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Richard Dawkins just tweeted:
US discourages travel to UK because “very high level of COVID-19”. Yet higher % of UK adults are twice-vaccinated than US adults once. Americans might better avoid travelling to those “red” states where vaxing is almost tantamount to burning the flag.
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Does the phrase "vaxing is almost tantamount to burning the flag" mean "vaxing is almost tantamount to treason"?
Why this thread? Burning the flag in China is almost tantamount to treason, and so no Chinese within the borders of China burns it; yet I often read in newspapers that Americans burn their flag as a protest and it is said that it is an American's liberty to burn the flag and would not be arrested by police. So I don't this Dawkin's phrase. Because burning the flag is just a sign of legal protest.
But times may have changed. Dawkins perhaps knows the US far better than me. I am not sure.
What does the phrase mean?
US discourages travel to UK because “very high level of COVID-19”. Yet higher % of UK adults are twice-vaccinated than US adults once. Americans might better avoid travelling to those “red” states where vaxing is almost tantamount to burning the flag.
Source
Does the phrase "vaxing is almost tantamount to burning the flag" mean "vaxing is almost tantamount to treason"?
Why this thread? Burning the flag in China is almost tantamount to treason, and so no Chinese within the borders of China burns it; yet I often read in newspapers that Americans burn their flag as a protest and it is said that it is an American's liberty to burn the flag and would not be arrested by police. So I don't this Dawkin's phrase. Because burning the flag is just a sign of legal protest.
But times may have changed. Dawkins perhaps knows the US far better than me. I am not sure.
What does the phrase mean?