Jimmy Kimmel returned from his summer hiatus concerned about Covid and baffled by the words and actions of InfoWars host Alex Jones.
“It was not a fun Labor Day weekend Covid-wise,” said the late night host in his Jimmy Kimmel Live! monologue. “The number of new cases is up more than 300% from a year ago.”
He lamented not just the lack of progress, but the lack of science behind some Americans’ decision making.
“We’ve still got a lot of pandimwits out there,” Kimmel observed. “The poison control centers have seen a spike in calls from people taking livestock medicine (ivermectin) – to fight the Coronavirus – but they won’t take the vaccine.”
The logic of that eluded Kimmel.
“One of the reasons these Sea Biscuits are opting for ivermectin is because they don’t trust ‘big pharma’ – which is fine, I guess, except for the fact that ivermectin is made...
“It was not a fun Labor Day weekend Covid-wise,” said the late night host in his Jimmy Kimmel Live! monologue. “The number of new cases is up more than 300% from a year ago.”
He lamented not just the lack of progress, but the lack of science behind some Americans’ decision making.
“We’ve still got a lot of pandimwits out there,” Kimmel observed. “The poison control centers have seen a spike in calls from people taking livestock medicine (ivermectin) – to fight the Coronavirus – but they won’t take the vaccine.”
The logic of that eluded Kimmel.
“One of the reasons these Sea Biscuits are opting for ivermectin is because they don’t trust ‘big pharma’ – which is fine, I guess, except for the fact that ivermectin is made...
- 9/8/2021
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
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