But, as usual, the lesson comes too late.Hospitalized with Covid, a conservative Tennessee radio host shifts his message to urge vaccinations. The station shared a message from his wife, Susan: “They say he is still not getting well,” it read, “please pray for me. I am at a breaking point.”https://t.co/T5MO22txLM
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) July 25, 2021
My sympathies are with this man and his family. But dammit, how many people did he harm with his stupidity?!
Even I can't have sympathy for all of them. This is like people accepting the consequences of smallpox or polio, especially if those consequences are not visited upon them.“The unvaccinated will set the country on fire over and over again.”https://t.co/NoyFqVUp9Z
— Julie Bloom (@Julesm_b) July 25, 2021
Houston, we have a problem.America is one of the few countries with enough vaccines at its disposal to protect every resident — and yet it has the highest rates of vaccine hesitance or refusal of any nation except Russia.https://t.co/nuUeLt0Wwk
— Annie Karni (@anniekarni) July 26, 2021
If I were Russian and only the Putin regime vaccine were available, I'd probably be skeptical too. Though since our vaccine hesitancy is a product of his sponsorship of Trump, he is the author of it in both cases.
ReplyDeleteI am beginning to look on this round of Covid spiking as a tax on hatred, that being the motive of Trumpism and Republican-fascism in general. Hate as a political weapon might turn out to be as counter-productive as mustard gas was on the battlefield. I dread what will come next because there are other variants rising in the unvaccinated population. If there were one that overcame the immunity given by the vaccine we could be far worse off than we were before. I meant it when I said that these people could get a third of the population killed before this is done, if not all of us.