It could do wonders for vaccination rates if Trump supporters considered protecting themselves and the rest of us a non-toxic idea
Donald Trump celebrates the arrival of COVID-19 vaccines on December 8, 2020, and takes credit for it as a product of his Operation Warp Speed. Photo: Oliver Contreras/SIPA USA/Bloomberg via Getty Images In the same hearing where Rand Paul called Dr. Anthony Fauci a liar and Fauci reciprocated the charge amid an argument over lab research in Wuhan, there was a more civil — if similarly weird — exchange between Fauci and another Republican senator, Tommy Tuberville of Alabama. As Al.
While the opposition to masking requirements and business, school, and church lockdowns was almost certain to be opposed by rank-and-file Republicans on anti-government or pro-business and pro-“religious liberty” grounds, the same people did not necessarily have to join the previously fringe anti-vaxer movement at the risk of their own and everyone else’s health.
Does Trump actually deserve more credit than he has been given for vaccines? The Washington Post weighed the evidence on the eve of the FDA emergency use authorizations and found the record ambivalent: When Trump was forced out of office, nothing the federal government then did that his successor did not oppose was worth his support, and the impulse spread to the MAGA folk who already had some points of commonality with the preexisting anti-vax movement . Yes, Trump himself got himself vaccinated, and occasionally urged others to do likewise. Lately there has been an upsurge of conservative opinion-leaders supporting COVID-19 vaccination .
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