Posted on 07/14/2021 2:46:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
More Republicans than Democrats appear to be "vaccine hesitant" -- that is, reluctant for one reason or another -- to take the COVID-19 vaccine. They've gotten the treatment you might expect in some quarters of the press. "Right-wing anti-vaccine hysteria is increasing. We'll all pay the price," read one headline in The Washington Post. In The New York Times, there was, "Far-Right Extremists Move From 'Stop the Steal' to Stop the Vaccine." The Daily Beast chimed in with "The GOP's Paranoid Streak From John Birchers to Anti-Vaxxers." You get the idea.
But it's not hard to imagine a different picture. If President Donald Trump had won reelection, the vaccine skepticism might have leaned more to the other side. We can't say that for sure, of course, but we do know that during the 2020 campaign, top Democratic leaders, like presidential nominee Joe Biden and running mate Kamala Harris, laid the groundwork for vaccine skepticism.
For example, during a CNN interview on Sept. 5, with the vaccine still in development under Trump's historic Operation Warp Speed, Harris was asked if she would get the vaccine when it was ready. It depends, Harris answered. "I will say that I would not trust Donald Trump," she continued, "and it would have to be a credible source of information that talks about the efficacy and the reliability of whatever he's talking about. I will not take [Trump's] word for it."
In her Oct. 8 debate with Vice President Mike Pence, Harris was asked, "If the Trump administration approves a vaccine, before or after the election, should Americans take it and would you take it?" Harris answered that she would take it only if the nation's top virologist, Dr. Anthony Fauci, recommended it. "But if Donald Trump tells us that we should take it, I'm not taking it," Harris said.
Later in the debate, Pence told Harris, "Your continuous undermining of confidence in a vaccine is just, it's just unacceptable." But Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, was sending the same message. "I trust vaccines, I trust scientists, but I don't trust Donald Trump," Biden said in September. "And at this moment the American people can't, either."
In October, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, at the time respected by Democrats despite his disastrous handling of the COVID pandemic in his state, was asked whether he had confidence in the government's approval process for the vaccine. "I'm not that confident, but my opinion doesn't matter," Cuomo told ABC News. "I don't believe the American people are that confident. I think it's going to be a very skeptical American public about taking the vaccine, and they should be." During the transition, Cuomo suggested he would bar distribution of the vaccine in New York -- an extraordinary step as the pandemic raged -- as long as Trump remained president.
Democratic voters got the message. In an October 2020 Kaiser Family Foundation poll, respondents were asked, "How worried are you, if at all, that the [Food and Drug Administration] will rush to approve a coronavirus vaccine without making sure that it is safe and effective, due to political pressure from President Trump and the White House?" Among Democrats, 86% said they were very or somewhat worried, versus 29% of Republicans.
A few days after the election in November, the polling organization YouGov reported, "Democrats are 30 points more likely than Republicans to be worried about the speed of vaccine development (90% vs. 60%). Democrats' concern about the eventual vaccine's safety has increased steadily from 79% in mid-July -- when the United States hit its prior high of coronavirus cases -- to 90% in recent weeks."
Although other polls indicated that Democrats were, overall, a bit more likely than Republicans to say they would get the vaccine quickly upon release, the fact was, Democratic leaders had encouraged skepticism when skepticism was politically beneficial -- during the campaign. After Biden's victory, Democrats fully embraced the vaccine -- the very same vaccine developed under the Trump Operation Warp Speed program -- and mounted a help-is-on-the-way public relations campaign.
What if Trump had been reelected? Skepticism among some Democrats might well have expanded and hardened into a wariness about the COVID vaccine similar to what we see among some Republicans today. "It was rushed!" many Democrats might say. "Scientists were pressured! Trump corrupted the approval process!" Yes, that is speculation. But it is a fact that some Democrats were saying one thing about the vaccine before the election and another thing after.
Traditional anti-vax thinking has been mostly confined to small groups on the political fringes. But in today's supercharged political environment, there is a partisan element to some Americans' attitudes toward vaccines, because there is a partisan element to their attitudes toward everything. The results of the presidential election played an important role in which Americans came to trust the vaccine.
Donald Trump did win the election.
One has to be an IDIOT to get an experimental shot for a flu virus that has a 99.85% survival rate
ALERT: Doctor says mRNA vaccines “will kill most people” through heart failure, 62% of vaccinated people already show microscopic blood clots
Tuesday, July 13, 2021 by: Ethan Huff
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-07-13-doctor-says-mrna-vaccines-kill-most-people.html
I love reminding the vaccinated how they benefited from Donald Trump, while pointing out the very inconsistencies Byron is pointing out here.
Shout it out loud....the Trump Vaccine!!!!!
Is the government honest and does it look out for my best interests?
Do we have evidence that bureaucrats and scientists buried deep within the government follow their own agenda and may actively work at cross-purposes to a president they hate?
I see it as a serious possibility that Trump trusted the scientists (the way he trusted the DOJ and the FBI) and that Trump believes the vaccine is a good thing. And I see it as a serious possibility that the vaccine is not a good thing and was actually intended to initiate a major population reduction.
The big difference between Democrats and Republicans is that Democrats are far more likely to be gullible fools when it comes to nonsense like lockdowns, face diapers and COVID vaccines. Trump’s core supporters include a lot of rational people who simply don’t trust the government — period. That’s why they don’t trust Trump any more than that @sshole Fauci when it comes to taking an experimental injection to protect themselves from a disease with a survival rate higher than 99%.
Nothing political in not wanting to be a lab rat for a tech that has in the past shown terrible side effects including Mad Cow like brain/neural conditions in actual lab rats.
Nothing political about not wanting my body to produce an inflammatory substance (spike proteins) when 3/4ths of the diseases including heart disease have an inflammatory response basis.
Nothing political about wondering if like the Cov1 vax candidates, the Cov2 vax makes subsequent Sars/Covid corona virus infections spiral out of control ending in Cytokine Storm Syndrome. To quote: “These SARS-CoV vaccines all induced antibody and protection against infection with SARS-CoV. However, challenge of mice given any of the vaccines led to occurrence of Th2-type immunopathology suggesting hypersensitivity to SARS-CoV components was induced. Caution in proceeding to application of a SARS-CoV vaccine in humans is indicated.”
He sure did.
biden, fauxi, and the cdc recommending masks and vaccines for our citizens to stop the spread of a “deadly virus” while biden opens the border, invites, welcomes, and freely spreads thousands of “disease carrying invaders” across our country during a “global pandemic” reeks of hypocrisy and proves we’re being lied to about the severity of this so called “deadly virus”...
I do appreciate DJT, i have been a nonvaxxer for decades.
Dr. Hoffe joins a large and growing list of doctors and other scientist such as Dr. Stephanie Seneff, Senior Research Scientist at MIT (50YRS). Dr. Michael Yeadon, former Pfizer VP, Dr. Peter McCullough, Clinical Professor of Medicine at Texas A & M College of Medicine. Who are speaking out in an effort to warn people of the dangers from these un-approved, experimental gene therapy injections.
Congress is sitting on their hands as these medical experts are censored and silenced by social media.
To quote: “These SARS-CoV vaccines all induced antibody and protection against infection with SARS-CoV. However, challenge of mice given any of the vaccines led to occurrence of Th2-type immunopathology suggesting hypersensitivity to SARS-CoV components was induced. Caution in proceeding to application of a SARS-CoV vaccine in humans is indicated.”
Source please?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22536382/
1 source amongst many. Not something they can hide. It is out there all over.
Immunity started with the noninflammatory type and then the inflammatory type exploded destroying lungs with cytokine storms.
Not to take off or put on my tin foil hat, but isn’t it odd that the Sinopharm (Chinese Vax) seems ineffective? I mean 99.8% survival rate is in line with a severe flu. What if in the vaxed with effective vaccines Cov3 has a 70% or even 80% or 90% survival rate and in the non vaxed and ineffectively vaxed also a 99.8% survival rate.
Would you put it past the CCP?
Blacks have the lowest rate of vaccination of any racial/ethnic group. They vote over 90% Dem. Let’s deal with facts, not polls.
“These SARS-CoV vaccines all induced antibody and protection against infection with SARS-CoV. However, challenge of mice given any of the vaccines led to occurrence of Th2-type immunopathology suggesting hypersensitivity to SARS-CoV components was induced. Caution in proceeding to application of a SARS-CoV vaccine in humans is indicated.”
For context, that was about a different vaccine, based on a different technical approach (whole virus) for a different disease (SARS).
But because of those experiments, the whole virus approach for coronaviruses generally was abandoned more than a decade ago.
The Cytokine Storm Syndrome was nonetheless noted as a specific risk to be assessed in the trials for the currently authorized vaccines, and no indications of it were detected - nor in the over 1/3 billion doses administered in the USA already.
That mechanism of action would occur when vaccinated subjects are exposed to the actual virus - something that has certainly occurred millions of times already, just in the United States. But there have been no Cytokine Storm Syndrome reactions.
It is past time to put that theoretical risk to bed. The results are in.
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re NOT out to get you.
And paranoia can be a survival tool.
You do you. I will do me. We can compare notes in a decade or so assuming I survive and you survive. If one is left standing and the other is not, the one left standing won the argument.
;-)
(The inflammatory protein sequestration in various tissues gives you no pause?)
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