＂Cough In My Face!＂ - Andrew Callaghan's INSANE Coverage Of California's Anti-Vax CHAOS
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about the early days of the anti-vaccination movement and how the fear of the "Vaxxers" led to the spread of fear and spread of conspiracy theories. We talk about how the "anti-vaxxer" movement came about and how it changed the face of American politics.
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So, I mean, the anti-vax rally, the one that I went to, obviously, it was taken down by YouTube.
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But that was the first major anti-lockdown rally.
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What was the craziest thing that somebody said?
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That Hollywood anti-vax rally is like a year later.
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If you look up coronavirus lockdown protest, all gas, no brakes, you will find the video that was removed by YouTube.
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Yeah, but that was like at the California state capitol in Sacramento.
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I want to hear what the first thing is to see what upset YouTube.
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I got every problem where the government said we can't go out.
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I put that at risk today because I got to be here.
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Yeah, so that was like, that was when it first popped off.
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This is in Sacramento at the California State Capitol.
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And as you can see, we were, I was, like, I don't know if you were right, how you felt
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when the thing first happened, but I was definitely nervous, you know, pre-vaccine,
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And I think that that caused many to gravitate toward extreme directions.
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You had people who were, like, I'm never going to wear a mask.
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One guy here had a shirt that said, cough in my face.
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And then you had people who were literally, like, refusing to go outside of their house.
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I remember in Seattle, with the community that I grew up with, right, like, if you had
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a picnic at a public park, and you hadn't, you didn't have a mask on, and there was five
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or more people, somebody would walk by you with their phone, take a picture of you, and
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it would circulate all on social media, and it would say, this is a super spreader, and
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And I would argue that we're still living in 2020.
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So I would actually argue we're still living in the 1960s.
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But if you think 60s, you know, the divisions that were planted there, you know what I mean?
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As far as, like, Red Scare, and then people's movements being anti...
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But I think the level of fear that you had in 2020 in April, you probably don't have
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Oh, not the level of fear, but I mean, the way people perceive politicians in reality is
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very 2020-coded still to this day, even if people don't, you know...
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The mainstream media divided America in a major way.
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They convinced Americans that Trump was with Russia until they realized Hillary Clinton
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And I think Trump convinced Americans to look at people with masks as, like, these moronic
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sheep that are worthy of, you know, harassment.
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I remember one time, Rob, can you put up the picture I posted of the lady that was
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So, during COVID, I used to love watching people...
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But, yeah, when I would see guys wearing a freaking mask while they're driving in the
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The level of responsibility is at the highest level.
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Doesn't part of you kind of feel bad for those people?
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Driving alone with a mask on is like going to bed alone with a condom on.
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But you got to think, like, they're under algorithmic hypnosis like the other half of
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the country, and they're being told every single day that there's a new variant.
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Six hours of screen time is like the national average in 2020.
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So they're constantly being fed this fear stuff.
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Much like people on the far right were also being fed a similar type of fear content,
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Give it to me from conservative media, like mainstream versus liberal media mainstream.
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Oh, I mean, that was the dominant thread in 2020.
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I'm just going to stick to mainstream media, what the conservative right was saying that
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was selling fear porn versus what the liberal left was saying selling fear porn.
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I think that the democratic censorship on major social media platforms pushed people in the
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conservative activist movement into small fringe platforms where they were being fed QAnon
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stuff more so than they were mainstream press, and that was a direct blowback.
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I mean, obviously, mainstream liberal media at the time was telling people not to go outside
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to social distance and to be wary of anybody without a mask on, and also, the right-wing
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machine was telling people that we're going to turn into a communist country and all your
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There's a cabal of baby-eating pedophiles that are connected to Epstein Island who are
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So there was just mass exaggerations on both sides.
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On the podcast world, when it's coming to, what are you saying, the baby-eating, what
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On mainstream, if they said, if you give up too much control, this could be a step away
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from communism, it's partly not wrong if you give up too much control.
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We were told that our kids can't go to school, and you're telling us to stay home for a year
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and a half, and people left California and New York.
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When you went to school, you didn't have to stay home for a year and a half.
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Imagine how hard it is on the wife and the mother and the mom and the father trying to
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make the marriage work and pay bills and get the job, and you lose the job, and you lose
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That's policies from the left that destroyed all these things.
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So they destroyed America for a year and a half.
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Some of them did die, though, like Herman Cain.
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