 Just when I thought that it wasn't possible for Joe Rogan to get any worse. He keeps getting progressively worse And look, I was never a fan of Joe Rogan In fact, I hated Joe Rogan before it was cool to hate Joe Rogan Having said that though even I could acknowledge that there was a time where he would actually talk to Physicists he'd bring on folks to talk about astronomy and actual science, but now it seems like He's always talking to right-wing reactionaries and conspiracy theorists And you can see the way that it's directly changing his worldview where he's no longer trusting the science on a plethora of issues Where he's no longer, you know, at least somewhat liberal when it comes to economics and social policy But now he's just indistinguishable from conspiracy theorists that you see Everywhere and it's really depressing to see Not because I care about Joe Rogan I couldn't care less about him as an individual But I care because there are millions of people that tune in every single day to listen to his broadcasts What he says it actually holds weight. It has a real-world impact People take him seriously and they take what he says seriously So when he does things like this what we're about to see I can't help but think He's a lost cause So here is Joe Rogan actively discouraging folks who are younger Telling them to not get the code vaccine and people say do you think it's safe to get vaccinated? I've said yeah, I think for the most part it's safe to get vaccinated. I do I do But if you're like 21 years old and you say to me, should I get vaccinated? I go. No, yeah You are you healthy? Are you a healthy person like look don't do anything stupid, but you should take care of yourself You should if you're if you're a healthy person and you're exercising all the time and you're young and you're eating well They're like I don't think you need to worry about this. Yeah, I tend to agree with you But there's a lot of jobs that will tell you you need to have this Well, that's what's starting to happen. They're people are worried about them doing it for their children And we talked about this earlier there's that that you might have to have your your children vaccinated and you know I can tell you as someone who's both both my children got the fact the virus. It was nothing. I Mean, I hate to say that if someone's children died from this. I'm very sorry that that happened I'm not I'm not in any way diminishing that but I'm saying the personal experience that my children had with code was nothing One of the kids had a headache the other one didn't feel good for a couple days Yeah, like maybe I mean not feel good like mmm like no no big deal. No coffee. No, no, no achy No, like in agony. There was none of that. It was very mild It was it was akin to them getting a cold Yeah, and you can have this thing where it's like you were saying this virtue signaling and this kind of like theatrical Display of I get the vaccine. What a good person. I am I care about everyone But you're like look my daughter's a lot younger than your kids But I'm like, yeah, I'm not injecting my daughter with something to fucking virtue signal Right. I'm not doing that right if there's something that she's of no risk Statistically has no risk from I'm sorry. I'm not taking any experiment on her in that And that's that's my attitude but it's amazing that that's controversial. Yeah, but even saying that I'm not going to inject my child With the vaccine is controversial. Yeah, it's crazy because again We are not talking about even the flu that we just found out killed 22,000 people last year We're not talking about that. Right. We're talking about something that is not statistically dangerous for children But yet people still want you to get your child vaccinated, which is crazy to me Yeah, but you should be vaccinated if you are vulnerable It doesn't work that way you fucking moron That's not the way that this works Does he not even think about what might happen if enough people took him seriously if you're a young person and You think that you can't catch a virus because you eat healthy and you work out What if you do catch that virus and you end up dying or you spread it to one of your loved ones like does Joe Rogan not think through the consequences How the things he says has a real-world impact is he not worried that his stupidity is going to get one of his Fans killed. I just I don't know how he sleeps at night Spreading this level of stupidity and misinformation that is actually deadly I mean with how many people watch Joe Rogan's podcast how many people now has he just convinced to not take the COVID vaccine? It's just honestly it's shocking To have no level of regard no sense of responsibility for that gigantic platform that you have for the You know immense amount of power that you hold He says if you're a healthy person and you're exercising all the time and you're young and you're eating well I don't think you need to worry about it That's not the way that viruses work a virus isn't going to think hmm Who should I in fact that person is young and you know, they're they're eating healthy and they're exercising I guess I'll go and in fact this other person. I mean, that's not the way that this works I shouldn't have to explain this to a 50-plus year old man and Furthermore, even if you're lucky enough to survive COVID-19 there are long-term Health ramifications that we are still till this day learning about and first of all More and more young people are getting hospitalized as new variants spread Second of all a study from UC Berkeley found that even if you're lucky enough to survive COVID-19 You may still deal with long-term damage to your heart your lungs your nervous system This is a serious virus and some younger COVID patients actually died due to strokes The point is we're still learning about the virus. So for you to say this to actually discourage people from getting the vaccine if they're young What the fuck are you thinking? Have you lost your mind? Any sense of reason? Have you just like flushed it all down the toilet? What's going on here, Joe? what the fuck is going on here and You know he at least admits sure there are some people that had kids died due to COVID-19 and that's sad But I mean my kids got it and they were fine There are some people who get COVID-19 and they have no symptoms at all. They're completely asymptomatic other folks die from it This affects people in a plethora of ways So for you to just say you know what if you're young don't even worry about it because my kids were fine That's just so irresponsible and reckless and it's guest-added I'm not injecting my daughter with something to fucking virtue signal and he adds I'm not taking any Experiments on her first of all, it's not virtue signaling to vaccinate your child. It's science, bitch It's science and if you want your daughter to be admitted into school You're going to have to provide them with proof that she's received numerous vaccinations and imagine being so arrogant to think that this vaccine that's been proven to be safe that's already been Used to inoculate millions of people around the globe You just think well, you know what? I think it's an experiment. So I'm going to just say it's an experiment to millions of people Do you have a degree in? Any scientific field? Do you know about epidemiology? No, so shut the fuck up Shut the fuck up because you don't know what you're talking about But Joe Rogan chimes in saying it's amazing that that's controversial Except it's controversial because you're not just having a conversation with your bro behind closed doors You're broadcasting your idiocy to millions of people and what you say Has ramifications? It influences society which in turn influences all of us at the individual level The macro impact that you have has a micro level impact on all of our lives So yeah, it's a little bit controversial I actually am a little bit irritated because idiots like you Joe Rogan are doing your part to prolong the duration of this fucking Pandemic that I desperately want to be over so I can see my family again. I mean folks like Joe Rogan He's never taken the pandemic seriously, right? He complained about masks He complains about lockdowns and now he's complaining about the vaccine So no matter what we do to address the pandemic. He's not satisfied He just wants to pretend as if it's not a thing and that's the way that he's carried on with his life carelessly and recklessly So but for folks who actually care about their loved ones who take it seriously at some point in time in the next decade I would love to just go back to pre pandemic life It's not like that was perfect, but to not worry about possibly infecting someone that I love That would be a great feeling but dumb fucks like Joe Rogan They're doing their part to make sure this pandemic lasts forever and there's always this argument will look if you want to get Vaccinated that's fine. You get inoculated and you can protect yourself and I'll choose to do my own thing Except the way that we stop pandemics is by achieving herd immunity and vaccines are one way to reach herd immunity So if it's the case that let's just say 35% of the population reaches herd immunity And that's not enough because likely that wouldn't be enough Ideally we're aiming for 70 to 85% depending on the epidemiologist So you ask but let's say that we don't actually reach herd immunity and the virus continues to infect people and spread throughout the globe Guess what happens? Eventually all of the vaccines that we've taken to protect ourselves will a new variant might emerge that is resistant to the vaccines and We're all fucked and we're back to square one and folks like Joe Rogan Who spread this misinformation are to thank for that because he's a conspiracy theorist who sounds no different than some homeopathic, you know snake oil salesman No, it's not the case that you can not get COVID-19 if you exercise No, it's not the case that you can stop yourself from getting cancer if you eat healthy That's not the way that things work Bring on a scientist that you used to speak with how them talk about it And if you brought on an epidemiologist or someone who knows anything about the pandemic Obviously what they said didn't penetrate that thick skull of yours. So bring them back on have them stated again Because holy fucking shit what you're doing is so dangerous and the fact that you don't have any sense of responsibility when you broadcast to millions of people shows that you are either a Careless prick or you actually are genuinely stupid for believing the dumb things that you're saying It's a distinction without a difference either way Do better to say the fucking least