna talk about wellness and public health, and trust me, we'll get to your script later. Can I ask you, are you vaccinated?

I am. Do you find that most people in Los Angeles that you encounter are vaccinated? Like I'm kind of a New Yorker. Yeah. And there there's a sense of like civic duty. There isn't so much of that here to be totally honest. It's more like, well, I had to get vaccinated

because I'm paying a trip to Tulum. So if more Americans were dangled a trip to Tulum, we might get that vaccination rate up in the 90s? Maybe so, yeah. No matter what part of the anti-vax world they come from, there's one comparison they just can't resist making. I think what's interesting, especially coming from Germany, I think history is repeating itself right now.

What are you saying? The vaccine mandates and everything. It's like it's turning into a police state. And you're equating it to World War II era Germany. Yes. Where are your papers? Where are your papers? It's very similar to the Hitler times.

But like Jewish people are fleeing Poland because they can't get into gyms? It's not funny. But is that comparison though? You just didn't get into gyms? It's not funny. But is that comparison though... You just didn't get the point, sorry. I'm good, bye. Maybe historical dramas aren't big in LA. But certainly there is commercial viability in saving humanity, right?

We're in LA, maybe there's an elevator pitch here, right? So zoom in on a country at war with itself and then a magical cure comes along that helps people take care of the rest of their community by making a choice to help other people. Would you buy that, Tegan? No. No? Okay. Three weeks ago, north of the border, a new kind of protest emerged. The trucker convoy has arrived in Ottawa. This city in the downtown core remains gridlocked. Some residents here say that they really can take no more. So I traveled to Ottawa, expecting to find some Canada nice.

But their messaging was a bit more coarse. These trucks shut down businesses and made roads impassable. Can I go, can I go around here? How do I, how do I get around? But how long were the protesters planning to paralyze Canada's 8th best city? David, how long have you been here? I've been here since day one.

Holding down the fort? Pretty much, I'm not going anywhere. I'm coming in from New York. I go by Brooklyn's Kindness on the CB. There you go. We were able to stay here up to two years. You're committed to being here for two years? Yeah, because two years is nothing.

How are you going to keep up the energy to be here for two years? That's not a problem. People will bring it. Stimulants? No, the people will bring it. Stimulants? No, the people will bring it. I smoke a lot of weed. Yeah.

Okay. Right? Yeah. But that's just to calm me down and keep me centered. Are you worried at all with weed paranoia? No. That might creep in?

No. No. Do you think the government is coming for you? Oh yeah, constantly. They're like night little tactics. They try to like, they move around, they move in, they add more. Are you paranoid? No. Sure. What kind of stuff do you haul? I haul everything in

2020 I hauled from food to building supplies to medical supplies. You have my end table that I ordered from Wayfair like three weeks ago? It's probably up sitting either in Montreal or Toronto or on the border. It would really look great in my apartment. So what exactly was the point of interrupting the supply chain? So what is this all about? You know what? Sorry. What is this all about? This is about our freedoms. Could you be any more generic? You know if you are vaccinated you get to do certain things. If you're not vaccinated you don't.

I don't think people should be divided. We should all be together, united. We're setting up essentially a truck barrier to keep everybody together so they can be united. Yes. Gotcha. Yeah, we might as well lock them in. Sort of like a parent who locks the door and says, you guys are in here until the water runs out, you become friends or democracy crumbles. Yes.

And if you're not vaccinated, you're literally a second-class citizen in this country. I can't go to the restaurant. I can't go play hockey. I can't go watch the Ottawa Senators. We don't live in Germany. We don't live in Nazi Germany. Those days are over. Just show me your papers don't happen anymore.

That's freedom that everyone should have. Is the Germany comparison a stretch here in Canada? No. Are you afraid of cultural appropriation? Probably. American cultural appropriation? Probably. American cultural appropriation because we use the German excuse all the time. Oddly enough that wasn't the only thing Canadians were appropriating. Yeah I hate to use that slogan but make North America great again. Make North America

great again and I don't mean to use that guy's word but it's true. To be honest it wasn't even his he stole it from another guy before him. I see the the Q army on your head. Isn't Q the American thing trying to find JFK Jr.? Yes. What Q shit is going down here? Oh so this is like a Yankees hat. Okay the Q thing might just be a fashion choice, but they're definitely reading the same internet as many Americans. It's more than just a vaccine passport and stuff. What else?

The agenda 2030 is a good start. What's agenda 2030? It's where the world's head towards one government. They want to sterilize us so that only certain people can have kids. Really? You're afraid the government will sterilize you? Probably not me, but down the line, yeah. But in two weeks of the cab of a truck pissing in a Mountain Duke can can't be too good for the sperm production. Probably sterile already, so what's the difference? too good for the sperm production. Probably stare out of the way, so what's the difference?

So Margaret Atwood audiobooks are apparently a thing with Canadian truckers. And while shutting down a city seems to have many obvious downsides. Hey, excuse me. Hey. Hi. Have you seen a Prius around here?

Some see an opportunity coming from literal gridlock. The truckers are bringing in customers. They're bringing in tourists from Montreal, from all across Canada. Everybody wants to check this out. This is essentially a tourist boom for Ottawa right now. You can feel the tourism in the air, right? You can smell it. It smells like amphetamines and drifter blood. Definitely. The flood of 18-wheeler driving tourists and their Canadian AF outfits created legitimate tension with residents of the city. Go home!

Get a job! No one wants you here! The downtown was shut, and there was palpable anger directed at local media. The TV news is lying. They're still lying, guys. They're still lying. And even at The Daily Show.

No! You know, nuance. Remember? Lack of nuance. Lack of nuance is tyranny. We're getting booed over here. We've been walking around here. There seems to be a real distrust of media here. Oh, for sure.

There's a lot of cameras up in your face, cameras on cameras. And while Canadian authorities have finally enacted emergency measures to try to clear the convoy, So far the trucks are still there and a well-funded never-ending street party infused with misinformation and nationalism feels remarkably possible in our own land of the free. Where does this movement go from here? I believe it's going to be worldwide. It's going to come to America? Yes, definitely. You think this is inspiring the dickheads in America? Pardon me? this is inspiring the dickheads in America? Pardon me? This is inspiring the dickheads in America?

It's inspiring people. People of America to join together to stand for freedom. Okay, if they do come to America, then maybe I'll finally get my f***ing end table. my f***ing end table. I'm in Johnson County, North Carolina, marching with anti-mask protesters to what has become America's new Thunderdome, school board meetings.

North Carolina parents are desperate to get their kids back into schools, but with packed ICUs and COVID cases in children four times what they were last year, new studies in the CDC are recommending masks as a way to keep in-person learning. But packed school board meetings and new stars of the right are upset because putting on a piece of cloth is just too much. I'm against all mandates. So from there, I don't know where it's its mask, wear its vaccinations, I'm against it all. Masks will never protect Americans. Masks don't work. My child was suffering after wearing his mask for so long.

What kind of issues has he had? He's had acne on his face from the mask covering and not letting his skin breathe. Has he had COVID? No. But he has had acne? Yes. So, have you had to choose? No. But he has that acne. Yes. So, have you had to choose? No.

What's wrong with having children wear masks in school? Well, you're breathing in the toxins that your body is trying to get rid of. How do surgeons do it? That is a good question. There's been some new studies that have come out both by the CDC and by even Duke University talking about masks being helpful, especially in a school situation. I challenge anybody to put a mask on and five minutes later smell that funk and think it's good for you. So there's science and then there's the smell test and you're going with the smell test.

Yes. What are some of the ways kids suffer when they have to wear masks? I think breathing. I've done a little bit of research about the carbon, the oxide that people were saying is an issue now with the mask. Wearing a mask helps stop the spread of COVID in settings like a school. But they still, they're outside, like right now. I mean, this is a kind of example.

There's kids out there playing and stuff. Well, we're outside right now. When you go inside, isn't it beneficial to wear a mask if you're close to someone? Uh-uh. No. No, I mean, I don't think so. The science says it is helpful to wear a mask so it doesn't spread when you're in close proximity indoors.

The science? Yeah. Yeah. I don't think, I mean, because they're, oh, I don't know. I just, do y'all edit this? I'm sorry. So some people are bewildered by science, both the practice and the word. But maybe scary images like full ICUs would have an impact.

Wearing a mask, what's the harm? Well, for kids, the harm is they can't gauge emotional awareness of other kids. They don't see the facial expressions. Do you think not being able to see people's lower halves of face outweighs the dangers that COVID might pose to kids and communities? The dangers aren't what you think they are. The ICUs here are full. Yeah.

But how many positive tests in all of North Carolina have died? How many are sick? The ones in the ICU are pretty sick. Yeah. I've been in ICUs three times in the last year and a half with my wife and have questioned the nurses and doctors. You have ICUs full of people suffering from COVID right now. Do you know?

Is that true? Are they just being the diagnosis on paper? I've walked through the hospitals, I've videotaped inside the hospitals, and guess what? It's not full of COVID patients. Now I'm worried about COVID and security measures at North Carolina hospitals. Like so many of these school board battles, it was never about just one thing, but more of a general airing of grievances. When we got a governor here that thinks it's okay to have CRT in the classroom, they need

to focus on educating and not indoctrinating our children here in North Carolina. No CRT, that's ridiculous. We're saving the kids from all that's going on with CRT, critical race theory. Here in North Carolina, they don't need to learn about racism in school. No, where are they gonna learn about racism most?

Walking past one of the tobacco fields? Well, no, not walking past a tobacco field, so, you know, it's not like that. It was hard to sum up the outrage of that afternoon. There were many thoughtful political statements being made. But looking around, it was difficult to miss the real catchphrase of the day. I don't co-parent with the government. Well, you don't want to co-parent with the government. Don't get pregnant in Texas.

There we go. Don't get pregnant in Texas. There we go. Don't get pregnant anywhere. Your kids go to private school? They are enrolled in public school. Isn't that kind of co-parenting with the government? No, it isn't, because you know why? We have a board of education.

We also elect who our officials are. We get to have a voice. Right, so you work with the government. We do. In parenting decisions. Yeah. Yeah. They are in public school.

So you do kind of co-parent with the government. In that regard, parenting decisions. Yeah. Yeah. They're in public school. You do kind of co-parent with the government. In that regard, I guess, yeah. If you want to say my taxes pay for that, yeah. Well, you're giving back your child tax credit. I mean. This crowd that was ready to fight for what they believed in was using the power of democracy that was bestowed upon all of us by our founding fathers. Did you vote for school board? No. No. I don't even vote. You don't even vote? No. You could vote for somebody who reflects

your values. I could vote, you're right. Yeah. But that's a hassle. Take the time to do it, I'm sorry. But at the end of the day they saw this as a fight against something much more disturbing than kids face coverings. It's terrible for them to wear masks. Absolutely. It's just absolutely terrible. It's a sign of slavery. Wait, what?

Very basically. Wear a mask is a sign of slavery? I discovered in my research also that Satanists stand six feet apart. They wear masks during their rituals. Who does? Satanists. Satanists. Their rituals.

Six feet apart, wear masks. I don't know. Is it coincidence? I don't know. Satanism is, well, we're at war with Satanism. How are we doing? I think we're winning. Good.

Well, that leaves some good news. I have no fears. No fears, but a healthy belief in Satanism and its effect in the COVID. Oh, absolutely. MUSIC MUSIC HEARTBEAT WIND BLOWS

Vaccination is still going a bit slow in America, and we should be past this talk by now, but we're not, and it's definitely gonna come up at your holiday gatherings. So that you're prepared for those conversations, here is our gift to you. These are moments from past rallies we haven't shown before with some truly unique arguments from the vaccine hesitant crowd. I haven't seen that it's been life-saving at all. I've seen a lot more people in the hospital after they got this vaccine than it being helpful.

Right now in North Carolina, 92% of the people who are in the hospital because of COVID are unvaccinated. Does that worry you? No. No. Where nowadays can the unvaccinated congregate? Basically nowhere unless the former group. Yeah, unless it's the ICU.

What do you mean ICU? That tends to be where many of the unvaccinated congregate. Yeah, unless it's the ICU. What's that? What do you mean ICU? That tends to be where many of the unvaccinated congregate. Okay, yeah. The ICUs here are full. Yeah, but in the general scope of things, the entire population of everybody who's been tested, what does that weigh out to? A full ICU is just a full ICU. Kids need to see the lower half of other kids' faces. Yeah. That seems like a take. I'm not an anti-vaxxer. Just don't be putting some shit in my... Don't be putting some stuff in my body that isn't proven.

It's not proven. Right. So your issue is that maybe they rushed this through too fast. Absolutely. Do you feel like it was an issue that America moved at warp speed? Yes, I do. Who did you support in the last election? Trump.

Do you think he deserves more credit for what he did with the vaccine? Kills me. Biden gets in, Biden gets the credit for the vaccine, oh yeah, give me the vaccine. So Trump deserves more credit or less credit? I think Trump did what he could do. Which is move the vaccine at warp speed? Which you were against like a second ago. Do you have a distrust about some of the narratives that are going on in America?

I have a lot of distrust. Talk to me about that. Ah, it's too long. Where are you getting your information about the vaccine? I have a lot of information, just like you guys all get your information. Where do you go for your information? From a lot of places.

Specifically? What are you going to miss out on if this mandate prevents you from doing it? I just tried to get some Thai, I love Thai food. I just tried to get some Thai food around the corner. They told me I couldn't sit down and eat unless, you know, I had a vaccine mandate. Now I believe things like that were said to Martin Luther King when he tried to walk into places to eat, but they said they had a different reason to make him a second class citizen.

Compare yourself to MLK, our big words for a guy wearing 80s b-boy jeans. Actually, these are not 80s b-boy jeans. They are new true religions. I know you can't tell because you're a Democrat and you can't afford these things. All right, well, enjoy. I hope you don't get sick. Thank you. I still haven't yet.

Have you gotten COVID? I did. That sucks. Too bad for you. That's the empathy that the young Republicans bring. Thank you. Where are you getting your information? Everywhere. Everywhere?

Yeah, well not everywhere, but like those places. Internet, by word of mouth. Here. I mean, you see a nice burrito. And it has like, farm like farm fresh eggs in it. If you got to see the workers at Pfizer's make you a vaccine burrito, would you trust that? No.

No. Tens of thousands of people have already died from the vaccine. When the flu vaccine came out, 75 people died and they stopped it to rework it. Tens of thousands of people? Where do you get that stat? I get that stat from the, um, oh gosh, the VPEAR, the one that puts out the stats.

Let me ask my dog. Livy! The CDC? No, not the CDC. What's that people? What's that? The VPEAR? The S-H-B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T. What did you say? They are violating bodily autonomy.

They are creating the same as vaccine passports, which is illegal segregation. Illegal segregation. We are going back to a state in which there are two groups of people. You have the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. You feel like what's going on right now is back to 60s America. Creating that. A lot of my friends, they concentrate on Nazi Germany.

That's a whole other planet. That's a whole other country. That's a crazy comparison. Asking people to get a COVID vaccine, Holocaust comparison a little much. Jim Crow feels about right. Yeah, not... I mean... When someone asks you what they can get you for Christmas, just tell them to get vaccinated.

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