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People Don't Seem Interested in the Newest COVID Vaccine · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start your
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day, and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show. Tuesday morning,
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seventeenth day of October. I'm West Thanks for joining me. Zipping all through
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the week, aren't we on this Tuesday morning. We're getting there, flying
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through the week. Man, get yourself whiplash moving so fast? All right?
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I want to talk about the COVID vaccine because apparently this latest batch isn't
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going over so well. As you recall, we all went through this pandemic.
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You all, I'm sure recall the pressures that were put upon us to
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get the vaccine basically just well, it's a really more complicated than just there
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was pressure to get the vaccine because if you remember, we probably do,
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this wasn't that long ago. It's starting to feel like it was a long
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time ago. It was really only you know, three years ago, right,
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I mean at this point, it was like three years ago. We
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were in the beginning stages of this whole vaccine process. Right, So we
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had the pandemic and its throws. Nobody really understood what that meant. All
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that we knew was that people around the world had died, right there were
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people dying everywhere, and we didn't know all the specifics about who was dying,
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what the circumstance was. We knew that this pandemic had popped up,
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and it was different than some of the others we've gone through, all of
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the you know, the bird flus and the swine flues and all the mad
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cow you know, the murder hornets, the killer bees. We had all
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these things that were all put in place over the years to just scare them
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mess out of us. Right, Oh my gosh, what's gonna happen.
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We're all gonna die. We're going to be overrun by hornets and bees and
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I don't know, locust, Do we have a locust? We should have
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had a locust that only seems like it would have fit right. And all
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of them just kind of fizzled out. I mean, there were certainly cases
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of them. There were situations where you know, it was awful for the
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people who got it and the places that had outbreaks, But those things never
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really hit us in a big way here in the States where they changed our
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everyday way of life. Right, So, when COVID came along, and
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the first thing that we have to point out is. It began very similarly
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to all of those others, maybe not the ones that involve you know,
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hornets and bees, but the rest of those. You know, it was
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like, oh my gosh, this might come here, and people just kind
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of blew it off the way they normally did. And then at some point,
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obviously there were other countries that this was becoming very sick. I remember
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Italy was one where it was just very serious what was going on. And
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we had that moment here in the States where there were a number of let's
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just be honest, liberal pundits who said, here's our chance. They went
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on to the platform formerly known as Twitter back then it was Twitter, and
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they said, here's our chance. This is going to be our chance to
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get rid of Trump. This was that tragedy that they weren't going to pass
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up an opportunity to take advantage of right, That was just they weren't going
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to do that. And they saw this as an opportunity to go after Trump.
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They saw, while this could be extremely horrible for the country, therefore
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would put us in a position where we can get rid of Donald Trump.
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They saw that as an opportunity. Not all saw it that way at first,
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I think most of them came around on it. I mean, I
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think it's safe to say that the people, but you know, we hear
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about that are behind the scenes that are kind of pulling the strings in every
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country with every government. Saw as an opportunity to run off all of the
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ones that actually have real elections. They saw it as an opportunity and they
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said, hey, we can get rid of the person in charge by blaming
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them. And they're instill indirectly doing that here. Now three years later,
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it's still happening. Oh. Can you believe the jobs that were lost while
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Trump was president. Sure it was going fine at first, but by the
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end it all dropped off, and we lost so many jobs and we were
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in such a horrible place. We were adding to the deficit by the end
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of it. And it's said, well, whose idea was it to start
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handing out COVID checks? Was that his call? I mean he had to
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sign off. I guess he had to sign the checks, right, Oh,
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it had his signature on the checks. I don't think that was all
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on him, though, was it? But I digress. People saw it
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as well, we're going to take advantage of this, We're going to up
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in here. Now one of the things I think that was kind of a
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byproduct of that. I don't know, but I do know that the Trump
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administration said we're going to fast track a vaccine. We're going to get this
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thing. It's and just I've got limited understanding. I'm not a vaccineologist,
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but I've got limited understanding. But the way that this has been explained to
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me over and over again is they were able to do it so quickly because
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it's so similar to other vaccines that had already been used before. So they
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worked on it, they got it through whatever process that was fast tracked,
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they did the green light for it, they got it, and Trump got
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the vaccine and told everybody you should get the vaccine. Democrats said no,
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no, no, no, no, we're not getting that Trump vaccine.
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Our president now said that. Then candidate the vice president now than candidate said
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nope, not getting that Trump vaccine, not going to do it. And
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again, and that was all just political strategy because they did not want the
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vaccine to be something that was associated with Trump. A lot of conservatives,
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a lot of your don't tread on me conservatives missed the whole that are Trump
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supporters missed the whole thing that it was Trump who was initially the one trying
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to get everyone to get vaccinated. So the election happens, and of course
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the numbers weren't great for the vaccine right out of the gate. The election
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happens, and the Biden administration once I guess he won, and once we
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got to a stage where he was going to be taking no didn't, they
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changed their tune. Yeah, get this vaccine, we need you to.
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Let's don't be one of those science deniers like Donald Trump. Let's get the
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vaccine. We need to all get it. And they started pushing for numbers.
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They were initially aiming for I don't know what was at eighty percent,
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and then they said, well, if we get to seventy or somewhere in
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that range, that'll be great. And they got pretty close to where they
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were all hoping to go. They thought this will be great, and they
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said, well, we got to get you got to get two jabs,
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and a lot of people thought this is the best thing that we can do.
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We were told a lot of things about the vaccine that I didn't end
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up being full of the truth. We were told a lot of things about
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the outbreak about the virus that ended up being true. But just focus mainly
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on the vaccine for the purposes of this story, and there were a few
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things that went on to that caused people to struggle to get the numbers up.
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First of all, you had people who just thought, I'm not putting
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something in my body that I'm not choosing to do. Some people lost their
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jobs and their livelihoods. On top of the fact that we had people that
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were losing jobs in livelihoods just because of the pandemic itself, because everything was
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being shut down. In reflection Monday Morning quarterback, we realized that that was
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not necessarily the best plan in most cases. There may have been a few
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ice related cases where that was for the best, but people were reacting and
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they weren't prepared for a pandemic. They didn't understand. Nobody signed up to
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be a leader in government for a pandemic. Now you kind of have to
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keep it in mind whenever you run for office, because I don't think people
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should be caught off guard again, especially not if we're continuing to send money
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to labs in China to make the vaccines. Like we have to be aware
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of the fact I think there should be full disclosure on that when we do
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it, so that everybody knows. I'm thinking about running for office, but
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getting the heads up that they're making another superbug down there and we're funding it,
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so maybe we should. You know, maybe I'll hold off on running
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this time just so that they have a full disclosure. They need to know
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those sorts of things. Again, I digress. We also had people who
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didn't want the vaccine because, you know, let's just be honest, Tuskegee
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syphilis. I know people who cited that specifically as a reason that they and
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members of their family were not getting the vaccine. They didn't trust the CDC.
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Guess what, it's still the CDC. It was the CDC. Then
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it's the same it's not the same employees, it's the same organization. I
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mean, if an organization is doing horrible things to a group of people,
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it's pretty easy to see that years later, the same letters are being thrown
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around, Hey get this vaccine, it's great. I don't think they were
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using the frosted flake slogan. But so there were people who just weren't getting
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it for a number of different reasons. And then we've had a few other
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reasons to be concerned about whether or not we want to continue to get the
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vaccine. And I'll stand by what I've been saying from the very beginning of
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this vaccine. Talk to your doctor. You know, that's what you should
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do. You got to make a decision based on what you think is best
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for you. Doing research on the internet not necessarily going to get you there.
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But if you talk to actual medical professionals, and if you don't trust
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your doctor, you should probably find another doctor. That's the other bit of
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advice I'll give you. If you trust your doctor, talk to your doctor.
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That's what you should do. Well, apparently a lot of people are
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talking to their doctors, and I don't know if that's the case, because
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there's not a lot of people getting this latest round of vaccine. The CDC
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says just two percent, yes, two percent of Americans have received the new
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COVID vaccine. Pfizer in the process of doing some cost cutting. I assume
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that means staff, but Pizer taking a big hit because, needless to say,
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if you're one of the companies that's producing the vaccine back in twenty twenty
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and up until I don't know, twenty twenty two probably doing pretty well off
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the vaccine making a lot of money. Now not so much if only two
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percent. This latest vaccine, they say, is supposed to give you more
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protection against the current variants that are circulating. And this thing was approved back
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in September, a little over a month ago, so and it hits all
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of the different the different variants. I'm looking at the full list of them.
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It looks really technical. It's a lot of letters, some capital,
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some lowercase, some strings of all capital letters. It looks pretty serious.
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Again, not a virusologist, but this looks pretty good as far as what
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this thing can do. So the CDC is urging if you haven't received your
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COVID nineteen vaccine in the last two months, you should get the updated vaccine
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to protect yourself this fall and winter. And that's not going over. Apparently
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people just aren't doing it. So someone at CNN reporting, in comparison,
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when last year's COVID nineteen booster was available, more than eighteen million people had
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received a dose by October twelfth, about six weeks after the CDC signed off
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on it. And that amount of time has passed and we're at two percent.
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So sorry, that's not the rest of the quote, I guess the
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rest of the quote I should finish. According to CDC data, by May,
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about fifty six point five million people had received the booster, representing about
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seventeen percent of the US population. So yeah, at two percent, it
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seems people just aren't having it. They're not buying it, they're not in
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for it. Pfizer announcing they're anticipating a full year twenty twenty three revenues to
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be in the range of fifty eight to sixty one million, and the previous
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range they were expecting sixty seven to seventy billion. Did I say million before?
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Fifty eight to sixty one billions? Sixty seven to seventy billion off of
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COVID products alone. Full year twenty twenty three revenues for paxlvid and what is
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this, comier, Natty, I don't know that one expected to be approximately
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twelve point five billion, a decline of nine billion versus original expectations. So
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look, I'm not happy about people losing their jobs. I'm not happy if
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that's what's going to happen. I don't know what the full cost cutting measures
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are, but needless to say, seventy billion projected off of COVID products.
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It seems a bit steep. I mean, I'm all about the free market,
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but that does seem just a little steep, doesn't it when people are
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dying from this? All right, let's shift over to a Georgia story.
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This coming out of Savannah Jury. Savannah, Georgia. There's a man by
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the name of Connor Cato, Chatham County. He was driving and he received
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a speeding ticket for going ninety in a fifty five. The ticket he was
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given totaled up to one point four million dollars. He called into the city
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to check on this, he says. The lady on the phone told me
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after I said this might be a typo, she said, no, sir,
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you either pay the amount on the ticket or you come to court December
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twenty first at one thirty pm. So, uh, turns out it is
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accurate. It is not actually his fine. It could be if he chose
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to pay it, but because he was doing ninety in a fifty five,
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it's labeled in Savannah as a super speeder ticket. So basically the ticket itself,
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according to city officials, is really for nine hundred ninety nine thousand dollars.
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Sorry, nine hundred ninety nine, nine hundred and ninety nine dollars,
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and when you throw in the other court costs and things, and it adds
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up to one point four million dollars. And the city says the system automatically
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puts when it's a superspeeder ticket, the ninety nine cents. Sorry I didn't
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lay list that as well as the base amount plus other costs since the only
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way to resolve the ticket is to appear in court. So what they're trying
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to do is, if you're considered and labeled a super speeder, they want
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you to come into court and actually face a judge, and that's where you'll
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actually have your fine named by the judge. Interesting trick, interesting technique there.
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So for the guy to get out of his court appear, he would
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have to pay the one point four million dollars. So yeah, I mean,
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maybe don't do ninety in a fifty five. That's your first problem right
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there. Ninety and fifty five. You know, I was talking on my
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last trip to Australia. I was talking with my father in law. He
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was telling me that they had actually in his town, had made the texting
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while driving the distracted driving fine one thousand dollars for people doing it. Th
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Oh, my gosh, that's excessive. He's like, yeah, but we're
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all just sick of it. We're all just sick of the people texting and
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driving. And I think, yeah, yeah. I mean, I don't
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know how they uphold that, because I don't know that everybody. I mean,
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I guess there'd be people going to jail. I guess if they don't
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have the money to pay the fine, they go to jail, right.
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I don't know that we could enforce that here. We let people just you
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know, break windows and steal jewelry and iPhones if they want, and there's
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no real punishment for that. So I don't know that we could get away
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with one thousand dollars fine. But I suppose this forcing someone to come into
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court and not giving the convenience of just paying it up front and skipping the
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court appearance, you know, seems like a good tactic. According to a
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spokesperson for the City of Savannah, they said that the city did not implement
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the placeholder amounts in order to force or scare people into court. That kind
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of sounds like, let's do it, isn't it. I mean, that
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may not be the intention, but that seems like that's exactly what it's doing.
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Morning Show right after the break one of a funny story. A student that
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and she thought, I'm gonna enjoy going to the beaches. I'm going to
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She thought, oh wow, this is going to be great. Yeah,
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so it's been Roethlisberger's school, right. Have you decided on your Halloween
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costume yet for your kids? Well, probably want to get creative, because
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apparently a survey of parents found sixty one percent believe creative costumes get more candy
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for their kids. When asked about the weirdest costume a child has asked.
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Four parents in the survey said chicken nuggets, blue tarantulas, or green beans
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were the Those are pretty weird. That's uh, those are non traditional costumes.
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I would think chicken nuggets would come up more. I mean, kids
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just kind of go to that as a default, right. According to a
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new study, your bed is probably gross and you don't clean your bedding enough.
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Study found forty five percent of single men only wash their betting once every
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four months. Single women much better, cleaning their being about every two weeks.
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Couples wash their betting about once a month, and it says consider this
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in just four weeks. A pillowcase was found to have thirty nine times as
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a toothbrush holder. And if you wear socks to bed, they say stop.
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They have some of the same bacteria on them that are carried by cockroaches.
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Maybe you should just have certain socks that you wear two bed. You
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know, you put them on when you get in the bed and don't walk
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around that. I'm guessing I don't know how that works exactly. A new
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never actually answer the question that was asked Amen. Forty six percent of respondents
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said that email is an outdated form of communication. Chick fil A still winning
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the chicken sandwich war over other fast food chains, but the real battle is
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in second place, as there's a new second place sandwich. Chick fil A
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enjoys forty five point five percent of the market share and KFC has dropped from
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make the move. I don't know. I mean, you're gonna have to
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boost them sales on Sunday. That's the best thing I can tell you.
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That's the best advice i'd give you. You have to sell a lot of
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finally, the makers of Taki Snack have introduced a limited edition Halloween treat called
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Zombie Talkies. They say they have got bright green talkies and they say they
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may look scary, but they're actually quite tasty. They have Haberniro spice tempered
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they were hooked after just one small bag myself included. According to another reviewer,
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so I don't eat the regular ones. I don't think I'm going to
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eat the zombie ones. It's not because of the name. I just don't
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know that I really need to eat talkies. That's just me. That'll do
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