In the face of missed vaccination targets and a rise in COVID-19 infections, the Biden administration and its mainstream media counterparts have selected their scapegoat for the continuation of the pandemic — vaccine-refusing Republicans.
“Joe Biden is done coddling conservatives and their anti-vaccine bulls**t,” the headline of a recent Vanity Fair article blared.
That article had riffed off a report from Politico that stated: “The Biden administration is casting conservative opponents of its COVID-19 vaccine campaign as dangerous and extreme, adopting a more aggressive political posture in an attempt to maneuver through the public health conundrum.”
Still another report from the Intelligencer stated, “The willfully unvaccinated are the newest Republican martyrs.”
Just a brief survey of the media landscape surfaces countless more articles and soundbites making essentially the same claim: Conservatives are the ones refusing the vaccine and subsequently prolonging the nation’s recovery from the virus.
But is that actually the case? According to new data from the Kaiser Family Foundation, it appears no, at least not entirely. The health policy think tank published studies on COVID-19 vaccinations by race, ethnicity, and age recently that seemed to suggest that traditionally Democratic groups — blacks, Hispanics, and young people — are the ones not getting vaccinated.
I’m not getting it……period!
Every good experiment has a control group.