K.C.
As the
state of Florida announces that it plans to end all vaccine mandates, I have to
say that I do not understand the Republican party’s (and especially Robert F.
Kennedy’s) rejection of immunizations. We need to ask:
a) Is it just a political stunt or do they believe it? Has RFK been vaccinated himself, against, say, measles or COVID? Have his children been vaccinated?
b) If it’s a political stunt, what -in heaven’s name- do they want to accomplish?
One can
imagine them all bunched up in a political huddle, asking, what big, black flag
can we raise to scare the -already terrified- white, male voters? It would have
to be a flag that will leave the functionaries themselves more or less
unscathed. It is interesting than none of them seem to have fallen ill with
one of these preventable diseases. So maybe, yes, in secret, they are all
protected. Or perhaps, they are thinking that by now the risk of contagion has diminished.
But then,
if an epidemic were to occur, these white/male voters’ children will be vulnerable,
too, along with the other multi-tinted kids. When Trump´s and RFK’s supporters’
children get sick and die, what benefits do these Republicans see for their
party?
Then, on
the other hand, they talk about schemes for increasing the national birth rate.
One supposes that this, also, is a call-out to their followers who are worried
by the increasing demographics among the non-white, non-fundamentalist, Christian
voters. But it’s contradictory to be both killing off their supporters’ descendants
with diseases, and at the same time, increasing their birthrates.
Can anyone
explain this?
