Vaccines are one of modern medicine's greatest achievements. And Americans have never been more upset about it. Take a listen to The Daily Show's coverage of people being weird about vaccines. Jon Stewart breaks down the H1N1 vaccine and the immediate fear surrounding it, then reports on flu shot shortages and theft. Kristen Schaal joins to discuss mandatory shots for women's health. Desi meets the micro-influencers hired to spread the word on Covid shots, and Trevor reports on a man who got vaccinated for covid 217 times. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: What are the concerns surrounding the H1N1 vaccine?
That was the summer of...
But this time, just as the virus is about to metastasize, a breakthrough. The FDA today approved swine flu vaccine. We're safe. Hail Zeus, the Greek god of timely pharmaceutical research. Back to your homes, people. Nothing to see here. The H1N1 vaccine will finally become available. Is it safe? We finally contain the swine flu outbreak. But can we contain the doubt break?
What are you doing to us? Is this a deadly poison? Is the vaccine a deadly poison? And are we running out of it? Will you take the vaccine? Give it to your children. How much do you trust your government? I think that's the main question.
Wait, when did that become the main...
I always thought the main question was, does the vaccine promote the growth of H1N1 antibodies that could help ward off infection? I think the virus is more interested in killing you than the government is. But I guess I'm just one of those pasteurized milk drinkers, you know. I'm sure the vaccine isn't perfect. Science certainly isn't perfect. But does everything have to be so stupid?
O'Reilly, you've become Fox News' sane guy.
What's your main question? So now we have the swine flu vaccine. Alright, so it comes to your town. Are you going to get the swine flu vaccine? I've decided not to share if I'm going to get it or not.
Really? You talked about your ass surgery on YouTube and now you're holding back on it? Now you've decided it's time to be a little bit more discreet and lay like... Come on back!
Oh, come on, Beck. I think this is important for everybody to make their own decision. This is injecting something into your body. And there's great arguments for and against.
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Chapter 2: Why was there a flu vaccine shortage?
I'm a mom of three children and to have innocent little 12-year-old girls be forced to have a government injection Oh, Advantage Bachmann! Und sie wird das Advantage zurückgeben. In 3, 2, 1. There's a woman who came up crying to me tonight after the debate. She said her daughter was given that vaccine. She told me her daughter suffered mental retardation as a result of that vaccine.
And now I am repeating that assertion unchecked, assuming there is a body of evidence to back this up. I'm sure there is, right? For more on the vaccine controversy, we're joined by Daily Show Senior Women's Issues Correspondent Kristen Schaal. Kristen, thank you very much for joining us. What? How does the vaccine work? How does it?
Well, John, when a man loves a woman very much, he gives her a special close hug with his penis. It's called ****. That's the street term.
Let's skip ahead to after the hugging, the vaccine part.
Okay. When two people who love each other ****. You can get an STD called the Human Papilloma Virus. In women, HPV has been proven to cause cervical cancer. Fortunately now, there's a vaccine called Gardasil that prevents HPV. Which is good, because one in two sexually active people will get HPV in their lifetime. And I don't have it, so... Don't worry, John, I said sexually active.
You were scared for a minute. So cute. I was a little scared.
You know, it seems ironic. Michelle Bachmann came out against the vaccine for women, while Rick Perry, the man, was sort of standing for, I guess, women's health, fighting HPV.
Well, it's not really that strange. In some ways it's a regional issue. Minnesota doesn't have to worry about HPV as much because they wear so many layers. Finding genitals is next to impossible. Take it from someone who wages at the St. Paul Hooters, okay? But I'm willing to overlook Congresswoman Bachmann's regional bias because she's the last female candidate in this race.
That's why I printed up 6,000 Bachmann from my cold dead vagina bumper stickers.
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Chapter 3: What is the debate on mandatory HPV vaccines?
Das ist ziemlich schrecklich.
Ich bin nicht sicher, ob das die Augen sind. Sie sahen aus, als wären sie vor der Kamera. Ich bin nicht sicher, ob das sie sind.
Well, John, now I'm torn. On one hand, Governor Perry is taking care of Texas vaginas, but he did it with a government mandate to force it on young girls. It's like he's trying to turn Texas into some kind of punani state. Michelle Bachmann, on the other hand, is arguing for a woman's right to choose, but only if that choice is getting cancer.
The truth is, neither one is the strong pro-vag candidate women are looking for. But you know who I feel the worst for? The children.
Because they'll be more likely to get cervical cancer?
Well, that. But also because they'll never get to play with my Michelle Bachmann big mouth Billy vagina. Take me to the clinic.
Take me to the clinic.
Did you just turn a big mouth Billy Bass into a singing vagina?
Yes, and I have 10,000 of them in my garage. If they all go off at once, it's a nightmare. It'll be very loud.
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Chapter 4: How did micro-influencers promote Covid vaccines?
Yeah, okay. But why are you wearing a shirt?
We just got to get this vaccine together because we're a team. And that's the only way we're going to get back to normal.
Yes, that's it.
We've had a lot of cases where medical professionals have looked aside African Americans' problems that they may come in with. And for a lot of people in my community, it's just all encompassing no trust in that. But as an influencer, I can influence my audience to go through the steps of getting vaccinated.
I'm like the sock puppet, I guess, for those experts that they can speak to that comes off a little bit less Big Brother-y. Ein Songpuppet.
Das ist eine gute Idee. Nimm das Vakzin. Mhm. Die Influencern haben sich natürlich die Hashtag BacksLife selbst gekauft. Und sie haben die Worte auf ihren Accounts verbreitet. Aber ist jemand Hashtag listening zu Hashtag what their Hashtag saying?
Auf Instagram habe ich fast 20.000 Follower.
2.000.
Ich habe ca. 1.400 Follower. Basisch nur ein öffentliches Account. Ja, ich meine, wenn du von jemandem auf der Internetseite Tipps nehmen willst, bist du eher möglich, es von jemandem, den du kennst, zu nehmen. Es ist eine Gemeinschaft. Es ist nicht wie ein Ich bin Jesus und du bist alle meine Follower. Um ehrlich zu sein, hatte Jesus zwölf Follower. Ja, ich habe ein bisschen mehr als das.
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Chapter 5: Can someone get vaccinated too many times?
You can say that. Okay, so how effective is this program? Are we talking Pfizer-level effective or are we talking like Johnson & Johnson, it's better than nothing?
So we think that the campaign has been incredibly successful. Within two days of that content being Das ist gute Neuigkeiten.
Leider sind diese Mikro-Influenzen gegen starke Anti-Vax-Propaganda, die auf die Impfung nachdenkt.
Und dieser Anti-Vax-Kontent ist mehr infektiös als Covid selbst.
Mit Social Media und anderen Plattformen ist es wirklich einfach, in diese Welt des
So maybe the most effective way to clean up the mess that social media has made is with more social media. Like a hair of the dog, when you have a hangover and you drink more alcohol to make it feel better. Or like when you're trying not to catch a virus and you treat your body with tiny amounts of the virus so you don't get it. What's that called? Yes, that's it.
If the only thing to stop bad influence on social media was good influence, I wanted to give our influencers one more shot at going viral. Okay.
If you're tired of staying inside.
I am very tired.
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