…..first, I like the term “vaccine hesitant” that the liberal media has started using to finally draw a distinction from the “vaccine opposed”. It is far more accurate and less hateful. The Pfizer and Moderna vaccine do represent a new category of vaccines, and it does not have FDA approval yet. It is not unreasonable for people to have concerns.
…last week, I had a long conversation with a close friend who is vaccine “hesitant”. He had various concerns about the vaccine - some impressively nuanced, and others steeped in paranoia. I went through the explanations as best that I could, and I thought that I was making real headway. But he brought up Fauci. He pointed out his multiple lies, his flip flops, his financial investments and ties to interested parties, his untruthful testimony to congress, his support of Gain of Function Research, his stifling of the real source of the virus (China), and his hypocrisy.
Why would the leader of the CDC lie about a trustworthy vaccine?
I had no answer since he knows that I also agree about all of this.
The vaccine hesitant can absolutely be convinced by a trustworthy CDC leader. They are highly intelligent, and you cannot pull off the shenanigans that Fauci has, and not gain their skepticism. At minimum, a change would remove one of the biggest roadblocks preventing the development of trust.
But this would require the Dems to give up their “yes man” in the CDC, and I am afraid that the power that they have found in the CDC is not something with which they are willing to part.