“ If he stayed in office, majority of Republicans would be taking it and Democrats would refuse but keep their double masks on indefinitely. But he didn't and since bipartisanism is frowned upon these days, there's anti vaxxers everywhere.”
This makes zero sense to me.
I get your point is that vaccines are political but let’s start from a scientific viewpoint.
You don’t know that if Trump remained in office thar Democrats would be antivax and Republicans would be provax. If you did, you’re psychic or have some kind of cosmic power. The truth is, you don’t know what might’ve been. That is just fiction. Now, from what I understand, if you’ll forgive my generalization, everyone has been quite consistent on their stance with the exception of one group of people.
Democrats (voters/politicians) have accepted the data and appear to have a better grasp on it than Republicans. True, they take the majority of experts as gospel while they are severely skeptical to the minority of experts.
Before the election; they said they trusted what experts said about the vaccine over politicians. This remains consistent.
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Republicans (voters/politicians) have been largely skeptical of both the data and experts. They seem to disregard the timeline of new information and remain frustrated how one month masks are not useful and are useful. How the vaccine is beneficial but doesn’t appear to curve the spread in the populous at large. The problem is these questions have already been addressed and they remain unreasonably skeptical. Except when it comes to any data that confirms their own biases; whatever they are.
As there are Republicans, just like Democrats, pushing mandates, lock downs, and vaccine administration. But they are rarely all doing at once, or they’re not as severe as their Democratic counterparts. Perhaps trying to appeal to all, and these Republicans often appeal to none. Which is a shame as these are honestly the Republicans worth keeping because, as you said, bipartisanship is frowned upon.
Now, I want to be clear are all Democrats pro-mask and pro-vaccine? No. Same answer as are all Republicans antimask/antivax. No. But majority speaking, these appear to be where the political sides fall.
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