Your partisan comments are so toxic. Try making your point without spewing that Facebook garbage around here.
Most/all western countries have higher vax rate than the US (and survey says that vaccine usage is lower among republicans in the US), why is that?
You really think it’s due to lack of discussion on natural immunity?
The problem isn't a lack of understanding or research for new vaccines, the problem is anti-intellectualism running rampant.
That is one view, and I have heard the opposite (switch the words right with liberal in this statement).
Unfortunately the truth is lost in the medium of dialog, e.g. see the recent surveys showing how those that watch the media most are also the most misinformed about the risk of covid hospitalizations (>50%??).
Look at countries where pandemic is not political.
>Pelosi, a Democrat who represents the heavily Chinese American city, visited the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory, whose owner Kevin Chan, says his business and others are down 70% since the outbreak of the new coronavirus.
>"You should come to Chinatown," Pelosi said before stopping to lunch at Dim Sum Corner.
>"Precautions have been taken by our city, we know that there's concern about tourism, traveling all throughout the world, but we think it's very safe to be in Chinatown and hope that others will come," she said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAEfSHeH4Lc
Not just the previous administration.
This is what is tiring about threads like this, you have partisans on both sides all going "Not me and my side, it was all the other guys."
You're trying to smear somebody that they are making it political while they are actually trying to unpoliticize it.
This was before emrgency was declared. And only 8 people were confirmed in California. Check the timeline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pande...
The Washington Post reported that six other countries had restricted travel from China before January 30, six did so on January 31, and by the time U.S. travel restrictions became effective on February 2, 38 other countries had taken action before or at the same time as the U.S. restrictions.
In what universe does telling people to get out and gather in groups make sense when there is a pandemic looming.
Looking at the timeline: "The first case of community transmission, because it had no known origin, is confirmed in Solano County, California, on February 26."
So the day after the call to gather, you have confirmed community spread.
Wasn't there a community-spread case in Seattle a little earlier than that?