Article: Right-Wing Refusal to Vaccinate Is ‘Child Abuse’

One’s decision not to vaccinate is “child abuse” according to a recent Salon piece that accused conservatives of using children as “pawns in their gross political games,” viewing them as property, and damaging their “mental and emotional health” while “tearing families apart,” largely in order to undermine President Biden.

Penned by senior politics writer Amanda Marcotte and titled “Vaccine refusal is child abuse,” the Friday Salon essay begins by accusing Republicans of opposing vaccination against the coronavirus in order to “sabotage” the Biden presidency.

“Republican media and politicians adopted an anti-vaccine message for one obvious purpose: To sabotage Joe Biden’s presidency by prolonging the pandemic,” Marcotte writes.

“In this, they’ve been wildly successful,” she adds.

Claiming the “vast majority” of COVID-19 deaths are a result of “vaccine refusal,” she asserts that opposition to vaccines has hurt conservatives.

“The public’s grief and weariness has definitely helped [drive] down Biden’s approval ratings, but at immense cost to Republican voters,” she writes. “Despite blue areas being denser than red, the death rate in Donald Trump-voting counties soared above Biden-voting counties, in a way that can only be described as ‘exponential.’”

However, according to Marcotte, it can be “hard to care.” – READ MORE