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> Kamala says she would not take a vaccine recommended by Trump, even if recommended by scientists. This is not what she said. She specifically said that if pu
by borski 5y ago
> Kamala says she would not take a vaccine recommended by Trump, even if recommended by scientists.
This is not what she said. She specifically said that if public health professionals and Dr. Fauci recommended it, she would take it. The "if Donald Trump tells us" has an implied 'solely' and that is not hard to figure out given context, where in the same statement she says she'd take it if the public health professionals recommended it.
> Biden says he does not trust the CDC and FDA (at the time) because of political influence.
Not what he said. He was asking for more transparency, and suggesting that that needs to happen for public opinion to sway in the direction of getting the vaccines; in particular, during the Trump administration when the public was repeatedly fed lies about all sorts of things.
Both are more nuanced than you are suggesting, imho.
- ErikVandeWater 5y agoAgain, how would Americans get their hands on a vaccine that Trump "solely" recommends? It isn't possible.
- barbecue_sauce 5y agoWhy does that matter?
- ErikVandeWater 5y agoIs this sarcasm?
- partiallypro 5y agoBecause it shows that Kamala only said what she said to politicize the vaccine.
- MereInterest 5y agoHow did Nixon get Archibald Cox fired? He fired everyone in the line of succession for the Attorney General until he found someone who would do what he asked. It is not inconceivable that the same thing could have happened with the FDA. With the history that Trump had for firing people who did follow unreasonable orders (e.g. Rod Rosenstein), it becomes entirely plausible that he would fire any FDA head who did not support a vaccine, regardless of the science behind them. As things turned out, the studies did support the vaccine, but it was not unreasonable to draw a distinction between unbiased experts and experts under threat of firing.