Vaccine politics? Amazing!
The politics of the COVID-19 vaccine continues to astonish me.
I’ll admit to not knowing what to make of it. Republicans continue — by and large — to act skeptically of the vaccines that are being made universally available. They contend the government is too ham-handed in ordering Americans to get vaccinated. They are bristling, digging in against the “mandates.” Democrats, meanwhile, are all in. They seemingly embrace the mandates.
Meanwhile, Americans of opposing parties are at each other’s throats over the vaccine.
Did we have this kind of battle occurring when Dr. Jonas Salk discovered the vaccine that rid us of polio? I was a youngster but I surely do not recall Mom and Dad bristling over requirements that I get vaccinated against a crippling disease.
We’ve had other vaccines introduced: smallpox, measles, chicken pox, mumps, whooping cough. They all have been accepted.
This one? My goodness, it’s as if the government has asked us to sacrifice our children! The political climate, the great divide now dictates that there must be rhetorical combat between the parties. Why is that? Why when the issue deals with saving lives?
This political division has driven a wedge between members of my family. Some of my family members are refusing to get vaccinated for reasons — and this just slays me! — that have nothing to do with fears about the vaccine. They don’t like being dictated to by “liberal Democrats.” Yep. That’s right.
My response to that? They are nuttier than their mama’s fruitcake!
And so the fighting continues … over a vaccine!
Amazing.