By Bess Levin<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last month, former first daughter Ivanka Trump interrupted her social media hiatus to tweet that she\u2019d received her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine\u2014whether it was Moderna or Pfizer, she didn\u2018t say\u2014while encouraging others to get their shots as well. \u201cToday, I got the shot!!! I hope that you do too!\u201d she wrote, adding, \u201cThank you Nurse Torres!!!\u201d alongside a blue heart emoji. Presumably, she figured she was doing a public service by urging her followers to get the lifesaving vaccine, though unfortunately, things didn\u2019t go exactly as planned. Instead, many people expressed justifiable anger that Trump hadn\u2019t done more to promote important public health measures back when she was a senior adviser to the president of the United States, a.k.a. her dad, Donald Trump, noting that it would have been nice if she\u2019d told people the virus wasn\u2019t a \u201choax,\u201d as the 45h president claimed, or suggested that super-spreader rallies amidst a global pandemic weren\u2019t the best idea. More concerning, though, was the reaction from Trump supporters who were beside themselves over the idea that Ivanka got the vaccine at all, i.e. the people we have to thank in part for the fact that the U.S. may never achieve herd immunity. And several weeks later, it doesn\u2018t appear that they\u2019ve changed their minds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBeing a test subject is not my idea of wisdom…. Sad that you and others would even condone this…. Can\u2019t wait for Americans to wake up!\u201d wrote one Twitter user in response to Ivanka\u2019s second dose. \u201cSad and regrettable that you promotes an EXPERIMENTAL substance disguised as a \u2018vaccine\u2019 that does not \u2018Vaccinate\u2019,\u201d said another. Other responses included \u201cLove your family but this is a huge NO for me & my family. Will be praying you do not get any of the horrible side affects\u201d; \u201cGrateful until you get [sick face emoji] from it\u201d; and \u201cYou are crazy. Vaccine is poison.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Of course, despite the rank hypocrisy of waiting until months after the vaccines were available to urge people to get them, not to mention apparently having little issue with her father lying to the country about the virus (while her husband bragged about cutting health professionals out of the response to a public health crisis), it\u2019s actually extremely important that Ivanka and others on the right attempt to appeal to the vaccine hesitant. According to a Monmouth University poll conducted in mid-April, 43% of Republicans say they\u2019ll never get the coronavirus vaccine, while a Quinnipiac University poll found 45% of Republicans saying they \u201cdon\u2019t plan\u201d on getting the shot. On Thursday, CBS News reported that 25 states recently turned down doses of the vaccine that they\u2019d been allocated due to falling demand. In Georgia, for example, Dr. Zachary Taylor said his team could vaccinate 2,000 people a day and is averaging less than half of that. \u201cWe have the vaccine available. We have the facilities,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re just not getting as many people coming.\u201d Speaking to CBS, a man from Homer, Georgia, declared, \u201cYour choice is your choice. And my choice is that I\u2019m not gonna get it and I don\u2019t want it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n And why might that be? Probably in part because Donald Trump has done the bare minimum to encourage people to get their shot, after insisting that they needn\u2019t worry about the virus in the first place. Also because of people like Tucker Carlson, who regularly spends his show telling viewers how dangerous the vaccines are, even though they\u2019re not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Originally published at Vanity Fair<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Very few people want to hear from the former first daughter. By Bess Levin Last month, former first daughter Ivanka Trump interrupted her social media hiatus to tweet that she\u2019d received her first dose of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[275,1389,725],"class_list":["post-4640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-covid-19","tag-ivanka-trump","tag-vaccine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/towncryyers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Ivanka.jpg?resize=897%2C556&ssl=1\")
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