Buck’s Spirit Airlines J&J Vaccine Useless Against Omicron

CLAY: Bad news for you, Buck. I saw this last night. I put it on Twitter. (laughing) We have jokingly called your one-shot Johnson & Johnson the Spirit Airlines of vaccines because one of your buddies termed it that, right, which was a great line.

BUCK: Right, and I think we’re not getting a sponsorship by Spirit Airlines anytime now soon, Clay.

CLAY: I’m flying Allegiant tomorrow so I’m just hoping it lands. I will tell you this. News came out that your Johnson & Johnson covid vaccine has 0% effectiveness against Omicron.

BUCK: Wait a minute. Was it real zero or was it…? (laughing)

CLAY: I will read the headline. The headline is…

BUCK. Oh, my God.

CLAY: I want to read the headline to make sure ’cause I also clicked on it.

BUCK: It wasn’t like 5% protection, Clay?

CLAY: No, ’cause I tagged you in it too, but I want to make sure that I did not get it wrong. The headline is pretty fantastic. This is from the Daily Mail: “Johnson & Johnson’s covid vaccine produces virtually NO,” all caps, “antibody protection against Omicron variant in lab studies.” Virtually no! I actually am gonna pull up the article again now and see. Maybe you got a 1 or 2% protection here.

BUCK: I’m looking for whatever number I can get here, Clay. Look, I’m not concerned. You know why? Because despite the suppression of this conversation by the people that are supposed to be all about the science, I have a little something called natural immunity because I’ve already had covid.

CLAY: That’s right.

BUCK: So I’m not worried and I don’t particularly care for all the fearmongering around people like me. I’m 39, soon to be 40, and I already have had covid. They made me get this stupid shot because by… Everyone that I know who thought they were going to… You only have two options in New York: forge it or get it. There was no… ‘Cause they actually did check everywhere in Manhattan. All restaurants and bars are checking, even some coffee shops will check. So, if you’ve got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and you already had covid, the city of New York made me go through pain, irritation, discomfort for no reason whatsoever.

CLAY: That’s a hundred percent right. Here’s the official word. “South African virologist Penny Moore found the J&J shot provides undetectable” levels of protection for everyone who had the J&J shot, and here’s the quote. “The situation, I think, is even more alarming for the J&J vaccine — there was no detectable neutralization in our assay.” So, yes, you have zero protection from the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.