Newsmax host attacks vaccine requirements: “Why should any citizen of the United States be required to take any pharmaceutical at all”
Steve Cortes: “In this cruel new state of totalitarian obedience, you will roll up your sleeve and you will take this jab and you will like it”
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Citation From the August 19, 2021, edition of Newsmax's Cortes and Pellegrino
STEVE CORTES (HOST): Did you ever think that in America, grown citizens could be forced to inject something into their body against their wishes? How did we get here? Why should any person — why should any citizen of the United States be required to take any pharmaceutical at all, much less one that is brand new and has neither certifiable FDA approval nor any long term-track record of safety?
Now look, folks, I am not generally anti-vax, although I do respect and study the opinions of those who are. They have a right to those views, and I think there's some validity to those views. But I'm not anti-vax. Personally, I think the risk-reward calculus for this current therapy — it's not really a vaccine — for this therapy, I think it makes sense for vulnerable people, especially the old and the infirm.
But here's the thing, patriots, it's not for me to decide. It's not for Joe Biden to decide. It's for every free citizen to decide in consultation with their medical advisers. But that's very sensible approach — available to all mandated for none — that sensible approach simply cannot prevail in radical leftist Joe Biden's America. No, in this cruel new state of totalitarian obedience, you will roll up your sleeve and you will take this jab and you will like it. And not just that, you will then show your damn papers even to just get a bite to eat, or to attend class, or to keep your job. It happened to Newsmax's own Eric Bolling, when he tried to go out today in New York City.
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CORTES: And there it is — medical apartheid.