This.

What everyone misses, on both sides, is that Trump wanted a vaccine out AS AN OPTION.

Take yourself back to early 2020. The country is shutting down, jobs and lives are at risk. I’m sure a lot of people here knew what Covid was early on, but few knew for certain.

Many of us, including myself, had not discovered this place. We were still “normie” Trump supporters.

So, we were cautious and scared - about the virus, about its long term effects, about the supply shortages if the pandemic went on for months or years. Most of us wanted every option on the table.

A vaccine - even experimental - was a viable OPTION to shoot for, amongst other options, like therapeutics.

Trump enabled that option to happen, for anyone comfortable enough to try it. He did what a leader should have done, and the drug companies SHOULD have presented it AS AN EXPERIMENTAL OPTION while disclosing the risks.

It’s not big pharma or government’s job to withhold options from us, it’s their job to educate us truthfully on the risks and then give us the choice if we want it.

Trump did that. Nobody else did.

Edit: not even govt’s job to educate us, just not to lie to us or cover things up, which is all they seem to do.

This.

What everyone misses, on both sides, is that Trump wanted a vaccine out AS AN OPTION.

Take yourself back to early 2020. The country is shutting down, jobs and lives are at risk. I’m sure a lot of people here knew what Covid was early on, but few knew for certain.

Many of us, including myself, had not discovered this place. We were still “normie” Trump supporters.

So, we were cautious and scared - about the virus, about its long term effects, about the supply shortages if the pandemic went on for months or years. Most of us wanted every option on the table.

A vaccine - even experimental - was a viable OPTION to shoot for, amongst other options, like therapeutics.

Trump enabled that option to happen, for anyone comfortable enough to try it. He did what a leader should have done, and the drug companies SHOULD have presented it AS AN EXPERIMENTAL OPTION while disclosing the risks.

It’s not big pharma or government’s job to withhold options from us, it’s their job to educate us truthfully on the risks and then give us the choice if we want it.

Trump did that. Nobody else did.