OPINION:
Rep. Jennifer Wexton, Virginia Democrat, tweeted last month that she received the first of two doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine. Oh, Congresswoman Wexton, thank you for getting it, and for encouraging us plebes to get it, too — when, as you said, it ’becomes available’ to us. Obviously, you made sure it was available to you first.
Who determined Ms. Wexton and the rest of Congress should come before Americans with higher risks? How lovely that people such as Wexton and Sen. Kamala Harris could get the vaccine before those of us with higher risks — even though Harris claimed she wouldn’t get the vaccine if President Trump encouraged us to get it, which he did. (I guess she was just kidding.)
I am also just thrilled that Wexton and the rest of the swamp is still being paid when scores of Americans received nothing in aid after months of being being forced to shut down or close their businesses and subsist with no income. According to these actions, Congress, your constituents have to assume your philosophy is this: ’After me and mine, then you come first.’
If the Oxford English Dictionary is looking for an illustration to go along with the word pig, I believe a photo of Ms. Wexton or any other member of Congress who chose to get the vaccine before their high-risk constituents would be a most appropriate choice. Thanks again, members of Congress, for your consideration of those of us who pay your salaries.
ANN COMERFORD
Haymarket, Va.
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