[mlthoughts2018]

This is completely understandable. You may not like it, but you absolutely cannot fault average people for feeling this way.

The president has been hammering Warp Speed to make a vaccine solely for the purpose of an October surprise for months. Everyone, even his core voter base, knows this and knows he wouldn’t hesitate to throw anyone under the bus with it. That voter base was fine with it when it was nameless immigrant children suffering at the border, on vague unfounded ideas that it would bolster American jobs. But they are not going to put their own bodies or their children’s on the line for Trump impulsiveness.

The vaccine may well be safe and may well be developed on a late 2020 timetable with sufficient rigor in FDA approval - does not matter one bit because Trump’s politicization has already deeply undermined it.

You simply cannot restore confidence without straight up removing Trump, so I would look to this to take time after the election.