Recently Joe Rogan cast doubt about whether some people should receive the coronavirus vaccine on his popular podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience.”
“If you’re like 21 years old and you say to me, ‘Should I get vaccinated?’ I’ll go, ‘No,'” said Rogan. “If you’re a healthy person and you’re exercising all the time, and you’re young, and you’re eating well, I don’t think you need to worry about this.”
Despite the wildfire this statement by Rogan has caused, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek declined to comment on the matter.
“I don’t have any specific comments on that,” Ek told Bloomberg. “What I will say is we have 8 million creators and hundreds of millions of pieces of content. We have a content policy, and we do remove pieces that violate it.”
Spotify decided to applaud Rogan’s contributions instead since the podcast went exclusive on their platform. Despite Spotify choosing not to comment on Rogan’s issue, others have spoken out, condemning the misinformation that the podcast host is spreading.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious diseases expert, tried to help put out the disinformation fire during his appearance on NBC’s “Today.”
“You’re talking about yourself in a vacuum,” Fauci said of the podcast host. “You’re worried about yourself getting infected and the likelihood that you’re not going to get any symptoms. But you can get infected and will get infected if you put yourself at risk.”
“So if you want to only worry about yourself and not society, then that’s OK,” Fauci said. “But if you’re saying to yourself, even if I get infected, I could do damage to somebody else even if I have no symptoms at all, and that’s the reason why you’ve got to be careful and get vaccinated.”
Eduardo Razo is the Assistant Content Editor for BNM, which includes writing daily news stories on the news media industry. He can be found on Twitter @eddierazo_ or you can reach him by email at eddie1991razo@gmail.com.
