After advocating for COVID-19 vaccination for over a year, Ben Shapiro says he was deceived: 'We were lied to by everyone'
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, l...
Wrong, he still supports the vaccine. The only "lie" he was pointing out is the broad lie by the scientific community that vaccination would reduce transmission, which was somewhat known to not be true even at the time (by dissenters who were shouted down).
The idea that vaccination would reduce transmission was central to the justification for the mandates. It wasn't about protecting you, it was about protecting everyone else.
Once you accept that the vaccines do not stop transmission, then the sole reason to get vaccinated is if you're high risk, which most people are not, so broad mandates have no scientific support.