As much as it galls people, it would be helpful, I think, for Biden to call it "The Trump vaccine," giving him full, lavish, and enthusiastic credit for operation Warp Speed. Otherwise, there's a good chance Trump will tell people not to take it.
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1334917885978882050
If the thought of doing that makes you ill, remember that's a metaphor. What we want is to diminish illness, literally, and for that we need to get a good 80 percent of the population vaccinated.
(I don't know exactly what percentage; I'm guessing from other vaccines: It may be different for Covid, but we'll only know when we've conducted the experiment, which we're about to conduct whether we like it or not.)
If Trump decides to turn "being vaccinated" into the latest iteration of "not wearing a mask," there's a good chance that we won't be able to get enough people to take it to achieve herd immunity.
And the only way to prevent him from doing that is to appeal to his narcissism. But Trump's narcissism and lack of insight are so complete that he can readily be manipulated--as every US adversary knows--and calling it "the Trump vaccine" would ensure he doesn't sabotage it.
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