Mixed Messaging and Silencing Campaign Fuel Vaccine Skepticism

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If politicians and public health authorities want someone to blame for peopleโ€™s reluctance to get a vaccine, they should take a long look in the mirror.

t took a Mexican comedian to do the job the American news media refuses to do.

During a series of pointed questions, Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted the COVID-19 vaccines wonโ€™t stop people from contracting the virus; the shots only lessen the symptoms if a recipient is later infected with SARS-CoV-2.

โ€œThereโ€™s a 95 percent chance you will not get a symptomatic infection,โ€ Fauci told Eugenio Derbez last week. โ€œWe are unsure right now what the protection is against infection because itโ€™s conceivable you could get vaccinated, get exposed, get infected, not know it . . . but you could have virus in your nasal pharynx.โ€

Fauci continued spinning. Since no one knows whether the vaccine prevents transmission, Fauci warned, even vaccinated people must wear a mask if โ€œtheyโ€™re around people who are vulnerable to infection.โ€ It will be at least a few more months before researchers know for certain the risk level of a vaccinated person infecting someone else, Fauci said.

Derbez clearly made the deified public health expertโ€”you can now buy a t-shirt telling the world you received your โ€œFauci ouchie,โ€ referring to the vaccineโ€”squirm. Accustomed to softball interviews by swooning American journalists, Fauci was unprepared to face tough questions.

But his responses exposed the confusing, and frankly unconvincing, promotional campaign for COVID-19 vaccines. Americans generally understand vaccines to be a safeguard against getting a harmful virus, not an immunity booster to make the resultant disease more manageable. This is especially true of a highly contagious virus that can be lethal to the elderly, obese, or immuno-compromised. No one expected the vaccine merely would act as an injectable version of DayQuil or a vitamin pack but with unknown side effects.

Legitimate Questions

After a year of hyperbolic fear-mongering and warning life only could โ€œreturn to normalโ€ after widespread immunizations, the COVID chicken hawks are finally coming home to roost. Questions abound.

How will โ€œnormalcyโ€ return when someone can still contract and transmit the virus after vaccination? Whatโ€™s the point of getting the shots if you, and everyone else, must still wear a mask? If mask-wearing and social distancing must continue until we have more solid answers about vaccine efficacy, why not delay the program until more is known? If getting the vaccine doesnโ€™t protect my family or neighbor, why bother? What about stories and data showing moderate to severe side effects, which in some cases are more debilitating than the disease itself?

By Julie Kelly

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About Julie Kelly

Julie Kelly is a political commentator and senior contributor toย American Greatness. She is the author ofย Disloyal Opposition: How the NeverTrump Right Triedโ€•And Failedโ€•To Take Down the President.ย Her past work can be found atย The Federalistย andย National Review. She also has been featured in theย Wall Street Journal,ย The Hill,ย Chicago Tribune,ย Forbes, andย Genetic Literacy Project. She is the co-host of โ€˜Happy Hour podcast with Julie and Liz.โ€™ She is a graduate of Eastern Illinois University and lives in suburban Chicago with her husband and two daughters.

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