I'm gonna get the vaccination and I know many of my friends and supporters in a lot of ways are deeply skeptical of not only this vaccination but just of the establishment healthcare system in general and I actually share that skepticism.

But let me unpack and explain why I'm still getting the vaccination anyway.

This is Sean King and you are listening to the breakdown.

Today here in the United States, the coronavirus vaccination has started to be rolled out. I just saw the first person right here in New York who received it and I'm actually glad.

And in some ways I do wonder if you lived in New York, if you would think about the vaccine differently, if you had seen so many thousands and thousands of people die from the coronavirus.

I wonder if you had counseled and consoled the hundreds of families who lost not just their mothers and fathers and grandparents but their husbands, their wives, their significant others, their children.

If you had consoled so many people who had lost their loved ones to the coronavirus, I just wonder and I give every one of you the real space to be skeptical and to ask hard questions.

But I do wonder if you had walked with all of the people who lost so much, many of them losing their most precious loved ones in a way that has been deeply inhumane.

Almost every person that I've walked with over this past year who lost their loved ones to the coronavirus, almost all of them as I go through my mind, were not even able to tell their loved ones goodbye.

Were not able to hold their hands, were not able to be there and I struggled to find the words to tell you how soul crushing that was for each and every one of them.

And I have tried my best to be there for people this year who have just suffered a catastrophic loss.

Now, if some of you who oppose the vaccination still don't believe that there is such a thing as the coronavirus, then it's going to be hard for us to have an intelligent conversation.

And I say that as somebody who is very much a part of an anti-establishment community when it comes to public health, personal health, family health, I am deeply skeptical of all of the systems and particularly just the profit motive at the center of it.

I am not a friend or fan of Pfizer or of most of the pharmaceutical companies that are a part of this process.

However, I do believe that there are pandemics, viral pandemics that are so destructive that they sometimes warrant an emergency vaccination.

And this is one of those where in the United States right now we have 110,000 people who are hospitalized.

The most because of the coronavirus, the most for anything in American history, more by far than any country in the world, thousands and thousands of people are dying every day.

Over 3,300 people died on Friday alone from this and I am terrified of what will happen if some of my own most precious loved ones, including my mother, my mother-in-law and so many others.

I don't know how they would be able to endure both of them have had hospitalizations this year because of other ailments and are weakened because of that.

And even in my own household, my wife and one of our daughters each have very serious forms of asthma and we're deeply concerned. They had the coronavirus earlier this year, my wife and that in that particular daughter of ours.

And they had a hard time and our daughter who is a fit dancer and as healthy otherwise as anybody in the house as fit and healthy as anybody in the house she struggled more than anybody is 11 years old.

And I saw and still see I should speak in present tense. I saw the impact that it had on our dear home and neighborhood and and community here in Brooklyn and I still see it.

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