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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Those are just recently discovered ammunition for the people who didn’t want Rogan on Spotify in the first place.
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The racism parts are a different argument, and not something Young brought up.
There is a very clear problem here that Rogan has a huge reach, with a large percentage of his audience that are easily convinced that his "experts" are correct.
His podcast has convinced a significant percentage of his audience that vaccines are dangerous, and has directly led to a lot of them refusing to get vaccinated. This has directly led to people dying, hospitals over-filling and the other issues that vaccine refusers have caused.
You can't just dismiss people who think this is a problem as being woke lefties or whatever you are saying. I don't really care about whatever else Joe Rogan or his guests have to say, but this particular issue is a big deal and has created real problems.
We're probably a little late in the game for this to matter much to be honest though. There's no way to undo the damage his message has caused, and if omicron is the end of this, then getting vaccinated now isn't changing a whole lot other than people protecting themselves.
What is the right way to get people on board with getting safe and effective vaccines in the future though? Clearly letting people think for themselves isn't working when you have such a large number willing and eager to listen to bad information. Mandates seem to cause everyone to go crazy. Are vaccines only useful as a tool for individual protection, and it's time to just give up on them as a tool to eradicate diseases and provide herd immunity. I know all this crap has spread into regular childhood vaccines hesitancy and those numbers are now way down.