According to the sourcelink, AOC is getting a bunch of backlash for getting the Covid vaccine ahead of people who Actually Really Need It. Even Ilhan Omar indirectly called her out:
It’s now clear that we don’t have enough vaccines for everyone and there is shortage of supply, we have to prioritize those who need it most.
That’s why it’s disturbing to see members be 1st to get vaccine while most frontline workers, elderly and infirm in our districts, wait. https://t.co/YGcL4jO1Li
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) December 20, 2020
Oh DAYUM.
AOC fancies herself quite the vaccine expert now, by the way:
So how does a COVID mRNA vaccine work, anyway?💉
And how does it compare to a traditional vaccine, or just getting COVID?
Well, it comes down to a story of spikes🦠 & burglars 🦹🏻♀️
Here’s a layperson stab at an explanation: (Docs, feel free to weigh in!)pic.twitter.com/hneHYxML3p
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 20, 2020
There are not enough puke emojis.
AOC is now defending herself in the face of criticism, and responding with this excuse:
Gee, maybe if the GOP hadn’t spent so much time undermining public faith in science, masks,& COVID itself, I wouldn’t have to weigh the potential misinfo consequences of what wld happen if leaders urged ppl to take a new vaccine that we weren’t taking ourselves!
& @ me next time https://t.co/roMnvkyvoT
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 21, 2020
So it’s the GOP’s fault, y’all. Trump has been screaming about vaccines since March, but yeah, it’s the GOP’s fault. Insert literally every eyeroll here.
Rand Paul also told a reporter, “I think it would be unconscionable for somebody who’s had it to get in front of somebody who hasn’t had it to take a vaccine. I think it’s unconscionable for AOC, who’s 30 years old, to be smiling gleefully and getting the vaccine when you got 85-year-old people in nursing homes who haven’t gotten it.’
AOC insists that she got the vaccine ahead of people who really need it in order to ensure “continuity of governance” and that essentially it was “basically a national security measure.” That’s how self-important AOC is.
Let’s face it – that’s how self-important MOST politicians are. But I’m not gonna lie, I like watching them eat their own.