Dying in the Name of Vaccine Freedom | NYT Opinion
In the video above, Alexander Stockton, a producer on the Opinion Video team, explores two of the main reasons the number of Covid cases is soaring once again in the United States: vaccine hesitancy and refusal.
“It’s hard to watch the pandemic drag on as Americans refuse the vaccine in the name of freedom,” he says.
Seeking understanding, Mr. Stockton travels to Mountain Home, Ark., in the Ozarks, a region with galloping contagion and - not unrelated - abysmal vaccination rates.
He finds that a range of feelings and beliefs underpins the low rates - including fear, skepticism and a libertarian strain of defiance.
This doubt even extends to the staff at a regional hospital, where about half of the medical personnel are not vaccinated - even while the intensive care unit is crowded with unvaccinated Covid patients fighting for their lives.
Mountain Home - like the United States as a whole - is caught in a tug of war between private liberty and public health. But Mr. Stockton suggests that unless government upholds its duty to protect Americans, keeping the common good in mind, this may be a battle with no end.
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Hi, I'm Lucy, one of the producers with Opinion Video who made this film. I'd love to know your thoughts on the video, and what public officials and communities could do to convince more people to get vaccinated. Leave your comments below and I'll do my best to respond!
I do not think sane officials can do more than they are. The battle to fight disinformation is limited to what democratic rights it can infringe upon. Education and social welfare as well as equality are key factors to overcome disinformation, but these things are seen as anti-american in almost all red states. This means that people will continue down a death spiral and will be held back by the iron fist of the government. It is sad but it is reality.
Make a list of the anti vaxxers who have died of Covid. Radio host Valentine and Pressley are recent victims.
What about people who got hospitalized and did get vaccined?😎
I don’t think there is anything left to do. We’ve said all we can say. It’s the whole “lead a horse to water” scenario. This has been a very hard time when it feels like millions of people just to don’t care about each other.
It would be interesting to see a report about vaccine hesitancy among minorities in more left leaning areas. For whatever reason, reports like this seem to fixate on right leaning white people who are not vaccinated.
Here in Thailand, we barely have any vaccines, people are desperate to get vaccinated, and less that 10% of us are vaccinated. It feels very unfair that Americans just shoo it away when so many of us would have it in a heartbeat.
@@rdpmackie covid is the plague we needed to get rid of people with low iq
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It was like there here too when we only had a 10% vaccination rate. Now everybody who wants to get vaccinated has.
@@rdpmackie if only that is how vaccine program works! As a healthcare worker from Canada, please just go and get your vaccine now. This fall will be way worse than current situation. There is nothing wrong with protecting yourself with some modern medicine. You won't refuse topical antibiotics treatment like polysporin if you get a cut right?
@@rdpmackie imagine being so brazenly slow LOL. Wild! 😂
So Christopher's parents in their 70s who were vaccinated and got covid are still alive but Christopher who wasnt vaccinated and got covid died.
Interesting, am wondering why !
That really sucks
sauce?
@@rei_cirith the video you just watched is the source... unless you are talking about sauce in which case, you really can't go wrong with a good ketchup
If only there was some way to prevent these unvaccinated deaths lol
I hope these “my body my choice” individuals maintain the same energy when talking about abortions and the bodily autonomy rights of pregnant people.
I am consistent with my "my body my choice" stance for all medical decisions.
Then clearly you do not disrespect those who choose NOT to take these vaccines. Is this correct?
@@lizzieb6311 Not taking vaccines directly effects other people so no
We both know that's not happening. 😑
@@lizzieb6311 Being "my body my choice" doesn't mean you can't have a personal opinion on these things. Personally I am pro choice... but I would judge you if you don't get a vaccine
>265,000,000 Americans are no longer boosting (if they had any in the first place). Now what?
I hate how politicized this pandemic has become.
Only in the states. I’ve never seen it politicized anywhere else to this extent tho.
Trump made it this way so let his sheep followers do as they want.
@@YourName-jm7lz The sheep are killing other sheep and the wolves.
@@YourName-jm7lz Exactly it was all Trump's fault. Hey remember when Kamala said she would NEVER take ANY vaccine produced under Trump? Also how the left said Trump was politicizing masks just because he didn't mandate them? Orangemanbad caused ww2 as well.
@@markmywords5342 oh man I just love sarcasm. Delicious!
It’s Easier To Fool People Than To Convince Them That They’ve Been Fooled.
Sometimes the devil tricks the most unwise people.He masks all reality of the people that can't percept it.
Yes
I got 2 doses of it and the second dose I got a bad headache, numbness, and I keep stay in bed for a day
@@dodonodens8802 A day in bed is better than dead.
Yours isn't an original quote. It's author is Mark Twain who you should knowledge and give credit to.
Biggest "I told you so" in the history of all former "I told you so's!" combined.
Now here we are 2 years later. How do you all feel?
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Biggest hoax in the history of all former hoaxes (ever) combined... hands down.
I mean, I got vaxxed and boosted for COVID-19. I caught it early last year on account of my aunt having it and was down for about a week. Howeve, I managed to bounce back that to some Paxlovid, plus the virus wasn't as bad due to the vaccine. Had I not been vaxxed I would be on a ventilator with fluid building up in my lungs, js
@@juratory8876 So, fully vaxxed and boosted but you still caught covid, aye? You don't find that the least bit strange?
@@juratory8876 I’ve heard from countless individuals that regret getting the jabs, who stopped getting more. And I've talked to hundreds that have had zero, and not even one regrets their decision. In fact, the vast majority agree that not participating in this is one of the best decisions that we’ve ever made in our lives.
If you don’t trust those in the medical profession then why go to the hospital to the same people you distrust?
The irony is real
What was disturbing too is that 50% of the hospital staff weren't vaccinated, how utterly frustrating for the 50% that are, caring for 90% of unvaccinated patients, having to work alongside 50% unvaccinated, like being attacked on both sides.
@@sugwilliams6257 why do vaccinated people worry about unvaccinated people if the vax works?
@@catherinenimey5397 because it only works if enough people are vaccinated
I dont think its the doctors or nurses they dont beleive, its the scientists
If you don't like being told what to do then a hospital is one of the last places you want to be.
So true. Then all of a sudden they are taking all the drugs/medicine. (Respiratory therapist)
@@britanynoel8345 Christopher's legacy is going to be a mountain of medical bills for his family to deal with.
A Doctor made a very clear point today. The lady said, most of the people who don’t vaccinate are people who would had being vaccinated as children for smallpox and most other diseases. The last part she said was only for these vaccines none of them would have been born as their parents would not have existed.
To be honest they should not go, they didn’t believe Drs about vaccination why go to the Doctor when they get sick. Stay home and die at home glorying in their freedom and choice.
@@garypellerin5576 Tear up the bills and send them back for failure to give Christopher Hydroxychloroquine or Ivermectin to save him.
I was a new RN in September, 2020, and I started on a covid-19 stepdown unit. It was a trial by fire. I'll always remember being part of this history.
Cool story
@@lambsaucehunter9316 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@clarencestoddard1447 - I don't get my medical information from a fraud media group whose owner drinks their own urine.
omg you’re a hero lol
How the tables have turned 🤔
When did we start taking Medical advice from Politicians? This country has gone nuts.
Politicians, conspiracy nuts, neighbours, friends, the local blowhards, determinedly ignorant and blinkered pastors, the list goes on... As long as they are not scientists they must know what they are talking about.
It has always been full of stupidity.
When did right wing nut jobs have a larger voice and silence medical doctors because of medical freedom
I doubt they come up with the advice. They have a group of people working on whatever subject. These politicians just repeat what is told.
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“I don’t like people telling me what to do” Someone is going to tell him to pay a huge hospital bill.
Nope. Can't pay. He's dead.
The thing is no one is telling him what to do because as of right now we don't have a federal vaccine mandate. These people are insane.
Let everyone live their own life and let everyone die their own death he should have said.
Oh? I thought there was free health care 🤔
@@winterrr3234 not in this country. The vaccines are free though.
I'm a PCT who survived three waves of the pandemic. It was absolutely horrible. I worked at the tele/med-surge unit which was quickly transformed to the COVID unit. We went from having 1-2 codes a week to having nearly 3-4 codes a day at the worst of this pandemic. I usually had 2-3 other pct's on the floor with me, but this pandemic has created such a major under staffing issue, that I was often left as the only PCT on the floor; that meant that I had to help tend to 30 patients (minimum) every single shift, which, for those unaware, is 12 hours per shift. I'm pre-med and am working towards applying for Med School, but this whole pandemic has taken a lot out of me and I'm so worn out. Mind you, most PCT's are only getting paid 13-15 dollars as our base salary, and honestly I don't think it's worth it having to sacrifice my mental and physical health for a population that did so little to assist health care professionals when we were the most vulnerable and overworked. People were asked at the very least to wear a mask and to limit social gatherings, yet they failed to even do such easy tasks, while we were out here being over-worked, underpaid, and seeing our patients die such horrible deaths every single shift. I'm tired and I'm bitter and I'm quitting next month so I can take a break and re-allign myself.
What city do you work in if you don't mind sharing? I did not see what you saw in Colorado at my hospital. In fact, the news and reality shared a VAST discrepancy... but I heard a travel nurse who went to NJ describe the conditions you saw. She said most were nursing home patients. Because we know diseases don't stop at state borders, I am still trying to understand what exactly happened. Thank-you.
@@montanagal6958 Phoenix, Arizona
It must have been a horror. And when you hear somebody talking anti-everything... We really haven´t evolved much as species, have we? Take care of yourself first... Good luck.
In the UK is was the opposite. In our Trust, at the "peak" there were 22 Covid patients split over 2 hospitals. Out of 4 hospitals on standby to take Covid patients 2 were stood down very early on. In Coventry they only had 2 patients in ICU. Derby didn't have the deluge they were told they'd have. Hearing similar stories from other Nurses in other Trusts. What we are seeing now though is lots of C19 injected people coming in and getting C19 again and again, worse each time.
Makes ya wonder how you can close hospitals with all this "dying" going on; closing hospitals because they don't make enough money with all the sick people! Hospitals blame "people who don't buy enough insurance!" It's not the plague, its the tightwad workers buying too many avacado toasts!
this video didn't age well
Its amazing how the politicians are vaccinated and keep telling the people they don't have to be vaccinated.
They took a saline shot, not the vaccine lol. Nobody of actual power has had it.
They don’t tell people not to get vaccinated🤦🏻♀️. Oh my goodness! Get real! They are for people having the right to make that choice! Get your facts straight☺️
Which politician is telling people not to get vaccinated?
How many of them got the placebo? What their saying is they chose the vaccine and other have the right to choose.
@@justinefloria9760 probably none except the kooks. They’re not stupid enough to want to give up power that easily
Well, there's your problem right there: "I don't like being told what to do". This is the wilfulness of a child. I don't like being told what to do, either; but not to the extent of dying to prove my point.
Don’t tell me what to do!!!!! Cut off your nose to spite your face🤦♀️
Exactly this!
@@jandrews6254.... and he did manage to cut off his life as well.
Oh brother!!! Give me a break!!!
I'm totally fine if you are an adult and don't want to be told what to do....Just stay home....No exceptions. The individuals "personal freedom" ends when it endangers someone else's life. Call it whatever slippery slope -isium you want....I really don't care- You individual freedom stops when it affects me....Non-negotiable. I don't know why we have to continually placate these people.
we lost our uncle to covid. he was such a loving man but he was afraid of getting vaccinated, like most of our family. After his death, my parents started to take it seriously enough to consider getting the vaccine. Unfortunately, that clarity of mind didn't last too long and a while after they changed their minds again. I couldn't get vaccinated as I was under 18 and they wouldn't allow it and soon after we all ended up getting the virus. My father and mother have both been left with permanent health consequences. It is wild what misinformation can do to our world.
I hope you don't have anything to do with them. They need all the consequences they can get. I hope you feel better tho.
@@TrueNorthLocks That's not right. Nobody deserves being left with permanent consequences - even if they thought the way they did.
@@carolineguenther3083 Choice and freedom comes with consequences..... I'm not about to feel sorry for them because they suffered those through their own choice.....
Wait, y'all need your parent approval for vaccine in the US?
Sorry about that- people try to hold onto their beliefs but it comes down to overwhelming the hospitals so the non vaxxers have not helped
About what you would expect from The NY Times
You have a right to swim in a swamp just dont cry when a gator rips you apart.
B+ comment, just the right amount of twist
But they’re dragging other people into the swamp with them.
@@thesnappingturtle1816 no
When I compare it to something I usually say "It's like if someone gets poisoned, and you hand them the antidote, but they refuse to take it."
@@cyte5148 That's literally what it is lmao
Conservatives: 'Everyone has the right to choose' This will be news to abortion rights activists
What I don't understand is. They say that they don't want to have their freedom taken away. That's why they don't get vaccinated. But they end up in the hospital, CONFINED to a bed, with an oxygen mask, strapped to their face, for weeks! Isn't that losing your freedom?
@@razorhead8569 if anti-vaxxers and deniers that have been dragged kicking and screaming just listened when the first wave hit, then we might not have had a delta strain.
@@razorhead8569 ....97+ % of those being treated in hospitals at this present time are UNVACCINATED..! When those who are fully vaccinated do contract COVID 19, the severity of their symptoms and the length of time it takes for them to recover is drastically reduced.. hospitalization is unnecessary ..and they LIVE.
Exactly, they don’t give a crap about the baby after it’s born anyway.
They ate up their leader’s rhetoric that made this a political issue. They dug their heels in and now they’re paying for it. Ignorance kills.
line up sheep.
SCARE US INTO SUBMISSION.....🤣
There are far more efficient ways to make someone submit. So please, spare us the so-called inside information.
Most Americans don't even know what actual personal freedom means.
Pretty f scary sh we live in
Maybe if the government hadn't stopped vital medicines like ivermectin then thousands of lives would have been saved. in poor countries like India who are greatly overpopulated the death rates are lower than America, why? because they are giving out to families kits containing Ivermectin, Zinc, Vits C n D. Look up death rates of covid worldwide. Oh guess what, England who are not having any lockdowns have huge shipments of monoclonal antibodies, (a drug that's been on the market for years) plus New version of ivermectin (not quite as effective, but which the drug companies can make big bucks from, so now they're allowed. The crisis of the pandemic has been manipulated into a money making racket.
No they don't. They only listen to the evangelical Godists who only want their money.
@@michelewalburn4376 i'm not evangelical, but i know when I smell a rat and all these pharmacies run by billionaires and pushing the vaccines, When there are safe drugs available,will have to one day answer to God.
@@anita-qq9iw have you taken ivermectin?
That´s how a country that prioritises money over education, can end up.
They have the same exact access to information we have access to and they chose conspiracy theories. Sometimes idiocy is a choice.
That's deep. And scary.
Lmao
Capitalism is a helluva drug.
Or, ignorance over knowledge
I'm still waiting for you to report on all the vaccine accidents!
I believe there were some vaccine accidents. I also believe some that were wearing a seatbelt were killed where they may have survived if they would not worn a seatbelt. However I believe MANY MANY more were saved by the seatbelts. A lot of the anti vaccine is coming from people that make MILLIONS per year spreading lies.
Freedom of choice, what more do you want. Mandates are a slippery slope.
many vaccines are mandated
@@lhj276 only for travelling to certain countries.
To what?
im living in a country where we have shortage of vaccines coz everyone wants to have it if you don't want it just give it to us.
Wish it was that easy. . .
@@Flipper86 no problem.
I'm very sorry
Just wonderin, which country are you at.
Everyone? 😂😂😂
With freedom comes responsibility. Some people wanting one without the other is the problem.
I find it odd that they cry about freedom, when they are also free to choose to be vaccinated.
@@moonshoes11 kkonaw
i’am in MS, I do not know 1 person that is not vaccinated. My brother had vaccine and still developed covid. My 96 year old grandfather went to the hospital, but never developed covid, and is fine.
Exactly what I told my friend when she said she won't vaccinate but was mad that establishments are beginning to require proof of vaccinations. At some point a trade-off must be made. Freedom of choice is not the same as freedom from responsibility or consequence.
Yes, I have a responsibility to protect freedom.
How about an update called dying suddenly in droves?
Im unvaccinated and alive. The best part of it is not getting myocarditis.
Im vaccinated without myocarditis.
There is medication for covid but doctors deliberately withheld them.
@@ClubstepMonsterOfficialFor now.....I pray you don't get any illnesses from the next many boosters
@@gokarengo 99.999% don’t
@@ClubstepMonsterOfficialkeep on boosting, if u don't get myo at least u'll get a rare cancer, don't give up until u get to the finishing line of death lol
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” Albert Einstein
@Christy A Very true, people actually believe these propaganda videos while applying zero logic or understanding to anything more than what they see in videos like this.
Well said Mr. Einstein.
@@francisphillips53 Yep, people are led by hatred towards strangers for things they don't even understand. If you believe the vaccines are free then you're probably pushing the stupidity lol.
@@rubykennedymedia it's not new and it's not gene therapy.. you are just another fox news victim of #fakenews..
@@rubykennedymedia Post something which backs-up the horsesh1t you're posting or stFu - blagodaryu vas, KKKretin...
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubt and the stupid ones are full of confidence.” - I forget
I don't see ANY intelligent people full of doubt. What planet on you on?
@@Pfsif the basis of obtaining knowledge is being full of doubt. Socrates talked about this a while ago. Plato even wrote a book about it.
Nice! And it's from the one and only Charles Bukowski!
@@malcolmthompson7769 Διαλεκτική "Try to find the answers through questions" --> Dialog. Nice point Malcolm!
The idiots reproduce at 3x the rate of intelligent people also
Wow this did not age well.
We still dont regret not getting it while millions are in the grave who did. Thats all you need to know
"Don't tell me what to do with my body" - the same people that want to enforce anti-abortion laws on women.
So delusional they don't even see their own irony
And then they go with that "my body, my choice" BS when it comes to masks. Abortion isn't contagious. Covid is.
@@bitzoic4357 Abortion; is killing someone else.
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@@elvinvega9363 Right on, Elvin. You took the words outta my mouth.
We direly need to teach “Critical Thinking & Rational Skepticism”, “Financial Literacy & Wealth Development ”, and “Practical Ethics & Citizenship” as required courses in all high schools.
I think it's also something government just does wrong in the US. From what I've seen from the other side of the pond is that communication from both state and federal government is extremely poor.
We really need "Healthcare literacy" too. So many people can't navigate our ridiculous healthcare system or effectively recognize their own illness and communicate with a doc
There's not enough time in the day for that, kids need to learn about calculus, sewing, and sports.
Those are words that scare republicans. Ain't happening
@@anthyman1 it would probably be more efficient and effective to change the healthcare system at that point haha
What a difference a year makes! Can we revisit the truth now?
Thank You!!!!
Yes, the truth is the vaccines are safe
@@ClubstepMonsterOfficial Yes, agreed! I’m so looking forward to the next booster. I hope you are too.
@@bruceparker9012 Let me guess. You think everyone who takes the vaccine is going to die?
@@ClubstepMonsterOfficial Yes safe and effective, get your booster !
The heart of Africa with >1B people also had little to no jabs. Are you trying to say that they are all “conservative right wingers” as well?
At this point they just don’t want to admit that they were wrong
Yeah, it's all about saving face. The Herman Cain Award subreddit does a good job showing how these folks think and behave when they have COVID-19.
@@lexquezon9009 got a few examples for you. Doctor calls anti vax husband to inform him his wife just died from covid, his immediate response is "no she didn't". Anti vax woman with severe complications from covid is listening to the doctor explain that she is most likely going on a ventilator, she freaks out and says "no I have a traumatic experience because my sister was put on a ventilator and died the next day" come to find out this woman had her sister, sisters husband and 2 children die from covid, still anti vax......
@@whatsmolly5741 if you think one family has had 4 or 5 people die from a virus with a 99.98 percent survival rate, you clearly are missing something. They either had comorbidities or they just flat out died of something else. My mother in law died after a 4 year battle with cancer. Her cause of death was listed as covid 19 because the hospital makes more money off that than cancer. Everyone, doctors included, admitted she died of cancer. She never had covid and she died of brain cancer. If you can’t see through this lie, you also probably vote blue.
@@DemonratsRevil so, you are saying that people that get COVID, DON'T DIE FROM COVID? 🤔 that means that you have proof on hand of what those 700,000 so far really died from, right?🤔
@@tonyferrez01 correct
American's choose the weirdest times to act like they have free healthcare I swear
I wondered the same thing. Will insurances refuse to pay because they didn't minimized their risk by getting the vaccine? I dont know much about the health care insurance in the USA, but I am sure COVID will affect the business of health care insurance .
Baffling because the vaccine is one of the only things that IS free
Hospitals in the U.S. shouldn't let these morons in to begin with. Let them die at home and spread it to their families. We don't need crazy conspiracy theorists voting in the next election.
Hahahahahahaha
Definitelly!
I RATHER DIE PRACTICING MY FREEDOMS, THAN LIVE WITHOUT IT
self determination is a God given right
It's called natural selection
@@rhombusted2798 could be but perhaps it applies to those who have taken the experimental jab
#This
I'm satisfied with my decision to never get a Covid shot.
Word
I see they chose to go to the hospital though with all that sciency stuff and unknown medication being given to them.
That's the point that buffles me the most
Yeah, right? How come they willingly put on the oxygen mask..who knows, it could be a gas mask..
yeah I don't get it, why don't they pray covid symptoms away? Suddenly science has to come to their rescue, lol
interesting point....
@@peaches2220 made by soviets and chinese no less. smh.
The situation is entirely different in the Philippines... People are lining up to get a shot but there isn't enough of it.
It's exactly the same situation with rich kids becoming a useless nuisance to society and kids from poorer families exceling in academics and succeeding above everyone else.
Send them mine.
this is true. i personally had to wake up 3am in the morning just to have a chance to get vaccinated.
Ironically, people in poorer countries have better science education. I guess privilege makes one dull.
The people in the Philippines are intelligent and use critical thinking skills unlike here in America.
Pure propaganda
I wonder how many of the people that “I ain’t wanna put nun chemicals in my body” how many of them eat fast food, drink soda, smoke cigarettes, get their nails done, hair dyed, eat pre packaged food etc etc etc.
Or take horse de-wormer.
Exactly! Just patently stupid and never a cogent argument as to why they did not do what they should have done! Seriously, the vaccinated are making people sick?!! Just breathtakingly stupid .
True. One thing this pandemic taught me was to be more health concious
Drink beer and canned foods ha ha
Well said
Natural selection at its finest.
Another person's freedom is another person's death. Such a strong statement.
and such huge pile of BS.
It's hard to imagine what our health care professionals must face every day.
All those people with health problems from obesity, alcohol, and smoking. I know what you mean.
Doesn't get it ^^^
@@jamescurran6277 business as usual
@@lilmoe4364 what don't I get?
@@carmenj5045 again, using your logic we should not treat people who drink too much, eat too much, or smoke.
"Give me liberty or give me death" - well sure, if you decide not to clog ICUs, hospitals and be a burden on our health care system, I'll happily have you the greatest liberties there are. Leaves more room for those that genuinely require medical help or unfortunately experience breakthrough infections
That can be easily solved by sending all unvaccinated to a 14-day waiting room.
@@mikekim1219 that’s the best idea tbh.
I totally agree with this If you refuse to take the vaccine, stay home if you get sick and live with your choice.
I agreed 100%
It's hilarious that anti-vax morons refuse to take a vaccine that has been FDA approved because they 'don't trust medical authorities' yet they will trust medicial authorities when their life is in their hands and they are struggling to breathe. People who don't trust medical authorities and refuse to get the vaccine should not go to the hospital and they should instead live with their choices and take personal responsibility.
This didn't age well.
Show the people ventilated that died with covid that had been vaccinated.
The fact that people don't seen to understand how stats or varients work is a clear indication that our education system have failed. Edit: Thank you to the people in the comments for provoking my point even more
As a teacher, I thank you for this comment. This is about education design.
the root of the problem is poor education. Lack of reasonable skepticism, critical thinking, and knowledge of history.
@@higgaroc heh, good thing your precious union fought for you to not have mandatory vaxxed huh? Gonna be wild watching this all come crashing down later this year.
By design.
@@word42069 the wholesale attack on the Liberal Arts and Humanities as fluff is what got us here. Along with the tendency of business toward the elimination of qualified teachers in favor of glorified babysitters, common core and prepackaged curriculum. American education (including higher education);was the envy of the world. Then we stopped funding it in favor of creating the world’s first billionaire class (unless you count the Robber Barons of the late 19th and early 20th centuries). Unrestricted Free Market Capitalism only works theoretically if everyone is conscious of and concerned with the rest of humanity (which means it doesn’t and never will), otherwise it ends with one person with everything and everyone else a slave.
As a nurse working at an infectious disease ward: of the many patients I’ve met who were vaccinated and still got COVID, the large majority of them had a mild version of it. They might as well just have had a bad cold.
That was me, except I’m not vaccinated. COVID was nothing more than a mild cold for me. Only lost my taste and smell. That was the worst it got.
this is what people need to understand, u can get covid even when ur vaccinated BUT it isn't as dangerous if ur vaccinated.
„still got covid“ U stupid? Ofc u still can get it. The symptoms are just not that bad.
I had it. Unvaxxed. Barely noticed a thing
@@killmerambo I’m not vaxxed and I barely knew I had it. 😁
i have asthma, and i’m really concerned that if i got the virus before being vaccinated, i would get seriously hurt. i was of the first people in line as soon as i could get it, because as much as i hate myself, i would prefer not to die like that.
Natural immunity is the best protection when you are a normal healthy person. Just make your own choices if it comes to your health.
"I don't want to poison my body" Gets McDonald's on the way home and gets drunk on the weekend, maybe a few cigarettes too
🤣🤣🤣
I eat clean, excersize daily and refuse to poison my body with this man made vaccine. The world is faced with either not take man made vaccine or catch the man made virus or both. A person close to me got vaccine, two weeks after his second shot his wife decided to get vaccinated, she got sick, then he got sick he was life flighted and is at this moment in ICU.
Ask the creeps crying that they don't know what is in the vaccine for a list of ingredients for Mountain Dew.
@@dianemurray6550 Mountain Dew wouldn’t change your DNA 🧬!
@@Bushkangaroo59. either does the vaccine. You would live longer in general if you weren't so easily manipulated. I'm sure you'll do the MAGA thing if you do get sick, and stay away from those pesky medical professionals, with their scientific literacy and all. Leave the ICU beds for those who respect life.
And both of his parents were vaccinated and got Covid-19, yet I feel they did survive. He didn't.
There are a few breakthrough C19 cases, but to assume those few translate to everyone is insane.
@@joewoodchuck3824 way more then a few champ get your facts straight and regurgitating the same wording you hear and see on your local news
@@JohnDoe-dn9yo the rate of hospitalization due to a breakthrough case of Covid is less that 1% in the states that are actually bothering to send in their data.
@@joewoodchuck3824 It's the same faulty logic people used to say we should defund the police. (Yes there needs to be change in how incidents are investigated and punished). But, to say that because of the tragic cases of excessive force we've seen that we should then get rid of all police officers is just stupid.
@@sarahno4748 That's not what "defund police" is. With that, I can say that it is the most moronic slogan ever invented.
Well that did not age well.
It didn't but it will take years or even decades for it to be accepted fact.
@@arnowisp6244No it won’t.
Hahah and the acting is so bad to😂😂
And all the people who wouldn't take it were right
It's true, but I don't think you're allowed to say that.
@@mboiko Here in Denmark the vast majority of people got vaccinated, and now the streets are practically deserted. We went from around 6 million Danes to less than 100,000. My parents, my siblings, their children, my girlfriend... all dead from the vaccine!
i know people who didnt take it and died. were they right?
@@sarbrevin8050 ...and how old were those people and how many comorbidities did they have? If they were older or had comorbidities of course. But for many others especially for the young, it was a big mistake. We were told the COVID vaccines would stop transmission, that was not true and they knew it.
@@mboiko nope they never said that Covid vaccines would stop transmission and neither did they say you wouldnt get infected. what they did say is that when infected, it would not be as bad as being unvaccinated
I have to wear a mask ,face shield for 13 hrs at a time and people complain about wearing a mask for a few minutes while shopping. Smdh.
Becus it’s mental abuse
13 hours!!! Wow you are a real hero..
@@gaytwinksfortrump How so?
@@derekharp2805 More of a hero then the snowflakes complaining about wearing masks will ever be.
@@saiyanofsteel says the one afraid of a virus with a 99.8% survival rate
We used to say, “survival of the fittest”; however “survival of the smartest” is a more accurate statement today.
Well I'm not getting vaxxed. So just wait long enough and all us stupid ones will die off.
@@charlytaylor1748 , I’m glad you have that choice.
No, fittest. It doesn't mean who is physically fit. Means who is the best fit for the world. These idiots should not be taken to hospital. They are not fit for the world. But we are too nice as people.
@@tristananleu4677 "not fit for the world" "we are too nice"... who does that remind me of?
You don't have to be smart. You just gotta have more two brain cells.
This didn’t age well
No one is truly free, it is an illusion
Taking the phrase “Give me liberty or give me death” to a whole new level……
Why is that a whole new level? It meant the same thing when it was said the first time.
Has nothing to do with liberty; has everything to do with death.
Christopher Green was a true American. RIP
Scam of the century kzhead.info/sun/drmmdbOBfJF-bKs/bejne.html
@@wesleycaldwell6909 not the same thing. This report is about ‘give me liberty AND give me death’
I feel for those doctors,nurses, all staff that have to deal with this.
they don't care they're too busy dancing on tiktok
@@imuw5408 And giving interviews to NYT
@@imuw5408 That’s insulting to anybody who even remotely understands what nurses, doctors and all hospital staff do.
@Lily Vaughan good, nobody cares you can't handle words. and those bloodletters and enablers you're talking about aided in culling people, through their superstition and ignorance in their own God complexes.
@@imuw5408 Well for sure more could be dancing on TikTok if there was a possibility to refuse Covid related healthcare to unvaccinated people.
Let's see how well this video ages. 👀
Never got vaccinated, never got sick. What's really going on?
Answer: Watch Hbomberguy.
"Never stopped at the stop signs, never been sober, never stayed on the right lane, never worn a seatbelt, never stopped texting Haven't died yet!!!" 😆😆😆😆 -what you sound like
"Never locked my doors, never experienced a burglary" "Never parked away from a fire hydrant, never let any buildings burn down" "Never not thrown bricks down the building, but it never landed on anyone's head" "Shined a laser pointer in the sky, it never blinded any pilots flying"
I’m gonna need all these libertarians to pay for their hospitalizations. Your choice, so pay for it.
Your choice if you overeat ,become obese and have all sorts of heart issues. It's your choice if you drink and you have liver problems. We won't treat you. It's your fault if you take drugs and you overdose, too bad! It's your choice if you smoke and get cancer, you will be denied care. Ok, if that's how you want to have GOVERNMENT deal with medical care let's do it!! About 25% of people will qualify to get any care at this point. Oh, I forgot, it was your choice to drive fast, your choice to climb a mountain and fall, your choice to be a daredevil. Wow! Just wow!! Under your logic, the "Bigger" man on that hospital bed should not have been allowed in since being overweight can bring up a bunch of health issues. Where does it stop???
@@enico1150 Are heart disease patients or cancer patients overtaxing the healthcare system? Are any nurses complaining about being exhausted from taking care of obese patients?
@@enico1150 My surgery was canceled because of the number of COVID patients in the hospital, not the number of heart attack patients.
@@enico1150 pretty sure taking a free vaccine shot is easier than changing your entire behavior around eating and other lifestyle factors. The effort required to reward benefit is a big factor in the original comment.
exactly! its about time all these irresponsible egoists are taken care of. fat ties and jun kies are next in line, it will be glorious 👏👏👏
The fact that he answered a question about vaccination with his political leanings says it all.
Nailed it.
@@jasonr2321 Exactly!
What are early treatments for covid 19??
Some get hydroxychloroquine...or Ivermectin. But even with a docs script, you cannot just go to the pharmacy and get it filled. They will refuse. Maybe that is the better question..why would they refuse something you could treat yourself with at home when symptoms come up?
@@fotonmom because it s part of the contract between governments and Pfizer & Co.. No treatment but their Vax should be allowed.... It s a huge scam and it s criminal..
I had COVID about a month ago. It was super mild for me. But I’m double vaxed and boosted.
🤡
@@MrJamiez 20th booster
The reason you caught corona
good for you ...just ignore the anti-vaxx morons ...
My neighbor who took 3 dozens is dead, two children of another neighbor died and were also vaccinated and I who didn't take any had covid for just 24 hours and the only thing I felt was a little nausea and I'm very much alive and healthy, I love natural selection.
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” -George Orwell
I love George Orwell and 1984, also Yuri Bezmenov.
i really hate how powerful propaganda is 😞
@@angelofdeath275 “If people cannot think well,others will do their thinking for them.” -George Orwell
1984 and Animal Farm...❤
Quoting Geroge Orwell is soooooo original and insightful
"One of the best things we have is our natural, God-given antibodies." Ok, ma'am. Now could you please explain how those antibodies work?
She's actually correct...to a point. That point is, of course, the moment at which your antibodies encounter a novel virus, especially one that has been manipulated by man and then mutated further on its own.
We do but this is something that was created were our bodies can’t even build up antibodies to fight it. And that’s scary
Those God-given antibodies keep attacking my own body. I guess that means I deserved it as a kid?
@@florentcastelli You've got an autoimmune disease?
@@billvill61 Well not really. There are no god given antibodies if you encounter novel virus. They are produced eventually by plasma cells, but in the meantime the virus is destroying your body. Thats why vaccination is so important. So that there are "vaccine given antibodies" to encounter the virus.
Well over 65M Americans have had zero covid jabs and we are all doing just fine today w no issues or regrets. If we were truly "being hospitalized and/or dying at higher rates" then it would be relentlessly covered by the media, wouldn't you think? Yet, we hear nothing of the sort.
Please do a story on the communities that have successfully kept covid out and the organisations that helped make that happen. In Germany, one of the poorest states also has the highest rate of vaccination thanks to social workers doing the footwork, talking to community leaders, religious leaders, and bringing mobile vaccine stations to the neighbourhoods. There has to be a success story in the US somewhere
Wish everywhere was like this
Literally no community has kept COVID out.
Lets talk about South Africa, with the lowest vaccination rate and the least amount of covid outbreaks and covid deaths. 😅
@@nicholasgrossman3194what’s your point…you think that means everywhere else had the same effects from Covid? Lmao
@nicholasgrossman3194 Did some Facebook post help you find some random fact that supports your beliefs??!! 👏 that’s good, cause all the other facts are just lies anyway
Marybeth is a hero in this dark storm. If only her courage and wisdom was contagious.
It could be, I hope some kid with anti-vax parents watched her and decided to get vaccinated. It's what we need.
People like Marybeth make me hopeful 🤍
Pun intended??
Antivaxxers are immune to that sort of thing. Their double-layered tinfoil hats protect them from the 'lies, lies, nothing but lies!'
Don't get the vaxx it's dangerous you've been warned. Don't feed into their propoganda. For starters think how much this thing is politicised.look how past SARS MERS vaccine failed. Look how these shots are still under trials. So many side effects and so much profit to be made.
I’m from the Ozarks. I think people are basically fearful of the government, distrustful of science and base a lot of their decision making on their religious beliefs and political leanings. It frustrates me to live in this area.
Why do you think that is?
Distrustful of science?...what
This kind of begs the question tho. _Why_ are they fearful of the government and distrustful of science? And are you sure it's fear and not a screw-you? I assume they are Christian and Republican, but Christianity isn't distrustful of modern medicine and neither is Republicanism.
Hang in there
How is it different from part of African American communities that don’t trust the medical community?
Why don’t you do a show on VACCINE INJURIES AND DEATHS???
cant let the truth get out
Checking in from June 2022 with "sudden adult death syndrome". This aged like MILK.
Yeah and they called us unvaccinated the stupid ones 🐑🐑🐑🤣🤣🤣🤣
There's no such thing. Stop watching fox news.
SADS UK was formed in 1998. Do you think the vaccine went back in time too?
@@FrostekFerenczyFauci has a Time Machine powered by 5G don’t you remember?
Gee, with this kind of devotion to personal freedom, you'd think that abortion rights and access to contraceptives would be firmly secure. :-/
Honestly tho. These people were even using the phrase "my body my choice" during protests. The same phrase that they made fun of when it came to abortion.
People with no logical arguments will just say whatever whenever it fits what they believe in.
@Channel225 - so anti death penalty too then? Yeah, probably not.
@Channel225 who’s the fetus gonna tell? it’s parents?
@Channel225 Until that fetus can survive without it's mother, it's the mother's body. Her life, her liberty, her happiness.
When you're so free that you free yourself to death.
That is really what it is. So sad.
Not only yourself, but who knows how many others will suffer the consequences of your personal freedom. Inlcuding people who are not qualified to get the vaccine
your freedom is living in fear.....of nothing.
People also have a right to live a dangerous life. Will you want to ban extreme sports next? Fascist!
@@whitexchina But what about putting others in danger? This is a matter of public health, not just personal health
Has the reporter seen the calamari-like blood clots being pulled out of the veins of those who died after the covid jab?
Probably not. This was made to hype up those who don't believe in personal freedoms. I was hospitalized Jan 1st this year with the flu and pneumonia. Much worse than the covid x 2 that I have had. IF the vaccines work, THEN WORRY ABOUT ONLY YOUURSELF AS YOU ARE "PROTECTED" BY YOUR JAB.
I love how time has proven this report to be completely idiotic
Watch Hbomberguy.
This is so close to a The Onion video it's not funny. "I'm still not 100 percent sold on the inoculation." Wheezes man dying of Covid-19 from his deathbed.
These dummies always vote and reproduce at a faster rate than the rest of us. We are doomed to a completely preventable apocalypse that we won't be able to prevent because of the aforementioned dummies.
Oh, it's PLENTY funny.
@@TheHauntedKiwi death is not funny.
Yeah I know- ever since tRump was President The Onion just has so much competition with everyday news channels/docs for idiocy.
Incredible
My oldest friend asked me a few days ago if I was afraid of Covid. I told him "I am not afraid of dying, but being in a hospital for weeks with every kind of tube attached to me and potientially on a ventilator... that scares me. I am also afraid of being responsible for someone else's death whether i know about it or not. I don't want to be the reason someone else catches it"
My God.... You can still pass it to others.
The vaccine only reduces your own symptoms. So now you are unknowingly passing it to others. At least the unvaccinated know when they are sick and can take the proper precautions
@@tazer9735 Right?! If we are unvaccinated, we get symptoms and stay home because we don’t feel good. The vaccinated still carry the virus but don’t have symptoms (directly from Moderna and Pfizer, as well as in the vaccine inserts), so who is really continually spreading this virus?
@@vchafab well. If everyone or at least 80% of people got the vaccine, it won't matter if nobody is showing symptoms, spreading won't be all that big of a deal will it? It will also reduce the likelihood of another variant after Delta.
@@tazer9735 that won't matter if everyone vaccinates.
one anti vaxxer was being wheeled into the ICU, and asked, "Can I get the vaxx now?"
What is the Covid-related mortality for non-elderly persons with no comorbidities??
And then u woke up from ur mini cardiac arrest after ur booster..
Pure blood and nothing is changing that..
"I have two parents in their 70s. Both had the vaccine, and both got Covid." Yeah, but sir, are they the one's in the hospital hooked up to all of the machines? And now, after seeing the end of the video clip, dead.
He was and should be free to make his own decisions about his life. He choose to live a slightly more risky life by not getting the vaccine and he paid for it with his life. That is his choice and I will not criticize it. People skydive, build their own airplanes, hike across the country, race cars, ride motorcycles, Scuba dive, etc. All are choices and all increase your risk of serious injury. The government doesnt stop you from making these choices and they shouldnt force you to take any drug, vaccine, or even therapy you dont want. I have a relative that is arguably insane, 50 years ago she would be on a funny farm. The government will not force her to see a therapist or take any medication and while I would like her to get help, I support the government not forcing its help upon her. The homeless face the same issue, they dont know what is best for them and the government keeps letting them make poor decisions. If the homeless have the rights to make poor decisions that can hurt other people why can't people decide not to get the covid vaccine?
@@crissd8283 The commenter didn’t imply that anyone should be forced to do anything. It’s merely pointing out that due to this man’s ill-informed decision, he has cut short his life by approximately two to three decades. It’s sad, really.
@@crissd8283 "I have a relative that is arguably insane..." Are we sure the "relative" isn't you?
@@crissd8283 but when someone skydives, hikes, races, goes scuba diving etc they are putting their own life at risk. It’s very different When you catch an airborne contagious virus, you’ll spread it, putting other people’s lives at risk. That’s violating other people’s freedom of living a healthy life. Besides, the longer we take to artificially build immunity (through vaccination), the longer it will take to restore economic productivity because of the safety measures necessary to stay alive, such as keeping distant and avoiding any physical interaction. Summing up, not getting vaccinated keeps you vulnerable, hurts or kills people around you and is bad for the economy too. Furthermore, homeless people are subject to the same laws as us. I don’t understand which freedom to make poor decisions you’re talking about. For example, if they get drunk and hurt you, that’s a crime and they, by law, should be judged according to what they did (and it’s the same the other way around), right?
@@saviozanon1907 PREACH !! 🙌🏻🙌🏻
When politics interferes with science, you get this as result.
So you're saying the politics should not be forcing people to get it. Got it
@@jaybartgis5148 That was not what they said.
@@jaybartgis5148 A vaccine mandate is an example of science informing politics, not politics interfering with science.
@@robmoore5841 are you for the prohibition of all soda?
@@jaybartgis5148 Perhaps if soda causes an immediately life-threatening respiratory illness, sure.
This is murder
How well did this video age?
During those years never missed a single workday lol have not gotten any vaccine either so theres that 😂😂
The further a society drifts from the truth the more it will hate those who speak it
this applies to the unvaccinated individuals who are being persecuted by government to get a mark of the beast against their will to participate in society. This is biblical. I am a Christian KJV only and refuse that shot till the day I die. I trust Jesus to heal people, not the things of this world, not the government.
No one cares if you get vaccinated, just stay away from the rest of us.
@@joesmith9616 Please tell us more what the bible says about vaccines.
@@joesmith9616 I don't think it's the Mark of the Beast... But the parallels are too close for my comfort
@@tomaskuli177 are you a science denier? Why are you doubting the vaccine?
Good day from Ontario. I'm 70, severe asthmatic , when I was 14 my family doctor told me not to smoke, I could have because of my right. Now having a hard time breathing I am glad I listen to my doctor Yes had both shots. Thanks
Very well put!! Even in the video Chris himself explained exactly why you should be vaccinated. Christopher's 70 year old vaccinated parents survived having covid, and he did not.
Yes. I had asthma and had to try the shot after being ill last March...it was worse than asthma
@@BasicBeachCommunity1 G day . so long did you have it. I'm quite severe. Thanks
So you have a hard time breathing and you DIDN’T SMOKE? Contradicting argument.
@@johnp139 Yes I figured out it came from my mother's side, her twin 1st cousin"s died at 63 Thanks
I'm unvaccinated, happy, healthy, and ready to rock!🎶
Same here. I've never once worn a mask or followed any of the other rituals.
This didnt age well 😂😂
Just like anti-vaxxers kids
@@Horizontal_Sonic troll