goldfish21 wrote:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fauci-cpac-vaccines_n_60eb70f6e4b0cb627483a9ae?d_id=2379287&ncid_tag=fcbklnkushpmg00000013&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&utm_campaign=us_politics&fbclid=IwAR2GzqmxfZjYu1Pc0RJMn_RqfDc2nvqumwwyU8crXa6ixFZV_9Xyi7zBwjM
republicans are literally killing people by advising against getting a covid-19 vaccine. How could anyone vote for any member of that party at either a state or federal level ever again?
Like wtf? Why would people let that slide? Oh, you discouraged people from accepting scientific fact during a pandemic and the result was that a lot more people died for no reason and you want me to vote for you? Hmmmm, let me think about that... how about NO!
As someone who is mostly on the political "right" myself, I find it unfortunate that there is a section of the right that has always been opposed to vaccines. I also think that there are some on the right who are opposed to this particular vaccine for largely partisan reasons.
However, what I also find unfortunate is that so many people continue to buy into the false dichotomy that mainstream politics offers.
I mean, if there are people on the political left who are concerned about covid, I'd ask of them whether they've simply forgotten about the following-
- Leftists/Democrats arguing against combating the spread of covid via tighter US border controls on the ground that tighter border controls would be racist
- Leftists/Democrats joining in the chorus instructing people not to bother with masks before doing a 180 degree turn and telling people they should wear masks
- Leftists/Democracts claiming that the BLM "protests" did not increase the spread of covid (and that anyway "racism" was the real public health emergency), and then later claiming that anti-lockdown protests were superspreader events
- Leftists/Democracts ridiculing Trump for claiming a vaccine would be ready within a year, and leftists/Democracts (like Kamala Harris) saying they wouldn't take a vaccine that Trump recommended.
(And if anyone wants to dismiss this as "whataboutism", please take a minute to think about it - this stuff is clearly relevant to the thread.)