In Democrats’ pandemic messaging, the cruelty is the point

On a related question, why are American politicians and public health officials so resistant to the notion of including previously infected people on their “vaccine passport” plans? If vaccine passports are supposed to make certain places safe by insuring all patrons have a high level of immunity, then they should count prior infection. Other countries do so for that very reason. If the point of our vaccine drives is to increase community-level immunity, then we should be fine with infected people skipping the shot.

So it’s hard not to conclude that the purpose of the mandatory vaccine passport programs is to punish the bad people — both the people bad enough to have gotten sick and the people bad enough to have not gotten the shot. At the very least, it’s an effort to created segregated places where only the sophisticated may dine.

This isn’t just about COVID, though. Look at who becomes a folk hero of the cultural Left. Megan Rapinoe , Adam Rippon , the woman who flipped off Trump — their appeal seems to be simply treating the bad people like dirt.