SoldierGriz said:
The WHO has been wrong numerous times during this thing...they were very, very wrong in the beginning. What did they do to develop the vaccine? Their investigations have failed to produce anything of value to be helpful for the future.
Why? Because China will behave in its own best interest, and the international institution will do absolutely nothing about it...
BTW - I could also give 2 shits about those choosing not to Vax. Not sure why it had to become political in the 1st place starting with dems saying they didn't trust Trump's vaccine.
Another interesting tidbit...a large percentage of Black Americans are choosing not to vax although it seems that is trending better recently...I doubt they have been watching Fox News.
Not sure who politicized this?
Maybe February 7, 2020 when Trump told Woodward how bad the pandemic was and how he downplayed it to the American people?
Trump Tells Woodward He Deliberately Downplayed Coronavirus Threat : NPR
Let’s look at Republican vs. Democratic vaccination rates by politicians:
“Fewer than half of House Republicans are vaccinated as of May, compared with 100 percent of congressional Democrats. For months, some Republican lawmakers including Senators Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Rand Paul of Kentucky, and conservative news commentators like Tucker Carlson, have voiced their skepticism of vaccines, loudly and insistently.”
Let’s look at the general population:
“Still, there is no doubt that the political divide is playing a role in rising infection rates. From the start, vaccinations in counties that voted for Donald J. Trump lagged those in counties that voted for Joseph R. Biden, and the gap has only widened — from two percentage points in April to nearly 12 points now, according to one recent poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Nationwide, 86 percent of Democrats have had at least one shot, compared with 52 percent of Republicans, according to another poll.”
Let’s look at the right-wing media:
“Mr. Carlson, the highest-rated Fox News host, with an average of 2.9 million viewers, said the Biden plan was an attempt to “force people to take medicine they don’t want or need.” He called the initiative “the greatest scandal in my lifetime, by far.”
Served up to an audience that is more likely than the general population to be wary of Covid vaccines, the remarks by Mr. Carlson and Ms. Ingraham echoed a now-common conservative talking point — that the government-led effort to raise vaccination rates amounted to a violation of civil liberties and a waste of taxpayer dollars.
The comments by the Fox News hosts and their guests may have also helped cement vaccine skepticism in the conservative mainstream, even as the Biden administration’s campaign to inoculate the public is running into resistance in many parts of the country.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/11/business/media/vaccines-fox-news-hosts.html
I think the evidence is clear who politicized this. Let’s just cut the bullshit.
