“Today was one of those days when a name trend hit Twitter and people panicked”, The daily show said host Trevor Noah on Tuesday evening. As he explained to his guest, 83-year-old Oscar winner Morgan Freeman, “People think two things have happened: the person has died or the person wants him or her to die.”
Freeman, who experienced the latter a few years ago when he faced his own #MeToo allegations, trended this week for a third reason. 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’ve been told that for some reason people trust me, ”the actor says in the short video. So here I have to say that I trust science and I got the vaccine. If you trust me, you will get the vaccine. “
He was even more emphatic in his interview with Noah, saying that instead of having a death wish, he only wishes that “those people who refuse to take these shots would change their mind and realize that this is one of those things that we really have.
“I really don’t understand, to tell you the truth, someone who has problems with the idea of being vaccinated against this plague,” he continued. “The facts are in. We know all those dead people are dead and they weren’t hit by trucks or anything, it was this pandemic.”
So with that in mind, Freeman said he would “highly recommend it, go for the craziest photos!” If they choose not to, he added, “I’ll have to avoid you and I will.”
I’ll have to avoid you and I’ll …
Morgan later focused on some of the specific reluctance within the black community because of a history that includes the Tuskegee experiments. “That’s horse sauce!” he said, squatting Noah. ‘I do not believe that. That is ridiculous. This is a whole new world, a whole new society, a whole new group of people and this thing here is real. It’s not something anyone has made up as a test to see how we’ll respond to it. “
And to anyone who has criticized him for taking a stand on the vaccine issue, Morgan said, ‘I’m just trying to keep my peace, stay above the ground. You do what you gotta do and I’ll do what I gotta do. “
“Get the shot,” he repeated. If there was no other reason, he added, “Help protect me.”