Want to see the worst kind of American exceptionalism, espoused by an exceptionally terrible American, say, Ted Cruz? Look no further than this recent response to Rex Chapman’s tweet that Canada is providing the new COVID-19 vaccine to every Canadian who wants it for free.
Ted, who plays Trumpism’s pathological zero-sum game of “I need to win and everyone else needs to lose”, and who apparently hasn’t quite gotten over being born in Canada, decided that he needed to take a dump on something good that would benefit millions of people and likely save lives, since it had nothing to do with the U.S.:
That’s great. Just out of curiosity, which country was it that developed the vaccine? Wonder why.
What he didn’t know is that the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine that Canada would make use of, was…
- developed in Germany,
- funded by Germany and took no money from the U.S.’ “Operation Warp Speed” project for its development, and
- was developed by two Turkish immigrants (again, I remind you: Immigrants — we get the job done).
