Over the weekend, television host Mike Rowe responded to a user on Facebook who had asked him why he didn’t do more to encourage his viewers to get the coronavirus vaccines. Rowe’s response was one of the better I’ve seen: He said he had gotten vaccinated as soon as he was able, that he believed the vaccines work, but he understands the reasons why so many people are still hesitant.

The Bulwark’s Jonathan V. Last took Rowe’s reasonable reply and distorted it to accuse the Dirty Jobs star of peddling anti-vaccine rhetoric. I won’t bother responding to every one of Last’s points because Rowe has already done a great job of that himself here: