Wednesday 22 December 2021

Who is the most irresponsible politician in the US right now?

Someone who once stood as vice presidential candidate for the United States and therefore should have learnt that wild words are not necessarily the best way to perform your duties as a former public servant has come out and as good as stated that Americans should not even consider getting vaccinated against Covid-19. This former high-up politician is none other than Sarah Palin, ex-governor of Alaska. She has actually said that she would get vaccinated against this dangerous, fast-moving virus "over my dead body". Daily infections of the virus, mostly the Omicron variant, have shot up to more than 100,000 a day in the US. Yet still she wants everyone to know that she is against any form of vaccination. The extraordinary thing is that she contracted coronavirus in March and yet she still thinks American citizens should do their duty and not be contaminated by the vaccine. Not the virus, the vaccine. Words fail me. How irresponsible is that? The tragedy is that many people doubtful about the effectiveness of the vaccine will hear her words and finally make up their minds not to get jabbed. President Joe Biden has a tough challenge to persuade Americans to come forward and be jabbed and boosted if people like Ms Palin declare their opposition to the vaccine. Omicron is already making its way across America, like it is across Europe. But Ms Palin presumably doesn't believe that the vaccines work. Someone should tell her that the majority of those in the UK, and probably in the US, who are even now being hospitalised with Covid are the very ones who have failed or refused to get jabbed. Even for Ms Palin that fact should tell her something. Poor Senator John McCain must be turning over in his grave. To think that he chose her as his Republican running-mate in the presidential race in 2008.

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