"Backlash" against door to door vaccination effort

Hey Merge she answers you. Me she ignores!!

My guess is people wouldn’t have been screaming at the top of their lungs that they’re losing some right like more than a few trump supporters/conservatives did when the virus first appeared.

Never in my life have I seen such silliness when it came to wearing masks, social distancing, avoiding large crowds outside your “bubble”;and now this silliness has spread to getting vaccinated.

Considering what we could have been asked to do, what was asked/required was a big nothing and only a temporary one at that.  

Just think if all the people had worn masks, social distanced along with avoiding huge crowds, the country could have opened up quicker then it did and there wouldn’t be 600,000 dead Americans.  The longer these snowflakes whine about getting vaccinated, that 600,000 number will continue to climb and new variants will have a chance to form.  

One has to wonder how these Einstein’s function day to day as adults.

“I trust my immune system” seems to have become this year’s “I won’t live in fear.” 


[The themes are fascinating: Anything to avoid any signs of weakness - or capitulation - in the face of Covid, its seriousness, its prevention and its vaccine - which absolutely cannot be consistent in all these lives when it comes to their other health and safety (especially crime) precautions or fears. Otherwise, why lock your doors? Why wash your hands?]

Based on hundreds... thousands? of the things that it's okay if you're a democrat -but if it's Trump... “a shitstorm of angry democrats”.
All claiming he's Hitler and they're terrified and for the cherry on top, you're a racist if you disagree with their assessment. 


*Kamala outright said, she wouldn't take the vaccine if Trump suggested it.
But now that Biden is in office that exact same vaccine is just fine. 
*The left leaning media all called it the Wuhan Virus because it came from Wuhan, until Trump said it because it came from Wuhan and then magically it was racist.
*Trump calling out Loyalty Day is a terrifying thing to do despite it being a proclamation made by every single president since the 50s
*Kids in the holding facilities that Obama had built are SUDDENLY "kids in cages" when Trump takes office, and SUDDENLY like magic, those same exact cages revert back to facilities when Biden takes office.
*Democrats all call for upgrading the border wall and yet when Trump does, it's suddenly racist to say what the Democrats said.
*Trump calls for a peaceful protest to "make your voices peacefully and patriotically heard" and he's inciting violence. Maxine Waters calls for actual "harassment of political opponents" and it's excused as "just encouraging people to speak out" and "use their right to protest".


So, yes, I have no doubt there would have been “a shitstorm of angry democrats” if Trump had done it.

Lol I trust my immune system is always a mind blowing one. Especially when you consider the life expectancy of people, when *all* they had to trust was their immune systems vs rampant infectious disease. A lot never even made it out of infancy, thanks to diseases we treat as mostly routine today.

Operation Warp Speed was initiated under Trump.

So, we are thankful for that. But he got the vaccine but will not, to this day, encourage his followers to get it, therefore risking ALL their lives whether they get Covid and/or suffer long haul issues..

pixiechick
Former requested loyalty from every one. He abused the Constitution from day one, he had no loyalty to it, nor did many of those surrounding him!!

The wall.. that Mexico was supposed to pay for. He intention was to build his wall from San Diego to the Gulf. Not only did he not accomplish that, he paid a fortune to no-bid contractors and they got little done. In fact parts are already rusting...

You know what they say about the word "but"...

I don’t think anyone criticized Trump for Operation Warp Speed, except for perhaps, a poor choice of a name. How much credit does he really deserve for developing the vaccine vs the scientists that worked around the clock?  And Pfizer had other funding to develop the vaccine.

www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/11/24/938591815/pfizers-coronavirus-vaccine-supply-contract-excludes-many-taxpayer-protections

eta- If Republicans are whining that former didn’t get enough credit for the vaccine, perhaps it’s because Trump himself for once didn’t brag about the accomplishment.  Instead, he focused on election fraud and rallies for the last months of his term.  

Overall, Trump badly mishandled the pandemic from the beginning.  He mostly downplayed and ignored it, costing thousands of lives.  Anything that he did accomplish like Operation Warp Speed was mostly a credit to others and a bare minimum that you would expect from an administration.  So, no I don’t think he deserves a lot of credit for that.  And this is a stupid argument - however, if he did community outreach to get the vaccine out to Americans, Democrats would have been shocked.  Because that effort shows compassion and empathy, something he was sorely lacking.  

Ha, ha facts.  Very funny.  Your twisted version, perhaps and whataboutisms and false comparisons.

Your point about loyalty is really unclear.  Do you really need links or examples of how former demanded complete loyalty?  He attacked anyone from either party that spoke against him.  Liz Cheney comes to mind as a recent example.  He attacked her because she dared to tell the truth about the election.

apnews.com/article/donald-trump-liz-cheney-house-elections-election-2020-government-and-politics-db885d0a6b28f12d733da54dbae617fa

And Trump himself took a sharp-elbowed victory lap, saying, “Liz Cheney is a bitter, horrible human being. I watched her yesterday and realized how bad she is for the Republican Party. She has no personality or anything good having to do with politics or our Country.”

Are you poking fun at Presidents Biden’s loyalty day proclamation?  Personally, I much prefer President Biden’s perspective on loyalty.

www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/04/30/a-proclamation-on-loyalty-day-2021/

Here in America, loyalty does not mean fealty to any one leader or political party, nor does it mean unthinking praise or willful ignorance of our shortcomings — it means loyalty to our common ideals, and to one another. It means standing united as one people, even as we cherish our differences and respect dissent.

Exactly so. I have to say that RW media is getting their base frothing at the mouth over an information campaign. Some of these governors obviously care more about scoring cheap political points than the health of their citizens. This will not end well.


“ But some in the GOP saw a political opening, catering to the party’s small-government roots and libertarian wing.

“The Biden Administration wants to knock on your door to see if you’re vaccinated,” tweeted Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan. “What’s next? Knocking on your door to see if you own a gun?”

McMaster asked his state’s health department to bar state and local health groups from “the use of the Biden Administration’s ‘targeted’ ‘door to door’ tactics.”

“A South Carolinian’s decision to get vaccinated is a personal one for them to make and not the government’s,” McMaster wrote in a letter to the department. “Enticing, coercing, intimidating, mandating, or pressuring anyone to take the vaccine is a bad policy which will deteriorate the public’s trust and confidence in the State’s vaccination efforts.”

In Missouri, meanwhile, GOP Gov. Mike Parson tweeted: “I have directed our health department to let the federal government know that sending government employees or agents door-to-door to compel vaccination would NOT be an effective OR a welcome strategy in Missouri!”

Earlier in the week, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich sent a letter to Biden condemning the new strategy.

For the usually reserved Biden White House, which has long harbored private frustrations about some states’ laggard vaccination programs but refused to condemn them publicly for fear of playing up political divides in public health, it was a bridge too far.”

I find it incredible that these people, who one has to assume has a good level of intelligence purely by the office they hold, interprets President Biden's words to mean anything remotely like  what they are saying.
How in heavens name did they get the above from "We need to go to community-by-community, neighborhood-by-neighborhood and, often times, door-to-door, literally knocking on doors to get help to the remaining people protected from the virus," 

WE surely means local people, people that others in the community have day to day connections with. Are they that thick in thinking the WE means only the government itself. 
Wasn't this what local communities did when they had floods in Texas, Katrina and other emergencies. Made sure their communities were safe bu knocking on doors? I class a world pandemic that has killed millions and has the potential to kill many more in the same manner. 
It just beggars belief the mentality of some of these officials and what they would risk, the lives of others, just to get a swipe at their political opponents. They should be ashamed of themselves.