In a last-ditch effort to gain some popularity, Vice President Kamala Harris broke with the President’s harsh messaging for unvaccinated Americans. In a recent memo from the White House, Biden gave a grim warning that unvaccinated individuals should expect a winter of “illness and death.”
However, Harris wasn’t so quick to blame the unvaccinated the for the prolonged health crisis
Fox News reports:
“I don’t think this is a moment to talk about fault,” Harris said during an interview with CBS when pressed on the matter. “It is no one’s fault that this virus hit our shores or hit the world. … It is more about individual power and responsibility and the decisions that everyone has the choice to make.”
While Harris may not be willing to blame the unvaccinated for the continued spread of the virus, she did make clear that the best thing people can do to protect themselves is to get their vaccine or a booster.
“We have the power today to go out and if you’ve not been boosted, go get boosted. The power today to go and get vaccinated,” Harris said. “And that will have an impact on where we end up tomorrow.”
Kamala’s rhetoric is distinctly different than the President’s messaging.
“It’s here now, and it’s spreading, and it’s going to increase,” Biden said of the variant last week. “For [the] unvaccinated, we are looking at a winter of severe illness and death — the unvaccinated, for themselves, their families and the hospitals they will soon overwhelm.”