On Fox's Special Report, Fox contributor refers to COVID-19 vaccine as “experimental treatment” and blames hesitancy on mask mandates
Domenech: “Why even go through this experimental treatment and the like if it's not going to result in any change in the way that I'm allowed to live?”
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Citation From the July 19, 2021, edition of Fox News' Special Report with Bret Baier
BEN DOMENECH (FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR)): And as I've said before, the real reason that people are not doing this, or that you've seen the levels of vaccination slow, have to do with government policies themselves.
And when people were promised, “If you get vaccinated there will be results, positive results. You can get back to normal. Your kids can get back to normal -- schooling and work and everything else can get back to normal," and then they see these different policies across the country being rolled back -- the potential for mask mandates to come back and the like -- this has an effect where that lever being pulled means that people say, “Well, then why should I even bother being vaccinated? Why even go through this experimental treatment and the like if it's not going to result in any change in the way that I'm allowed to live?" That is the major factor that's happening here. It's not this social media bugaboo of being the scapegoat for why people are not getting vaccinated.