"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
George Orwell, Animal Farm
Si vous connaissez quelqu’un qui croit qu’il suffit que le gouvernement decrète une augmentation massive du salaire minimum pour améliorer le pouvoir d’achat, montrez-lui cette vidéo.
Et si, après l’avoir regardée, cette personne n’a toujours pas changé d’avis, coupez les ponts.
Vous méritez mieux que de fréquenter des abrutis.
“Am I gonna get vaccinated, or am I gonna get COVID.”
Dr. Chris Farnitano was Contra Costa County's Health Officer from July 2018 until he stepped down in February 2022 and retired in March, after more than 30 years with the county health system. His credentials are real: an undergraduate degree and M.D. from Duke (1991), a family medicine residency at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center, board certification in family medicine, and a stint as chair of the center's family medicine department. He ran the county's pandemic response with the authority of a physician, which makes the policy overreach harder to excuse.
He said the line above on July 22, 2021, when he, Santa Clara County and San Francisco health officials urged employers to require vaccination, adding that COVID was "here to stay." The same day he said unvaccinated workers pose a "substantial health and financial risk to the workplace."
In September 2021 his county ordered proof of vaccination or a negative test for gyms and indoor dining. Days later, he sent a letter of "strong support" to West Contra Costa Unified for a student vaccine mandate, saying vaccinated students are less likely to miss school. That month he told the county vaccine misinformation was "killing people." In December 2021, he kept the local indoor mask order in place despite a state rule, with a few exemptions for situations where everyone is vaccinated.
The day after he backed the school mandate, county spokesman Will Harper clarified that Farnitano was "not issuing a blanket recommendation for all schools," since he'd addressed only the one district that had a proposal. The county, ranked fifth in the state for vaccination, kept its masks anyway. The choice he described between vaccination and COVID didn't hold, as Omicron, detected in the county weeks later, would show. He is retired.
Farnitano told the county the choice was shots or COVID, then spent December explaining the rules for people who had picked the shots.
“It’s so great that we can do this… because we got vaccinated, because you know we were masked… and we all acted like responsible adults… because all over America they’re gathering… unvaccinated, unmasked and some of those people will die… they will die of COVID… those are the people that should die from COVID… I’m giving you permission to wish them dead… it’s okay to wish them dead.”
David Cross, stand-up comedian, actor, and writer best known for Mr. Show and as Tobias Fünke on Arrested Development, attended Emerson College in Boston but dropped out to pursue comedy. He built a career in sketch comedy, film, and television with no formal medical, scientific, epidemiological, or public-health training. Those are performance credentials with zero qualifications for directing vaccine policy. He is a touring comedian who told audiences it was the unvaccinated who “should die.”
In material from his 2022 special he described vaccinated, masked audiences as “responsible adults” able to gather safely, then contrasted them with unvaccinated, unmasked crowds who “will die of COVID.” He explicitly said those deaths are the ones that “should” happen and granted his audience “permission to wish them dead,” framing it as acceptable because “wishes have no power.” He has also mocked anti-maskers in later bits. The message from the comedian was that refusal to vaccinate justified wishing for death.
The comedian who gave audiences permission to wish the unvaccinated dead, while performing for vaccinated crowds he called responsible, watched continued waves, breakthrough infections among the vaccinated and boosted, and the same health measures return even after high uptake. Ticket-buyers heard the framing that certain people deserved to die under the bit he delivered; Cross continues as a working comedian and actor. He remains on stage after the “wish them dead” material met ongoing transmission.
A college dropout and stand-up who used the comedy platform to declare that the unvaccinated should die - whose listing for at least one stop required proof of vaccination at the door - then recorded a special in which he told the vaccinated it was okay to wish death on the unvaccinated. A comedian with no stake, no expertise, and no one in the room to disagree decided who deserved to die, and called it a bit.
“As far as vaccinations go I also want to make it very clear that the best way for us to get ahead of this pandemic is for everyone to get vaccinated… I do encourage you to go get your vaccinations if you’re ready for your booster.”
Roxann Wedegartner, former Mayor of Greenfield, Massachusetts (2020–2023), studied journalism at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She previously served on local boards and in municipal roles before becoming mayor. Those are journalistic and local-government credentials with zero medical, scientific, epidemiological, or public-health qualifications for directing vaccine policy. She used platform of mayor let her treat universal vaccination as the clear “best way” out of the pandemic.
In November 2021 she held a press conference announcing the lifting of the city’s indoor mask mandate after a review period, while still strongly encouraging continued mask use in enclosed spaces or around people of unknown vaccination status and unvaccinated children. She explicitly stated that “the best way for us to get ahead of this pandemic is for everyone to get vaccinated,” noted Greenfield’s vaccination rates (around 64 percent fully vaccinated at the time), and urged residents to get boosters when available. She had earlier issued strong indoor masking recommendations for both vaccinated and unvaccinated residents and required masks in municipal buildings. The message from the mayor was that vaccination was the decisive step.
The mayor who declared universal vaccination “the best way” to get ahead of the pandemic, while managing local mask mandates and recommendations, watched continued waves, breakthrough infections among the vaccinated and boosted, and the same health measures return even after rising uptake. Residents faced indoor masking rules, public encouragement of vaccination status awareness, and pressure under the framing she advanced; Wedegartner left office after losing re-election in 2023.
A journalism graduate who used the mayor’s platform to declare everyone getting vaccinated the best way forward is platform power with zero epidemiological expertise, delivered from Greenfield City Hall.
“The most important thing is to mandate those vaccines. Because if we all want to live free of the kind of restrictions we have seen, then we want to live in a society where more people are protected because they have done the thing that they needed to do and got the vaccine.”
Abdul El-Sayed, recently elected U.S. Senator from Michigan, holds a B.S. in biology and political science from the University of Michigan, a D.Phil. in public health from Oxford (Rhodes Scholar), and an M.D. from Columbia University. He is a former Detroit Health Department executive director and epidemiology professor. He has public health credentials but he did not complete a clinical residency and has never held a license to practice medicine.
On Detroit media in late 2021 he declared “the most important thing is to mandate those vaccines,” stated that “your right to choose not to get vaccinated ends where the breath that you’re breathing out of your lungs is now going into my nostrils,” framed the pandemic as two separate ones (mild for the vaccinated, severe for the unvaccinated), and urged more vaccination as the answer to Michigan’s surge while criticizing police officers who rejected mandates as hypocritical. In July 2021, WDET quoted him saying that yelling at the vaccine-hesitant only makes them more fearful, and "we keep yelling across these lines that we never take the time to cross."
In February 2022 he discussed the Supreme Court's block on Biden's workplace rule on Crooked Media. He hosted America Dissected, a podcast that pushed vaccination every week of the pandemic, and later appeared on others to promote it. He also pushed school mask mandates as the “right scientific choice” and described vaccination as the essential layer for living free of restrictions. The message from the former Detroit health official was compliance or continued limits.
The epidemiologist who said the right to choose ends at his nostrils and that mandates were the most important thing watched continued Delta and later waves, breakthrough infections among the vaccinated, and the same health measures return even after high uptake, while still insisting the product was the path to living free of restrictions. Residents faced school rules, workplace pressure, and public shaming of hesitation under the framing he amplified; El-Sayed is now senator-elect. He remains a former health director turned senator after the “mandate those vaccines” prescription met ongoing transmission.
An M.D. who never completed residency and never practiced medicine, who turned “your right to choose ends where the breath… is now going into my nostrils” into public pressure for mandates will now represent Michigan in the U.S. Senate.