Thread by @mattblaze

Out of context, this sounds like the sort of thing that should cause one’s friends to stage an intervention. In context, too.

https://twitter.com/WendyRogersAZ/status/1457436254711259138

Maybe vaccines are “communist” because of their side effect of protecting not just recipients, but also those with whom they come into contact. Perhaps a proper capitalist vaccine should be developed that protects recipients while creating extra risk for everyone else.

But of course, if the market wanted such a vaccine, it should exist already.

Well, that didn’t take long.

I’m still trying to figure out what galaxy-brained politico came up with “let’s all accuse a venerable and universally beloved children’s character of covertly advancing an increasingly irrelevant political/economic system by promoting ordinary preventative medicine”.

I mean, it’s definitely not an obvious move.

Expecting that saying “Big Bird is a Communist” will get people riled up is just WEIRD. It’s like saying “Snoopy is a Fifth-Columnist” or “Donald Duck is an Anarcho-syndicalist”.

That said, I’m not going to be wearing my Big Bird costume in certain neighborhoods for a while.