Friday December 24th 2021
Is it all just an election campaign for 2024?
All of a sudden, Trump is massively promoting vaccination
Needed by David
Donald Trump is vehemently in favor of vaccinations. Observers hope that this will result in an increasing vaccination rate. Above all, the former US President praises his role in vaccine development, because it is about his historical legacy – and of course the presidency in 2024.
Well, some observers and experts in the US asked themselves, what’s going on? Amid the wave of omicrons that is currently flooding the country, Donald Trump gave an interview to the conservative US news website “Daily Wire” – and the former President of the United States attacked Candace Owens sharply when the right-wing conservative commentator confirmed the effectiveness of the Covid-19 – Vaccines challenged. For the first time, Trump openly and directly contradicted the arguments of opponents of vaccinations and even encouraged viewers to get vaccinated.
In the interview broadcast in the US on Wednesday, Trump praised the speed with which vaccinations were developed during his tenure. “The vaccine is one of mankind’s greatest achievements,” said the 75-year-old. “I have developed three vaccines,” the 45th US president claimed in a familiar, self-indulgent manner, as if he had made them himself in a laboratory. “All of them are very, very good. I developed three of them in less than nine months. It should take five to twelve years.” In reality, the US pharmaceutical company Pfizer worked with the German company Biontech to develop the vaccine that is most widely used in the US.
“This year, even more people died of Covid under Joe Biden than during your tenure,” put in Owens, what one False statement is. “And this year more people were vaccinated. So people are wondering how …” But at that moment Trump interrupted the commentator vehemently: “Oh no, the vaccine works, but some people are not the right people. The ones who getting very sick and going to the hospital are the ones who don’t get vaccinated. But it is still their choice. And if you get vaccinated, you are protected. “
“Best thing Trump has done in years”
On top of that. Trump even described what scientific studies show. Namely, that three doses of vaccine are still very good protection against hospital stays and against severe courses up to and including death. “The results of the vaccine are very good and when you get infected it’s a very easy form,” said the Republican. “People don’t die when they get vaccinated.”
Not even 62 percent of Americans have had two vaccinations, not even 20 percent a booster. Many now hope that Trump’s statements will convince the unvaccinated citizens who support him to get the spades and thus relieve the health system, break the omicron wave and save lives. After all, nobody reaches the anti-establishment like the ex-president. CNN even called the interview: “The best that Donald Trump has done in years.” The TV channel noted earlier this month: Blue states that voted for Joe Biden in the presidential election are generally more than 60 percent vaccinated. Red states that voted for former President Donald Trump are generally below this average.
In the interview, Trump also spoke out against compulsory vaccinations; he called masking compulsory for school children “a terrible thing”. Owens, a well-known vaccine opponent, activist and supporter of conspiracy theories, said the latter was “contrary to science, because children have a zero percent chance of dying from Covid”.
Trump received boosters
After the interview, she wrote on Twitter: “I have no problem with people who want to get vaccinated. I just will never let this vaccine get into my body. I firmly believe that Big Pharma is the greatest evil on this planet.” I am healthy, young, in shape and I am simply not afraid of Covid-19. ” Big pharma conspiracy theory claims that the medical community in general, and pharmaceutical companies in particular, work against the public good, hide effective treatments, or even cause and exacerbate disease for profit.
Experts, journalists and commentators are now wondering why Trump’s strongest statements to date in support of the Covid vaccines only came about a year after they were first available. In the winter of 2020, the 75-year-old was still busy spreading conspiracies about his electoral defeat, while the delta variant spread around the world. In April 2020, Trump had advertised to investigate the injection of bleach into the human body as a means of combating Covid. In general, Trump dealt with the pandemic in a devastating manner during his tenure, railed against lockdowns and downplayed the deadliness of the virus by comparing it with the flu.
When all of the surviving former presidents made a public announcement about vaccinations in the spring of 2021, Trump did not take part. To date, there is no photo of the Republican of his vaccination. Originally he had also stated that he did not want a booster vaccination. Last Sunday, at a public appearance in front of an audience, he announced that he had received a refresher on what was happening to him Boos brought in.
It doesn’t take a lot of imagination to realize that there is also calculation behind Trump’s vaccination statements. Time and again, the Republican positions himself for the 2024 election campaign, this time trying to sell the vaccine development during his tenure as his historical legacy, arguing that he shaped global events during his time in the White House. With a view to 2024, he presumably wants to claim the development of the vaccines for himself, which he could score with a possible end to the pandemic.
Maggie Habermann of the “New York Times” wrote about Trump’s interview statements on Twitter: “Either a) one of his $ supporters has encouraged him b) he wants to be positively encouraged c) he stands out from the other Republican candidates d) he’s running. ” Whatever the reason, the journalist continued in another tweet that it was a message that many Donald Trump supporters “may not heed at the moment, but some probably will now, and that brings the pandemic closer to its end.” . “