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talkpoliticsBack in September, Trump said he "probably won't" get a third vaccine booster shot. Now, while he has oftentimes spoken against or at least implied the vaccines are useless, a scam, or just not worth it, in fact we could argue he wasn't actually anti-vaxxer per se, at least not in his actions.
Sure, he resisted the societal shutdowns that doctors said were needed to contain the spread. He bickered with desperate governors instead of providing them with coherent leadership, sometimes even threatening to withhold federal help from states that had displeased him. He refused to set an example by masking in public, and conducted large, maskless rallies that became superspreader events. He promoted quack cures that included disinfectant and the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine. If Trump's goal had been to make the pandemic as devastating as possible, it’s difficult to imagine what he would have done differently.
But there was one big exception, Operation Warp Speed, the public-private partnership initiated by the Trump administration to develop viable vaccines by the end of 2020. It was an unprecedented timetable for a process that normally might have taken years. The speedy delivery of the vaccines has undoubtedly saved countless lives. Trump will always deserve credit for that historic achievement and for encouraging his followers to take the vaccine - even if too tepidly and with mixed success, as was demonstrated recently when some of his own followers at a rally in Alabama booed him for it.
But just as is so typical for him, he then took a shit on all that. After leading the extraordinary vaccine-development effort, Trump first hobbled it with his mixed messaging on the seriousness of the pandemic, and then completely kicked the legs out from under it by giving his followers one more reason to continue putting themselves and those around them in danger.
And then comes this last bit, which is the umpteenth U-turn and source of confusion:
Donald Trump Reveals He Got Vaccine Booster Shot, Gets Booed by Tour Crowd
Go figure.
Sure, he resisted the societal shutdowns that doctors said were needed to contain the spread. He bickered with desperate governors instead of providing them with coherent leadership, sometimes even threatening to withhold federal help from states that had displeased him. He refused to set an example by masking in public, and conducted large, maskless rallies that became superspreader events. He promoted quack cures that included disinfectant and the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine. If Trump's goal had been to make the pandemic as devastating as possible, it’s difficult to imagine what he would have done differently.
But there was one big exception, Operation Warp Speed, the public-private partnership initiated by the Trump administration to develop viable vaccines by the end of 2020. It was an unprecedented timetable for a process that normally might have taken years. The speedy delivery of the vaccines has undoubtedly saved countless lives. Trump will always deserve credit for that historic achievement and for encouraging his followers to take the vaccine - even if too tepidly and with mixed success, as was demonstrated recently when some of his own followers at a rally in Alabama booed him for it.
But just as is so typical for him, he then took a shit on all that. After leading the extraordinary vaccine-development effort, Trump first hobbled it with his mixed messaging on the seriousness of the pandemic, and then completely kicked the legs out from under it by giving his followers one more reason to continue putting themselves and those around them in danger.
And then comes this last bit, which is the umpteenth U-turn and source of confusion:
Donald Trump Reveals He Got Vaccine Booster Shot, Gets Booed by Tour Crowd
Go figure.
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