The US Vice President, Mike Pence, drew widespread criticism on Twitter for calling a COVID-19 vaccine a "medical miracle" on Tuesday. On the same day, the social media users mocked Ivanka Trump as a "fake scientist" after she claimed the lockdowns "are not grounded in science".
The leader of the White House Coronavirus task force, Pence praised the development process of the COVID-19 vaccine under the Operation Warp Speed. "This is a Medical Miracle!," he said in a tweet. But the critics did not waste time in pointing out the difference between a miracle or magic and scientific efforts.
"A miracle is something that cannot be explained by natural or scientific laws. This vaccine was developed via hard work, intelligence, science, and perseverance. There was no magic involved," one of the users wrote. Another user wrote on Twitter, "It's actually science, not a miracle."
This was not a miracle. This was science and hard work. And, just so you know, this vaccine would have taken this long no matter who was President. The difference is that fewer people would now be dead from lack of leadership. https://t.co/8m9JDLq9Nw
— ð—¡ð—®ð˜ð—µð—®ð—» ð——ð—¶ð—°ð—¸ð˜€ð—¼ð—», coder, songs, music, grumpy (@nathandickson) December 15, 2020
A miracle is something that cannot be explained by natural or scientific laws.
— Natasha Stoynoff âœ’ï¸ (@Tashka9) December 15, 2020
This vaccine was developed via hard work, intelligence, science, and perseverance.
There was no magic involved.
Bless our scientists. THEY are the amazing ones!
— 🇺🇸🎄Holly~AR🎄🇺🇸Rise Up, Move Mountains🎶 (@HollyinAR) December 15, 2020
It’s called investing in science.
— kim marsden (@KimlynnMarsden) December 15, 2020
Scientists did that!
— Healthcare 🇺🇸Voter (@RoverGrover) December 15, 2020
This is Medical Science!
— polymer noyz (@polymernoyz) December 15, 2020
It’s actually science, not a miracle.
— Janet (@granite847) December 15, 2020
Thank you to the researchers, the scientists, the epidemiologists and the volunteers.
— PearlyBidenisPOTUS (@PearlyB57) December 15, 2020
Trump is responsible for this human disaster but your work will save thousands, if not millions, of lives.
#FakeScientist
Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump said on Twitter that the current Coronavirus lockdowns are not supported by science. She made the comment in a retweet of a video shared by a user.
"These blanket lockdowns are not grounded in science. These arbitrary rules imposed by callous politicians are destroying lives. It is just wrong for small business owners to have [to] fight so hard to keep their American dream alive," she wrote.
These blanket lockdowns are not grounded in science. These arbitrary rules imposed by callous politicians are destroying lives. It is just wrong for small business owners to have fight so hard to keep their American dream alive. https://t.co/Z8O1m5fpp0
— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) December 15, 2020
But in reality, scientists disagree with Ivanka's claim about the effectiveness of the lockdowns while the numbers of COVID-19 cases are rising in a community. As reported by NPR, Ana Bento, who is an assistant professor at the School of Public Health at Indiana University Bloomington, said that broad lockdowns are the simplest tool that can help to break the chain of infection transmission, as well as reduce the possibility of getting infected by the virus, and "that is the whole purpose of it".
Twitter users who came across Ivanka's Tweet did not lose the chance to mock the President's daughter. One of the users shared the image of US Coronavirus cases and fatality numbers, and wrote that "Idiot #FakeScientist prefers making money to saving American lives."
none of this would even be happening if you had listened to the scientists from the start... but you didn't and now... hundreds of thousands are dead and things are happening in local communities that seem chaotic. Don't blame them for the chain of events you started.
— Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix) December 15, 2020
Does Ivanka want to talk callousness?
— Gailen David (@gailendavid) December 15, 2020
Her father and husband worked on engineering ways to punish states that didn't flatter her conman daddy causing chaos supplying PPE for front-line medical workers.
COVID has ravaged this country. Refrigerated trailers, IVANKA!
300K dead pic.twitter.com/uKFLIiUlVk
Or better yet... Be the world leader we are. Set up a robust, federal response unlike the world's ever seen. Make sure these small business owners never have to choose between their health & their bottom line. Rally the country against the virus, not each other. That's an option. https://t.co/MIgxaRb8yE
— Ben Thompson (@Bentnews) December 15, 2020
Idiot #FakeScientist prefers making money to saving Anerican lives. https://t.co/vtx0ppBPSe pic.twitter.com/jemDFc3yk4
— Lina Record (@RecordLina) December 15, 2020
It will never stop amazing us that in the midst of the worst pandemic in a century, rather than turning to doctors and scientists, the closest advisors to the president were his fashion-brand owning daughter and her slumlord husband. This is why we need tighter nepotism laws. https://t.co/l03AJ9H4pV
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) December 15, 2020
Allowing 300k people to die, passing on getting Pfizer vaccines, refusing to model good behavior by wearing a mask, pushing quack medical remedies and not getting direct stimulus help to Americans and small businesses is wrong and destroying lives. https://t.co/0kd2Lwc0b2
— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) December 15, 2020
