Charlie Kirk recklessly spread
false information about people
dying from the coronavirus vaccine.
I mean, this lie is so outrageous
and based on faulty information,
and we already know
what the consequences are,
we know what the ramifications are.
But I want you to hear what he has
to say here, we'll debunk it and
make sure if you hear this again,
you understand why it's a lie.
Take a look.
>> The new VAERS data,
according to the CDC website VAERS
is a public portal that you can
plug into the vaccine adverse event
reporting system, shows that there
is as many as 12,313 deaths,
After getting the vaccine.
We've also gone into
detail about how the VAERS and
the FDA according to the study
of the Electronic Support for
Public Health Vaccine Adverse Event
Reporting System shows that it
really might only reflect 1%.
So if VAERS is off by 99%,
that only 1.2 million people
died after getting the vaccine.
>> You heard it here, folks.
Charlie Kirk thinks that as many as
1.2 million people have died from
the coronavirus vaccine,
what does he basing it on?
First, a database that's
open source, meaning anyone
can write in it, and it's not
necessarily credible, and I'll get
to those details in a second.
And then he tries to do a little
math, and gives you or ends up with
the 1.2 million figure.
Now, VAERS, what is VAERS?
It's important to know what VAERS
is because it's not someplace you
go to get peer-reviewed data on
something that's been investigated
properly by doctors and
healthcare experts.
No, that's not
what's happening here.
In fact, if you go to the website
that he's referring to here,
there's a disclaimer, there's
an important disclaimer that he's
not telling his audience about.
A disclaimer on the VAERS website
says, the reports alone cannot be
used to determine if a vaccine
caused or contributed to an adverse
event or illness, in part because
they may include incomplete,
inaccurate, coincidental,
and unverified information.
People accessing the database
must click an option that says that
they've read and
understood the disclaimer.
Meaning that if Charlie Kirk
actually went to that website, he
had to say yes, that he understood.
He clicked on that disclaimer, but
he's spreading the misinformation
anyway, he's doing it anyway
because that's his bread and
butter, this is what he does.
Discouraging people from getting
a life-saving vaccine is what he is
interested in doing here.
He knows what the truth is.
I would be shocked if Charlie Kirk
hadn't gotten vaccinated himself.
But Charlie Kirk's own close friend
died from this coronavirus.
The person who co-founded Turning
Point USA died from the virus.
He didn't care about his friends,
certainly he doesn't
care about you.
So he'll spread this
disgusting disinformation.
Dr. Richie, what do you think?
>> I don't like him professionally,
and I really don't like
him personally.
>> Same.
>> And when you do something like
that because it's an obvious
violation of the trust that
people have in you, right?
When you're willing
to do something like that knowing
what the truth is, it shows me that
you are a bonafide sell-out,
that's what you want.
And every motivation you have for
what you're doing right now is
motivated by money because people
will keep paying him to say these
ridiculous things.
And he's willing to give them all
of this ridiculous rhetoric about
COVID-19, the vaccination.
And not even shared with his
audience, the reality of what
the portal is about, right?
He just decides not to share that
but to share this ridiculous
mathematical equation he made up
himself.
And this is where I'm a regulation
guy, right?
I don't think people like that
should have access to platforms.
And I know that people will push
back and say, Doc,
that's going too far.
But you got to think about this and
this is going to be a sobering
statement, and I hate to say it,
people are going to die because of
that man.
>> 100%,
I'd be shocked if people haven't
already died because of him.
I think that people like Charlie
Kirk should face serious legal
consequences for intentionally
lying to people- >> Yeah.
>> About the vaccine.
He knows, Charlie Kirk knows he
comes from a well-to-do family,
he knows what the truth is, he has
to click on that disclaimer before
he has access to the VAERS website.
He knows that it's open-source,
he knows that it's not reliable,
he knows that it's not official
numbers connecting deaths to the
vaccine, but he does this anyway.
Because this is the kind of
disinformation nonsense that he's
cultivated throughout his entire
media career, if you can even call
it that, that's what he's been
doing from the beginning.
But it's not so funny and
it's not so cute when you do this
in regard to a deadly pandemic.
>> Right. >> When you do
this in response to a vaccine that
literally saves people's lives, but
he doesn't care,
these people don't care.
That's the thing that,
look, we live under a system that
communicates to us daily,
that profits should always take
priority over people's lives.
Profits over people,
profit over people,
we get that communication day in,
day out.
So are we really shocked that
people are going to value financial
incentives over people's lives?
I'm not shocked, it's just
incredible how they're able to
continue doing this every single
day knowing that people are dying.
And I feel there's no way of
stopping it, really.
>> Yeah.
>> Because we do have
First Amendment Protections, right?
I think you do start entering some
pretty sketchy territory when you
talk about censoring people.
But there needs to be legal
recourse, there needs to be a way
of going after people like
Charlie Kirk, who are intentionally
spreading these lies that
are getting people killed or people
are dying because of his lies.
>> Yeah, that's right, and
remember, he's not talking about
some alien conspiracy theory.
He's not talking about
the flat Earth, right?
He's talking about something that
literally will lead to the death of
other people.
And if we're not able to at least
take a closer look at what our
rules and regulations are in this
society, when it relates to your
misinformation, your intentional
misinformation leading to the death
of other individuals in the middle
of a freaking pandemic.
Then do we really have great
country?
Are we really exercising our
freedom of life?
This notion that we're supposed to
be able to express how we feel,
yes, but at the same time when
there are dangerous operators like
him, there should be a protection
in place.
So that he does not create carnage,
actual bodies dying because of his
intentional abuse of the freedom of
speech.