“Today was one of those days when a name tended to Twitter and people were sent into a mess,” The Daily Show host Trevor Noah said Tuesday night. As he explained to his guest, 83-year-old Oscar winner Morgan Freeman, “People think one of two things happened: the person died or the person wished he had died.”
Freeman, who experienced the latter a few years ago when he faced his own #MeToo allegations, tended to do so for a third reason this week. He lent his face and words to a new PSA urging all Americans to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
“I’m not a doctor, but I trust science. And I am told that people trust me for some reason, ”says the actor in the short video. ‘So I have to say that I trust science and that I got the vaccine. If you trust me, you’ll get the vaccine. ‘
He was even more informed in his interview with Noah and said that rather than having a death wish, he just wants’ the people who refuse to take these shots to change their minds and realize that this is one of the things are to do. ”
“I really do not know, anyone who has problems with the idea of being vaccinated against this plague,” he continued. “The facts are in. We know that all the dead people were dead and that they were not hit by trucks or anything, it was this pandemic.”
That’s why Freeman said he ‘strongly recommends going for the freaking shots!’ If they decide not to do so, he added, “I will have to avoid you and I will.”
‘I’ll have to avoid you and I’ll …”
Later, Morgan addressed some of the specific reluctance in the Black community due to a history that includes the Tuskegee experiments. “This is horse puckkey!” he said and cracked Noah. ‘I do not believe it. This is ridiculous. It’s a whole new world, a whole new society, a whole new group of people and this thing really is. This is not something that someone made up as a test to see how we would react to it. ‘
And to anyone who criticized him for taking a stand on the vaccines, Morgan said: ‘I’m just trying to keep my peace, stay above ground. You do what you have to do and I will do what I have to do. ‘
“Get the chance,” he repeated. If for no other reason he added: “Help me protect.”