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?
Back in the beforedays, at least 2 doctors refused to vaccinate me (the standard vaccinations, measels and shit) because I had febrile convulsions after injections as a literal baby. Ever since COVID they absolutely stopped caring about that and slam measel and tetanus and TBE vaccinations into me at my faintest request, and guess what, I don't get febrile convulsions because I'm not a fucking baby anymore
There really should be a table of famous people who died of covid after being anti-vaxx or some other kind of covidiot.
Justin Gates, a vice president at Sports Network International in Ormond Beach
but personal experience based on how he believed vaccines had impacted people near to him.
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.
:crab-party: :crab-party: :crab-party: :crab-party: :crab-party: :crab-party:
I like the implication it wasn't a political decision because it was based on personal experience. It's literally that conservative stereotype where they don't care about things unless it impacts them directly.
