Kamala Harris is on record(last summer) saying she wouldn’t take the vaccine if Trump told her to take it:
- I won't take it if trump alone tells me to take it
- I will be first to take it if experts give their thumbs up
Some people take the whole thing at face value, some take only the first part and ignore the rest.
In 70s Ford used political pressure to speed up swine flu vaccine development and that had negative consequences.
That is mostly a nonsense statement, public health professionals and the state recommend the same things. Not all health professionals but it isn't like a vaccine would get rolled out without any health professionals recommending it.
> In 70s Ford used political pressure to speed up swine flu vaccine development and that had negative consequences.
And did public health professionals recommend against taking it then? Or was it just Ford who recommended it against every the wish of every health expert?
I don't see how her statement can be taken as anything but "Republicans are also pro vaccine now, so we need to sow divisiveness in another way!". If she truly cared about peoples health she would have taken the opportunity to unite the people and the politicians over the vaccination issue here.
She particularly mentioned Fauci, until 2020 he was respected and known to not being political and served all presidents since Reagan.
> I don't see how her statement can be taken as anything but "Republicans are also pro vaccine now, so we need to sow divisiveness in another way!". If she truly cared about peoples health she would have taken the opportunity to unite the people and the politicians over the vaccination issue here.
I don't at that point we didn't even know if WH wasn't planning to purchase vaccines from Russia (they had them available before Pfizer, I think July 2020).
Once vaccines were available to people, they were approved in other western countries as well, which boosted confidence in them.
But instead she pushed the divisiveness to its max here for no reason at all.
I have antivaxxers in my family, and it is the reverse, they trust trump over scientists and doctors. And when given argument, that trump himself said to take vaccine and that he took it himself, their response is that it was a placebo and this was step just to appeal to moderates, heh...
But yeah, keep going with the whole "democrats are just as bad as republicans" thing. Seems to be working.
"I beat my kids and my spouse" "You're evil, I only beat my kids"
Not a great argument.
I'll gladly accept your insult about not knowing anything about politics, wrong as it is. I choose not to insult you back.
There are plenty of things to criticize Biden over, and I am sure that people with conservative points of view are not big fans of his various policies. However, we can at least go to sleep confident that we will not wake up to news that the President had tweeted some radical shift in US policy that blindsided his entire staff and administration. I would love to hear people criticize Biden for policy decisions -- the fact that Biden has a well-defined policy agenda to criticize is itself a huge improvement.
I don't. I was hopeful back in January, but as of now no I don't.
I don't disagree with anything you said about Trump. he was/is a jackass and a shitty person, and is in the argument for worst president in US history, if there is even an argument to make.
I don't want to debate why Biden is better than Trump from a wholistic perspective, because I agree that he is. I do not agree that he is doing a good job.