The Vaccine Debate, Heating Up

THE VACCINE DEBATE HEATING UP was a trailer on TV, and I thought, "Hasn't it been hot for a long time?" I kept the sound down, because I thought I already knew about the heated vaccine debate, and, I thought, and still feel, that I have a pretty good understanding of it. The lines of division seem to form along political lines, as they so often do in our United States of Animosity; the issue seems to have been politicized, removed from the realm of science and medical care and absconded by politics, as surely only we Americans can do. In a nutshell, liberals are in love with vaccine science, conservatives seem to range from grudging acceptance to suspicious of vaccinations, to outright rejection of vaccines generally as dangerous, useless, or whatever. I have found it difficult to find a political conservative who harbors nothing but positive thoughts about vaccination medicine. As usual, as always, the liberal point of view is the correct one. All vaccines are good for everybody, all the time, with but relatively few exceptions, is what the truth basically comes down to. History makes that perfectly clear. Why there is even any debate at all about the efficacy and value of vaccinations is, in many ways, hard to fathom. Like climate change and evolution, science has long since settled the matter, and our only choice is whether to accept science. Accepting science is precisely what American cosnervatives, especially those of the fanatic religious kind, often fail to do, foolishly. As always, the falsehoods do not originate or stop with Trump, but rather they extend all the way down into MAGA and mainstream conservative America, where they remain deeply rooted. The horrible spectacle of RFK.Jr. ranting like a lunatic for three hours in his testimony in Congress, and watching the Republican Senators respond to him, perfectly put the problem on display. The Democratic Senators dismissed Bobby Junior as the hoaxer and charlatan that he clearly is, while most of the Republicans seemed willing to at least tolerate him in their deference to and fear of Trump, rather than actively opposing and seeking to remove him, as they should. Trump, RFK Jr., Republican law makers, and MAGA folk all seem to think that funding for medical research should be reduced. One of the MAGA Senators said that he wanted to take the time to give ample and well deserved praise for our grat president, Donald J. Trump, for his, Trump's, brave, courageous, brilliant, miraculous response to and defeat of Covid 19, back in twenty twenty. Yes, he really said that. Its purely delusional,sycophantic nonsense as most people know. Trump's resposne to Covid 19 was a complete disaster which caused more than one million Americans to die needlessly. For that alone, Trump should have been impeached, convited, removed, and incarcerated,if not given the death penalty. For assisting rather than fighting the pandemic. Trump himself caught Covid not once, but twice. He did nto wear a mask, nobody around him did. He called Covid "a little flu", downplayed it and dismissed it for weeks. Trump suggested that ingesting bleach or horse pills would help. We all remember those crazy days. Project "Warp Speed" was the only logical response, any president with half a brain would have done the same thing, and Trump did nothing to help other than sign his name to a piece of paper, giving permision to the heroic scientists who would have found a cure anyway. Trump is a Covid denier, not a Covid haro. The hotter the vaccine debate becomes, the more exposed and discredited are the anti-vaxxers. For that, if nothing else, maybe its all worthwhile.