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“I will say that I would not trust Donald Trump” on the reliability of a vaccine, Harris said. The California senator, however, added that she would trust a “credible” source who could vouch that a vaccine was safe for Americans to receive.

Harris also expressed concern that Trump has continued to contradict his own health officials amid a pandemic and suggested Friday that a vaccine would “probably” be available in October for the virus, which has killed more than 188,000 people in the U.S. as of Saturday.

“If past is prologue ... they'll be muzzled. They'll be suppressed,” Harris said of health experts and scientists. “They will be sidelined because he’s looking at an election coming up in less than 60 days, and he's grasping for whatever he can get to pretend he has been a leader on this issue when he has not.”

Harris’ concerns come after a growing number of health officials and politicians, including Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, said the administration's inconsistent approach to the coronavirus could solidify American’s skepticism on the safety of a vaccine.

"Why do we think, God willing, when we get a vaccine — that is good, works — why do we think the public is gonna line up to be willing to take the injection?" Joe Biden asked on Wednesday. "We've lost so much confidence, the American people, in what's said [by the Trump administration]."

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/0 ... ine-409320

spot wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 2:51 pm If you take things out of context you can make them mean whatever you want to. It doesn't mean that's what they meant when they were said.

“I will say that I would not trust Donald Trump” on the reliability of a vaccine, Harris said.

It is a cartoon that is accurate as anybody would be a fool to take a vaccine based on the word of a politician.

tude dog wrote: ↑Sat Jul 24, 2021 11:53 am

spot wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 2:51 pm If you take things out of context you can make them mean whatever you want to. It doesn't mean that's what they meant when they were said.

“I will say that I would not trust Donald Trump” on the reliability of a vaccine, Harris said.

It is a cartoon that is accurate as anybody would be a fool to take a vaccine based on the word of a politician.

spot wrote: ↑Sat Jul 24, 2021 12:40 pm

tude dog wrote: ↑Sat Jul 24, 2021 11:53 am

spot wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 2:51 pm If you take things out of context you can make them mean whatever you want to. It doesn't mean that's what they meant when they were said.

“I will say that I would not trust Donald Trump” on the reliability of a vaccine, Harris said.

It is a cartoon that is accurate as anybody would be a fool to take a vaccine based on the word of a politician.

I don't doubt that for a moment but the question was whether the cartoon, and you, show bias. "on the word of a politician" is miles short of an explicitly Biden/Harris cartoon, don't you think? As in one-sided?

tude dog wrote: ↑Sat Jul 24, 2021 12:56 pm Political cartoons by definition are not news sources but represent a point of view.

spot wrote: ↑Tue Jul 27, 2021 1:37 pm "History will absolve me"? I think the accusations of poverty and shortages have more to do with the bullying American sanctions program than with Fidel, don't you?

spot wrote: ↑Tue Jul 27, 2021 1:37 pmI have an apartment in Havana next Easter. You could book there too. We could explore the reality of the place if you like. I think the country has a lot worth respecting, but that certainly doesn't include Batista, corruption or multinational profiteering.