It's interesting you put Trump in that crowd, because I can actually remember when the biggest con artist in history turned into a vaccine pitch man for Big Pharma, pumped billions of dollars into the drug companies' pockets to rush them to market, then strong-armed the FDA to bypass the formal approval process and fast-track them into production in time for the election, in what everybody at the time could see was an obvious cynical ploy to buy votes from the frightened masses.
It's also interesting to me how not too long ago, everyone was disparagingly calling them "Trump's vaccines" and refusing to ever trust them, but now that he's no longer in office, even though not a single atom in the shots has changed, those exact same people are in almost orgasmic adoration of them and downright evangelical in insisting that everybody else take them, too. Their quasi-religious conversion into the vaccine equivalent of Jehovah's Witnesses is really something to see, because I strongly suspect that if Trump were still president now and it was HIM on TV every day telling us to get vaccinated, not a single one would have done his bidding. Just the opposite: they would now be the militant anti-vaxxers. "Trump's poison is killing people!" etc. etc.
Yeahhh, no. This whole shitshow has been all about political power from the start, and that is what really makes me sick.
"It's interesting you put Trump in that crowd" (I just wanted to make clear this was all Jessica's multiple tweets assembled, to the end)
I guess I'm not understanding the points you're making and I've read it over several times.
There were no corners cut to bypass the formal approval process to fast-track them. The speed of production was that everyone understood the seriousness of the situation to save lives and they worked around the clock to get them into people's arms. It wouldn't have made any difference if trump said "everybody get vaccinated" or "the vaccines are deadly" because the end result would have been the same.
Most of us would have preferred trump just butt out of it with trying to make it his project, because it never was. He's always tried to put his name on everything whether he's had anything to do with something or not and this is no exception. We've understood that from the beginning.
He never had a good plan or structure for distribution and it took a new administration to set one up. Both the Moderna and the Pfizer are just about equally good mRNA vaccines. All the scientists and the majority of us who trust the science understand this.
The legal and financial threats from governor Abbott of Texas, but especially DeSantis of Florida against masks and proof of vaccines is all about the fear of losing votes from the most frothing MAGA trumpers here--literally killing people off for votes. Where trump's influence ended, Qanon took over and now it's the MAGAs who are the most anti-vax even through they may or may not have had a different opinion about them when trump was in office.
The pro-vaccine people have been pro-vaccine throughout the entire process and it would not have mattered if trump had won or not, though we'd all be in a lot worse shape right now.
It's also interesting to me how not too long ago, everyone was disparagingly calling them "Trump's vaccines" and refusing to ever trust them, but now that he's no longer in office, even though not a single atom in the shots has changed, those exact same people are in almost orgasmic adoration of them and downright evangelical in insisting that everybody else take them, too. Their quasi-religious conversion into the vaccine equivalent of Jehovah's Witnesses is really something to see, because I strongly suspect that if Trump were still president now and it was HIM on TV every day telling us to get vaccinated, not a single one would have done his bidding. Just the opposite: they would now be the militant anti-vaxxers. "Trump's poison is killing people!" etc. etc.
Yeahhh, no. This whole shitshow has been all about political power from the start, and that is what really makes me sick.
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I guess I'm not understanding the points you're making and I've read it over several times.
There were no corners cut to bypass the formal approval process to fast-track them. The speed of production was that everyone understood the seriousness of the situation to save lives and they worked around the clock to get them into people's arms. It wouldn't have made any difference if trump said "everybody get vaccinated" or "the vaccines are deadly" because the end result would have been the same.
Most of us would have preferred trump just butt out of it with trying to make it his project, because it never was. He's always tried to put his name on everything whether he's had anything to do with something or not and this is no exception. We've understood that from the beginning.
He never had a good plan or structure for distribution and it took a new administration to set one up. Both the Moderna and the Pfizer are just about equally good mRNA vaccines. All the scientists and the majority of us who trust the science understand this.
The legal and financial threats from governor Abbott of Texas, but especially DeSantis of Florida against masks and proof of vaccines is all about the fear of losing votes from the most frothing MAGA trumpers here--literally killing people off for votes. Where trump's influence ended, Qanon took over and now it's the MAGAs who are the most anti-vax even through they may or may not have had a different opinion about them when trump was in office.
The pro-vaccine people have been pro-vaccine throughout the entire process and it would not have mattered if trump had won or not, though we'd all be in a lot worse shape right now.
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