Monday, October 18, 2021

Colin Powell, A Great American, Has Passed. But The Idea That Anti-Vaxxers Abuse His Private Health Information... Is Appalling.


I genuinely cannot believe I need to type this -- here in the 21st Century. But when a US Secretary of State needs to hold even a part of press briefing to dispel some anti-vax lunacy -- and along the way, explain that Powell was immuno-compromised from his cancer treatments. . . and that his death from COVID-19 does not undercut the sensibility of getting a vaccine. . . I am dumbfounded.

I will note that vaccines work. And that the legacy of Colin Powell [with whom I had many disagreements on policy], is being dragged into this sort of nonsense. . . well, it undercuts the true nature of the man. He was a Great American. Full stop.

Please, Anti-Vax Luddites: take a seat. This is NOT about you. This is about the passing of a great man. Out.

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1 comment:

  1. condorOctober 18, 2021 at 11:29 PM

    CNN, late tonight:

    ". . .None of the Fox News hosts made mention of the fact that 90% of Fox Corporation employees are vaccinated or the fact that unvaccinated Fox employees must submit to daily Covid-19 tests. . . .

    Outside the Fox News bubble, other conservatives on the radio and web also used Powell's death to question the Covid-19 vaccines.

    Anti-vaccine rhetoric has been a constant in right-wing media since early 2021.
    A prominent tactic from those opposed to vaccines is the highlighting of unrepresentative anecdotes    . . . ."

    https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/18/media/colin-powell-covid-vaccines-right-wing-media/index.html

    U G L Y.

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