 A new CBS poll found that vaccine hesitancy is actually the highest among Republican men and more than a third of Republicans are refusing to take the COVID vaccines. Now this isn't necessarily too surprising because this is a political party that just outright denies science and the only time they even say the word science is when they're trying to deny equal rights to transgender Americans. So this isn't necessarily surprising news and especially when you consider the way that Republican lawmakers have never taken the pandemic seriously and currently they're not actually getting the vaccine and they're not promoting the vaccines themselves. I mean obviously this is what's going to happen their values will be reflected in their base but to make matters worse the most popular cable news pundit is now deciding to use his platform to spread vaccine skepticism to his millions of viewers. Take a look. So all of this should prompt some pretty tough questions for our public health experts in this country and one of those questions is how effective is this coronavirus vaccine? How necessary is it to take the vaccine? Don't dismiss those questions from anti-vaxxers. Don't kick people off social media for asking them. Answer the questions especially now. The administration would like you to take this vaccine Joe Biden told you last week if you don't you can't celebrate the 4th of July but it turns out there are things we don't know about the effects of this vaccine and all vaccines by the way it's always a trade-off. He literally asked on national television how effective is this coronavirus vaccine and how necessary is it to take this vaccine? If only there was some way of finding out this information that is seemingly nowhere. I mean there's no way he's serious. He knows all of this information but in case he's genuinely puzzled there's this thing known as the internet where you can easily look up this information and find the answers to all of your questions in a couple of minutes. Hey I'll google it for you. So how effective is the uh here we go we have autofill will do Moderna's vaccine. Turns out it is 80.2 effective after a single dose and you'll be 95 protected after you get your second shot. Okay now let's look up the Pfizer vaccine. Turns out it's 46 effective 14 to 20 days after the first dose and 92 effective seven days after the second dose. As for the Johnson and Johnson vaccine it is 66 effective at preventing moderate to severe COVID and 100 effective in preventing COVID related hospitalization and death. So I think this answers the question as to whether or not you should take it but let's ask anyway COVID vaccines are safe and effective and it looks like you should definitely get it as soon as you are eligible and that's it. I just did the work one person within a couple of minutes did the work that Tucker Carlson and his entire team apparently couldn't figure out how to do you. But this is not him just being ignorant. He is very clearly trying to drive skepticism about the vaccines. Vaccines that we actually need people to take if we want to end the pandemic because if there is a large portion of the American population that does not take the vaccine then the virus will continue to spread which increases the potential for mutations that are resistant to the vaccines. So this isn't just like hey I'm gonna make this individual choice conservatives keep saying oh well you know what it's my choice if I choose to not wear a mask liberty freedom except that's not actually you exercising your own liberty and freedom you're impeding on the freedom of others to not be infected by the germs that you're spreading because you refuse to wear a mask because you think that that impedes on your liberty and freedom. Tucker Carlson is very much aware of all of this but he's being purposefully obtuse because he wants his viewers to fear the vaccine and I mean I don't even know what the reason is for this. I don't know if he'd be saying this if Trump were still president because Trump could then get credit for getting people vaccinated but I mean what's the end goal here? I don't know what his end goal is I don't know why he's trying to foster skepticism and fear mongering over the COVID vaccines which are safe and effective but what I do know is going to happen is that if his viewers actually believe his lies and do fear the COVID vaccine they could die like does he actually want his viewers to die? I mean how irresponsible are you to so doubt about the efficacy and safety of these vaccines that are lifesaving? You have to be a terrible human being to do something like that and also he loves to play loose with the facts. He says that Joe Biden told you that if you don't take the vaccine you can't celebrate the 4th of July. Really is that what Joe Biden said? That's not what Joe Biden said. I don't like Joe Biden but what you're doing is lying. Most people who are Republicans are probably not even going to pay attention to any of the CDC guidelines but for individuals who want to do this safely then you can actually have a relatively safe 4th of July with a small group of friends and family members if you're all vaccinated. I mean conservatives across the country they've just never taken it seriously look at Florida they've never had a mask mandate the governor of Florida literally instituted a ban on mask mandates so that way if a local government wanted to institute a mask mandate it wouldn't be effective legally they wouldn't be able to enforce that they wouldn't be able to fine people who disobey that law all across the country Republicans have been pretending as if the pandemic is over you all had an in-person CPAC as opposed to a digital one so I mean you're already not abiding by the protocol so what does Biden saying you know that if you take it seriously you can celebrate 4th of July have to do with you it's not even applicable to you because you already decided that the vaccine isn't something that you're going to take seriously so what's the issue here like why are you fear mongering specifically about something that is obviously innocuous it's not like Joe Biden is saying I'm gonna stop you from doing what you want to do you're already fucking doing that you're already doing that so what is the point here he's just needlessly fear mongering because his goal is to do propaganda against the democratic party because he is part of the republican party's propaganda arm so for whatever reason he has taken it upon himself to drive fear about a vaccine that is necessary to save lives and end a global pandemic if that doesn't prove to you that Tucker Carlson is a piece of shit then nothing else will this is absolutely irresponsible and disgusting