Sacrificing citizens' lives for political gain
By MICHAEL GERSON
July 12, 2021 at 2:36 p.m.
... the recent outbreak of applause at the Conservative Political Action Conference for the United States’ failure to meet its vaccination target was macabre ...
... some people are just badly misinformed. They think the vaccines come with itsy-bitsy tracking chips, or make you magnetic, or render you infertile — all of which are pure rubbish. Ignorance is a form of moral mitigation, but it is still ... ignorance ...
... some who oppose vaccination out of a tragically misapplied libertarianism ... This is the degraded version of a proud tradition: Live free and let someone else die ...
... Fox News celebrities .. know that discouraging vaccination .. will result in additional, unnecessary deaths ... If someone were to pay me as a columnist to argue that cigarette smoking is healthy for children, or to encourage teenagers to take naps on railroad tracks after underage drinking, I don’t think I could make an ethical case for accepting the deal. Should it matter if I belonged to a news network where producing child smokers and trisected teens were institutional policies? Or if one-half of a major political party endorsed such goals? I don’t see why ...
For years, I’ve been saying to myself that GOP politics can’t go lower. I am perpetually wrong ...
https://www.dailycamera.com/2021/07/12/opinion-michael-gerson-gop-anti-vaxxers-are-sacrificing-citizens-lives-for-political-gain/
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