[takeda]

It doesn't to me. What she said it is:

- I won't take it if trump alone tells me to take it

- I will be first to take it if experts give their thumbs up

Some people take the whole thing at face value, some take only the first part and ignore the rest.

In 70s Ford used political pressure to speed up swine flu vaccine development and that had negative consequences.

[Jensson]

> It doesn't to me. What she said it is:

That is mostly a nonsense statement, public health professionals and the state recommend the same things. Not all health professionals but it isn't like a vaccine would get rolled out without any health professionals recommending it.

> In 70s Ford used political pressure to speed up swine flu vaccine development and that had negative consequences.

And did public health professionals recommend against taking it then? Or was it just Ford who recommended it against every the wish of every health expert?

I don't see how her statement can be taken as anything but "Republicans are also pro vaccine now, so we need to sow divisiveness in another way!". If she truly cared about peoples health she would have taken the opportunity to unite the people and the politicians over the vaccination issue here.

[takeda]

> That is mostly a nonsense statement, public health professionals and the state recommend the same things. Not all health professionals but it isn't like a vaccine would get rolled out without any health professionals recommending it.

She particularly mentioned Fauci, until 2020 he was respected and known to not being political and served all presidents since Reagan.

> I don't see how her statement can be taken as anything but "Republicans are also pro vaccine now, so we need to sow divisiveness in another way!". If she truly cared about peoples health she would have taken the opportunity to unite the people and the politicians over the vaccination issue here.

I don't at that point we didn't even know if WH wasn't planning to purchase vaccines from Russia (they had them available before Pfizer, I think July 2020).

Once vaccines were available to people, they were approved in other western countries as well, which boosted confidence in them.