Speaker 1: We have another one of these situations where an anti vaccine pro Trump individual,
in this case a radio host, has been hospitalized with covid.
This is Phil Valentine.
He's really sick.
I hope he doesn't die.
He is really, really sick.
And we will get to that in a moment.
Now, these stories are really starting to almost, in a sense, get old.
Two weeks ago, I told you about the anti vaccine nurse who died in her 30s.
Young anti vaccine nurse died of covid last week.
I told you about the anti vaccine pro Trump, Cape Cod elected official.
I believe her name was Linda Zwirner.
Concern something like that.
She died.
And then now we have a right wing radio host.
Slate reporting conservative radio host skeptical of vaccines, hospitalized with covid, quote,
he's regretful.
This is Phil Valentine, a conservative radio host in Tennessee who was openly skeptical
about covid vaccines, has been hospitalized and is now in critical care with the disease.
Phil Valentine, who hosts a show on Nashville's WWT and was diagnosed with the coronavirus
and is now, quote, in very serious condition as he battles pneumonia, his family said in
a statement posted to the radio stations Twitter account.
Although he needs help breathing, Vallentine is not on a ventilator as of a few days ago.
The latest report is he is not getting better while making it clear that the experience
has changed his stance on vaccination, a statement was posted by Supertax WTN.
This is reportedly from his family.
Phil contracted the covert virus a little over a week ago and has since been hospitalized
and is in very serious condition, suffering from covid pneumonia and the attendant side
effects.
He is in the hospital in the critical care unit, breathing with assistance, but is not
on a ventilator.
We'd ask that everyone refrain from contacting him while he's in the hospital.
Phil would like for his listeners to know that while he has never been an anti Voxer,
he regrets not being more vehemently or vehemently pro vaccine and looks forward to being able
to more vigorously advocate that position as soon as he's back on the air, which we
hope will be soon.
Phil and his family would like for you all to know that he loves you all and appreciates
your concern, thoughts and prayers more than you will ever know.
Please continue to pray for his recovery and please go get vaccinated.
Of course, the prayers would not be necessary had he been vaccinated from the beginning.
This is a perfect example of 20/20 hindsight.
Now, I know there are people in the audience who say, screw this guy.
I hope he recovers and I hope that he spreads the wisdom of vaccination.
I hope he recovers so we can find out if he's really learned anything from this.
But I am betting that the rest of his right wing paradigm on which the anti vaccine stuff
was based is going to remain wholly intact.
Now, one other thing I want to mention.
He said the family statement says he was never anti vax, but he was not.
As for the vaccine as he should have been, this is a very common talking point that's
used, which is the covid anti vaccines will say, I'm not anti vaccine, that I'm I'm fine
with other vaccines and I've received other vaccines.
That doesn't really mean that much because the other vaccines are ones that there is
so much acceptance of in society that it really doesn't actually matter whether this guy is
for or against the MMR, because other than some little anti VAX clusters that eventually
pop up, we've got very solid immunity against measles, mumps and rubella.
It's it's really a red herring to say I'm not anti vaccine, that I'm OK with the other
vaccines.
This is the one that I'm skeptical of.
This is what's present right now.
This is the near and present danger at this point in time.
Let's I'm hoping for his recovery because I don't want anybody to die.
That's my view.
And I know some in the audience feel differently.
We just have a disagreement.
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