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.
Chapter 1: How does Jordan Klepper view COVID-19 protests in NYC?
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Normally when I'm in search of an angry mob of people screaming 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 the 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.
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Chapter 2: What arguments do anti-vaxxers use against vaccine mandates?
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.
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Chapter 3: How do political figures and activists perceive vaccine mandates?
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 dioxide 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.
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