29% of Vaccinated Adults Believe Travel Is Safe but 51% of Vaccine Rejecters Do

Feels like late-stage USSR. The propaganda machine keeps churning well after the people stop listening. In my new home away from the Bay, people could not care less.

> In the latest Economist/YouGov poll, three in 10 Americans who have received at least one vaccinate shot (29%) believe it is safe for them to travel within the United States today.

This is important. This isn’t referring to vaccinated adults, but adults with at least one shot. Only 60% of those adults are fully vaccinated [1], and the official messaging is that you need to wait two weeks after your second shot to be protected.

Let’s assume that 50% of adults with at least one shot are two weeks after their second shot. Let’s also assume that all 29% are in that group.

With that context, these results look more reasonable. It’s still surprising that only 58% of protected adults believe that they are protected, but they’ve weakened their argument significantly by misreporting the data.

[1] Source: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations