Former NBA Center Shaquille O’Neal argued on Feb. 3 against COVID-19 vaccine mandates, calling them “forced” medical treatment,” during his show, “The Big Podcast,” the Gateway Pundit reported.
Shaq comes out against vaccine mandates on his podcast. I have gained so much respect for many different people in public positions who have had the courage to stand up for individual freedoms despite all the pressures against doing so. pic.twitter.com/Uig6Rz7q1D
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) February 4, 2022
O’Neal disagreed with his co-host, Nischelle Turner, who also co-hosts “Entertainment Tonight,” about the nature of vaccine mandates.
“Look, I encourage everybody to be safe and take care of your family. I do,” he said. “but there’s still some people that don’t want to take it, and you shouldn’t have to be forced to take something you don’t want.”
O’Neal carries a huge national following as a sports analyst on “Inside the NBA,” as an actor in dozens of films and televsion shows, as a rap artist, and as an entrepreneur.
Turner, who herself sounded conflicted about issue, disagreed with O’Neal: “I don’t think people are being forced to take…Well, there are some…There are, I mean, listen we have a mandate at CBS.”
“That’s forced,” O’Neal said about the mandate.
Turner pushed back, “No, it’s not forced,” but O’Neal did not relent.
“It is forced. Because if the man don’t take it, the man gonna get fired,” he said.
O’Neal, Turner and the third host, Anthony “Spice” Adams, also discussed the New York nurses and employee whom police arrested for selling $1.5 million worth of fake vaccination cards, USA Today reported.
O’Neal said the nurses and employee who worked at Wild Child Pediatric Healthcare in Amityville, should not face prosecution for submitting false information into New York’s immunization database.
They sold the fake vaccination cards for $220 to adults and $85 for children.
