The first of the vaccines (Pfizer-BioNTech) was granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) on Dec. 11, 2020, which was interestingly, a little over a month after the 2020 presidential election.
Prior to the election and the vaccine announcement, Kamala Harris declared that “[…] if Donald Trump tells us that we should take a vaccine. I’m not taking it.” Likewise, Brandon expressed his sincere distrust for anything created on Trump’s watch.
The Moderna vaccine arrived shortly thereafter, receiving EUA on Dec. 18 ,2020, followed by Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) on Feb. 27, 2021.
During the first few months of 2021, as vaccine tyranny was in its infancy, efforts to vaccinate the public included gimmicks ranging from free doughnuts, to Mayor Bill De Blasio grotesquely stuffing a burger and fries into his face (note: obesity increases susceptibility to COVID), to vaccine lotteries...‘may the odds be ever in your favor.’
Somehow, though, the sight of a greasy-faced De Blasio disgustingly talking with his mouth full of food on national TV was not enough to convince many to abandon their reluctance to get one of the wonder vaccines, and neither was the prospect of winning a lottery.
At the same time that businesses and local politicians were doing the free food schtick, Brandon and his media cheerleaders were playing the patriotism and selflessness angles.
Brandon, who initially distrusted the vaccines when he thought that they might help Trump’s reelection chances, now called them “the most patriotic thing [Americans] can do”. Myriad articles encouraged (and still do) their readers that the vaccines were really about protecting one’s fellow man.
The message was clear that only the most heartless and unpatriotic would decline to allow themselves to be injected with one of the EUA vaccines. Big media, working off of government talking points and in an attempt to close off all other doors, went a bit further and banned the mention of natural immunity and therapeutics such as ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.
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