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After advocating for COVID-19 vaccination for over a year, Ben Shapiro says he was deceived: 'We were lied to by everyone'
The Blaze ^ | October 25,2022 | Joseph Mackinnon

Posted on 10/26/2022 9:30:33 AM PDT by Jayster

Ben Shapiro has long been a strong advocate for the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, believing that taking them was a socially responsible measure that might save someone's grandma and even slow or prevent the spread of the virus. On Tuesday, Shapiro stated that, like many others, he had been deceived about the efficacy of the vaccines, particularly with regard to their ability to prevent viral transmission.

Shapiro's admission about transmission

On Tuesday's episode of "The Ben Shapiro Show," Shapiro stated, "It is now perfectly clear that we were lied to. And we were lied to at a very high level and from very, very early on by both the vaccine companies, in terms of the ability of the vaccine to prevent transmission, and ... by our politicians who apparently knew better."

Shapiro's admission and sense of betrayal comes, in part, after Pfizer executive Janine Small stated on Oct. 10 that the company did not know if the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine it had developed with BioNTech would prevent viral transmission before the drug went on the market.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: benshapiro; chinavirusvaccine; coronavirus; covid19; jab; nevertrumper; shapiro; willinglymisled
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To: Jayster

He’s a little slow, eh.


41 posted on 10/26/2022 10:56:40 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Persevero
Why suddenly and completely trust the government?

He was dealing with 'media leaks', just to start the day (and reviewing his multiple court cases). He was getting crap recommendations to confirm. Then, he had Drs. Fauci and Birx 'advising' him. ...

42 posted on 10/26/2022 10:59:20 AM PDT by RideForever (Damn, another dangling par .....)
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To: Boogieman

I agree if there had been a large enough and consistent rejection we’d not have got to mandate status, perhaps with the exception of some very stupid local officials who were willing to lose their power and influence.

Too many Americans were too trusting, too fearful, and/or too lazy.

I am proud, though, of the very many who were not. And understanding of those put into no-win situations.


43 posted on 10/26/2022 11:00:50 AM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: Jayster

Anyone who trusts the government is a fool. Especially when it is the government and their cronies who just got billions in tax dollars to promote something.


44 posted on 10/26/2022 11:02:52 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: packagingguy

Yes, the medical institutions were the most disappointing of our leaders.

Politicians who were awful I at least understood had terrible agendas they wanted to advance. Or feared loss of rank/position if they questioned.

Medical researchers, doctors, nurses, admins? Their main objective is supposed to be legit health care. Try getting an artificial sweetener or a protocol on the market. Apple Watch got in trouble for having sleep and respiration apps on it, didn’t it? Not approved medical devices.

Yet they almost in unison jumped into this pool of insanity and doubled down when challenged. No empirical evidence, plenty of actual facts to the contrary, no double blind studies or long term testing. . .

the only thing I could have approved of was having it approved as experimental and totally voluntary for any adults that wanted to participate. No kids.


45 posted on 10/26/2022 11:04:20 AM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: Jayster

I wasn’t fooled. So that makes Ben...


46 posted on 10/26/2022 11:04:23 AM PDT by Fledermaus (With Trans Republicans like McCarthy and McConnell do we really want them to win Congress in 2022?)
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To: Jayster
"It is now perfectly clear that we were lied to."

Amazing how many of us knew this instantly. Even though we aren't members of the vaunted "conservative intellectual" crowd. Or, as Rush used to call them, "the Wizards of Smart."

47 posted on 10/26/2022 11:08:23 AM PDT by M. Thatcher
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To: Jayster

I don’t pay any attention to Shapiro…about anything.


48 posted on 10/26/2022 11:18:54 AM PDT by lonestar (Texan for Trumpit”s)
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To: Persevero

Kids don’t get the virus.

The ‘rona flies at an altitude of 5-7 feet above ground.

Kids are too short to encounter it.

Adults can take their masks off when sitting to eat; their heads are then safely below the 5 foot level.

The “authorities” said so.

Sarcasm, of course.


49 posted on 10/26/2022 11:20:02 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Jayster

It always amazed me that even very smart people were fooled into getting this experimental jab.

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Fooled? Or paid by his masters to carry The Narrative on it?


50 posted on 10/26/2022 11:20:49 AM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Jayster
Shapiro, who is also a lawyer by training, suggested that "there may need to be actual criminal prosecutions if you are disseminating false health information to people on the basis of zero evidence."

Prosecuted not just for "disseminating false health information," but for doing so when informed consent was a requirement for taking the drug under the Emergency Use Authorization.

There was no informed consent possible, when those doing the informing knew that the information was false in the first place.

-PJ

51 posted on 10/26/2022 11:22:01 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Jayster

52 posted on 10/26/2022 11:25:03 AM PDT by Manic_Episode (A government of the government, by the government, for the government)
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To: Sicon

Yup! That’s it. Can we sub in climate change/ solar panels/wind mills.........


53 posted on 10/26/2022 11:25:07 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Godebert

He comes across to me like a wind up toy. I can only handle him in small doses. Just curious why you think he’s a fraud?


54 posted on 10/26/2022 11:52:39 AM PDT by bethelgrad
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To: EEGator
His sister got the vaccine and had a miscarriage. Maybe coincidence, maybe not.

They lied about the safety of the vaccine during pregnancy. They said it was safe.

It was not safe. 90% of those who got the shot in the first trimester miscarried.

55 posted on 10/26/2022 12:01:30 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Jayster

The squeaky little mouse was a passionate supporter of the deadly vaxx and mocked those who distrusted it and insisted it had not been tested and proved safe. Screw him.


56 posted on 10/26/2022 12:11:18 PM PDT by Dr. Thorne (The Media is the Virus.)
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To: Boogieman

“I don’t understand how so many got the shot.”

a) Most people are intellectually lazy and don’t want to have to do their thinking for themselves.

b) Don’t underestimate the power of social pressure.

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57 posted on 10/26/2022 12:47:22 PM PDT by TheElectionWasStolen
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To: TheElectionWasStolen

“I don’t understand how so many got the shot.”

a) Most people are intellectually lazy and don’t want to have to do their thinking for themselves.

b) Don’t underestimate the power of social pressure.

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58 posted on 10/26/2022 12:54:51 PM PDT by JCL3 (As Richard Feynman might have said, this is reality taking precedence over public relations.)
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To: Persevero

I am still unsure about if mandates would have been used regardless of the initial uptake. In my team at work, 50% took it willingly, 30% took it due to hassle/mandates, only 20% held out to this day. Those numbers are known. Granted it’s a small team so a few people make a big impact to the statistics. I would guess that overall at work probably a little less than 10% are still unvaxed. We were threatened with being fired for about 3 months.


59 posted on 10/26/2022 1:11:58 PM PDT by wgmalabama (Censored!)
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To: Jayster
Glad that he came around at least.

It's far too little, and it's far too late.

Millions of people around the world called BS on this more than two years ago, very few of them with his pedigree; this was a matter of far too much importance for him to have gotten it so wrong.

60 posted on 10/26/2022 1:38:53 PM PDT by Captain Walker ("Evil people always support each other; that is their chief strength." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
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