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Joe BRogan Has The Covid
NBD fuckers! For just $1250 a pop, you could be fine, too.
For a routine pest control estimate at my house in the Covid-inferno also known as Florida, I had to ask the guy to put on a mask before coming inside. “I already had it,” he assured me. “Covid’s no big deal.” This is the very philosophy that Joe Rogan espouses in his “tell-all” confession about getting Covid. “I really only had one bad day,” he says. Meaning, just get it and get it over with and you’ll be fine. Because he is.
“Obviously it’s nothing I can control,” he says after informing viewers he’s got to cancel an upcoming show. This time the subtext is, hey, you’re all going to get it too, no matter what you do. But so? You already know that you’ll be okay, because I am. Well, unless you have co-morbidities.*
It’s hard to say what I react strongest to in this insanely privileged response. I’ll start with his most obnoxious blind spot, where he thanks “modern medicine” for blessing him with Z-pack, monoclonal antibodies, prednisone, a vitamin drip, and ivermectin. Pretending that ivermectin even makes sense—which it does not—the cost of monoclonal antibodies alone ($1250 per infusion) puts this regimen out of reach for most humans.
Then let’s talk about how “obviously” getting SARS CoV-2 is out of his control. Is it, though?
