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Howard Stern unleashes on ‘idiots’ who died from Covid after refusing vaccine

Radio host Howard Stern has unleashed fury in an on-air rant mocking “idiots” who died after refusing the covid jab.

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Howard Stern takes no pity on his peers.

The shock jock has typically strong opinions about the swelling list of outspoken anti-vaxxer media personalities — including several US radio hosts — who’ve died of Covid-19 after waging high-profile campaigns about their “freedom” being impinged upon.

“When are we going to stop putting up with the idiots in this country and just say, you know, it’s mandatory to get vaccinated?” Stern ranted in Tuesday’s episode of The Howard Stern Show on Sirius XM.

“F**k them, f**k their freedom. I want my freedom to live. I want to get out of the house already. I want to go next door and play chess. I want to go take some pictures.”

The 67-year-old “King of All Media” continued to mock the deceased right-wing radio hosts, taking particular pleasure in pointing out how many of the dead — at first proudly defiant — changed their tunes on their death beds.

Howard Stern had harsh words for media personalities who died after publicly taking an anti-vax stance. Picture: Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images
Howard Stern had harsh words for media personalities who died after publicly taking an anti-vax stance. Picture: Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images

“It’s really funny when these radio, the radio guys are the best, they’re like four of them died, four of them were like ranting on the air. They will not get vaccinated,” Stern said amid laughter during Tuesday’s show.

“They were on fire, these guys. It was like day after day, they were all dying and then their dying words are ‘I wish I had been more into the vaccine. I wish I had taken it.’ “

There are many who spoke out against COVID-19 precautions before later falling victim to the disease.

Longtime co-host Robin Quivers, 69, chimed in: “You know, I have trouble drumming up compassion, and I think that’s a terrible thing to not be able to drum up compassion for people that are stupid, that they wind up dying.”

The shock jock, pictured with his wife Beth Ostrosky Stern, showed little sympathy in the on-air rant. Picture: Theo Wargo/Getty Images
The shock jock, pictured with his wife Beth Ostrosky Stern, showed little sympathy in the on-air rant. Picture: Theo Wargo/Getty Images

Conservative host Marc Bernier, who dubbed himself “Mr. Anti-Vax” on his weekday WNDB radio show from Daytona Beach before dying of Covid-19, took a special drubbing from Stern.

“Where do I have that clip of that Marc Bernier, the guy who died?” he said as his chuckling radio cohorts poked fun at the late Bernier’s infamous nickname. “ … Yeah, he’s dead. He’s no longer walks.”

While one might argue that the dead should be left to rest in peace, Stern pointed that there are at least three others still “on the radio preaching this s – t.”

His bottom line: Covid-19 vaccines should be mandatory for all.

“I’ll tell you what, far as I remember, when I went to school you had to get a measles vaccine, you had to get a mumps vaccine, you had to get — it was a ton of them,” Stern said.

This article originally appeared on the New York Post and was reproduced with permission

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