"If your friend was insisting you jump off a bridge with them, would you jump?"

"No."

"If that same friend was demanding you take an experimental gene therapy marketed as a vaccine without any strong evidence of safety and ethics, would you take it?"

"Well duh, the TV said it's perfectly safe! Besides the FDA approved it! What do you want people getting sick!?" (Emergency use authorization* and they shouldn't have gotten that, but this is the shit you hear)

"... splash."

"If your friend was insisting you jump off a bridge with them, would you jump?"

"No."

"If that same friend was demanding you take an experimental gene therapy marketed as a vaccine without any strong evidence of safety and ethics, would you take it?"

"Well duh, the TV said it's perfectly safe! Besides the FDA approved it! What do you want people getting sick!?" (Emergency use authorization* and they shouldn't have gotten that, but this is the shit you hear)

"... splash."

"If your friend was insisting you jump off a bridge with them, would you jump?"

"No."

"If that same friend was demanding you take an experimental gene therapy marketed as a vaccine without any strong evidence of safety and ethics, would you take it?"

"Well duh, the TV said it's perfectly safe! Besides the FDA approved it! What do you want people getting sick!?" (Emergency use and they shouldn't have gotten that, but this is the shit you hear)

"... splash."