Bill Clinton’s Podcast Returns For Second Season With Chat With Jason Isbell About The Challenge Of Convincing Covid Vaccine Deniers

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Former President Bill Clinton is launching a second season of his iHeart podcast Why Am I Telling You This? on Thursday, with singer-songwriter Jason Isbell as his first guest.Among the topics in their wide-ranging conversation is that of Covid vaccine deniers and the challenge of changing their minds about taking the shots.Isbell has been adamant about having a set of Covid protocols at his concerts that include proof of vaccinations or recent negative tests, something that drew scorn from some of his fans, with some performances canceled, yet praise from others.In the new episode, which posted at midnight on Thursday, Isbell tells Clinton that performing with vaccine protocols in place “helps me do my job and be happy when I’m on stage and not be concerned and not be worried about people’s safety or about the kind of audience that I have, I just want to keep making those right decisions and keep making music.

And that’s it. Ten years, 20 years, 30 years, that’s all I want to do.”Clinton then brought up one argument from anti-vaxxers: That those fully vaccinated are still testing positive “because these variants come at us pretty quick.

And the vaccines are directed at this target and when the target moves a little bit, it may get through.”“But the death rate is still 13 to 16 times higher for people who aren’t vaccinated than for people who are.

And I don’t understand why that’s not enough,” Clinton said.“It doesn’t seem like much of a decision there, does it?” Isbell said.Clinton compared the situation to a time when he was governor of Arkansas and a group of bikers came to seem him, wanting him to sign a repeal the state’s helmet law.