The website Issues & Insights takes issue with the White House claim that Republicans are the ones refusing to get the Covid vaccine. The article makes the point that it is largely minorities and the young who have refused. They further identify most of the anti-vax influencers as being on the left.
This is the same point the Kaiser Family Foundation poll made after surveying the politics of the unvaccinated. It should be remembered that Republican President Trump pushed the development of multiple vaccines, and urged their emergency approval in a ‘full court press’ not unlike the Manhattan Project.
It is fair to say that conservatives have defended citizens’ rights to refuse the vaccines if they choose to try for the apocryphal Darwin Award. Occasionally our libertarian values surface.
