Radio personality Howard Stern put anti-vaxxers on blast during his Sirius XM show earlier this week, calling them "imbeciles" and "nutjobs." On Tuesday's episode of The Howard Stern Show, the popular shock jock launched into a tirade against people who refuse to take the Covid vaccine, thereby potentially putting others at risk, and even went so far as to suggest that vaccinations become enforced.
"When are we going to stop putting up with the idiots in this country and just say, you know, it’s mandatory to get vaccinated?" He said. "Fuck them, fuck their freedom. I want my freedom to live. I want to get out of the house already. I want to go next door and play chess. I want to go take some pictures. This is bullshit... I'll tell you what, far as I remember, when I went to school you had to get a measles vaccine, you had to get a mumps vaccine."
"The other thing I hate is that all these people with Covid who won't get vaccinated are in the hospitals clogging it up," he continued. "Like, if you have a heart attack or any kind of problem, you can't even get into the E.R. And I'm really of a mind to say, 'Look, if you didn't get vaccinated, you got COVID, you don't get into a hospital.'"
He went on to openly mock Conservative broadcasters Mark Bernier, Dick Farrel, Phil Valentine and Tod Tucker, all outspoken opponents of the vaccine who then contracted Covid and ultimately died.
“Four of them were like ranting on the air, they will not get vaccinated," said Stern. "They were on fire, these guys. It was like day after day, they were all dying and then their dying words are 'I wish I had been more into the vaccine. I wish I had taken it'... Go fuck yourself. You had the cure and you wouldn't take it."
