FLORIDA (VINnews) — In a series of bombshell tweets, popular radio host Ben Shapiro accused Pfizer and the federal government of “lying about their stats”, and he appeared to express remorse for recommending the Covid vaccine too “broadly”, including to people who are not high-risk. He also said that had he known then what he knows now he “wouldn’t have taken it” himself.
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Shapiro, a conservative podcast host and Orthodox Jew, was responding this past week to critics of his apparent reversal of position on the Covid vaccine.
One critic tweeted “Didn’t you tell everyone to get the vaccine? And called the ones who haven’t gotten it “dopes”?”
Yes that is true. But honestly you should have known they were lying. It was common sense and logic. Basic human history has proven time and time again that government and big pharma lie and manipulate every chance they get. So why blindly believe their stats?
— Nolan Wright (@NolanWright1776) February 1, 2023
Shapiro replied, “I broadly recommended the vaxx when Pfizer and the feds were lying about their stats. As data emerged, I recommended it for the elderly and obese. I opposed vaxx mandates the whole time. My company spent millions and risked millions in fines to sue the feds to stop vaxx mandates.”
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That same critic replied, “Yes that is true. But honestly you should have known they were lying. It was common sense and logic. Basic human history has proven time and time again that government and big pharma lie and manipulate every chance they get. So why blindly believe their stats?”
Shapiro did not specify which lies he was referring to, however he appeared to clarify in a later tweet that he meant the claim about the shot’s ability to reduce transmission. “I recommended the vaxx to the elderly and the obese to reduce death rates. I recommended the vaccine for people my age because we were lied to about reduction in transmissibility. That’s why I took it personally. I never recommended it for the young. My kids are not vaxxed.”
He also tweeted, “I have said on air that if I knew then what I know now, I wouldn’t have taken it.”
I have said on air that if I knew then what I know now, I wouldn't have taken it. But no matter my personal feelings about the vaxx and the evolution of the info we were given, I NEVER supported mandates. I risked my business to oppose them. Name another company that did.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) February 2, 2023
It is not clear why the government’s (later debunked) claim that the vaccine significantly reduced transmission of Covid would impact Shapiro’s recommendation that someone young and healthy get the vaccine. If indeed the vaccine does prevent someone who takes it from contracting Covid, there would seem to be minimal reason for young people to get vaxxed, because most people who are high-risk could get the vaccine themselves and would seemingly be safe.
In addition, it is interesting that Shapiro, who is well aware that the government is corrupt and lies an awful lot, seems to have taken its claims about the vaccine at face value.
Either way, it is clear that Shapiro regrets getting the vaccine himself, and feels remorseful for recommending it to other young healthy people. In addition, he concedes that Pfizer and “the feds” lied about the vaccine.
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Dr. Zelenko told everyone from day 1 that Pfizer and the government were lying.
One honest person. Now let’s hear from all the rabbis and doctors and HATZALA who pushed the death injection
It’s does not feel good to say I told you so. All this time I felt so bad for the poor brainwashed folks who were running to get in line…. Shapiro should’ve known better
It takes courage to admit you were wrong. His “wife is a doctor” may have influenced him both before and now.
I don’t see how anyone will trust Public Health (I did until now) ever again unless Nuremberg style international trials with justice are carried out.
I was smarter than Ben at the get-go. It was obvious that things didn’t add up. Just what we saw in the frum community the first year of covid didn’t match what the government was saying.
No! A snake doesn’t cause death, nor does anything else for that matter. Only Hashem decides whose time it is. We have an obligation for hishtadlus but that’s it. All of the theories of both sides are for us to do our hishtadlus. anyone who follows what his da’as Torah tells him will have a full shemira. No numbers or any stats will change what Hashem will do with any individual. Hashem will cause vaxxers to die. Hashem will cause non-vaxxers to die. Hashem will cause vaxxers to get other sicknesses. Hashem will cause non-vaxxers to get other sicknesses.
[And I did leave out a capital A at the beginning of a sentence to give something to argue about.]
I guess he is not as smart as he thinks he is.
The Israeli experience, which served as a great test site, did confirm that the vaccine did slow transmission by 75% or more.
Pfizer itself did not complete such studies before getting approval.
Millions died from covid, and eventually this greatly decreased.
Initially the majority of deaths were unhealthy and elderly people, during the first variant of the virus which was much more severe, In the first ten months of the virus.
Following ten months in, after an overwhelming number of people developed natural immunity, and also when the infections were primarily the subsequent variants that were much less severe, the rate of fatalities greatly declined.
It was at that time that the vaccine was released. Meanwhile since then there has been ABSOLUTELY NO DATA indicating a higher infection or fatality rate among the unvaccinated!!!
This is indesputable!!!
And certainly were there any such statistic it would have been blasted all over non-stop so more people would get vaccinated to bring more profit to the pharma companies.
On the contrary..
Based on the data following the extreme vaccination campaign, including the claim for a need for repeated boosters, there is no evidence whatsoever that the vaccinations did anything whatsoever!
On the contrary..
Evidence has been shown indicating natural immunity, less severe variants, and a stronger surviving population, were the cause for the gradual decrease in extreme infection and fatality.
Again, based on all the data we have now, no statistics whatsoever indicate that the vaccinated faired any better than the non-vaccinated
Meanwhile, the government and the pharmaceutical companies are still promoting repeated boosters while they do nothing, just like the original vaccine did nothing, while also recommending annual covid vaccines going forward.
While many entities saw the decrease in fatality after about a year in as indication that the vaccines were doing something.. looking back now we can see that factors having nothing to do with vaccination -as listed above- were the cause, and that since then vaccinated individuals were no more likely to suffer serious symptoms or fatality than the unvaccinated.
Meanwhile heart attach are up 25% among otherwise healthy vaccinated individuals, the government keeps pushing vaccines for now and the long term, and on top of it all it has been shown that herd immunity is a total farce and that vaccines do not decrease the spread of infection whatsoever.
Feel free to bring any evidence from the past six months that negates anything reported herein.
Also remember that if there was any evidence of a statistically significant lower fatality rate to have been discovered among the vaccinated, it would be widely reported.
When Biden enacted vaccine mandates this was already known, and no evidence was shown supporting vaccines whatsoever, even while so many opposed the mandates, because there was none.
Yet again, a 25% increase in heartattacks among only vaccinated otherwise healthy individuals has been shown .. related or not!!!
Note: please only disagree if you can cite an actual recent study to the contrary. I would be glad to learn more in this regard, especially if it would indicate a different conclusion be warranted! And please cite your source(s). Thank You.
I look to the FDA – Who is like the “masgiach” of the pharmaceuticals. The White house and all other politicians are just that politicians. Theydon’t want you to die but only to keep “themselves” in power. They can never be trusted!
But what about the FDA? If Pfizer hoodwinked or covered up bad information, everyone of them should sit in prison.
What about the FDA?? At the time people were dying like flies, almost a million in America alone. Many times the FDA had to make decisions based on what is happening at the time, and cannot ask for a 5 year long term study. Most Americans would agree that in an emergency we have to do what is needed. If it turns out bad and no Phama company did anything wrong, that is just life – We tried the best we could.
It can also be that the vaccine did not have the effect to stop one person from giving it to another , however it ight have mutated it from a killer to just a bad flu,. In that case it was worth everything to save another million lived.
Give it time – now that it is over to see the studies and see what really happened. Was it just a bad gamble, or someone should be held responsible and build an extra jail for them.
This guy Ben Shapiro is just another hack trying to get the most out of this radio program. Don’t put much on him.
6 million people died from Covid globally. That’s a fact. 92% did NOT take the vaccine. That’s a fact. Next time Covid or some virus comes, don’t complain if you don’t take the vaccine.
All of you commenters dont even know what you are talking about. Which lie specifically are we referring to? And the fact that there may have been some lies must be dealt with and I hope those involved have their heads roll but there is no question that the vaccine saved many many lives and for those in high risk categories many that would have died, didnt. So to come now and say how great you are that you are an anti vaxxer I dont get. I also didnt recommend it for those in categories that didnt need it but for those that did it was extremely helpful. I guess people forget quickly what was going on before it.
Harav hagaon Ben Shapiro said, so he must be right and let’s everyone repeat what he says. (And of course consult daas Torah when it suits us).
The frum community has so many people that follow every talking head, it’s amazing!
Whenever you want to quote these talk show hosts, keep in mind that everything they do is driven by one thing, money. They’re ultimate goal is to get more people to their website, more people to their radio shows so they can make… Money. Which is why they will often make radical statements, push provocative issues because that’s the way they make… Money.
That includes by the way, this very website. Which is why they make radicals statements about the government, as you can read above
Hi knew. He is not that gullible. But he was under pressure to conform to the woke mob, did not want to lose advertisers, and honestly, I think he was plain scared. And once you stop thinking independently, the quality of your message loses its value.
Joshem won’t print comments that might make him look bad.
Just sayin’
How many times does a smarmy know-it-all get to be wrong before he stops being considered a know-it-all?
Good Morning Ben,
You always after the fact.
Gestetner Is right about Shiparo.
Blow me down !!!!
Bill aguda de blasio and Eric fjcc adams forced people to take this poison
1,000,000 Americans died before there was a vaccine.
very few now, with the vaccine.
ben shapiro is a rabble rouser in your face demagogue.
don’t listen to him
Remorseful is not enough. You took part in promoting Genocide!!