When the first vaccines finally became available in 2021, right-wing channels like Fox News and Newsmax immediately started questioning them.
Maybe the Pfizer and Moderna stuff isn't safe at all?
One will still be able to ask questions.
So now there is a heated discussion about vaccination records.
New York State recently launched an app that citizens can use to signal restaurant owners and other business owners that they are vaccinated.
The National Basketball Association relaxes its regulations: Vaccinated people no longer have to adhere to distance rules and wear masks in their stadiums, they can sit tightly together - after all, they can no longer infect one another.
And the American right?
She foams with indignation.
Florida's Governor Ron DeSantis, who has consistently refused to take any protective measures since the outbreak of the epidemic, says he will most certainly not allow vaccination records in his state.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican congresswoman who believes in the anti-Semitic QAnon religion, even spoke of "corporate communism" on Twitter.
Actually, one cannot wonder enough about all of this.
Until just now, the Republican Party consisted of people who reliably advocated property rights.