Not passing judgement at all on those who either did or didn’t get the vaccine and just expressing one guy’s opinion. As a microbiologist, it appears to me that when the coronavirus moved from the realm of microbiology and medicine to the political sphere ( I personally don’t think that there can be much debate that it did) it was game over. A country already divided politically almost overnight had a touch point through which to become even more divided.
It appears to me that a great distrust in our society of medicine and science, particularly the biological sciences, has been a major result of the entire affair. My greatest fear is that if the sun comes up on the day when we’re faced with an honest to God deadly pandemic ( you don’t even want to contemplate an aerosolized Ebola or Marburg , much less some unknown mutation) , the credibility of medical and research science in general has been so damaged that the results would be catastrophic. When perhaps as a society we should respond much as we did when the polio vaccine first became available, we’ll be racked with indecision and hesitancy, with fatal consequences. I hope I’m wrong.