There’s no topic tied to COVID that stirs more controversy than vaccines.
I think there’s still a lot we still don’t know about the COVID vaccines, and given my time spent looking back at confident proclamations that turned out to be inaccurate, I don’t want to make the same mistake so many in legacy media have made in trying to presume the right answer about their efficacy, safety, and desirability for all ages based on my priors.
That said, one of the reasons, I think, that so many people are so skeptical of the COVID vaccines stems from efforts to tamp down concerns over their safety. There’s been some interesting revisitations of that subject – see this reporting from OutKick about vaccine researchers fudging the facts on side effects, and this reporting from Fox News about myocarditis risks from the vaccine. The dishonesty from the experts, Democratic elected officials, and the legacy media throughout the pandemic makes claims of innocent or well-intentioned mistakes hard to stomach. I’m hoping to revisit the subject in more detail soon.
But it is interesting to reflect on the hypocrisy about vaccines before their arrival. Many of the same voices castigating people today for having any doubts about COVID vaccines sung a much different tune when Trump first announced vaccines were on the horizon.
Do you remember when the legacy media assured us that Trump’s vaccine in a year wouldn’t be possible? When the president announced “Operation Warp Speed,” the government’s effort to fast-track a vaccine for COVID, the response from the legacy press wasn’t excitement but, as ever, criticism. Outlets lined up experts to assert that it simply couldn’t be done, and that any resulting vaccine should scare you.
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