The View co-hosts were back in studio for the first time in weeks due to COVID-19 precautions and took the opportunity to blast the unvaccinated and newly sworn-in Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin for his repeal of a state mask mandate in schools, all while they admitted that vaccinations and masks do not stop people from getting the omicron variant.
The show, taped without an audience or a guest co-host, opened with the co-hosts discussing how they felt nervous and odd to be back together at the table.
“It is a little freaky,” co-host Whoopi Goldberg said.
Co-host Joy Behar added, “I feel a little uncomfortable being in the world right now with all the craziness that’s going on.”
The View co-hosts quickly pounced on the surge of omicron cases and did not hold back from calling the unvaccinated selfish while still acknowledging people’s right to choose.
“Of course, parents should make, you know, every decision about the well-being of their children, but not when it impacts the well-being of other children,” co-host Sunny Hostin said. “That’s what people are missing about this public health debate. It’s public health.”
Whoopi Goldberg expressed her disapproval of Gov. Youngkin and his support for parental choice regarding whether children wear masks in school.
“I wonder if [he] would feel the same way if people decided to opt out from the measles or the mumps or any of the other childhood things,” Goldberg stated. “You’re making a decision for your kid is what you think, but you’re leaving out the people who are trying to get past this. So what kind of craziness is he dragging up here?”
The co-hosts also blasted tennis star Novak Djokovic, who left Australia Sunday without the opportunity to play in the Australian Open after nearly two weeks of fighting for his right to enter the country with vaccination exemption status.
“Here’s the bottom line,” Goldberg added. “People are not putting up with it. Countries are not putting up with it because it means that every time you sneeze or talk, you are spreading more hassle for them. They’re trying to clean their country up.”
Hostin noted that the Biden administration wanted to have a very similar vaccine mandate as Australia but that the Supreme Court ruled against it.
Behar took a jab at the Supreme Court, saying its decision came because it is “in the pocket of the right wing” before noting that people should not consider breakthrough cases as proof of vaccination ineffectiveness.
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“The fact is you can still get [COVID],” Behar said. “People need to understand this, but if you don’t have a vaccine, you will probably end up in the hospital, maybe dead.”
The co-hosts all agreed that the fight against mandates is a right-wing political stunt.
“This is all politics,” Goldberg emphatically added. “This is all about politics. This is all political.”
