Bernier had issues with vaccines for years.
Mel Stack, an attorney and friend who regularly advertised on the program, said Bernier's anti-vaccination views were not based on politics, but personal experience based on how he believed vaccines had impacted people near to him.
Bernier's concerns extended to the COVID-19 vaccines.
When Bernier reunited with Gates for their pilot show on Dec. 19, the Pfizer vaccine had only gotten its initial approval about a week earlier. Gates asked Bernier whether he would get the jab.
Bernier responded: “I’m not taking it.”
Gates: “Come on!”
Bernier: “Are you kidding me? Mr. Anti-Vax? Jeepers.”
Gates: Ever?
One of the most infuriating things to me about right-wingers is how much they reduce their worldview to interpersonal interactions. You could clear up any antivax argument in five minutes of googling but they don't give a fuck about statistics unless it's a way to obfuscate a race war. Instead of that they'll latch on to the science teacher of a friend of a coworker of their sister-wife's pastor because that person wears glasses and talks $5 words like cityfolk. They have no clue what where that person's information comes from ontologically, it could be even more batshit than them and based on mutually-exclusive magical thinking, but it conveniently enables what that chud intuitively feels. That they're a fucking toddler who won't be told what to do.
:rat-salute: :covid-cool: Good job COVID. One less plague rat.