Things are starting to turn around as prominent Republicans have figured out that more and more unvaccinated supporters are starting to get the more serious delta variant and end up in hospital and die as covid rates are rising again in many red states.
Even the usual Fox news commentators who fueled the covid is hoax narrative are starting to change their minds on vaccines as many antivax Republicans are getting sick.
Why Republicans suddenly seem to be taking COVID seriously
https://www.salon.com/2021/07/21/why-republicans-suddenly-seem-to-be-taking-covid-seriously/
"On Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters, "shots need to get in everybody's arm as rapidly as possible" and asked that people "ignore all of these other voices that are giving demonstrably bad advice." House Minority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, got the vaccine after months of delay and then publicly said, "there shouldn't be any hesitancy over whether or not it's safe and effective." And Fox News host Sean Hannity, in a widely shared video, declared, it "absolutely makes sense for many Americans to get vaccinated." This was treated in the press as an unequivocal endorsement, even though the use of the word "many" was clearly meant to let the Fox News viewers feel like he's talking about other people getting vaccinated.
Whether or not common sense will arrive north of the border with the relatively few "diehard" antivaxers, it's too soon to say.
But maybe letting nature and Darwin's evolutionary theory run its course and thin out the die hard antivaxers wouldn't be such a bad thing? (sarcasm)
Even the usual Fox news commentators who fueled the covid is hoax narrative are starting to change their minds on vaccines as many antivax Republicans are getting sick.
Why Republicans suddenly seem to be taking COVID seriously
https://www.salon.com/2021/07/21/why-republicans-suddenly-seem-to-be-taking-covid-seriously/
"On Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters, "shots need to get in everybody's arm as rapidly as possible" and asked that people "ignore all of these other voices that are giving demonstrably bad advice." House Minority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, got the vaccine after months of delay and then publicly said, "there shouldn't be any hesitancy over whether or not it's safe and effective." And Fox News host Sean Hannity, in a widely shared video, declared, it "absolutely makes sense for many Americans to get vaccinated." This was treated in the press as an unequivocal endorsement, even though the use of the word "many" was clearly meant to let the Fox News viewers feel like he's talking about other people getting vaccinated.
Whether or not common sense will arrive north of the border with the relatively few "diehard" antivaxers, it's too soon to say.
But maybe letting nature and Darwin's evolutionary theory run its course and thin out the die hard antivaxers wouldn't be such a bad thing? (sarcasm)
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