What has made COVID vaccine mandates polarizing is the fact that Republicans decided to polarize them. jonathanchait writes
One of the changes Donald Trump wrought on the Republican Party was to make vaccine skeptics an important constituency. Fox News personalities fuel vaccine skepticism on a near-nightly basis, while Republican politicians treat anti-vaxxers like an oppressed minority requiring special protections.
“Covid deaths this year have now surpassed the toll in 2020 with 350,000 since Inauguration Day,” report the editors. “It would seem that Mr. Biden has done no better than Donald Trump in defeating Covid despite the benefit of vaccines, better therapies, and more clinical experience.” It would seem that way if you ignore the fact that the pandemic did not kill any Americans until the third month of 2020, whereas it had already permeated the entire country by the beginning of 2021.
The Journal implicitly concedes that, yes, conservatives may be reluctant to take the vaccine, but so are Democrats. And anyway, it’s Biden’s fault: It is especially daft to insist that the coronavirus-vaccine mandate has polarized the country when vaccine mandates have been standard for generations. What has made this vaccine mandate polarizing is the fact that Republicans decided to polarize it.
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