That is an interesting take. It is only the Republicans who are politicizing vaccines? What makes it better is that in the same post you say that Biden is using them to stir up partisan rancor. I'm just wondering how it is that this turns into "you guys" instead of "we?"
*By we- I mean "we" as in both sides...
No, Biden's mean tweet was taking a page from Trump's playbook which is why I thought it was funny and ran with it. But Republicans did it first, politicized the vaccine as soon as it was announced. If I remember right, this happened days after the election and its timing was seen, like everything else back then, as a way to
get Trump (if it had been announced before the election people might have been more optimistic and given him credit), which quickly turned to paranoia and the usual fever-dreams of forced vaccinations and squawking about passports which went on for months.
By the time Biden weighed in with the mask thing, patterns of vaccine acceptance were clearly visible, it was easy to predict how Republicans would react (unfair!, we're being singled out), it was a way to reward his base (you can take off your masks now) and force Republicans into a moral dilemma (lie about your vaccination status in public by dropping your mask as soon as the signs came down, fake cards) and generally look, to those of us who follow rules, like Bad Citizens. With plenty of anecdotes about probable Trumpkins acting out in public to back it up.
It is funny when you guys don't realize your own tricks being played on you. It's the same play where Trump would say something horrid and his usual critics would react in ways that made them look ridiculous to normal people.
Here there is an increase in cases in the past seven days, probably due to a backlog of unreported tests, but it doesn't matter: the glee in seeing Trumpy counties turn red on the covid map while supevaxxed Seattle stays yellowish has people foaming at the mouth. Utterly reprehensible
