republican mayor promoted vaccination to his constituents..didnt go over well

[Demovictory9]

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-08-09/la-na-least-vaccinated-covid-coronavirus

For more than a year, Steve Allender, the Republican mayor of Rapid City, S.D., took a public stand in favor of COVID-19 safety measures, urging people to wear masks, avoid large gatherings and — following his example — get vaccinated.

Constituents responded by heckling him at City Council meetings and staking out his house in a campaign to intimidate him and portray vaccination as an assault on their personal freedom.

By early summer, Allender had quit trying. The highly infectious Delta variant was surging, but with so many people refusing to get shots, he concluded there was nothing that he or other local officials could do to stop it.

“Our role is just to sit back and let it happen,” he said in an interview. “I feel like a bit of a coward

His experience with the toxic politics of vaccination is far from unique.

[LonePirate]

1. You simply cannot do the right thing and make the cultists happy.

They thrive on the misery and death of others.