As the omicron coronavirus variant blazes throughout the United States and as more
and more hospitals become overwhelmed with unvaccinated Covid patients as a result.
Ben Shapiro has decided to share his theory on what's actually leading to those
hospitals being overwhelmed.
He doesn't think that it's because people are unvaccinated.
He thinks it's because there are vaccine mandates.
Well, maybe he has a point, who knows?
Let's hear what he has to say.
>> You know, it seems like the the president won his election because of,
he was said to be the one that can fight the virus.
That that has been a lie.
I don't think anybody really had the tools to fight the virus.
Is a virus.
You can only mitigate things by giving stakes the tools.
So I guess my question is, if he won because of that,
will he lose because of that as well?
I mean, I think the answer is yes.
The president over promised and under delivered, he made a promise that was
a complete lie and that was that he was going to be able to shut down the virus.
As you say, no one has the capacity to shut down this virus as we've seen
in states that have extraordinarily high percentages of their citizens vaccinated
are still seeing huge spikes.
Now, what's amazing about all of this that we're seeing right now is that people
are panicking over omicron.
Omicron is not causing mass death, it is not causing mass hospitalization.
In fact, the problems that we're having in terms of hospital shortages are largely
due to the vaccine mandates and a lot of healthcare workers who are not going back
to work because they are not allowed to work.
The reality is that in half the country right now people are living normal lives.
They're going about their daily business and another half of the country and
in the halls of the White house, precisely the opposite is true.
There's a mandate for
everyone to panic no matter whether the data supports the panic or not.
>> All right, so there's a lot to unpack there.
I just want to make a few quick points.
Starting with the argument that Biden over promised and under delivered.
Listen, I remember Biden telling the American people in a press conference in
an address to the American people that hey, we're going to roll out the vaccine.
Please get vaccinated and by the fourth of July, this is supposed to be fourth of
July of 2021, you'll be able to go to the barbecues and enjoy yourselves.
The thing that, I think people have a hard time understanding about a novel virus,
is that the situation is unfortunately fluid and things change and so
yes, it does appear that he over promised.
But I don't think that, look at the time,
everyone believed that if we get most people vaccinated will be in the clear.
But here's the truth, if most people are vaccinated, fully vaccinated,
they are in the clear in that it is very unlikely that they will be hospitalized or
that they will die from coronavirus, our breakthrough infections possible.
Yes, but even as the number of Covid cases rise as a result of new variants,
if most people are vaccinated, the number of hospitalizations shouldn't rise.
And if you look at hospitals right now, the ones that are overwhelmed
are overwhelmed with unvaccinated coronavirus patients,
we want to avoid that.
That is the heart of the issue here.
And they seem to I don't know why I have some sort of vested interest in
withholding that information from their audience and I don't know like why.
>> Yeah, well let me try to break it down in a couple of ways.
So first off unbind you've seen us criticize him 1000 times and I'd probably
call him a liar more than any left wing or right wing or anyone in the middle.
And so I can list all the things that he said he was going to do.
And he didn't do it at all and he never intended to do.
But I don't think this one's behind Biden at all.
So and you could see in that question, what the right wing agenda was and
we should have seen it earlier, which is, he said,
well if you can't control the virus, I guess he should lose the election, right?
Meanwhile they've been telling their audience don't get vaccinated,
don't get vaccinated.
>> Good point.
>> And now they're saying, look at that, coronavirus is out of control,
if Trump lost because of it, I guess Biden should lose because of it.
How callous they are is grotesque.
So now Biden handled the coronavirus perfectly,
know we've talked about different things he should have done,
including having more tests out there etcetera.
But overall that's the one area where he's done pretty well.
They did pass a covid relief bill.
They have actually pushed for science and the right wing says because again,
they know their audience doesn't care about logic.
They say now remember being unvaccinated is awesome.
Can you believe Biden's got all these hospitals film?
But wait a minute hospitals are filled with unvaccinated.
No, it all makes sense now, because remember earlier this week we shared
a story regarding Red States who are furious over the fact that the Biden
administration is trying to distribute the monoclonal antibody treatments which
are limited and in short supply evenly across all states that needed, right?
There were seven states that were hoarding the vast majority of
the monoclonal antibody treatments that were available.
And all of those states happened to be red states that have discouraged people from
getting vaccinated.
The only state in that list that has above 50% full vaccination rate is Florida.
But the point is, the reason why I bring that up is because they want to have their
cake and eat it too.
They want to give the perception that coronavirus is out of control and
Biden should lose his reelection campaign as a result of that.
But in an effort to prevent deaths, it's like Regeneron monoclonal antibodies,
like we need to get our hands on that to mitigate the damage that we're doing to
our own freaking constituents with this disinformation.
Totally, and so one last thing about Shapiro sleight of hand,
that's what we break down here, he says.
So, some of the states with the biggest vaccination rates still have hospital
surges, but he didn't tell you who's in the hospital.
>> Right.
>> Even though they have big vaccination rates, they still have a significant
minority that are unvaccinated because of people like Ben Shapiro and
Joe Rogan Tucker Carlson etcetera.
Now It's the unvaccinated that are over 90% of the people in the hospitals.
Now, that's not us saying it, it's every doctor, it's every hospital saying,
including in red states, rural areas, go check your actual,
talk to your actual doctors and hospitals in your area.
They'll tell you the same thing.
So you see that, they get you guys, if you're a right winger,
they get they endanger your health and
your life and then they go, you see that you should blame Biden for it.
Worst people on earth.