Shapiro admitted he might not have gotten the vaccine if he had all the information now available.
QUICK FACTS:
- Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro was one of the few right-wing voices pushing conservatives to get the COVID-19 vaccine as soon as it was available.
- But the Daily Wire founder recently changed his opinion on the shots, saying experts “lied” about the vaccine.
- This is in stark contrast to his comments in December 2020, when he asserted that the vaccine “is 95% effective in preventing you from getting the virus, and also mitigates the severity of the disease. 99% of those who actually get covid-19 will survive. In other words, get the vaccine, dopes.”
- In more recent comments, Shapiro, who is double vaccinated, admitted that he might not have made the same choice if he had had the same information when he got the vaccines as he has now.
SHAPIRO’S COMMENTS:
- Reporting on more recent information about the COVID-19 vaccines, Shapiro said, “Everybody who’s involved in this sort of stuff needs to be thrown out of office. If they’re in the private sector, they need to be fired. There may need to be actual criminal prosecutions if you are disseminating false health information to people on the basis of zero evidence.”
- “Now, as I’ve spoken out before, I got vaxxed twice or gotten double-vaxxed. My wife, being a doctor and seeing vulnerable patients, is triple-vaxxed. But, knowing now what I know then – knowing then what I know now, rather, would I actually have gotten vaxxed based on the information that my actual chances of death from COVID were exorbitantly low and I wouldn’t be preventing my parents from getting — that was really what I concerned about because we were bubbled with my parents – would I have gotten it? I don’t know. I really don’t know. I think maybe not. Because, again, my personal risk when it comes to the vaccine was extremely low when it came to COVID. I’m a young, healthy, male with no preexisting conditions.”
BACKGROUND:
- In mid-October questions about the drug company’s information became a top issue when Pfizer executive said their vaccine was never tested for its ability to stop virus transmission, as American Faith previously reported.
- When asked by a politician from the Netherlands, Robert “Rob” Roos, whether the vaccine was tested to stop transmission before entering the market, Small responded in the negative.
- “Regarding the question around did we know about stopping immunization before it entered the market? No,” Small said. “We have to really move at the speed of science to really understand what is taking place in the market.”
