As mainland Americans sit on a massive surplus of vaccine doses—and with the death count now exceeding 760,000—there are important lessons to learn from Puerto Rico’s two-pronged approach to taming Covid-19. For starters, U.S. leaders should acquire a second prong.
show that championing areas of agreement, rather than harping on points of contention, makes people more receptive to new ideas, thereby lessening the friction. So, rather than identifying and amplifying what sets Democrats and Republicans apart, we’d be better off asking: “What can we all agree on?”
Though the two sides may not agree on government-enforced vaccine mandates, perhaps they can concur, based on clinical studies, that vaccines reduce the likelihood and severity of illness. Maybe both sides can acknowledge that complications have occurred in a small percentage of vaccine takers while also acknowledging that infection from the virus is far more dangerous than any known vaccine side effect.
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