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This gives me hope that the US can achieve the same despite some people not wanting to get their 5G shots. I think we can muster up 56%.

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The recent polling I've seen on the topic is that 74% of US adults are willing to get vaccinated (or have been).

And the trendline on the polling is that the % willing to get vaccinated is slowly climbing since the vaccine development successes were announced last fall.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/342431/satisfaction-vaccine-rol...

I think we'll get there.

That's excellent news, however doing the math, there are 74 million people under 18 in the US, so (1 - 74/328) * 0.74 = 57.3%. Of course once kids are able to get vaccinated, presumably some percentage of them will be and that might push it to 65 or even 70%.

Edit: I don’t normally ask why people downvote, but who downvotes multiplication?!

Here's even more recent: Have or Will = 82.8% (202.8M) Haven't or Won't = 17.2% (42.2M)

Data is from a US Census "household pulse" survey of Mar 31, Table 5, published April 7: https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2021/demo/hhp/hhp27.html

5G Arm with a 4G Phone

I was really hoping T-Mobile would set up a vaccination site to troll the tin foil hat crowd. They just announced some major 5G promotions and I think this could be a major marketing move for them to combine the two.

You will unfortunately have an awful lot of people taking the troll site for face value (aka "biting the onion") - and by simple statistics, a non-zero value of people willing to act in real life.

Especially Qanon believers have already proven they are willing to commit extraordinary violence, including storming the Capitol and shooting up a pizza parlor. In Europe, many phone and radio towers have been set ablaze. It is very unwise to bait these people.

It is true that we do have people like that. At the same time catering to them will also do nothing and chances are they already made up their minds about getting vaccinated.

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