Shaq Trends After Saying People ‘Shouldn’t Be Forced’ To Get COVID-19 Vaccine
During Thursday’s episode of The Big Podcast with Shaq, the former Los Angeles Lakers star shared his stance on the COVID-19 vaccine, saying he’s “sympathetic” towards people who defy vaccine mandates.
The star said that workers shouldn’t be “forced” to choose between their jobs and getting a shot but urged people to do what’s best for them: “I encourage everybody to be safe and take care of your family, I do,” the former Los Angeles Lakers star said. “But it’s just, people don’t want to take it, and you shouldn’t be forced to take something you don’t want,” O’Neal said, referring to COVID-19 vaccines, which protect against being hospitalized or dying from the coronavirus.
His comments were made during a discussion with co-hosts Nischelle Turner and former San Francisco 49ers player Anthony “Spice” Adams about the recent arrest of two New York nurses who were accused of making $1.5 million off of fake COVID-19 vaccination cards.
“Don’t send them to jail! I’m gonna probably get in trouble for this,” O’Neal continued, offering a hypothetical situation involving a fictional co-worker of “Entertainment Tonight” co-host Turner. “Say Nischelle, your sound guy at ‘ET’ been working there 10 years. That [job is] all you know. Let’s just say ‘ET’ puts out a new policy: If you don’t get the vaccination, you’re going to lose your job,” O’Neal said, before noting that it’s unfair to go “against [their] morals” by getting vaccinated.
Turner responded and said that she “wholeheartedly disagreed” with O’Neal. “You’re not just affecting yourself,” Turner said, “you’re putting the public at risk and it’s a public health issue.”
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