The conservatives were originally all behind Trump and his Operation Warp Speed, which is what got the "vaccines" out in record time, even if the left wants to give Trump no credit for that. At the time, the left was saying that, if Trump wanted something, such as a shot, then they—the left—didn't, and so the left bravely and nobly resisted initial inoculation efforts.
At the beginning of this year, Biden takes over the Oval Office, legitimately or not, and suddenly there's this reversal on both sides: conservatives find all sorts of reasons to doubt the shot's efficacy, and the left changes from "I refuse to take the Trump vaccine!" to "You're murdering your fellow citizens if you go unvaxxed!" This change has been so neat and clean and simultaneous that I'm often left to wonder what the hell happened.
So am I to understand that conservatives no longer praise Trump for having sped up the inoculation process? That the "vaccine" is garbage? Gee, thanks, Trump! And liberals who, until the changeover to Biden, adamantly refused to get inoculated are now all clamoring about "following the science"? All of this simply because of a change in leadership?
Or is there more to the situation than this?
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I don't think it's an either-or-type situation. I certainly supported the rapid vaccine development initiative, but that doesn't mean I gave up the right to decide whether I wanted it injected into my body. As it appears now, this is not a vaccine at all, at least it doesn't behave like one. The news that even vaccinated travelers to the USA need a swab test before entering the country just illustrates that the government is pushing vaccine mandates knowing they are next to useless.
That doesn't make me anti-vax. I used to get flu injections every year, even though they didn't always work. It's a shame the government wasn't honest about it and promote the shots as an inoculation. Either way, it should be voluntary, and demonizing those who decline the shot is counterproductive.
But yeah, your point that everything is being politicized by extremists on both the left and right is well-taken. That the stance these folks take on issues is fluid depending on who is in charge isn't all that surprising. Remember when travel bans from certain nations was racist under Trump but now it is life-saving under Biden?
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