Her making highly erroneous, ignorant claims is bad enough. What's worse is to stand by and reinforce the blunder after the facts (i.e. TRUTHS) have been made more than abundantly clear.
There's nothing moral about doubling down on making an idiot out of yourself. "I stand by my stupidity" is not courageous, it's buffoonery - for which she's paying a well deserved price.
I’m not ready to throw her under the bus yet.
If that’s what she really believed, then it wasn’t a deliberate lie. If she investigates and finds out she was wrong, she can apologize later, but I still give her credit for not caving to pressure.
And just as an aside, suppose that there is the chance she’s right? The vaccine hasn’t been out long enough and been used widely enough to tell.
In either of the two cases, I can bet we’ll not be hearing about it from the MSM.
It’s too early in the process yet to eliminate any candidate based on one incident. Since I haven’t found the perfect candidate yet, I’m willing to wait and see. If she’s not worth it, she’ll bury herself. If she is, we’ll find out.