"I couldn't mandate having to vaccinate the younger kids. I still want to find out more information," McConaughey announced on Tuesday after being asked about his opinion on mandates at The New York Times's DealBook summit. "I'm vaccinated. My wife's vaccinated. I didn't do it because someone told me I had to — [I] chose to do it."
"Do I think that there's any kind of scam or conspiracy theory? Hell no," he continued, according to The Hill. "We all got to get off that narrative. There's not a conspiracy theory on vaccines."
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The Food and Drug Administration approved the emergency use of Pfizer-BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine on children 5-11 years old last week. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave it a green light.
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McConaughey said that while he does not resist vaccines, he is choosing not to vaccinate his children for the time being.
"Right now I'm not vaccinating mine, I'll tell you that," McConaughey announced.
McConaughey and his wife, Camila Alves, have three children together.
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The actor, who has proposed he may run a campaign for Texas governor, continued that he and his family have relied heavily on frequent COVID-19 testing since the beginning of the pandemic.
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"I'm in a position, though, where I can do that, and I understand that not everyone can do that," he announced.
When asked by Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt in November if he would ever "run for anything," McConaughey said, "I don't know. I mean, that wouldn't be up to me. It would be up to the people more than it would me. I would say this. Look, politics seems to be a broken business to me right now. And when politics redefines its purpose, I could be a hell of a lot more interested."
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"No matter what side of the aisle you're on, or as I said earlier, denomination, we have broken those social contracts," the actor continued. "We don't trust each other, and that leads to us not trust in ourselves, which if that becomes, if that becomes epidemic, then we've got anarchy."
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Throughout the event, McConaughey gave his position about a Texas law banning abortions after six weeks of gestation.
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"It doesn't doesn't seem to open up the room for a sensible choice to be made at the right time," he said. "I believe in this: more responsibility, more personal responsibility to make the right choices. And we got to pick context with each situation and each person's situation — each woman's situation."