共和党参议员汤姆·蒂利斯正在寻求原谅。但我还没准备好现在就给予。
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis is seeking forgiveness. But I’m not ready to give it just yet.
这位即将退休的北卡罗来纳州参议员正在进行图书巡回，以推广他的新书《如何失去朋友并激怒总统》——这是一本关于唐纳德·特朗普总统的错误以及他在推动这些错误过程中所产生的遗憾的回忆录/政治宣言。
The retiring North Carolina senator is on a book tour to promote “How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents,” his new memoir/political manifesto about President Donald Trump’s mistakes and his regrets in advancing them.
蒂利斯的新书部分内容旨在让他为自己在推动特朗普内阁“流氓画廊”中所扮演的角色承担责任，其中包括罗伯特·F·肯尼迪——一位反疫苗阴谋论者，他的“脑虫”数量甚至超过了他的医学学位。
Tillis’ new book is, in part, supposed to be him taking accountability for his role in advancing the rogues’ gallery of the Trump Cabinet, including Robert F. Kennedy — an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist whose brain worms outnumber his medical degrees.
即便是一条虫子也能预测接下来会发生什么。他解雇了所有由他亲自挑选的疫苗咨询委员会成员，并任命了多位同样持疫苗怀疑态度的人作为替代者。该委员会随后彻底改革了疫苗接种时间表——包括麻疹疫苗，而麻疹正在宾夕法尼亚州和南卡罗来纳州等州卷土重来。
Even a worm could have predicted what happened next. He fired all members of the Vaccine Advisory Board handpicking multiple fellow vaccine skeptics as their replacements. That board overhauled the vaccine schedule — including for measles, which is seeing a comeback in states like Pennsylvania and South Carolina.
蒂利斯曾表示，他希望肯尼迪“放肆闯一闪。”在确认之前，蒂利斯曾表示，他希望肯尼迪作为一个带有新思想的局外人，“放肆闯一闪。”当他上《周夜秀》推广他的书时，我提出了一个个人问题。
Tillis had said he hoped Kennedy would “go wild.“Before the confirmation, Tillis had said he hoped Kennedy would“go wild” as an outsider with new ideas. When he went on “The Weeknight“ to promote his book, I had a personal question.
作为一名10周大女儿的父亲——她还太小，无法接种常规麻疹疫苗，该疫苗从12到15个月开始接种——我问：“他为你疯狂到什么程度了？”
As the father of a 10-week-old daughter — far too young for the routine measles vaccine, which begins at 12 to 15 months — I asked: “Did he go wild enough for you?”
蒂利斯回答：“我不担心你的女儿，因为你会做出明智的决定，而且你有能力和条件。”
Tillis responded: “I’m not worried about your daughter because you’re going to make an informed decision and you have the means and the access.”
当我解释说——在专家长期指导下——婴儿必须等到12个月之后才能接种麻疹疫苗时，蒂利斯反问：“提前接种是不是违法？”
When I explained that — under the longtime guidance of experts — infants can’t receive the measles vaccine until after 12 months, Tillis responded: “Is it illegal to get it sooner?”
他接着说，我“不必担心”新的疫苗接种时间表，因为“你在资源方面有受过教育的选择。”‘不在我们看管之下’：周末节目主持人就参议员汤姆·蒂利斯的投票记录及其对特朗普的弱烈批评进行质询 2026年10月6日对我来说，这次交流凸显了MAGA哲学及其支持者如蒂利斯所带来的全部问题，无论他们现在怎么说。蒂利斯似乎认为我面临的问题是个人问题，任何后果也只会落在个人身上。
He went on to say that I “don’t have to worry” about the new vaccine schedule because “you’ve got an educated choice in the resources.” ‘Not on our watch’: The Weeknight hosts push Sen. Thom Tillis on his voting record, weak criticisms of Trump October 6, 2026 To me, this exchange summarized the entire problem with the MAGA philosophy and the Republicans like Tillis who helped it along, regardless of whatever they say about it now. Tillis seemed to think that the problem facing me was an individual one and that any consequences would be individual.
在这种观点下，美国不是一个团结的国家，而只是数以亿计的粗犷个人主义者的集合，他们的行为不会对邻居产生任何影响。
Under this view, the United States is not a united country, but just a collection of hundreds of millions of rugged individualists whose actions have no effects on their neighbors.
根据蒂利斯的说法，我 somehow 能让孩子提前接种疫苗，所以我不必担心。但当时我的女儿只有10周大，这根本不是我可选的选择。
According to Tillis, could somehow get my child vaccinated early, so shouldn’t have to worry. But at 10 weeks old, that was not a choice available to me.
这种零和思维正在让我们变得更弱。如果你有足够的钱退休，你就不必担心社会保障是否能帮助你的邻居。如果你的孩子在一所好学校上学，你就不必担心教育体系是否正在崩溃。如果你住在山上，你就不必担心山谷里的房子会被洪水淹没。
This kind of zero-sum thinking is making us a weaker nation. If you have enough money for retirement, you shouldn’t worry about whether Social Security will help your neighbors. If your kids are in a good school, you shouldn’t worry about whether the educational system is falling apart. If you live on a hill, you shouldn’t worry about the homes being flooded in the valley.
忽视邻居需求的道德影响 — — 以及我们是否应该成为兄弟的守护者这一相当老套的问题 — — 先不说，事情本来就不是这样运作的。如果我的邻居生病了、贫穷了或缺乏教育，那最终也会影响到我。
Setting aside the moral implications of ignoring the needs of your neighbors — and the rather old-fashioned question of whether we are our brother’s keeper — this isn’t how things work. If my neighbors are sick or poor or uneducated, that will affect me, too, eventually.
在公共卫生领域，这种想法尤其荒谬。疫苗接种不仅保护你自己，也保护那些因年龄太小或因癌症治疗或自身免疫性疾病导致免疫系统受损而无法接种疫苗的邻居。
It’s especially misguided on public health. Vaccinations don’t just protect you. They protect your neighbor who can’t get a vaccination because they are too young or their immune system is compromised by cancer treatment or an autoimmune disorder.
当足够多的人接种疫苗时，病毒很难立足，这能保护那些无法安全接种疫苗或仍然太小无法打针的人。这被称为群体免疫，流行病学家们已经理解其基本逻辑超过一个世纪了。
If enough of us get vaccinated, the virus has a much harder time gaining a foothold, protecting people who cannot safely be vaccinated or are still too young to receive a shot. It’s called herd immunity, and epidemiologists have understood its basic logic for more than a century.
我们本周得知，肯尼迪计划在美国国立卫生研究院创建一个专注于疫苗伤害的新诊所，将更多政府资源用于围绕他那些荒唐阴谋论构建的议程上。
We learned this week that Kennedy intends to create a new clinic at the National Institutes of Health focused on vaccine injuries, devoting more government resources to an agenda built around his crackpot conspiracies.
理论上，蒂利斯应该为自己在这件事中的角色感到后悔。但他与我的交流却透露出更令人担忧的东西：他可能根本不明白为什么这件事一开始就是错的。
In theory, Tillis should regret his role in making that possible. But his exchange with me suggested something more troubling: He may not understand why it was wrong in the first place.
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