As a vaccinated, boosted republican, this attitude isn't helping. Yeah, there are a bunch of idiotic republican politicians out there. But there are also a lot of idiotic democrat politicians out there who aren't making COVID policy decisions based on science and evidence, but based on their ideological side: outdoor mask mandates, travel bans, blocking people's access to their own private property, etc. So no, not fucking republicans. Fucking tribalism. It's making humans act completely irrationally.
But it’s undeniable that there are large numbers of republicans that are unvaccinated.
See the below two links
https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/poll-finding/import...
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/05/1059828...
Vaccinations move from the population in to the vaccinated bucket which has preferable externality rates and if enough people are vaccinated we might be able to even push 0.9ish fudge factor lower.
Please take your politically charged discourse elsewhere. This isn't the right place for mudslinging like this.
But sadly there do seem to be some pretty strong correlations at a county level across the US. It could also be rural/urban cultural divides but the more obvious one is simply politics.
It’s just as foolish to believe CNN as Fox
Check the actual stats. Unfortunately a lot of GOP leaning media sources including top rated Fox News opinion hosts have been spreading FUD about the vaccine for a year. People listen to their trusted news hosts and media sources…
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccination-demogr...
60 % of Republicans have received at least one dose [1], but only 51 % of blacks have done the same [2].
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/17/counties-vot...
[2] https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/latest-...
* “ 60% of Republican adults”
* “58% percent of White people had received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose, which was close to the rate for Hispanic people (56%) but higher than the rate for Black people (51%)“
The problem becomes obvious if you compare it now. How could the Republican % be higher than the white, Hispanic, or black %? Not because republicans are more likely than democrats or neutrals to get the vaccine - it’s because you’ve compared total population (including children who aren’t eligible or only became eligible in the last month or two) to adult population.
Now look at stats that actually compare like for like and you can see GOP members are much less open to vaccination than Black Americans. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/09/28/republica...
https://www.reuters.com/article/industry-us-news-idUSTRE68D0... notes that in general the average American spends about 60 minutes a day getting news from TV, radio or newspapers and only 9% report they exclusively get news online.
The major networks have a huge impact on the overall media narrative, and Fox News is the biggest.
This is why my comment was really about praising the potential of a good therapeutic. Political ideologies fade when all you can think about is survival, in contrast to preventative care which requires forethought.
While I see most of the nuttiness on the right (with regards to the pandemic and attacking public health measures), I have friends who said they’d refuse to take the vaccine because operation warp speed suggested it was rushed (and was a Trump thing). But they were first in line to get it when Biden had been president for a few months. Nothing else had changed with the vaccines.
Paxlovid might not even be easy to use. Five days might have already passed from infection to first symptoms to urgent care visit to PCR test result. And that's assuming the drug is in stock.