'It's easy to see how divided the nation is about this subject,' she said. farmingdale, n.y., macodagenix inc., a clinical-stage synthetic biology company with a rational vaccine design platform aimed at infectious diseases and cancer, today announced interim phase 1 data indicating induction of t cell immunity against highly-conserved antigens of the sars-cov-2 omicron variant following two doses of its. She pointed out the extremely mixed reactions to President Joe Biden's May 13 tweet: 'The rule is now simple: get vaccinated or wear a mask until you do.' 'I do not want others to assume that I am Republican because I would never want anyone to think I would do something so careless towards them like not wear a mask without being vaccinated.'Ĭaroline said she believes many of her customers feel the same way, especially the ones who opt for the non-Republican pins over the far more neutral 'vaccinated' ones that she offers. 'It is very important to me that others know where I stand on politics, health issues, and racial injustice,' she said.

Now that she is vaccinated, she does not always wear her mask when she is in spaces that are not very crowded or are outdoors, but she doesn't want people to think she is anti-mask or anti-vax, both of which have been associated with conservatives. 1 heart, 2 hearts, 3 hearts… A lot of people were adding the pin to their favorites,' she told Insider in a message. 'Then, as soon as the listing was created, something odd happened: my phone started sending notifications one after the other. She also noticed there were already shirts being sold with the message, but no pins. But since the CDC updated its recommendations, mask mandates are dropping in most places.Ĭaroline, who is based in Miami, Florida, and owns the Etsy shop CoolGiftAtelier, said she received a custom request a couple of weeks ago from a customer interested in one of her pins that featured a rainbow and said, 'Vaccinated, You can hug me.' Instead, the customer asked for the message: 'Not Republican, just vaccinated.'Ĭaroline said she didn't totally understand why someone would ask for that message because she has been so busy with her kids and her three Etsy shops, but she was happy to fulfill the customer's request. The states that never had mask mandates, or had them for a very brief time period, are almost exclusively red states. Since then, anti-mask rhetoric has largely come from citizens and politicians on the right side of the aisle.

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