Complaints without offering alternatives

Debra Saunders' opinion piece concerning the Biden administration's efforts to shame the unvaccinated conveniently and not surprisingly offers no suggestions on how to coax those who distrust the science or the government to receive the vaccine. She blames their refusal partly upon the suppression of unorthodox opinions (e.g., the Great Barrington Declaration), as if these opinions had valid basic science and data-based underpinnings.

She is right to say the Biden administration was underprepared for the current demand for test kits, but remember that Trump greatly downplayed the necessity of testing as well as the need for vaccination, advice which apparently is ingrained with the vaccine refusers who comprise much of his "base."

Others have shared their frustration and have shamed the unvaccinated, for example, Gov. Ivey of Alabama. So to respond to the idea that Biden should not shame the vaccine resistors for getting sick, claiming this is furthering distrust of the message to get vaccinated and increasing social division, Ms. Saunders offers what?

This is another opinion piece of "complain, complain," without proposed solutions or actions to mitigate the pandemic.

I await her insight.

Robert Hawkinson

Wheaton