But that's what they've been made into. Vaccines, like everything else in the American news cycle, are a point of division. Once you see the news/media is peddling fear-porn for the express purpose of dividing the American people it is rather hard to unsee.

> wearing a mask,[...] which [is] scientifically corroborated actions in the midst of a global pandemic

Sure, it supposedly is, but there is also evidence saying it's bad. [1]

As for vaccination, it should be a risk-based analysis, but instead, we are simply told to get it, no exceptions. That doesn't sound very scientific to me.

[1]: https://thefederalist.com/2021/09/02/a-look-at-scientific-ev...

> are not politics or toeing party lines or any other insinuation

As much as many of us would prefer this to be the case, this is clearly false.

Newsom’s anti-recall ad is entirely about mask and vaccine mandates. In fact, I believe it mentions no other topic.