There is little talk about the so-called COVID vaccines these days. The powers-that-be still want you to get your ninth booster (or whatever they’re on), but the topic barely came up in the 2024 election.
Trump may have mentioned it once in the debate with Biden. He briefly referred to mandates. He got the message from his supporters that he shouldn’t be bragging about Operation Warp Speed.
The left wasn’t going to bring up the topic at all because it would just remind people of the Biden mandates and also the fact that the so-called vaccines did nothing to actually prevent people from getting COVID.
The Vote Numbers
There are a lot of questions now about how Kamala Harris managed to get about 8 million fewer votes than Joe Biden in 2020. Part of the reason is Joe Biden himself. He was so disastrous for four years that millions of people who voted for Biden didn’t vote for Harris. After all, she said that she wouldn’t have done anything different as president.
Some are using the vote totals to point towards election fraud in 2020. But this wouldn’t account for something like 8 million votes. It might be a few hundred thousand votes in the big cities in swing states.
It is surprising that nobody of prominence has half-jokingly pointed to the COVID vaccines as a reason for fewer votes. If the vaccines killed off a few million people, that would certainly have an impact. There has been a significant excess death count over the last four years. The CDC has been shady with some of its numbers, but there have likely been a couple of million deaths above and beyond what was projected for the last four years.
Maybe this isn’t primarily from the unsafe and ineffective vaccines, but someone should probably offer an alternative explanation. Why didn’t the deaths fall after the vaccines became available?
If anything, they should have fallen below the norm because of some people dying slightly prematurely in 2020.
For example, maybe someone who was 87 years old in 2020 died from COVID or the horrible hospital protocols. If not for COVID or mistreatment at the hospital, they would have lived another 2 years. Therefore, the death was moved up from 2022 to 2020. Yet, the excess deaths continued in 2021 and 2022.
Even in 2024, the deaths should be below what would have been expected five years ago, but it appears we are still seeing some excess death.
The Unspoken
The COVID vaccine issue may not have been an issue that was discussed in the election, but it doesn’t mean it wasn’t an issue. There were millions of people who were greatly impacted in 2021 and 2022.
Joe Biden and his handlers directed that something near 100 million workers in the United States had to get a needle in their arm or else they were not permitted to have their job and feed their family.
The Supreme Court ended up striking down a big part of the mandate, but it had already done major damage on businesses and people’s lives. Some businesses also required the shot because they were going along with the mandates, even if some of the dictates were eventually struck down.
This was a major cost of doing business. Companies had to scramble to have a dedicated team of employees to check for vaccination status and to review exemption requests. They also had the cost of employees quitting or firing them.
More importantly, this wrecked many lives. Millions of people were compelled to get the shots because they didn’t want to lose their livelihood. There were millions more who applied for exemptions and were forced to make major decisions. This was an extremely stressful time for millions of Americans who didn’t want the shots.
The jabs were not safe. They were not effective. They didn’t prevent COVID, and they didn’t prevent transmission.
It is a joke for any leftist today to say “my body, my choice”. They were primarily the ones who supported these awful mandates. Some of them went so far as to advocate kidnapping your children or locking you up if you didn’t take their “medicine”.
Maybe Donald Trump and Kamala Harris didn’t talk about the vaccines, but you can bet that it was still an issue in the minds of at least a few million Americans out there.
And while Trump was not good on the vaccine issue, he didn’t try to mandate it, and there is little reason to believe he would have. Plus, he had Robert Kennedy Jr. campaigning for him at the end, who was a big critic of the vaccine mandates.
So, while maybe this issue didn’t trump the economy in general, it was still a big issue in the minds of many Americans. They want to see Kennedy expose some of the criminals at the FDA and the CDC at the top. They certainly didn’t want to reward Kamala Harris with the presidency, who said she supported everything that Biden did.
Kamala the Puppet
It is interesting to theorize what would have happened if Kamala Harris had dissented from the vaccine mandates. Of course, this wouldn’t have happened because she doesn’t ever stray too far from the establishment narrative.
Still, imagine when she was asked that question on The View about what she might have done different from Biden. Imagine if she said that she wouldn’t have mandated the vaccines and that she would have just tried to use gentle persuasion. Perhaps most people would not have believed her and rightly so, because she should have said this back in 2021.
But it is still an interesting thought experiment. There might be some leftists out there who don’t like Trump but are bitter about being forced to get a jab in the arm that they didn’t want. It’s not a big percentage, but you have to imagine there are a few.
Trump was probably correct in just avoiding the issue. He originally bragged about the vaccine, but a lot of his supporters never wanted it. They don’t think it was safe or effective. There are some Trump supporters who very willingly got the vaccine and don’t regret it. It was a no-win issue for Trump except to say that he wouldn’t have mandated the shots.
Conclusion
It is likely that the COVID shots and the mandates cost Kamala Harris at least a couple of million votes across the country. If the shots killed a million people, the majority of those people would have voted for Harris.
Even if the shots didn’t kill anyone (which isn’t the case), the mandates themselves likely turned away some people who might have otherwise supported her. The left was busy calling Trump a fascist and a dictator. Who was it again who told nearly 100 million people that they had to get an injection in the arm if they wanted to be able to earn an income and feed their families?
That is a major part of the legacy of the criminal Biden and his handlers. For this one thing alone, they deserved to lose big.