trump was president during covid, did u forget that already?
he told people to get vaxxed, bragged about getting vaxxed and so on and so forth
i agree a lot of americans distrust the government , i do too, but this is just so sad and preventable
And Biden was elected on an explicit promise he wouldn't mandate the vaccine. The CDC repeatedly lied about Covid under Biden, broke all its pledges and decided it would rather manipulate and abuse the public than trust the public's own decision making and comprehension. All federal government policy under Biden became a discussion of how best to lie to the American people.
We had a great polio vaccine program overseas until Obama weaponized to spy on and assassinate Bin Laden. Then everyone in Pakistan stopped trusting US doctors and polio had a decade of resurgence. Turns out there are very easily predicted social costs to breaking the trust people put in their doctors