Accuracy in Media’s Adam Guillette announced his participation in the highly-publicized Covid-19 vaccine trials. The experience leaves him supremely confident in the effectiveness of both Pfizer or Moderna’s potential coronavirus vaccines. It also left him increasingly frustrated whenever he juxtaposing the work of tireless scientists and medical professionals compared to the selfishness of shortsighted politicians.
Writing an op-ed for USA Today, Guillette explains:
“You’re going to turn into a zombie.”
That’s what my wife, Nikki, told me after I enrolled in clinical trials for a COVID-19 vaccine. She was kidding of course, but I understood her concern about me taking a novel therapy developed under a White House-led program called “Operation Warp Speed.” The title doesn’t exactly relay caution.
We’re both healthy and young so even if we contracted COVID-19 the statistics show it’s unlikely the disease would be a major threat to us. But as the head of a media watchdog organization, I’m constantly on the road. In fact, I’ve traveled to 20 states since the “end of the world” in March. Each week, I meet with supporters, investigators, and activists and I’d feel horrible if I asymptomatically transferred the disease to any one of them.
So when I heard that COVID-19 vaccine trials had begun in Florida at the nearby Jacksonville Center for Clinical Research, I decided to take the risk. My family has a bit of a background in medicine — in fact, my grandfather was a senior vice president and medical director for Aetna — and they assured me that enrolling in the trial was low risk since the vaccine had entered Phase 3 trials.
While Guillette is proud of doing his part to further this medical breakthrough, he’s become skeptical that even a mass-produced vaccine will reopen America promptly based on what he’s seen from career politicians.
Projected Vice President-elect Kamala Harris publicly doubted the vaccine’s effectiveness on the campaign trail. Even now, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) outrageously laments that Trump might get credit for the rollout in the (potentially) waning days of the administration.
Cuomo and other governors have already begun reinstating strict lockdown policies in an attempt to mitigate the pandemic’s winter surge. At the same time, they expect us to wait longer for desperately-needed relief to increase the likelihood that Joe Biden can take credit as president.
Their hypocrisy is beyond disgraceful — even by the appallingly low standards of contemporary American politics.
Memo to Dems……you all need to be put into Time Out! What a bunch of children. How in the world do we keep electing these putzes?
But did we REALLY elect them??
I don’t care how you spin it, I don’t care if all the guinea pigs say they’ve never felt better: To force an experimental vac cine on those who don’t want it, even if by taking away their access to money, home, & food, is no different than what was done at Auschwitz. Especially when there’s over 99% cure rate. This is for Bill G a t e s & the other “experts” for whom I never never never voted.