vaccinating its people even though we jumped out to a big head start. the u.s. behind china, uk, israel, canada, the entirety of the european union. there are a bunch of reasons for that but a huge part of it has been the fact that in a breathtaking act of reckless disregard for human life, the major messengers of the american right have pushed antivaccine messages to people, they just made a decision to do that, and it has cost a lot of people their health and their lives. of course the single biggest voice on the american right has been ex-president donald trump who during his presidency pushed fake covid treatments like the antimalaria drug hydroxychloroquine or floating the idea of injecting bleach inside the body. he's also been not really very full throated in his support for vaccines. he got vaccinated. he hasn't been running around doing a lot of antivax theories. he seemed to make an interesting change in his rhetoric. last week on a speaking tour