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What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 427 & BENKYO RADIO 427.

I’d like to reiterate South Park COVID mythology. Please watch all 4 specials again. There’s South Park: The Pandemic Special & South ParQ Vaccination Special on HBO MAX, South Park POST COVID, and South Park POST COVID: The Return of COVID on Paramount+.

This is going to be the new normal if we are not careful. We need to keep vaccinating the entire population. Thankfully, soon we will be able to do it using COVID-19 vaccination pills.

Millions of Americans do not want 40 fucking years of COVID! I am desperately imploring you all not to let that happen. We are about to enter Year 3 of the Pandemic. Year 3. That’s bananas.

We don’t need this to become an “endemic,” a never-ending pandemic. But, in order to combat this, we need everybody to be vaccinated.

Some of you kept bitching that I don’t go out much because I don’t want to be expose to this virus, well guess why, POLITICO just announced that the U.S. recorded over 441,000 new COVID cases in a SINGLE FUCKING DAY. All of that because people weren’t vaccinated. Stop saying that “ugh what’s the point, you can be vaccinated and still catch COVID! Well, you inconsiderate fool, if people didn’t have COVID and were vaccinated, they wouldn’t infect people who are already vaccinated? Not to mention, all of you fucks who aren’t vaccinated are putting children and toddlers at risk. Right now, people in hospital are dying because they didn’t have access to a bed, because so many beds are taken by UNVACCINATED people who are dying of COVID-19. That’s terrible.

I implore you to get vaccinated. To survive Omicron, you need to be vaccinated and boosted. And to be boosted, you need to wait 6 months from original vaccination. Therefore, get to it soon, get to it fast.

Thanks for listening.

Also, the anniversary of the Jan 6th insurrection is coming. The FBI is on high alert and will continue to arrest folks who were involved in the insurrection. It’s time to stand strong. These individuals cannot keep getting a slap on the wrist while millions of Black and Brown folks are incarcerated for a little bit of weed. White Nationalists cannot have more rights than African-Americans and other minorities in our Judicial system. We must do the right thing.

Until Next Time!