Mitch McConnell is totally befuddled, just at a loss, as to why on Earth anyone would be against getting a Covid vaccine. Covid-19 vaccines prevent serious illness and death. He knows that. He survived Polio. He is 150 years old, and so he knows that vaccines are miracles of science and everyone should be amazed that Covid vaccines were able to be produced and approved by the government so rapidly. Why won't everyone get one??? Well, because Republicans are fear mongering all over the country about the government trying to control the population, but of more relevance: maybe Mitch McConnell should give this speech on Tucker Carlson's program. That might be a game changer, because it's the wild west on that show. Up is down, and so on. The Majority Report crew discuss McConnell's statement.
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Sam Seder: The majority of people in this country, maybe just barely, but the majority of people in this country believe that Covid is real and believe the data that shows unequivocally that the vaccine gives you — some instances, you know relative to hospitalization or death — massive protection from getting infected. And they don't want to go into public spaces, particularly closed-in public spaces, unless people have taken full precautions. And you know, I think what's really astonishing about this dynamic, I think you've got to be a lunatic at this point to not want the vaccine. But people have the right to be a lunatic.
But the resent and the anger and the righteousness from people who still maintain that Covid is fake, you don't need to take any precautions, that this is somehow it's offensive the idea that a business would say, "We just want everybody vaccinated because that's our business," is sort of predicated on people feeling safe.
Emma Vigeland: Well now they care about discrimination. Conservatives. When it's a public health issue.
Sam Seder: But this is demented, and it is going to lead to not just horrible outcomes in the context of Covid. I think we're already starting to see the broad contours of where this might lead in terms of not just in terms of social cohesion, but in terms of social health. The implications of this could resonate in a way that I think many people had not contemplated. Certainly I hadn't contemplated the implications of where this could lead years down the road. So not just in terms of temporarily, but also in terms of like across the board on what it's going to do to things like public health.
Let's... and here's what I'm talking about, let's start first with the single most powerful elected Republican official in the country.
Emma Vigeland: And the most influential politician of the past 50 years. Possibly. Or effective.
Sam Seder: Effective within the context of the Senate. I think Donald Trump has had a sway over the Republican Party that is unrivaled. Maybe Ronald Reagan had that, but I guess that was about 50 years ago or 40 years ago anyways. But Mitch McConnell, the one thing you can say is he really, really has control over his caucus in the Senate. That's the one thing you could say about the guy, right? All the nasty things... And there's only one person, I think, who doesn't think that he does, and it's only in this one circumstance. And that person's name is Mitch McConnell. And it's in this circumstance.
Mitch McConnell: How many times you all have heard me say this, but i'm a huge fan of vaccinations. As a Polio victim myself when i was young, I've studied that disease. It took 70 years — 70 years — to come up with two vaccines that finally ended the Polio threat. As a result of Operation Warp Speed, not one, not two, but three highly effective vaccines. And so I'm perplexed by the difficulty we have in finishing the job. If you're a football fan, we're in the red zone, but we're not in the end zone yet. And we need to keep preaching that getting the vaccine is important. Nobody knows more about that than Senator Blunt i don't know if you want to add anything, Roy, to what I've said here, but we need to finish the job. And part of it is just convincing the American people of the importance of doing this. Everyone who knows this subject says that if you get the disease again, your chances are pretty good you're not going to die from it if you get vaccinated.
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