by Joseph Mackinnon, The Blaze:
Leftist actor Tim Robbins appeared on British comedian Russell Brand’s podcast this week to retroactively denounce the politicization of health policies during the pandemic and to express remorse about his uncritical acceptance of the media’s COVID-19 narrative.
In the Dec. 18 episode of Brand’s podcast, Robbins, an Academy Award-winning actor, explained his journey from strict compliance with government edicts early in the pandemic to one of doubt about the inerrancy of so-called health experts and the official narrative constructed around COVID-19, vaccination, lockdowns, and masking.
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Despite having initially “bought into it” and “adhering to the requests” made of him, Robbins explained that his real-life encounters were ultimately at odds with what he had otherwise been told about the pandemic, anti-lockdown protesters, and the unvaccinated. This generated a sense of cognitive dissonance, prompting him to doubt the official narrative.
What are the details?
Robbins said he was living in Los Angeles when the pandemic first struck.
Schools, bars, gyms, churches, and campgrounds were blocked off or shut down. Residents were confined to their homes. Mask-wearing was made mandatory. The state’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom likened the unvaccinated to drunk drivers. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti told the unvaccinated to prepare to lose their jobs.
“I bought into it. … I was masking everywhere. I was keeping my social distance. I was adhering to the requests made of me, and I felt angry at people that didn’t do that,” Robbins told Brand.
Although he saw thriving areas that were not strictly following statist health protocols when he drove across the U.S., it was not until he visited the United Kingdom that Robbins acknowledged the possibility that he may have been wrong to unquestioningly accept the official pandemic narrative.
In Britain, he “noticed a lot of people were not adhering again to these requests made by their government. I thought, well, they’re going to have a hard day coming up, that there will be some serious death here.”
“When I saw that there wasn’t a huge death rate [in Britain], after I witnessed personally what was happening, I started to wonder more and more about what we were being told and whether it was true or not.”
The catastrophe of and for the unvaccinated that Robbins and others were guaranteed by the Western governments and the media hadn’t come to be. He began to wonder what else wasn’t so.
The actor recalled navigating through an anti-lockdown protest in London. Robbins hadn’t joined because he supported the protest, but rather because he was curious.
Massive protest march in London today. Thousands and thousands arriving in Trafalgar Square. #NoVaccinePassports #NoVaccineMandates pic.twitter.com/VxhAiwsEIF
— Tim Robbins (@TimRobbins1) January 22, 2022
