Doubt: 'Let's Go to War'
Prognosis: Misconception
Bloomberg
4.1 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In October 2020, anti-vaccine elite gathered for a conference to discuss, among other things, how to use the pandemic to grow their movement. In this episode, we travel inside the world of anti-vaccine extremists to show how they weaponize uncertainty and mistrust to spread rumors about vaccines — rumors that threaten to prolong the global pandemic.
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| 0:30.7 | Hello, my name is Rob Schneider, and I am proud to be able to stand with you and say that we can no longer be afraid to live in fear of the powerful pharmaceutical companies. |
| 0:43.8 | It's October 2020. An actor and Saturday Night Live alum Rob Schneider is performing at a virtual conference. |
| 0:53.2 | He starts a set with a paper whole foods bag over his head, with little eyes and a mouth cut |
| 0:58.4 | out. |
| 0:59.3 | The joke, I think, is that he is shielding his identity from people who might find what he is |
| 1:05.9 | saying controversial. |
| 1:07.5 | As long as we stand together and be brave and courageous and stand up for liberty and insist on body integrity, there's nothing big pharma can really do to us. |
| 1:19.7 | He takes the bag off his head at this point. |
| 1:22.4 | As we've seen the last six months, our government is not only capable of taking away our liberties, |
| 1:28.9 | but they seem actually kind of excited about it. |
| 1:31.7 | He's sitting in what looks like a messy office, |
| 1:34.5 | wearing a blue dress shirt and tie. |
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