Sometimes giving credit where it’s due is about denying it where it isn’t.
After a placard praising Thailand’s unpopular public health minister for vaccines donated by the United States went viral to bitter gasps, people responded by going out of their way to thank the man they felt deserved props: U.S. President Joseph Biden.
“Mr. Joe Biden, president of the United States of America, gave Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines to health workers Aug. 9, 2021,” read small signs held by people receiving their shots in recent days.
In images popping up across social media, health workers and others eligible for the mRNA vaccine cradled thank-you messages while they got stuck; at least one person made their own Biden gratitude meme on an iPad to hold.
Some images were quickly laundered by online memesmiths, who had fun putting Biden in the kind of traditional suits worn…
