I don’t get your point. We would all be better off with that vaccine added to the other mandated vaccines. It prevents cervical cancer in women. Without the “mandate,” we have to pay for it out of pocket. It’s $360. No one is going to do it. Cervical cancer will continue. I was wrong about the thing when it happened, too, just like everybody else. Now that I’ve learned what happened, I’m ashamed. It’s terrible that the issue was so complicated, because it is not easily explained unless people do their due diligence. No one does their due diligence. It’s all sound bites and “Gardisil” and OMG he forced needles into girls’ arms. Pitiful.
The point is, he didn’t bow to the will of the people as he claims. The reversal was shoved down his throat and he reacted by attacking those who supported repeal as “shameful” spreaders of “misinformation” and lionized himself and the few legislators who supported his unilateral demand saying: “They will never have to think twice about whether they did the right thing. No lost lives will occupy the confines of their conscience, sacrificed on the altar of political expediency.”
It isn’t political expediency for representatives of the people to act in accord of the people’s wises.
It is also dishonest to now claim “I agreed with their decision. I don’t always get it right, but I darn sure listen,” and say “One of the things I do pride myself on, I listen. When the electorate says, ‘Hey, that’s not what we want to do’. “We backed up, took a look at what we did. I understand I work for the people, not the other way around.” When he did nothing of the kind.