Long after the Covid pandemic and vaccine mandates were at their peak, Hollywood is still hating on those who were/are wary about getting the vaccine. Case in point, Hulu’s comedy How to Die Alone, which featured a joke about an airline agent purposely booking difficult flights for “drunk anti-vaxxers.”
The show had many little liberal digs scattered throughout its eight-episode first season, including using white racial stereotypes as fodder for laughs which happened in episode 8, “Get Lost.” But the worst dig came in the same episode, and it was at the expense of those who were wary of getting the Covid vaccine.
It’s understandable many people were hesitant given the vaccine was new and, more specifically, mRNA-type vaccines had never been given to the public before. No one knew what long-term side effects could potentially occur.
Given what we know now about the many life-threatening conditions linked to the vaccines, no one should blame people for being cautious. And there could be even more we don’t know about since the CDC admitted to withholding information from the public because they believe it “could lead to misinformation.”
But Hollywood still blames who they label “anti-vaxxers,” and How to Die Alone made sure to throw more shade at them. As main character Mel (Natasha Rothwell) is waiting to board her flight to her former boyfriend’s wedding (whom she still loves) in the final episode of the premier season, she answers the call for a volunteer willing to give up their seat due to the flight being overbooked.
Mel requests the longest flight with as many layovers possible so she can claim she tried to get to the wedding but couldn’t arrive in time. That’s when the airline agent jokes about how she usually books such difficult flights for “drunk anti-vaxxers”:
Mel: I can give up my seat.
Agent: Okay, Miss Jackson, you're flying first.
Mel: Yeah.
Agent: If you were to give up your seat you'd be doing coach with layovers. It's not worth it. This voucher… it probably won't even cover what you spent on the ticket.
Mel: Okay, sis, this flight is taking me to the wedding of a man I wish I was marrying. The wedding is tomorrow so, I need as many stops as possible so that way I can miss the wedding and ensure that by the time I get there he is long gone.
Agent: Say less. Okay, I usually don't book like this unless it's for drunk anti-vaxxers. How's this? JFK to Charlotte, Charlotte to Atlanta, Atlanta to Austin, Austin to LA and LA to Maui. You won't get to Hawaii within the next 48 hours.
Mel: Book it.
Later in the same episode there was another dig, this time at the expense of white people, which appears to be Hollywood’s favorite target to hate on lately. When Mel sees a couple of guys dressed up in costumes at the diner she’s eating at, she asks the waiter what’s going on.
He answers with a bunch of racial stereotypes about white people in a derogatory way:
Mel: What is all that about?
Lloyd: Penguin Dive! White folks jump in the lake every New Year’s.
Mel: Why?
Lloyd: I don’t know. Whole lotta sh*t they do that I don’t understand. Eggplant, shiplap, freckles.
Haha? We all know if the races and stereotypes were reversed, that line would never have been said. So, why the double standard?
As the saying goes, if Hollywood didn’t have double standards, they wouldn’t have any standards at all. It's a shame because this was a really funny and entertaining show aside from the leftist digs.
