COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: A Debate on Safety and Public Health

The people in America are not settled with the information that's been given to us right now.

So I'm not gonna be lining up taking a shot or a vaccination for something that wasn't clear in the first place, and then you all c- create a shot in miraculous time.

It takes years to create vaccinations. But the doctors and the scientists are expecting- Well, it, it used to take years ... right now. Okay, it used to.

It, it used to take years. You know how, you know how many years were invested in this, in this approach?

About 20 years of science to get us to be able to do it quickly.

20 years is not enough, and nine months is definitely not enough- No ... for nobody to be taking no vaccination that you all came up with.

The only reason I'm talking to you right now, as close as we are, is that I've been vaccinated. Right.

But if it allow thousands of people like you don't get vaccinated, you're gonna let this virus continue to percolate in this country and in this world.

Something like the common flu then, right?

And, and not like, not like the common flu. Basically.

It's much more serious than the flu. Well, the flu kills a lot of people annually too. Yeah.

You know how many people died of the flu the last year?

I mean, not this year, virtually none, but the previous year?

About 20 to 30,000. You know how many people have died from COVID-19 in the United States?

600,000 Americans. Yeah, but they don't know it's the vaccine that makes- Well, you, well, that, well, the, the number that you all giving that died, that's, that's, once again, that's you all's number.

You gonna pay us. Yeah, definitely. All right.

'Cause when, because when you start talking about paying people to get vaccinated, when you start talking about incentivizing things to get people vaccinated, it's something else going on with that. Yeah.

Something e- it's something else going on with that.

It, I, it is something going on with that.

It's something else going on. You right.

But I'm glad millions of people like me and a most everybody here didn't get an ins- do you know what their incentive was?

Protecting their health and protecting the city.

Well, well, it's, it's all, it's all, it's okay- But that, I wo- I won't keep you anymore ...

Well, well, it's, it's all, it's all, it's okay- But that, I wo- I won't keep you anymore ... 'cause my, my, my, my incentive- Thank you for co- thanks for keeping it classy ...

But that, I wo- I won't keep you anymore ... 'cause my, my, my, my incentive- Thank you for co- thanks for keeping it classy ... y'all campaign is about fear, is about inciting fear in people.

You all attack people with fear. That's what this pandemic is. It's a fear.

It's fear, this pandemic. That's all it is.