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Did George Clooney just say it’s time to force jab unvaccinated?!

Claim : George Clooney just said it’s time to force jab unvaccinated!

People are sharing an article (archive) by The People’s Voice (formerly NewsPunch), which claimed that George Clooney just said it’s time to force jab every unvaccinated person in the United States!

Here is an excerpt of the long and (intentionally?) confusing article. Feel free to skip to the next section for the facts!

George Clooney Says It’s Time To Force-Jab Every Unvaccinated Person In America

The time has come to force-jab every unvaccinated person in the United States, according to Hollywood actor George Clooney who declared his support for “mandatory vaccines, period” during a red carpet interview.

Asked for his opinion regarding mandatory vaccines on film sets at the event in London, Clooney went further and declared that unvaccinated people should not have the right to medical freedom and it should be mandatory to get jabbed.

“I mean listen, I don’t care. To me it’s really simple,” said Clooney. “We can look out for one another and and take care of one another, or we cannot. It’s that simple.”

“All the people who want to talk about their independence and their freedom… You’re free to drink until you fall down the stairs, but you’re not free to drive,” said Clooney.

According to Clooney, the Covid mRNA vaccine roll-out has been “pretty successful” in comparison to the polio vaccine which he admits “actually ended up giving a bunch of kids polio and killing them because they weren’t filtering out the formaldehyde.”

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Truth : George Clooney did not say it’s time to force jab unvaccinated!

This is yet another example of fake news created / promoted by The People’s Voice, and here are the reasons why…

Fact #1 : George Clooney Was Referring To Movie Sets

Let me start by simply pointing out that the George Clooney did not say that it’s time to force jab every unvaccinated person in the United States!

What George Clooney said was he supported mandatory vaccination on movie sets. This was what he actually said, when journalists asked him about mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations on movie sets:

Reporter : Now, as a filmmaker, do you support mandatory vaccines?

George Clooney : I support mandatory vaccines, period. I think every company should do it. Listen, I don’t care. To me, it’s really simple. We can look out for one another, we can take care of one or we cannot. It’s that simple, you know.

And all the people who want to talk about their independence and their freedom, you’re free to eat until you fall down the stairs, but you are not free to drive. The minute your freedom infringes on everyone else’s, then it stops. So, I believe very much in mandating that.

You will note that George Clooney said that he believes every (film) company should do it. He never said that people outside of movie sets should be forced to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

Unsurprisingly, The People’s Voice did not provide any actual evidence to back up its claim that George Clooney said it’s now time to force jab every unvaccinated person in the United States!!

Fact #2 : George Clooney Made Those Remarks In 2021

The People’s Voice article appears to suggest that George Clooney made those remarks about mandatory vaccination in April 2024. The truth is – George Clooney made those remarks in October 2021 – more than 2.5 years ago!

Why would anyone dig up an old video to claim or suggest that George Clooney thinks “the time has come to force-jab every unvaccinated person in the United States“?!

Not only he never said that, these are old remarks. Obviously, COVID-19 vaccines were never mandatory in the United States.

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Fact #3 : George Clooney Pointed Out Vaccine Improvements

George Clooney did say in the interview that polio vaccines from one factory ended up giving children polio, and killing some of them. However, that was only to point out how vaccine safety has improved since then.

Clooney was referring to the 1955 Cutter Incident, when Cutter Laboratories mistakenly produced 120,000 doses of Salk’s polio vaccine that contained the live virus, instead of the inactivated (killed) virus. While Clooney said that the problem occurred because “they weren’t filtering out the formaldehyde”, that’s not accurate.

The polio viruses used in those vaccines were inactivated (killed) using formaldehyde. However, a combination of factors (source | source) led to improper / ineffective inactivation of those viruses:

Glass filters were used, instead of the recommended Seitz filter, which allow for faster filtration but also allowed small particles of cell debris to get through. Any cell debris that made it through would protect some of the polio virus from inactivation by formaldehyde.
Cutter used glass filters that were inferior to those used by other companies.
The filtered viruses were refrigerated for extended periods of time before formaldehyde was added to inactivate (kill) them. This allowed cell debris that got through the glass filters to clump together, further protecting viruses within those clumps from being inactivated by the formaldehyde.
Cutter Laboratories never established how long it would take for the formaldehyde to inactivate the polio viruses, and instead, treated the viruses at “variable lengths of time”.

In the end, 40,000 children developed abortive poliomyelitis (which did not involve the nervous system), while 56 developed paralytic poliomyelitis – 5 of whom eventually died. On top of that – the infected children created its own epidemic, paralysing a further 113 people, and killing 5 more.

Ultimately, the Cutter Incident had nothing to do with formaldehyde itself. It was the inadequate inactivation of the polio viruses in the vaccine that was the problem, not the formaldehyde.

This risk only affects the older inactivated vaccine technology, which requires careful quality-control scrutiny, and can be avoided by using newer mRNA, DNA, or protein subunit vaccine technologies. Hence, the successful rollout of COVID-19 vaccines based on those newer vaccine technologies.

Fact #4 : The People’s Voice Is Known For Fake News

The People’s Voice is the current name for NewsPunch, which possibly changed its name because its brand has been so thoroughly discredited after posting numerous shocking but fake stories.

Founded as Your News Wire in 2014, it was rebranded as NewsPunch in November 2018, before becoming The People’s Voice. A 2017 BuzzFeed report identified NewsPunch as the second-largest source of popular fake news on Facebook that year.

Its articles have been regularly debunked as fake news, so you should never share anything from NewsPunch / The People’s Voice. Here are some of its fake stories that I fact checked earlier:

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Did Chelsea Clinton Call To Force-Jab Every Child?!

Claim : Chelsea Clinton Calls To Force-Jab Every Child!

People are sharing an article that claims that the Chelsea Clinton say it’s time to force-jab every child in America with the mRNA vaccine, with or without parental consent!

Here is an excerpt from the very long article, so feel free to skip to the next section for the facts!

Chelsea Clinton: ‘It’s Time To Force-Jab Every Unvaccinated Child in America’

Chelsea Clinton has declared that unvaccinated children in America must be forced to take the mRNA jab with or without parental consent.

Chelsea – via the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) – along with the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says she hopes to force jab unvaccinated children via a new initiative called “The Big Catch-up.”

“The Big Catch-up” will last 18 months and, according to Bill Clinton’s daughter, aims to become “the largest childhood immunization effort ever.”

Childrenshealthdefense.org reports: Clinton, who serves as vice chair of CHAI, last week presented the initiative at Fortune’s Brainstorm Health Conference in Marina del Rey, California.

One day earlier, under the auspices of World Immunization Week, the WHO introduced “The Big Catch-up,” describing it as a “targeted global effort to boost vaccination among children following declines driven by the COVID-19 pandemic.”

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Truth : Chelsea Clinton Never Called To Force-Jab Any Child!

This is yet another example of FAKE NEWS created and propagated by The People’s Voice, and here are the reasons why…

Fact #1 : The People’s Voice Is A Fake News Website

The People’s Voice is the new name / brand for NewsPunch, which was forced to change its name because it has been so thoroughly discredited, its brand was worthless.

Like Real Raw News, NewPunch was a FAKE NEWS website that capitalises on making shocking but fake stories to generate page views and money.

It was founded as Your News Wire in 2014, before being rebranded as NewsPunch in November 2018. A 2017 BuzzFeed report identified NewsPunch as the second-largest source of popular fake news spread on Facebook that year.

Its articles have been regularly debunked as fake news, so you should NEVER share anything from NewsPunch / The People’s Voice. Here are some of its fake stories that I personally debunked earlier:

Fact #2 : Chelsea Clinton Did Not Call To Force-Jab Any Child

As usual, NewsPunch / The People’s Voice offered ZERO EVIDENCE to back up its claims. That’s because it’s a fake story – Chelsea Clinton never once say that it was time to force-jab every child in America with the mRNA vaccine, with or without parental consent!

NewsPunch / The People’s Voice also offered NO EVIDENCE that Chelsea Clinton said “she hopes to force jab unvaccinated children via a new initiative called “The Big Catch-up”.

In fact, anyone who spends just a minute or two to search on Google or Bing would have discovered that there is not even a single quote from any speech or video to show that Chelsea Clinton called for children to be forcibly vaccinated with the mRNA vaccines, with or without parent consent.

Fact #3 : The Big Catch-Up Is About Childhood Vaccinations

The NewsPunch / The People’s Voice is based on what Chelsea Clinton said at Fortune’s Barnstorm Health conference in Marin del Ray, California on April 26, 2023.

At the event, she was promoting The Big Catch-Up, which is a global public health initiative to vaccinate children against childhood diseases like measles, diphtheria, polio and yellow fever.

Not only was she referring to a global initiative, she was also referring to childhood diseases. She certainly did not said that children should be forcibly vaccinated. Neither did she say that they should be vaccinated with or without their parents’ consent.

The Big Catch-Up does not involve mRNA vaccines or COVID-19 vaccines. It only targets childhood vaccinations that have declined during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In other words – claims that this is about forcibly vaccinating American children with the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines is utter nonsense, and are pure lies.

Fact #4 : She Warned About Low Childhood Vaccinations In The US

The Big Catch-Up isn’t focused on the United States. Rather, it mainly targets the 20 countries where three quarters of children who missed vaccinations in 2021 lives – Afghanistan, Angola, Brazil, Cameroon, Chad, DPRK, DRC, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Somalia, Madagascar, Mexico, Mozambique, Myanmar, Tanzania, Viet Nam.

While the United States isn’t the main focus of The Big Catch-Up, Chelsea Clinton pointed out that many US c children failed to get their childhood vaccines. Less than 70% of children ages 2 and under in the US were considered fully vaccinated during 2020-2021, having received a full set of shots for diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, measles, and other diseases common before the vaccine era.

No one should die of polio, measles, or pneumonia—including in this country, where we also need people to vaccinate their kids.