The New York Times tells us that early doubters are now showing a willingness to take the vaccine. That’s nice. But check out their roll of early doubters:
The time frame was dangerously accelerated, many people warned. The vaccine was a scam from Big Pharma, others said. A political ploy by the Trump administration, many Democrats charged. The internet pulsed with apocalyptic predictions from longtime vaccine opponents, who decried the new shot as the epitome of every concern they’d ever put forth.
Funny, I couldn’t place any of those “many Democrats”, so I went to DuckDuckGo (Google is evil) and did a search for “Democrats charge that vaccine is a political ploy” and got no relevant results. It’s true that many Democrats criticized “Operation Warp Speed” inasmuch as it was a typical Trumpian exercise in spreading money to favorites, but I can’t recall any nationally prominent Democrat claiming that any of the vaccines announced by reputable drug manufacturers were a Trumpian political ploy or that the very idea of a vaccine was such a ploy. Also, I seem to recall that polls have consistently shown that rank and file Democrats were more likely to say they would take a vaccine once one was approved.
If this statement was not made up out of whole cloth, it was made from cloth that had only the tiniest piece cut out. But that’s the Times these days, constantly showing us how unbiased it is by pushing a false both sides narrative that, in fact, is biased against Democrats.
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