Hey, everyone, Dr. Z!
Okay, I'm sick and tired of
vaccine stuff, I really am!
It's already been settled,
we're done with this, right?
Wrong!
Nicole Baldwin, Pediatrician,
puts out a TikTok video.
Kinda funny, kinda clever,
unlike most of TikTok,
which I hate 'cause it's owned
by the Chinese government.
Either way, she 
does this funny thing,
puts it up on Twitter,
the anti-vax clowns
come outta the woodwork.
And, we all know these people
are just out to lunch, right?
I mean, you can tell by their memes.
Their memes are so unfunny!
Unfunny memes, unintelligent people,
but they started 
attacking a pretty smart,
and compassionate doctor,
so much so that that they
were actually going online,
and Yelp reviews, 
negative Yelp reviews,
never seen this doctor, right?
Google, calling her clinic,
leaving death threats,
things from Facebook 
saying, you know,
"Dead doctors don't lie.",
and things like that.
So, kind of stressful if you're
a practicing pediatrician.
Why would you ever speak out
if this is the result, right?
How do you even fight back
against all these fake reviews?
Well, it turns out, Todd Wolynn,
another pediatrician 
who was on our show,
started this organization
called Shots Heard,
and it responds en masse
to these coordinated anti-vax attacks.
So, this organization was activated,
all the negative reviews
were removed and flagged,
Yelp actually cleaned up their business,
Google, by the way, which it
should be ashamed of itself,
is much harder to change
fake reviews, all right?
Google, are you listening?
But, they went and they
actually banned all these people
from her Facebook page,
and cleaned up the reputation,
and now she's in the popular
press as a hero, a heroine,
that she is!
So, the whole thing completely backfired.
So, what's the lesson here?
Okay, how do you fight
miseducation and lies,
i.e. the anti-vax movement?
With education from credible sources.
How many of you doctors, and nurses,
and nurse practitioners,
are too scared to speak
up because you're afraid
that something like
this will happen to you?
Well, I was, I was scared, and
then I started speaking up,
and I realized, wait,
there's a lot of power here.
We have credibility, we have a voice,
why aren't we using it?
Until we all together
stand up and make noise,
these anti-vax clowns
are gonna feel like
they have a louder voice
even though they're a tiny
minority of ding-dongs.
So, here's the call-to-action!
If we all stand up at once and say,
"You know what, 
I'm gonna put out a Tweet
"that says 'I support vaccines',"
or, "I'm gonna put out a little video",
or, "I'm gonna do a TikTok",
or, "I'm gonna do an Instagram post."
They can't attack us all, and if they do,
the Shots Heard campaign,
which will be linked in the comments,
is available to fight back.
And, I think that if 
we do this en masse,
if we stand together, they
can't keep tearing us apart!
Why does it matter?
Because it's the health of our kids!
You know, we're seeing all
these diseases coming back.
It's really on us to step up.
We gotta stop being cowards
about it, all right?
ZDogg, out...
Wait, wait, wait, wait, all right.
Enough of this vague (beep).
March 5th, okay?
We're all gonna post what we
think about vaccines, okay,
as doctors, with the
hashtag #DoctorsSpeakUp.
We are gonna overwhelm the
internet with positive education
about the benefits of vaccines, 
all right?
That's the call, that's
the real call to action.
I'll be doing it, I
expect you to do it too.
If you don't, I'ma find you,
I'ma leave a bad Yelp review, okay?
Couple bad Yelp reviews,
and they're all gonna have to
do with what you're wearing,
and that's the most hurtful
type of Yelp review, all right?
ZDogg, out.
