Last Thursday, nine months after promising not to mandate vaccination against the Chinese coronavirus, President Joe Biden mandated vaccination against the Chinese coronavirus. Yet while the president may have lied to the American people, he did so for the noblest of reasons: he “followed the science.” Conservatives may not trust Democrat politicians, one concedes, but surely we trust “the science.”
I, for one, trust neither. “The science,” the record shows, does not have a particularly good record in this “pandemic,” now in its 547th day of 15 to slow the spread. In February of 2020, as the World Health Organization helped China hide the extent of the epidemic from the rest of the world, our putatively science-denying president Donald Trump banned travel from our sickening geopolitical adversary. At the same time, supposedly science-minded politicians such as Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden urged unmasked crowds to “come to Chinatown,” dismissing Trump’s attempts to protect the public health as “hysterical xenophobia.”
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