But the sweeping manner in which prominent Republicans have denounced the new White House plan to combat the pandemic has led to concerns about opposition to other existing and future vaccine requirements. So far, there hasn’t seemed to be a new popular movement against the polio or measles vaccines already mandated for many school children Ron Johnson hasn’t been going on Fox News to promote a feline tick medication to treat tetanus or anything like that. Just how much worse could they get? Is it possible their attacks on common sense and the societal good get somehow more absurd? Will the rise of requirements give rise to a search for loopholes? Could their performative, but by now reflexive, opposition to COVID vaccine mandates extend to other vaccine requirements, including those already necessary for many kids to attend school? As the ailing country struggles to get better, the anti-vax right seems even more determined to get worse. In recent weeks alone, MAGA conservatives have opted to take a horse dewormer over the safe vaccines elected officials have likened Joe Biden to a violent dictator for instituting shot requirements a majority of Americans support and Tucker Carlson has devoted time on his program to talk about what may or more likely may not have happened to Nicki Minaj’s cousin’s friend’s testicles after taking his jabs.
At the same time, right-wing political and media figures, who have already held back the country’s pandemic response, are finding more moronic battles to fight in the COVID culture war. America’s vaccination campaign has made slow, steady progress since its summer lull-and is likely to accelerate as new public and private sector mandates take effect.
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