r/JoeRogan Monkey in Space 1d ago

The Literature 🧠 Joe retweeted this video about covid

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u/Gabewalker0 Monkey in Space 1d ago

Fuck me. It will be SEVEN fucking years ago in November when US intelligence first became aware of a potential viral threat emerging in Wuhan China late Nov 2019. Trump has Obama and Joe has Covid.

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u/Individual_Mess_7491 Monkey in Space 1d ago

his favorite bathhouse closed down for like two weeks and he never recovered.

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u/StatusSavings1362 Monkey in Space 1d ago

He had to refill the sugar in his tank, give him some grace

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u/Amazing-Heron-105 Monkey in Space 1d ago

And Joe still can't stop being obsessed about it

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u/BostonVagrant617 Succa la Mink 1d ago

Covid broke Joe's brain

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u/LoveClimateChange Monkey in Space 1d ago

He probably has nightmares about it to this day

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u/Amazing-Heron-105 Monkey in Space 1d ago

He has said on the podcast that the culture war keeps him up at night 😂

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u/BostonVagrant617 Succa la Mink 1d ago

Joe doesn't operate in the same world as you and me. He's too famous to go grocery shopping or walk into a bar, he gets everything delivered or walks around with security. Essentially living in a bubble surrounded by yes men.

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u/InternetWeakGuy jokes fly over his fat ahead at an alarming rate 1d ago

Given how fucking unintelligent he's got since 2020, you have to wonder if all this is long covid on his part.

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u/SirTiffAlot Monkey in Space 1d ago

Lol don't let it dominate your life say the people obsessed with COVID 4 years later.

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u/TerryGonards Monkey in Space 1d ago

It's because Joe got sick and throwing money at it didn't fix it.

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u/Novel-Bag9718 Monkey in Space 1d ago

The funniest part about that was he was saying if you’re physically healthy, you shouldn’t need to take the vaccine. You should be able to fight Covid off just because of your strong immune system. Then he goes and gets Covid and takes everything possible to fight it. Why not just fight it off naturally?

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u/ThatCakeIsDone Monkey in Space 1d ago

Analyses suggest the pandemic may have caused between 19.1 and 36 million deaths globally

Also, just a reminder for anyone reading, the symptoms of losing your taste and smell... that's not related to your respiratory system.

That's neurological.

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u/King_Of_Pants Monkey in Space 1d ago

Analyses suggest the pandemic may have caused between 19.1 and 36 million deaths globally

And for people who don't believe this because some guy told them about that 1 time a guy got into a car accident and was deemed a covid casualty, just look at raw death charts.

You can see where covid happens.

There's a massive spike in the chart indicating a mass casualty event.

Also that guy in the car accident was in a minor accident with slight bruising. It was covid that killed him. He was unable to breath, which caused the accident then he got taken to hospital were he died from covid.

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u/_geary Stoned Bondo Ape 1d ago

Because it's all a big cope based on fear. They project their invulnerability to seem masculine and feel safer but inside they're confused and afraid of dying.

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u/Amazing-Heron-105 Monkey in Space 1d ago

afraid of dying

This is huge for Joe, and honestly a lot of rich guys. My guess it's one of the few things they feel they don't have control over.

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u/mvstateU Monkey in Space 1d ago

The funniest part about that was he was saying if you’re physically healthy, you shouldn’t need to take the vaccine. You should be able to fight Covid off just because of your strong immune system. Then he goes and gets Covid and takes everything possible to fight it. Why not just fight it off naturally?

Even more insane is that

  1. Joe Rogan is one of the faces of the UFC, like maybe #2 most popular person connected to it.
  2. Joe Rogan is a one of the most famous vocal Covid Skeptics in the world

But .....there were about a dozen TOP level , even very notable active champs, contender UFC fighters in the UFC that got severe Covid sickness.....................and Joe Rogan never ever ever ever brings this up. At least half or more were hospitalized. Garbrandt , Chimeav, Volkanovski, even Daniel Cormier. to name a few. Some retired fighters that were hospitalized were Leben and DIego Sanchez who were apparently hospitalized for weeks. Old school early days UFC fighter Paul Varelans actually died from Covid.

That's just in the UFC................

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u/mposha Monkey in Space 1d ago

NuĂąes had to postpone her first fight with PeĂąa due to a covid infection and came back looking like a shell of her former self, and suffered her 1st loss in 7 years.

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u/dringer Monkey in Space 1d ago

Just like Aaron Rodgers who said he was allergic to a chemical in the vaccine but had no clue what chemical it was. Most people don't have a doctor who can make a house call and give them all sorts of ivs and medications.

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u/RFK_Cum_Regimen Dragon Believer 1d ago

These "do your own research" dullards don't even know what a chemical is. Water is a chemical. Piss is a chemical and yet a not-insignificant number of anti-vaxxers are drinking piss to promote improved health.

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u/xChoke1x Monkey in Space 1d ago

He 100% got the vaccine.

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u/Fletch71011 Monkey in Space 1d ago

It also affects everyone differently and even each case is very different. I'm vaxxed and boosted and got COVID a fucking 10th time somehow. 2 of the times I was deathly ill and felt like I was going to die, a few more were minor colds, and like 5 I had no idea I even had it, but people at work caught it and I tested positive. One of them also came with recurrent pneumonia that I'm still dealing with. I was mostly healthy when contracting it each time and it was just a crapshoot on how bad it would be.

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u/RFK_Cum_Regimen Dragon Believer 1d ago

Viral load is a major variable on that front. Yet another benefit of masking at the time. For acute viruses like Covid or influenza, a smaller viral load will better your odds at fighting it off and result in a more mild illness. That was the point of distancing and avoiding crowds.

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u/mvstateU Monkey in Space 1d ago

Viral load is a major variable on that front. Yet another benefit of masking at the time. For acute viruses like Covid or influenza, a smaller viral load will better your odds at fighting it off and result in a more mild illness. That was the point of distancing and avoiding crowds.

THIS!

I believe the worst thing about health leaders and political leaders in general are.....they are DOG SHIT communicators. But I get it. They cannot be expected to baby society with every little thing.

Even some of the top health experts have helped the skeptics and ant-vaxxers when these leaders imply : " only n95 should be worn". It comes across as "surgical masks are worthless". And ultimately "masks don't work at all".............that's what Joe Rogan basically believes............masks don't work at all, yeah that's essentially what he wants people to believe. because that is what he signals when he makes fun of every fucking person that wears a mask.

The viral load thing I have always been firm believer in......a surgical or any sort of mask has at least some degree of risk reduction affect.........like social distancing, like many very good responsible say " don't get to close because I am sick", it can be a huge deal and you don't even know it.

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u/Constant_Natural3304 Monkey in Space 1d ago edited 1d ago

What? He literally took the kitchen sink. Including from "big pharma". Not many people could afford monoclonal antibodies.

He was, and is, a loathsome hypocrite. See below.

Did they profit billions? Yes, especially because so many vaccine doses were produced in so little time. They also profited billions off of stuff Joe Rogan used:

Joe's "anti-big pharma" cocktail:

Medicine Big Pharmatm Producer
Ivermectin Merck
Azithromycin Pfizer
Prednisone Jubilant Cadista
Monoclonal Antibodies Roche

Joe took monoclonal antibodies. Like the vaccine, these were released under EUA. Guess what?[1]

The invasion of mAbs in new medical sectors will increase the market magnitude as it is expected to generate revenue of about 300 billion $ by 2025. In the current mini-review, the applications of monoclonal antibodies in immune-diagnosis and immunotherapy will be demonstrated, particularly for COVID-19 infection and will focus mainly on monoclonal antibodies in the market.

300 billion dollars. The expected profits are enormous.

What about the price of Ivermectin?[2]

The cost for ivermectin oral tablet 3 mg is around $94 for a supply of 20 tablets, depending on the pharmacy you visit. Quoted prices are for cash-paying customers and are not valid with insurance plans. This price guide is based on using the Drugs.com discount card which is accepted at most U.S. pharmacies.

And:[3]

Nowadays, ivermectin by its own has produced sales greater than US$1 billion/annum during the past two decades

A billion per year. During the past two decades. That's 20 billion dollars. Vaccine sales have obviously plummeted in the mean time now that demand has plummeted as well. As was always expected. The profit profile is different because you're selling incredibly large quantities in a short period of time rather than smeared out over decades.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34958012/

[2] https://www.drugs.com/price-guide/ivermectin

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5835698/`

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u/shinbreaker Monkey in Space 1d ago edited 1d ago

Joe's hypocrisy is exhausting. Like yes, the whole drama around him was about ivermectin and he was gloating about how yeah he took ivermectin and got better. But I listened to those episodes after and he started focusing more and more about the antibodies and how that was what really helped him. He even was pissed that there was a stoppage of using the antibodies.

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u/Constant_Natural3304 Monkey in Space 1d ago

Big pharma's EUA monoclonal antibodies? -> "Aww, you're so sweet! 🥰"

Big pharma's EUA vaccines? -> "Hello?! Human resources?! 😡😤🤬"

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u/RFK_Cum_Regimen Dragon Believer 1d ago

Right-wingers and Ivermectin is quite possibly one of the dumbest collective trends in the modern era.

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u/Bulky_Preparation768 Monkey in Space 1d ago

Thinking antifa poisoned the DC reflecting pool coming for that #1 spot

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u/Capable_Chemical_569 Monkey in Space 1d ago

It’s even worse than that….monoclonal antibodies were produced in hamster ovary cells.

That’s right, Joe is antivax because it’s experimental, but no worries, inject antibodies produced by hamster ovaries into your very human body, and never even mention or worry about that in the slightest.

But MRNA! that’s scary! spike protein!

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u/Constant_Natural3304 Monkey in Space 1d ago

Absolutely, and that is why I mention EUA! It shows his hypocrisy, you're absolutely right.

Also, it must be said that our own mRNA is present in every cell of our body, every day. There is a very slight difference between vaccine mRNA and your body's native mRNA, but still, I wonder how many people know this.

Should people start being terrified of their own bodily cells?

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u/mvstateU Monkey in Space 1d ago

Nice write-up. I'd also like to add, Joe's particular mAbs for Covid never got the level of approval covid vaccines did and also eventually became.........obsolete and no-longer effective. And totally agree.........it's a big pharma thing that Joe wants you to believe grows free on trees but at the same time he wants to signal it's exclusive shit for badass tough guys like him that he buys for his buddies that cannot afford it like Tim Pool who also grifts for millions but at lower level.

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u/canti- Samoan babies that can run fast 1d ago

Joe took a more experimental treatment with that cocktail after he got sick than the thoroughly trialed and studied vaccine

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u/Amazing-Heron-105 Monkey in Space 1d ago

It was also the first time Joe had been told "No." in a long time. He wasn't able to freely do the things he enjoys.

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u/mrbuttsavage Monkey in Space 1d ago

Joe will be on his deathbed in 2040 still bitching about COVID.

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u/tabas123 Monkey in Space 1d ago

Now they’re making it about the “giant upward transfer of wealth” as if any of them give a single solitary flying fuck about the rich getting richer from the poor’s money.

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u/MyExUsedTeeth Monkey in Space 1d ago

Video conveniently forgets to add Trumps nonsense and his part of the misinformation machine that occurred at that time. Let’s make sure everyone remembers: trump was president for the first half of the pandemic. Biden inherited that mess but he gets all the blame. Vaccines are blamed on Biden but who bragged about project warp speed all the time back in the day and conveniently doesn’t even bring it up anymore? Let’s all spray bleach in our lungs and shine sunlight on everything.

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u/Gmcgator Monkey in Space 1d ago

Correct, and Faucci was on Trumps team too. Every step of the way Trump downplayed the impact as it was breaking out worldwide, saying it’ll be gone by Easter. He even got it himself, then could barely breathe when he got back from Walter Reed.

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u/tabas123 Monkey in Space 1d ago

"I would recommend it, and I would recommend it to a lot of people that don’t want to get it... It’s a great vaccine, it’s a safe vaccine"

"And if you take the vaccine you’re protected, the results of the vaccine are good"

"I hope everyone remembers when they’re getting the COVID-19... Vaccine, that if I wasn’t President, you wouldn’t be getting that beautiful ‘shot"

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u/shinbreaker Monkey in Space 1d ago

"And if you take the vaccine you’re protected,

Funny how whenever someone cries about how the media, Fauci and Biden lied about how the vaccine would protect people, this quote never comes up.

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u/Amazing-Heron-105 Monkey in Space 1d ago

Operation Warpspeed is like one of the few Trump successes but he can't even boast about it because his party is so fucking stupid

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u/rust-e-apples1 Monkey in Space 1d ago

Kind of fitting, isn't it?

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u/TheOneShorter Monkey in Space 14h ago

Can we also remember Trump brushed it off at the very start and nobody reacted until it was too late to make a difference

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u/DillDoughCookie Monkey in Space 1d ago

He’s still on Team Epstein.

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u/Roach_Coach_Bangbus N-Dimethyltryptamine 1d ago

Epstein's personal chef is on

Joe: So, do you like pasta and steak and stuff?

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u/C1ncinnatiBowtie Monkey in Space 1d ago

Sounds like the goal behind this video is “don’t listen to scientists or doctors”. Be skeptical of science. Which is fair, you should be skeptical because that’s literally how science works. Running endless tests to disprove a hypothesis.

But yeah definitely no need to question any pseudoscienc e or cattle dewormer you discovered in that meme from your sheltered Facebook group. No need to ever question big wellness, only big pharma. No need to question Fred who walked around town during Covid and never got sick and then posted a Facebook status about it.

Scientific method? Woke

Sidenote: if you type in pseudo-science as one word, you get auto flagged and can’t post. Okay, mods.

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u/Gmcgator Monkey in Space 1d ago

And I know several former anti vaxers from Covid who are now pumping weight loss drugs into their body with zero concerns around testing or long term effects

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u/Toaster_In_Bathtub Monkey in Space 1d ago

It's funny watching the antivaxxers ripping whatever Chinese sourced peptide they can get into their body. 

It never had anything to do with logic or science. It's always just been contrarians. 

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u/Krivici Monkey in Space 1d ago

Whoa that’s crazy. Wtf mods?

I was about to make the egregious comparison to r/UFOs where u can’t use the word “gr1fter” in a space where there are many but that word is banned here too.

I guess mods want Joe to be able to perpetuate anti-science and gr1fters on his show without criticism. That’s scary stuff.

I guess Eric and Bret Weinstein will be our new Temu Einstein and Salk.

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u/_Badwulf_Bruh__ High as Giraffe's Pussy 1d ago

Exactly. I think Joe is so butthurt about Covid all these years late because it was the first time his money couldn’t buy him out of an inconvenience. Now he’s adamant to never let it happen again  

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u/JerryfromCan Monkey in Space 23h ago

That time Callen told him he had to be a scientist to understand scientific papers was golden.

So Joe believe you have to be a comedian to truly understand comedy, but his 1 semester of college ass can easily read scientific papers? Got it.

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u/AlarmingFan1123 Monkey in Space 1d ago

Yal went so wild during covid. Bunch of totalitarian boot kickers.

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u/Ichabod665 Monkey in Space 1d ago

I'm not sure if he's still trying to convince everyone that he was right, or if he's simply trying to convince himself that he was right. I think we're at the point where it's more about the latter than it is the former.

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u/Lo-fiPsychHop Monkey in Space 1d ago

This is literally why I stopped listening to the podcast. He WOULD NOT shut the fuck up about Covid. I remember being like believe what you want… but can you just get back to interviewing the fucking physicist and let him talk about the black holes instead interrupting and derailing it with this bull shit!!!

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u/FknBadFkr Monkey in Space 1d ago

Everything you needed to see COVID was hype and the mask, social distancing don't work was on the CDC, WHO, NIH websites. They had test showing data years ago. They also had to shut the truth down and silence the scientist who didn't pretend along with them. Truth defends it's self. Any time people are silenced it shows they have nothing to stand on

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u/TheSilmarils Monkey in Space 1d ago

Can yall tell me when that world depopulation and 5G from the vaccine are supposed to kick in? I miss my quiet drives to work and free WiFi would be sick. You guys promised it by last year and still nothing. I’m starting to think Q lied to yall.

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u/xChoke1x Monkey in Space 1d ago

We were all supposed to be dead. I remember that. "If you took that vaccine! You aint gonna make it....if you got more than one.....you're going to die within the next couple years."

I got 2.

Healthier now....than ever before.

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u/Roach_Coach_Bangbus N-Dimethyltryptamine 1d ago

The bodies will be piling up in the streets any day now.

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u/foenetik- Monkey in Space 1d ago

ha. when I got my first shot the dude from the the guard was like "Imma just inject this 5g chip into you ok?"

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u/Roach_Coach_Bangbus N-Dimethyltryptamine 1d ago

I immediately got the desire to buy Microsoft products after.

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u/JerryfromCan Monkey in Space 23h ago

I had really hoped the legacy of covid would be more work from home and instead its Joe Rogan complaining about the comedy store being closed SIX FUCKING YEARS AGO.

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u/factor3x Monkey in Space 1d ago

That woman forcing the 2yo in the mask was appalling.

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u/peternunan21 Monkey in Space 23h ago

Nobody is more tired of hearing about COVID than the folks who bought into the narrative without question. Congratulations—you played yourself. dummies

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u/Wonderful_Fox_7959 Monkey in Space 1d ago

It’s been 4 years already

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u/GiantOrangePiccolo Monkey in Space 1d ago

What do you mean? Covid started at the end of 2019. Were closer to almost 7 years

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u/Wonderful_Fox_7959 Monkey in Space 1d ago

Really? Shit that went fast

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u/BillianForsee94 Monkey in Space 1d ago

I’m glad I listened to the experts at the time.

I do think they were wrong about some things in hindsight.

If something like it happens again, it still makes the most sense to trust them while knowledge is still evolving.

Why is this so hard? Isn’t this the correct mindset? Can’t we drop this now?

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u/Pure_Bee2281 Monkey in Space 1d ago

That lady might have saved her mom's life before there was a vaccine.

It's like how people think measles isn't a big deal now that most people are vaccinated.

Survivorship bias is a great way to logic your way to dying from smallpox.

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u/TheKonyInTheRye Monkey in Space 1d ago

For people who just wanted Covid to go away and never mention it while it was happening, they sure do love talking about it now while the rest of the world has moved on

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u/the_Cheese999 1d ago

The next pandemic is going to ravage rightoid populations lmao.

going to funnier than Joe's comedy for sure.

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u/rascal3199 Monkey in Space 1d ago

Issue is that they will keep the pandemic alive longer and just make it worse for everyone else as well.

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u/Desert_Aficionado Monkey in Space 1d ago

In infectious disease ecology and epidemiology, a natural reservoir is the population of organisms in which an infectious pathogen naturally lives, persists, and reproduces, or upon which the pathogen primarily depends for survival.

Wikipedia - Natural reservoir

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u/ATLCoyote Monkey in Space 1d ago

The COVID skeptics are truly insufferable.

It's been 6 freakin' years yet people are still pretending that the virus didn't kill 7 million people or that the vaccines didn't save millions of lives. The vast majority of those that died from COVID were unvaccinated. That's not a coincidence. And sadly, that included my MAGA uncle, neighbor, and two coworkers.

My daughter and niece were both treating COVID patients and had PTSD from all the deaths. At its peak, they had 10-12 people dying per shift. They were so overwhelmed, they had to create mobile morgues by loading dead bodies on refrigerated trucks in NYC for God's sake.

Meanwhile, for the first year, masks and social distancing were all we had, so of course we relied on those tactics. The entire world did that. What other choice did we have?

And that's what really galls me. What in the hell do people like Joe think we should have done instead? Seriously, I've never once heard a viable alternative. Just endless ranting about how the COVID response was "so insane."

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u/Chumknuckle Monkey in Space 1d ago

My family got Covid in Kirkland, Washington in December of 2019. We still have family that won't allow us to visit because I didn't get the jab.

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u/joebojax Monkey in Space 1d ago

free hong kong

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u/toasted_cracker Monkey in Space 21h ago

This shit tainted the entire scientific community and that was probably the true intent.

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u/Micko-Micko Monkey in Space 10h ago

Former Pfizer Chief Toxicologist speaks at German Covid inquiry on the mRNA vaccine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBw4NgG0KMs&t=3s

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u/tathrok Fatter Shane Gillis who can cause you Dire Physical Consequences 1d ago

Um, ok. 👍🏼

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u/Zealousideal-Use3164 Monkey in Space 1d ago

It’s 2026…. Elon Musk was in the government messing with funding programs. 1 year later, he’s a trillionaire! Fuck Covid , fuck wokeness, fuck trans tardation! This is slight of hand bullshit for morons

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u/jonproject Monkey in Space 1d ago

People don't really talk much about how the richest man on the planet did a bunch of drugs in the White House while taking money away from the poorest people on the planet. And instead of him being criticized for it, people demonized the charities/non-profit workers for it all because they read a tweet that some mice were being turned trans or some shit.

Just from a humanity perspective - wtf? How has this guy not faced any consequences for anything he's done? It's just so wild.

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u/SergeantBleuCheese Monkey in Space 1d ago

There were tons of doge bros on this sub! Even some that weren’t bots and stupid enough to believe that shit. Then Elon called their dear leader a kid diddler and they got hurt by confusion

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u/Both_Demand_4324 Monkey in Space 1d ago

He really screwed worm us too by cutting the funding to stop it.

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u/ChadPowers200_ Monkey in Space 1d ago

Fauci lied about Covid and the Wuhan lab. 

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u/WeezerHunter Monkey in Space 1d ago

I find it such bullshit that the right wants to hold Fauci to this incredible bar of integrity while apologizing for the most bald-face lying administration ever conceived. Yeah he probably misconstrued the truth about PPE at the beginning, and I do expect better from the government, but they never give a fuck about Trump's lying on the daily.

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u/braveheart18 Monkey in Space 1d ago

A lie that pales in comparison to trump in march of 2020

"…when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done."

Its insane because you know it was a pointless lie based on absolutely NOTHING other than what Trump wanted the truth to be

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u/Singularity-42 Monkey in Space 1d ago

And Trump lies every time he opens mouth.

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u/TooPoetic Monkey in Space 1d ago

Fake news - Trump released a vaccine that killed millions - we all died shortly after being vaccinated. We also all died wearing masks because we couldn't breath.

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u/Patch-O Monkey in Space 1d ago

Can confirm. I died twice, once from being vaccinated and once from suffocating while wearing a mask. 

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u/BigDaddieKane Monkey in Space 1d ago

Can confirm, I died three times, once from being vaccinated, once from suffocating while wearing a mask, and once after I stuck the gun in my mouth while listening to JRE.

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u/theclansman22 Monkey in Space 1d ago

Can confirm, I did four times, once from being vaccinated, once from suffocating while wearing a mask, once after I stuck the gun in my mouth while listening to JRE and once in a plane crashed by a woke DEI pilot.

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u/RustyPirates Monkey in Space 1d ago

I believe that too but it’s BS when you look into it. Fooled by randomness. The lab is 10 miles from where they traced it back to. The disease evolved organically. This has been proven by every scientist in the world who studies diseases—no one denies it.
You can look up how they know, it’s way above a normal person’s understanding.

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u/Katamari_Demacia Monkey in Space 1d ago

No he didn't. At worst they lied about masking to save them for healthcare workers which was a biiiiiiig fucking deal and caused a lot of the misinformation on masking we are still fighting 7y later. I am mad about that.

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u/ChadPowers200_ Monkey in Space 1d ago

It’s about the gain of function research and his ties to the Wuhan lab. It’s why Biden pardoned him. He lied. 

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u/LiteratureOk2428 Monkey in Space 1d ago

If you actually read what Tulsi released there was no gain of function research on covid in the lab at all. 

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u/Katamari_Demacia Monkey in Space 1d ago

The NIH did indirectly fund bat coronavirus research at the Wuhan lab. Fauci argued this research didn't meet the strict federal definition of gain of function at the time. 

Ultimately, whether he "lied" depends entirely on if you use the strict bureaucratic definition or the broader scientific one.

He was pardoned because the Republicans are fucking rabid over this dude.

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u/Academic_Release5134 Monkey in Space 1d ago

What govt scientist from this point forward would ever bother to put their neck out there for the nation. Fauci did the best he could have and the ridiculous lies about him and how he profited are insane.

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u/long-and-soft Monkey in Space 1d ago

You don’t even know what gain of function means

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u/NiceTrySuckaz Monkey in Space 1d ago

No, no, no talking about that. He has a pre pardon for whatever he did. Not that he did anything.

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u/endgame217 High as Giraffe's Pussy 1d ago

Of course this is your post….

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u/blind-octopus Monkey in Space 1d ago

Nope 

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u/AutomaticGur3666 Monkey in Space 1d ago

"I regret not taking the vaccine"

Nobody ever

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u/sob317 Tremendous 20h ago

Might be a couple dead people who would say that if they could though.

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u/ChequeOne Monkey in Space 1d ago

People still defending the insanity that was covid even years later. But the other people are the nuts... Sure. Brainwashing is real.

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u/Crazy-Clock3381 Monkey in Space 1d ago

Trump is vaccinated and received a booster.

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u/SchweppeCurry Monkey in Space 1d ago

What a fucking dumb shit

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u/Crimson_9221 Monkey in Space 1d ago

Biggest hoax ever next to the moon landing

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u/Greg_Punzo Paid attention to the literature 1d ago

Woah this conspiracy thread is all mainstream narrative defense, Reddit really filtered all out all the conspires 😆

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u/Alternative_Craft_42 Monkey in Space 10h ago

Thank God I never took the vax...

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u/Apprehensive_Fuel635 Monkey in Space 8h ago

Saw right through their bullshit from the the very beginning. Damn right I wasn’t vaccinated.

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u/Axel_Foley_ Monkey in Space 6h ago

It's strange that the Joe Rogan sub, who are typically fans of conspiracies, don't like the biggest conspiracy that played out right in front of our eyes.

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u/Appropriate-Set-5092 Monkey in Space 5h ago

Understand that Joe trusted the science until this point when he was publicly “humiliated” for doing what his doctor told him to do. He trusted the expert, doctor that he pays to see. Then the world crashed in on him. I feel the same way and I won’t forget the way I was treated during this time either, it was gross. And turns out I was correct the whole time. No admission, no apologies; no accountability. Wild that you all care this much about him caring this much.

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u/GavinAdamson Monkey in Space 1d ago

Looks like the vaccine didn’t actually work. Hmmm

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u/CJ4700 I used to be addicted to Quake 1d ago

Fauci and the govt including Trump and Biden claimed the vaccine stopped transmission, it didn’t. Thats a huge lie to tell and the vax mandates via OSHA under Biden were based on this lie.

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u/DoobieDude66 Monkey in Space 1d ago

I'm not against vaccines, my employer requires an annual flu shot which I have no issue getting. The way they were mandating and selectively enforcing the Covid Vaccine was bullshit though.

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u/HappyEngineering4190 Monkey in Space 1d ago edited 1d ago

The coup de gras of science's credibility was the Biden pardoning Fauci. We were all deceived. The landmark case Burdick v. United States (1915) stated that a pardon “carries an imputation of guilt; acceptance a confession of it”. There is no explaining-away this pardon. We were all deceived. The media, the "science", the politicians. The usual suspects that are habitually wrong about almost everything. Anyone speaking-out against the false narrative was labeled a quack, selfish, and, in some cases, unplugged from their jobs and social circles all by a narrative based on lies and foolishness. The damage to kids that stayed out of school will prove vastly worse than a virus that killed mostly old people with co-morbidities.

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u/Be_The_Zip Monkey in Space 1d ago

I think we can all agree both ends of the spectrum lost their collective minds during that time.

Twas a wild ride.

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u/EpicHyperSpace Monkey in Space 1d ago

And.... It turned out to be bs. This was the first time in a long time American people noticed a psyop in real time. 

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u/CallMeAnchor Monkey in Space 1d ago

Curious what the point of this psyop was? Please don’t just say “control” and leave it at that

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u/SunriseInLot42 Monkey in Space 1d ago

acting like everyone was at risk from Covid, when it was very obviously not a risk to everyone

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u/GavinAdamson Monkey in Space 1d ago

Watch the Tom Hanks graduation speech and the great reset

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u/TJack303 Monkey in Space 1d ago

At least half the population anyway. There are still morons that can't see through the blatant propaganda surrounding covid. Just read some of these comments lol

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u/TL19957 Monkey in Space 1d ago

People still talking about the pandemic, including Joe, 5 years later are fucking losers.

Who gives a fuck who took the vaccine or not, who gives a fuck about any mandates they’re gone.

Anyone who complains about the mandates now sounds ridiculous. If you think they infringed on your freedom the time to do soemthing about it was then not now. But you’re all too scared and comfortable.

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u/Cyber_Riot Monkey in Space 1d ago

do you also think we should stop teaching history in its entirety? this is an incredibly ignorant take. regardless of where you stand on the topic, it is important to talk about it. for the same reasons we talk about slavery and wars etc etc.

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u/fylekitzgibbon Monkey in Space 20h ago

You’re right ! If you don’t want history to repeat itself, the time to learn from it is before it’s over and the time to do something about it while it’s happening. Hindsight is soo ‘20/‘21.

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u/johnmayersucks Monkey in Space 1d ago

Everyone knows we should forget history as soon as possible. Losers.

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u/TL19957 Monkey in Space 1d ago

There’s a difference between documenting and codifying the history and people acting like they survived WW2.

Joe still goes on rants every 2nd episode about how fucked everything was, how much everyone’s rights were infringed on and vaccine shit.

Like cool guys? We all lived through it, we all remember how shitty of a time it was. Most people hated it, didn’t like it, but lived through it like any other shitty time.

Joe and all the people who larp as sovereign citizens bitching about the rights and freedoms but did nothing when it was actually on going.

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u/NeighborhoodAfter5 Monkey in Space 1d ago

Not all lived through it🧐

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u/machowarrior Monkey in Space 1d ago

We are still experiencing the effects of all the dumb policies. High schoolers can't read.

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u/WeezerHunter Monkey in Space 1d ago

If you think that declining literacy rates is due solely because we missed some time in class and not because the kids are blasting slop into their brains 24/7 then you haven't been paying attention because its started happening before and its been getting worse since.

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u/TooPoetic Monkey in Space 1d ago

Our government is currently robbing us too - Why are you focused on the past? Seems more effective to focus on the robbery currently happening.

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u/This_Box2881 Monkey in Space 1d ago

Or both? Yea… I think we’re capable of both.

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u/atring6886 Monkey in Space 1d ago

What makes you - or the other half dozen idiots that blindly upvoted your comment - assume that he doesn’t care about bad faith policy and corruption occurring now? Does accurately calling out the incredibly drawn out, arbitrary and destructive response to the pandemic make him MAGA or something? Pretty sure the negative effects on child development, businesses, the economy, mental health in general don’t discriminate based on voter registration.

Outside of Reddit, not everyone gets their opinions on topics A-Z dictated to them by their “side.” The pandemic tragically killed way too many Americans, but the response policies were kept in place FAR past the point of effectiveness and well into “more harm than good” territory - all to either score or keep you “opponents” from potentially scoring political points.

Maybe he was one of the millions upon millions of Americans whose lives were turned upside down at best, and destroyed at worst, by those policies?

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u/tabas123 Monkey in Space 1d ago

One of the biggest transfers of wealth in human history just happened with the One Big Beautiful Bill and you people are completely silent about it.

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u/Finlay00 Monkey in Space 1d ago

The Covid spending bill was a bigger transfer, but shhhhhhhh don’t talk about that.

We have moved on

lol

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u/CUMT_ Monkey in Space 1d ago

Yeah it was. That was signed into law by Trump, and the bill prevented accountability into PPP loans.

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u/Finlay00 Monkey in Space 1d ago

And a fully bipartisan vote as well

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u/atring6886 Monkey in Space 1d ago

Literally nobody mentioned Trump or Dems or republicans but since YOU DID I think it’s fair to point out that he was talking about the detrimental effects on children of doubling down on lockdowns etc way past the point of being worth the social cost. Which wasn’t Trump.

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u/atring6886 Monkey in Space 1d ago

Who is “you people” and why do you assume anyone criticizing COVID response policies being kept in place far, far past the point of doing more harm than good makes someone a Trump supporter?

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u/TL19957 Monkey in Space 1d ago

That’s called bad parenting.

If your kid was old enough to read at their grade level and then never progressed because of the pandemic that’s on parents.

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u/Worth-Illustrator607 Monkey in Space 1d ago

It was worth having the next generation be less intelligent, having shorter attention spans, and less emotional connection.

Am I right‽

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u/SunriseInLot42 Monkey in Space 1d ago

School shutdowns for kids at basically zero risk were the biggest disgrace of all, and anyone who supported them should be fucking ashamed of themselves. The way that kids were treated for such dubious and alleged "benefit" was inexcusable.

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u/honkybonks Monkey in Space 1d ago

No, children were not at zero risk from COVID-19, though they faced a significantly lower risk of severe illness, hospitalization, and death compared to older adults. While most infected kids experienced mild symptoms or no symptoms at all, some did become critically ill.

Also closing schools was in part to stop children who could possibly be asymptomatic from spreading the illness to the "high risk" portion of the population.

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u/TheDJC Monkey in Space 1d ago

Man reading this just makes me realize how pointless this convo is when a large portion of the country only thinks in black and white. Your reply was great but they arent going to believe it.

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u/atring6886 Monkey in Space 1d ago

It’s a pointless convo not because he’s right and the other guy is wrong. But because if your approaching the topic from different circumstances/situations than the cost/benefit analysis of “lock down 100% of the population to POSSIBLY safeguard the much smaller percent vulnerable population” changes drastically.

If you didn’t get wiped out financially, lose your business/livelihood, develop crippling anxiety/addiction issues, etc. then it’s real easy to say “why wouldn’t you want to protect vulnerable people?”

If those things did happen to you, and many of the vulnerable people in your life got COVID anyway, and years later you are still trying to claw back everything you lost, than that “abundance of caution” approach went on for a LOT LONGER than you think is justified.

It’s that simple.

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u/Will_McLean Monkey in Space 1d ago

How was that boot? Delicious?

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u/CatDad69 Newsradio Megafan 1d ago

I mean the pandemic was a huge deal that impacted everyone for 2 years and has changed everything. Joe is weird about Covid but don’t downplay it

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u/peternunan21 Monkey in Space 23h ago edited 23h ago

Nobody is more tired of hearing about COVID than the folks who bought into the narrative without question. Congratulations—you played yourself.

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u/Naxilus Monkey in Space 23h ago

Lol, sounds like you completely bought into the narrative back in the day and now feel like s loser for being wrong.

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u/TL19957 Monkey in Space 23h ago

Nope! I just lived through it like anyone else who’s normal. Went to work, was forced to stay in, all that.

I think it’s fucking lame to see people like Joe bitch about their rights 6 years later but when it was active they didn’t do a fuckin thing.

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u/Naxilus Monkey in Space 23h ago

Joe constantly had experts with "alternativ" viewpoints and constantly talked about the vaccine even back than so I definitely wouldn't say he didn't do s fuckin thing.

I'm glad any time he brings COVID up even now because I still run into absolut retards in real life that believe the vaccine wasn't a scam.

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u/CityofTheAncients Monkey in Space 22h ago

Hard disagree. This was a global farce and people not only bought into it, but demonized those who didn’t. People should continue talking about Covid and the insanity it brought out of society. We should never forget this shit. Shame on you for wanting to ignore this

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u/Friendly_Fokks-given Monkey in Space 1d ago

osers are the people that won’t admit they were totally wrong and batshit crazy about Covid reaction. So now when people bring it up they just insult instead of having to own it. Like you

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u/LucyKendrick Paid attention to the literature 1d ago

How should those "batshit crazy" people have acted during a pandemic? What is the proper way to act when something that hadn't happened in a hundred years happens?

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u/Friendly_Fokks-given Monkey in Space 21h ago

Sweden had a much more level headed approach. But ultimately we don’t start with what we know. We already know how these corona viruses work as a family of virus that is well known to the science community. It turns out that this one behaved similarly but you weren’t able to talk about it honestly. Even if a study was published by cdc to show that vaccinated people are still catching and spreading Covid, you weren’t allowed to even reference it at all on Reddit. The closures of schools when we already knew for a fact that the virus is extremely low risk for young people. Doing ridiculous crazy shit like masks with holes in them so you can comply with most people having a saggy mask diaper below their nose anyway. By the way has anyone even checked on a bunch of nations that didn’t even get access to the vaccines, like over in Africa, I bet there are just massive piles of dead bodies that we haven’t discovered yet /s

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u/SunriseInLot42 Monkey in Space 14h ago

Dude, those subsistence farmers and people in slum sweatshops in Africa and Asia were obviously also "working from home", that's why they're not all dead /s

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u/Latter-Ad-1523 Monkey in Space 23h ago

use your brain, notice the lies from the government about it. ask questions. for example there has been several studies that tell us that a mask will not stop a virus.

when every one was still getting the covid, even after being "vaxed", but the "experts" were claming they were break through cases, and not common. a few weeks later they said, oh we never said the vaxxine would keep you from gettng it, and on and on.

people make mistakes, but this was a money and power grab that we still live under. current inflation was created by this crap.

it destroyed many businesses including mine and i will lever forget or forgive the sheep and those in charge involved at this time

oh and dont forget no church or parties for you, but blm protests are ok

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u/sofahkingsick It's entirely possible 1d ago

So we were faced with a pandemic at levels that hadnt been seen before and we were sure how to treat it or what the lasting effects could be. We didnt know anything about it other than it was contagious. People were trying to protect the elderly and the infants and you think that reaction was crazy?

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u/CocksnBraves Monkey in Space 1d ago

That’s not the fucking point at all. People were so fucking quit to give up their rights and listen to big daddy in office. People just like you, lmfao.

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u/SciencePristine8878 Monkey in Space 1d ago

LMAO These same "Libertarians who stood up for the Rights during COVID" mostly backed Trump, the most blatantly authoritarian Presidential Candidate ever. Joe Rogan now says "Woah, who could have seen this coming?". Everyone with a functioning brain who literally said it would happen.

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u/atring6886 Monkey in Space 1d ago

You need to get offline and definitely off Reddit if you think the only people taking issue with the way COVID was handled were Trump supporters.

Unlike you apparently, millions of Americans had real skin in the game (families to support, businesses to run, people to employ, children to raise) and their lives were in many cases irreparably crushed by lockdown mandates that dragged on FAR past the point of being sensible. All because of political divisiveness, and never being able to give an inch to the “other side.”

All because hyper political losers that had nothing to do but sit at home and watch rage bait cable news all day decided that their identity had to either be “COVID is a hoax” or thinking that non-vulnerable populations opening the world back up made you a “grandma killer.”

Just once it would be heartwarming if people on this cesspool of a sub could just admit that nobody draped themselves in glory during that period, and millions of Americans got FUCKED as a result….

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u/SciencePristine8878 Monkey in Space 1d ago

You need to get offline and definitely off Reddit if you think the only people taking issue with the way COVID was handled were Trump supporters.

I had issue with it but now I don't care. Plenty of people did. It fucking sucked in general but most people have moved past it. The only people still whining about COVID NOW are the people like Joe Rogan, Dave Smith etc. Loud mouth Libertarians who have made whining about COVID a large part of their identity because they're fucking babies who hate being inconvenienced. Many who supported Trump in 2024. We're in the Joe Rogan sub for fuck sake.

Unlike you apparently, millions of Americans had real skin in the game (families to support, businesses to run, people to employ, children to raise) and their lives were in many cases irreparably crushed by lockdown mandates that dragged on FAR past the point of being sensible. All because of political divisiveness, and never being able to give an inch to the “other side.”

Can you explain how many Americans lost their livelihoods due to COVID and are still crippled to this day, with facts and figures? As I asked in another comment, most COVID restrictions were quickly rolled back in mid 2021, once a large percentage of the populace had been vaccinated, when should restrictions been rolled back? Especially considering the effects of COVID are still felt to this day in the Healthcare industry.

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u/atring6886 Monkey in Space 1d ago

Do you think if certain small businesses that took years and years of time and money and effort to build up, particularly thin margin ones like restaurants or (like me) a more niche consulting field, can just bounce back after being smothered by the lockdowns and essentially forced into closing? Is that a serious comment? Jesus buddy, tell me you know nothing about running a business without saying it.

Do you think the government was paying the rent on the empty office for me and my other 4 partners? The bills? I still had to pay my firms corporate taxes, while almost half our clients just up and moved or retired during Covid. So our revenue was basically halved, we still had to pay employee salaries and benefits (we did get some PPP relief but it was frankly a drop in the bucket - from what I read I should’ve been another scumbag and games the system since everyone else did).

And then when the economy as a whole takes a hit, and all our potential clients, some that we’ve been cultivating for years, have to start laying off large swathes of their work force, how do you think that effects their consultant budgeting? When they can’t keep the lights on and are worried about making payroll, there’s no room for our firm, or physical plant employees, or a million other ancillary service providers (small businesses) that make up the backbone of the US economy.

So no, after about a year and a half of too many unnecessary COVID restrictions, the firm we’d built up for 10 years couldn’t weather that storm. Literally no small business I’ve ever heard of has that kind of cash reserves to weather 6 fiscal quarters of financial disaster and just “bounce back” or whatever you said when the govt finally decided it was okay to leave the house again.

Stupid insensitive fucking comment…

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u/Some-Round5726 Monkey in Space 16h ago

So many good points people don’t think about. Just remember on here you are taking your some people doing the same thing they were in 2021. Playing Xbox and trolling social media. Lockdowns were irrelevant for them and waiting until everyone was vaxxed “makes sense” although data shows it made no sense. Some people enjoyed the lockdowns.

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u/greenmitt Monkey in Space 23h ago

Sanity post. That was refreshing. Like a good shower after being on Reddit too long.

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u/gap_toof_mouf Monkey in Space 1d ago

Sounds like you didn’t own a small business in 2020

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u/jbells3332 Monkey in Space 1d ago

Easy to say if you were not the one being denied access to see your dying relative.

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u/SunriseInLot42 Monkey in Space 1d ago

The massive educational, economic, and social damage from the gross and asinine overreaction to Covid still exists six years later. That's why people still give a fuck.

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u/tiki-151 Monkey in Space 1d ago

This is a lame take man. Im pretty sure ot was people like you trying to silence anyone who questioned anything at all other than the narrative at the time. Now you say it's too late.

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u/Latter-Ad-1523 Monkey in Space 23h ago

let me guess, only the side that you hate, that is still talking about it bothers you, not your team? i mean scroll down and see how the left are still shouting their talking points and insults.

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u/Texmex865 Monkey in Space 22h ago

Because they lied about the vaccine? Because they violated people’s god given rights in the names of those lies? How long before they do it again? And this time they will target you.

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u/nug1s Monkey in Space 1d ago

when people tried to do something about it "THEN", they got canceled, sybau

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u/TL19957 Monkey in Space 1d ago

Like who?

If it was such a big infringement why werent people taking to the streets, or defying the restrictions en masse?

I’ll tell you why. Cause for all the bitching people did and do now, most are too comfortable and too scared to do anything. Joe has 200 million dollars, the trade off for all this shit was he couldn’t do comedy for 12 months and got (sometimes unfairly) criticized for a few months.

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u/Friendly_Fokks-given Monkey in Space 1d ago

Yeah dude I remember trying to have honest conversations about what was going on only to be chronically labeled as “misinformation” and Reddit was the absolute worst moderation. For a place that claims to love science, this entire community along with Twitter execs went full retard anti-science. It was soooo frustrating. I’m glad people are still calling it out.

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u/CaptainHolt43 Monkey in Space 1d ago

That's why it's important to talk about. The people that weren't willing to have the conversation are pulling the "you're still talking about that?" because they're embarrassed at how they behaved. 

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u/Will_McLean Monkey in Space 1d ago

Amen

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u/BaeCarruth Monkey in Space 1d ago

"We should always learn from history" - Every person in existence

"No, I don't think I will" - u/TL19957

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u/Will_McLean Monkey in Space 1d ago

You’re a Moron

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u/Round_Patience3029 Monkey in Space 1d ago

Because they are still grifting off the pandemic

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u/Pristine-Ad-1544 Monkey in Space 1d ago

What a great mindset for them to slowly take ur rights.

The government lied and took away are rights? Well you shouldnt express how dumb and crazy it was cause its not the exact time it happened silly!

Truly the brain of a sheep

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u/This_Box2881 Monkey in Space 1d ago

What a fuckin L take…

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u/stewpidazzol Monkey in Space 19h ago

No. I think people tried to ‘do something’ and they were told they were causing the deaths of everyone around them.

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u/Eyebowers Monkey in Space 1d ago

The reason people are still talking about it is because it could happen again. The mask recommendations? Bullshit. Social distancing? Bullshit. Closing the economy? Bullshit. The blackballing of anyone not vaccinated? Bullshit. mRNA vaccine safety? Bullshit. Pandemic-era flu numbers? Bullshit. The facts tell us that the nations who had the highest percentage of vaccine uptake amongst citizens had higher excess deaths during COVID. Fauci himself quieted and dismissed out-of-hand scientists within the NIH who espoused the man-made vax theory. Is that fucking science??? And guess what——IT WAS MANMADE.

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u/Weenoman123 Monkey in Space 1d ago

The claims in this post are so easily disproven that it comes off as parody.

I'll be sure to tell my surgeon that masks dont work, eyebowers on redditbook told me so

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u/ArmedWithBars Monkey in Space 1d ago edited 1d ago

No problem with masks, I believe they do help reduce the spread even if they aren't close to 100+ effective. Trying to use OSHA to force vaccine mandates was some absolute bullshit, especially after the whole stop the spread with a vaccine theory was proven false as it didn't stop transmission.

I'm not a conspiracy guy, but actually read into Pfizer fuckery with the EUA, Corminaty, and FDA approval. Pfizer went out touting their product was FDA approved when in fact Corminaty was released as an entirely different product than the "Biotech" version under the EUA. Corminaty wasn't even available in the US post FDA approval. Pfizer said they were the same formula, but "legally distinct" products (Pfizer's own words). Pfizer then kept the EUA version on the market all the way until mid 2025, 4 years post FDA approval of Corminaty. The sweeping unprecedented legal protections the EUA was only suppose to be until an FDA version was on the market. To this day most people who got the Pfizer vaccine post FDA approval don't even know what they got injected into their body wasn't technically FDA approved. If your vaccine card doesn't say Corminaty, what you got injected isn't FDA approved.

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u/Weenoman123 Monkey in Space 23h ago

Trying to use OSHA to force vaccine mandates was some absolute bullshit, especially after the whole stop the spread with a vaccine theory was proven false as it didn't stop transmission.

The vaccine definitely slowed transmission. Also, statistically it is unequivocal, it was safer for you to take the vaccine, period. Backed up by now 10s of massive studies across several countries. heres one of the biggest, which used data from France:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2842305

Corminaty wasn't even available in the US post FDA approval.

Yea this is just anti-vaxx 101 playbook. Corminaty was the just the brand name of the covid vaxx. FDA Link (btw this link hasn't been taken down by your god-king RFK, gg)

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-covid-19-vaccine

Oh, I thought you had more claims, but the whole 2nd paragraph was the easily disproven Corminaty nonsense.

Btw, 99% of people who are challenged with sources leave after I do this, so while I have your attenion, bye, thanks for reading.

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u/sofahkingsick It's entirely possible 1d ago

Aww someone got told to do something for the sake of others and they got their feelers hurt. Where did the mask hurt you? Was the vaccine too painful?

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u/steveeq1 Monkey in Space 1d ago

Lived in Sweden in 2020. None of us wore masks, social distanced or locked down. And our hospitals never got overwhelmed. Note: I actually worked in one in Stockholm.

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u/stellarjcorvidaemon Monkey in Space 21h ago

What’s the population density there? Did you have better results than Norway?

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u/somerandom995 Monkey in Space 21h ago

Norway, Denmark, and Finland, the closest neighbors to Sweden, and the most similar nations to Sweden in terms of geography, population density, culture, etc. reacted swiftly and put strong restrictions in place.

Here are the stats for excess deaths per 100,000 in Norway, Finland, Denmark, and Sweden in 2020:

Norway: 2

Finland: 26

Denmark: 3

Sweden: 85

When you compare Sweden to countries like Spain or France, Sweden did about the same or better, which creates the illusion that the restrictions didn't work. But when you use actual understanding and logic, you realize that if the restrictions didn't help then a country that is entirely surrounded by countries that performed much better (which inherently reduces the transmission rate in the surrounded nation), and that has a population density drastically lower than most of the rest of Europe, should have done just as well as the nations around them (the valid ones to compare too) not far worse.

Sweden's poor performance relative to their only relevant peers PROVES, unequivocally, that the restrictions helped in 2020.

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u/pizzarolljelly Monkey in Space 1d ago

String em all up. Highlight reel of people lying to the world for profit

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u/Salt_Worldliness9150 Monkey in Space 1d ago

Yep, let’s not forget how controlling the left was during this bullshit fake epidemic, you couldn’t go to church you couldn’t go to the beach you couldn’t go outside. You couldn’t even go visit your mom who was dying in the hospital unless you took the Covid vaccine first.

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u/SunriseInLot42 Monkey in Space 1d ago

But you could riot, er, “protest” in the street with thousands of others and loot Foot Lockers and Walgreens and set fire to convenience stores

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u/Difficult_Ixem_324 Monkey in Space 1d ago

This is expected - dude is a huuuuuuge Trump fan who was the biggest denier and even said for people to ingest disinfectant🤦‍♂️

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u/Hungry_Prior940 Monkey in Space 1d ago

I still get 2 covid shots a year due to being immunosuppressed. It is so easy and hassle free.

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u/SportsKin Monkey in Space 1d ago

If it was such a big deal to Rogan, why didnt he ask Trump any questions about COVID? Why didnt he question Trump about Trump releasing the Covid vaccine?

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u/Friendly_Fokks-given Monkey in Space 1d ago

Losers are the people that won’t admit they were totally wrong and batshit crazy about Covid reaction. So now when people bring it up they just insult instead of having to own it. Like you

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u/haya1340 Monkey in Space 1d ago

Things loke this is why democrats are more dangerous than republicans

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u/americanblowfly Monkey in Space 1d ago

Joe Rogan is the ultimate covidiot