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>I've been thinking about the whole "public vaccination" virtue signaling that politicians have been doing. That's not virtue signaling, or not ONLY virtue sig
by kingaillas 6y ago
>I've been thinking about the whole "public vaccination" virtue signaling that politicians have been doing.
That's not virtue signaling, or not ONLY virtue signaling - they get priority due to continuity of government laws. See https://www.rollcall.com/2020/12/13/white-house-congress-judiciary-prioritized-for-covid-19-vaccines-due-to-continuity-of-government-protocols/ https://www.rollcall.com/2020/12/13/white-house-congress-jud...
Now if they had integrity, the ones that dismissed, downplayed, ignored, refused to wear masks, etc. should have skipped their dose and given it to someone else.
>immunized publicly as a politician at the same time as your risk group
That would be nice except Congress is fairly old, average age is 57.6 in the House and 62.9 in the Senate. Not sure there are enough available doses for this to occur.
- DennisP 6y agoAlso there's a lot of anti-vax sentiment, and seeing politicians take the vaccine themselves helps counter that.
- HuwytNashi_004 6y agoIt's doing the opposite. Some of them have been reenactments, on closer inspection, which only fuel scepticism.
- HuwytNashi_006 6y agoIt's doing the opposite. Some of them have been reenactments, on closer inspection, which understandably fuel scepticism.
- sbinthree 6y agoThe removal cost of new laws is low because all the important laws already exist.