Conservatives are expressing
displeasure at being referred to as
the unvaccinated.
And they're expressing their
displeasure on social
media platforms like TikTok.
In fact,
the word that they would like used
to describe them is pureblood.
They want to be called pureblood.
I think that's worse,
the new pureblood trend seems to
have gotten a big boost from
conservative TikTok influencer,
Lindsey Marie in a post shared last
week that had hashtags
like #pureblood and #unvaccinated.
Well, let's hear from
Lyndsey Marie.
Let's see what this influencer has
suggested we do.
>> So I'm just sitting here and
I'm thinking, from now on I refuse
to be referred to as unvaccinated.
I want everyone to now call me
a pureblood.
>> You're telling us how we should
refer to you, the people who
refusing to get vaccinated
during a global pandemic,
where more than 650,000
Americans have already died.
Where schools have to keep shutting
down, closing, reopening,
shutting down again.
Where hospitals are overwhelmed
with unvaccinated COVID patients.
I'm sorry, are we inconveniencing
you by referring to you with the
correct accurate word unvaccinated?
Does that offend you?
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
You want to be called pureblood?
And what s this goofball nonsense?
No, it goes to the issue and
we repeat it over and over again,
of entitlement.
That they're the victims.
We're not referring to them with
their preferred nickname, or
their preferred description.
We are the bad guys.
The unvaccinated don't like that.
No, no,
no, I am entitled to be referred to
as pureblood.
No, I'm going to call you whatever
the hell I want.
The video has since racked
up nearly a quarter million views,
probably more at this point.
And Lindsey Marie is now promising
her followers and
here comes the grift,
that align of pureblood merch,
which will feature an image of
a lion and the text pureblood,
unmasked, unvaxxed, unafraid.
I mean it's just, it's clown stuff.
Leanne star 23 also took
the analogy step further because of
course, how could they not.
In like five, ten years,
maybe less all the people who
are unvaccinated, we're going to be
hunted, she warns.
It's going to be like
Resident Evil.
We're going to be the antidote
because everyone else is whatever,
and we're going to be the only
ones with pure blood.
I mean, it reminds me of the story
that we did, I don't know, a few
weeks ago, about the unvaccinated
men who think that their semen is
going to be a hot commodity.
They're like, everyone's going to
want that unvaccinated semen.
No, no, we're not.
Pretty sure we're not going to
want that.
Pretty sure it's,
we find you repulsive,
not interested.
But these people they're so
self important.
They're like, yeah, everyone's
going to want our pure blood,
our pure unvaccinated blood.
I mean, no, definitely not.
And I hope you survive COVID to be
able to experience us telling you
no, we're not interested.
Let's go to one more video of yet
another TikToker.
>> So I'm just sitting over here
thinking instead of being known as
or qualified as unvaccinated,
you can start referring to me as
a pureblood, thanks.
>> Look I can't get
past the sense of entitlement.
I can't get past it.
Putting themselves up on a pedestal
that's like, I am going to tell you
how you need to refer to me.
I do not want to be referred to
as unvaccinated,
I have now a pureblood.
No, no, I'm going to call you
whatever I want.
What are you talking about?
How are you the one who is
aggrieved right now?
How are they the ones that
are aggrieved right now?
What is going on?
I love how they somehow put
themselves in the position of
being the individuals who have
been wronged.
They're calling us unvaccinated,
the injustice.
But let's talk about the real
injustice because as we
know coronavirus is something that
is incredibly serious
if you happen to be unvaccinated.
However, if you're vaccinated,
the likelihood of being
hospitalized with COVID is,
I mean almost non existent.
99% of COVID patients who
are hospitalized right now
happen to be unvaccinated.
So the best way to prevent
hospitalization is to get
a vaccine.
But it also prevents you from
dying, right?
We know that.
So since hospitals are completely
overwhelmed right now with COVID-19
patients who are unvaccinated,
people who have medical emergencies
are getting turned away from
hospitals.
I would argue that they have more
of a reason to be aggrieved, right?
I think they're the ones who might
have something to complain about.
So let me give you some statistics
from various states.
Let's go to the last graphic here.
The federal government's
latest data shows Alabama is
at 100% capacity of its intensive
care unit.
And then Texas, Georgia,
Mississippi and Arkansas,
all right,
more than 90% ICU capacity.
Florida is just under 90%.
I understand that statewide, so
you might live in a part of Florida
or Georgia that's
completely overwhelmed.
You'll get turned away.
They might tell you the only ICU
bed that's available, you're in
South Florida, you gotta go north,
400 miles or something.
I mean,
that's how serious the situation
has gotten because of people
who refuse to get vaccinated.
Because of unvaccinated people
overwhelming these hospitals.
And there are real consequences for
that, people die as a result
of that.
Not from COVID, although COVID
patients are dying as well.
What about people who have medical
emergencies, because medical
emergencies happen and
they can't get a bed in a hospital.
They can't get the care that
they need because of people like
the individuals that we just saw
promoting the notion that not
getting vaccinated is great.
It makes you a good person,
makes you a pureblood.
I'm going to give you a few
specific examples of people who
have died as a result of not having
the ability
to find an open ICU bed.
Let's go to the first video.
>> This was US Army veteran Daniel
Wilkinson on an emergency room
stretcher shortly before he died.
Last Saturday Wilkinson's mother
Michelle PJ rushed him to
Belle Ville Medical Center, just
three doors down from their home.
But for Wilkinson,
help was still too far away.
Dr. Hassan Kak Lee treated
Wilkinson and he discovered that he
had gallstone pancreatitis,
something the Belleville Hospital
was not equipped to treat.
Wilkinson needed a higher level of
care, but with hospitals across
Texas and much of the South,
overwhelmed with COVID patients,
there was no place for him.
>> So he died and
he's not the only one.
We covered a story earlier this
week about Ray DeMonia,
who was seeking treatment for
a cardiac emergency.
He lived in Alabama,
couldn't find an ICU bed.
He had to travel hundreds of miles
to find an available bed.
But there just wasn't enough
time and he died from that cardiac
emergency.
So, there are real consequences for
what these people are doing here.
Here, I'll give you another one.
A boy, this is a pro publica report
that was published recently.
A boy went to a COVID-Swamped.
He waited for hours,
then his appendix burst.
Now there hasn't been a widespread
data on this.
So all we can turn to is this
anecdotal evidence of how awful
the situation has been for people.
But to make this about you as
an unvaccinated person, to make
it apparent that young unvaccinated
people on TikTok are offended by
being referred to as unvaccinated.
That they'd rather be referred
to as like some Harry Potter
nickname or whatever.
You're not the victim, okay?
The entire country is held hostage
by your stupidity.
So spare me the tears and
the whining.
Spare me your displeasure about
being referred to as unvaccinate,
you're unvaccinated,
that's what you are.
In addition to a whole host of
other names that I can't use on
the show right now.
It's getting people killed.
Stop being stupid,
stop being goofballs on TikTok.
Just do the right thing because
it's not about the individual,
this is about public health.
It's about the actions of
the unvaccinated not just
harming themselves or
their own family members, it's
about harming the entire country.
So, I don't know.
I hope they can handle that
commentary.
Seems like if they're
having a tough time with the word
unvaccinated, they might need some
therapy after watching this,
who knows?