> The race to vaccinate enough people is frankly impossible considering how politically charged it became. Fucking Republicans.
Please take your politically charged discourse elsewhere. This isn't the right place for mudslinging like this.
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.
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…
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://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccination-demogr...
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.
It’s just as foolish to believe CNN as Fox
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.