do you believe in life after we're all
vaccinated
share the one and only share and our
friend and regular dr erwin redlener say
yes and with superstar power aiding in
the fight to get
everyone eligible their coveted vaccine
shots through their pandemic resource
and response fund
they are helping underserved communities
with minimal access to medical
protection and care
today they are in harlem meeting people
where they are
in partnership with new york city where
they've launched a share cares bus to
help vaccinate and test
as many people as possible joining us
now grammy
emmy an academy award winning singer and
icon
share as well as msnbc public health
analyst dr irwin redlener
founding director of columbia
university's national center for
disaster preparedness of course claire
is still here
cher thank you so much for doing this
i'm so excited you guys
i'm so excited to see you and claire and
i wish i was there
i wish you were here too this is our
first day back at the table
hi hi sheriff so we'll talk about i want
to talk about everything you're doing
but
how is your life are you feeling like
life is back to normal for you
well you know i still feel like i need
to wear a mask when i go outside
i just have that feeling and now with me
yes i just i just feel you know i've
been vaccinated and all that but i
have that just little i don't know how
also i'm gonna tell you something
wearing a mask is so cool for me because
i can go anywhere nobody knows who i am
it also you know covers up all the you
know 15 months for me without
hair and makeup i want to ask you about
taking i mean from the very beginning
before we even knew we'd have a vaccine
this need to go into communities and
serve people where they live
was a known sort of hole and you're
helping to fill it how did that come to
be
it was up it was irwin irwin and i have
been working together for
quite a little time but i have just
trusted him
because i i just believe he's a really
good person
and of course he knows everything so i
wanted to work with him and so that my
money was going to go
in the places that it would make the
most good that would you know
or you've been invoked dr redlener
so how did you how did you guys sort of
collaborate on this idea
of the share character so a share
reached out to me
quite a long time ago now and said she
wanted to do something this is we had no
vaccine at that point
we just had a lot of people suffering a
lot of fatalities from covid
and she said she wanted to donate like a
million dollars which was
you know and would i help her of course
i would but the thing that really
impressed me nicole
is that she specifically wanted to help
underserved communities
so we ended up you know supporting the
needs
in five farmworker clinics in central
california rural clinics in
arkansas and mississippi keeping daycare
programs open with boys and girls clubs
in various parts of the country
and now this new mobile unit that's
going to be vaccinating people
it's been a remarkable example of what
somebody could do if they have resources
and they really want to help
this has been absolutely remarkable uh
cher is a hero to the united states and
and i and i think an example of yes
it's a problem but we all have a role to
play and share certainly
has played her role incredibly well and
cher
there's a lot of optimism in the choice
you made and i think a lot of doctors
have been careful
to try to help us understand that
there's a real difference between
hardcore anti-vaxxers and people that
are scared
people that can't take a day off work to
go get it people who don't know where
to go get it and and this van seems to
be addressing
really the needs of that group
but you know what i was afraid too you
know i wasn't late
i was a late vacciner you know i just
was like
oh do i want to do this and then i
thought well you're just so stupid you
have to do this you know
and and everybody that i know i just
took everybody
that i knew and forced them yeah there's
this comfort in
in numbers um i know you're a big
political
um junkie i know you know and follow all
the debates going on and i wanted to ask
you if you
are sleeping better at night with
president biden in office
i am you know i love him i've known him
since
what 2006 and i just love him
but i have to tell you something i
this is going to really sound weird
maybe but i have like
i get really sick to my stomach and like
i have a real
problem uh when i feel that things are
like every time trump does something
like sometimes i just have to stop
watching the news because i
just get overwhelmed and they get angry
and then i get sick
well i look i i have to say i hear that
from a lot of my friends and people that
say i'm sorry but i
i can't watch all of it and i wonder if
that's because
in some ways we thought it was all trump
but it's depressing to see that millions
of people
and just about everyone in congress
except for a couple people maybe
listening adam kinsinger
see the world the way he did i had a
friend
she wasn't a close friend she just was
an acquaintance she worked for the fbi
and she infiltrated these groups
and um and this was like five years old
i mean five years ago when i talked to
her
and um she said you know the one thing
that's good
is that they all hate each other she
said but if someone could join them
together
it would be terrible that's all i kept
thinking
yeah yeah when you see the insurrection
and you certainly see the
um justice department charging these
groups it certainly looks like they all
came together that day
yeah and everybody knew i mean the
republicans knew but
you know you you just have to keep going
and you have to do what you can do
you know you just have to you can't give
up you know i i know about
i know about not giving up i i just am a
person who
has been through the most unbelievable
down times in my life
people don't really realize that but one
thing i know
it's like i'm a bumper car if i hit a
wall i come back up and i go another
direction
it's so important and so invaluable i
want to bring my friend claire into the
conversation claire has a question for
you
cher hello claire i'm so happy to see
you i am so
listen i'm i'm a little tongue-tied in
your presence i am
this is starstruck i am definitely
starstruck
you know there there seems to be a
pattern of strong
smart women who have entertained us with
glorious talent over the years
stepping up in this crisis i look at you
and i look at dolly parton
and others and what can you say
to your fellow talented artists out
there
because i think some of them are so
afraid about sticking their neck out
that it'll get bitten off what can you
say to them about
how you just take up the reins and make
something happen like you have
well if i wasn't on tv i would say this
differently
but uh you just gotta do it i mean you
have to man up
or girl up or whatever because
like what are you gonna use your
celebrity for you know
it's not just all about makeup and being
naked and you know wearing a few
beads and it's it's you just got to
you've got to do it you owe it
we get like i have had a charmed
life you know and i'm really this many
years old
and and um so if you don't do
it what's the good i mean like what have
you been
killing yourself or you have to you have
to do these things you know you have to
help people and um my mother taught me
when i was young because we were poor
but my mother once i was complaining
that my shoes were all scuffed up and
i'd worn through the bottom and my
mother said yes
but did you hear about the man who
complained about his shoes until he saw
the man who had no feet
that i heard that a million times
growing up
i think you just answered this for us
but i i wonder if you could just
talk about your hopes for all of us on
the other side of the pandemic
well i i just think like this little bit
of being able to go out like just
hearing you know like i'm going to meet
my friends
and we weren't going to be able to go
until like we just found out
and my one friend has a boat and so we
we go with her on the vacation i've
missed the last two
but it's the freedom of it and being
able to get in countries
you know like to be able to go into
countries where
countries that you know countries you've
been in
countries i've lived in and not be
allowed
you know but also you know the in
in some instances we're not going to be
able to give
shows because we need to get
insurance and so there's really no way
to do it so
we're trying to figure out you know how
that's going to come together
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