[9YearLurker]

Shame, shame, shame. I backed this man from the 2016 primaries, but he is killing people here.

[House Atreides]

“Shame, shame, shame. I backed this man from the 2016 primaries, but he is killing people here.”
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I guess you missed the part about NO MANDATES. Trump is a firm believer in NATURAL IMMUNITY and INDIVIDUAL CHOICE. Will those beliefs make him a target now of the antivaxxer jihadists?

[roving]

Only Jesus Christ himself could convince me to take it.

[Maudeen]

Someone doesn’t have the real President’s interest at heart to talk like this. He needs to clean house and get new advisers.

[SmokingJoe]

President Trump is not killing anybody, unless you are Al Baghdadi or Suleimani and the other ISIS terrorists of course.
President Trump can try to persuade people to take it, like he did when he was President.
That doesn't mean you gotta take it.

[Pelham]

“he is killing people here.”

lol. That didn’t take long!

[adorno]

I backed this man from the 2016 primaries, but he is killing people here.

Telling people that they should get vaccinate, is not the same as forcing them to do it, or mandating it.

If you get a sales pitch from anybody, and you don't like what they're selling, do you still think that you have to take the sale?

A sales pitch is not the same as killing people.

But, is there anything else that you don't like about what Trump did, or is it just the vaccine sales pitch?

[Revel]

On this matter Trump is delusional. And it creeps me out.

[enumerated]

There’s nothing shameful about what he said.

The point he’s making here has nothing at all to do with vaccinations. It has to do with liberty vs. coercion.

A good leader knows that if you want a certain political outcome, you try to change hearts and minds, you don’t use force.

I won’t take these vaccinations because I’m not at all afraid of getting covid19. In fact, I wish I’d get it for the immunity. Maybe I’ve already had it - maybe I haven’t, and I already have immunity from other coronaviruses (the common cold).

But when Trump launched operation warp speed a year-and-a-half ago, the risks from Covid19 were completely unknown - it was wise to act based on worst case scenarios.

At this point, I don’t agree at all with Trump about the vaccinations being a good idea - but I think he is making a larger point here - about freedom vs. coercion - and he’s spot on.

And politically it’s a very smart position, because the Left can’t lay the blame on him for vaccine “hesitancy”, and the Right will appreciate being left in freedom.