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January 23, 2021, 10:25 am
Arnold Schwarzenegger has a long resume: actor, model, body builder, California Governor, and now he is working on his role as a public health expert.
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Though he’s well-known as a Republican, Schwarzenegger has been the opposite of Trump ever since the pandemic began. He has been extremely supportive of science-based response to COVID-19 and masks, unlike the former president:
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And now he has shared himself getting a dose of the vaccine, since he is old enough to be eligible for it. On Twitter, Schwarzenegger posted a video of himself at the drive through vaccine center and getting inoculated:
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Here’s the shot going in:
And a band-aid for the boo-boo afterwards:
As always, there is pushback on anything remotely logical on the Internet. Schwarzenegger posted the video to Facebook as well, and started replying to anti-vaxxers flocking to the comments there.
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Finally, he posted a whole screed directed at anti-vaxxers about why he made the decision to get the vaccine:
“I always say you should know your strengths and listen to the experts,” he began. “If you want to learn about building biceps, listen to me, because I’ve spent my life studying how to get the perfect peak and I have been called the greatest bodybuilder of all time. We all have different specialties.
“Dr. Fauci and all of the virologists and epidemiologists and doctors have studied diseases and vaccines for their entire lives, so I listen to them and I urge you to do the same. None of us are going to learn more than them by watching a few hours of videos.
It’s simple: if your house in on fire, you don’t go on YouTube, you call the damn fire department. If you have a heart attack, you don’t check your Facebook group, you call an ambulance. If 9 doctors tell you you have cancer and need to treat it or you will die, and 1 doctor says the cancer will disappear, you should always side with the 9.
“In this case, virtually all of the real experts around the world are telling us the vaccine is safe and some people on Facebook are saying it isn’t. In general, I think if the circle of people you trust gets smaller and smaller and you find yourself more and more isolated, it should be a warning sign that you’re going down a rabbit hole of misinformation. Some people say it is weak to listen to experts. That’s bogus. It takes strength to admit you don’t know everything.
“Weakness is thinking you don’t need expert advice and only listening to sources that confirm what you want to believe,” he concluded.
Will his followers listen? Probably not, if they’re getting all their info on Facebook. But he’s trying.
*First Published: January 23, 2021, 10:25 am
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