Quote from: LesPalenik on Today at 11:58:57 am
Right! Who are the these people?
After a lot of research, I found that a good portion of the antivaxxers are Republicans.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/04/republicans-anti-vaccine-herd-immunity
Lets not gloss over the anti-vax rhetoric by the Democrats in the past few months. In October, Biden, Harris, Cuomo and many other Dems insisted that we should not trust the vaccine because it came out during the Trump administration. Then, to make matters worse, they insisted in bringing up the Tuskegee experiments, which I am sure an overwhelming majority of blacks were not even thinking about. Now yes, these were campaign plays, but it did have an effect on voters overall and even legitimized anti-vaxxers on the left, such as
Farrakhan Warns Black People Against COVID-19 Vaccine And ‘Their Medications.’ BTW, Farrakhan has yet to be suspended for his anti-vax remarks in Twitter/Facebook and has not had any of those post removed either.
You then had Biden and many Dems insisting on keeping people masked after getting the vaccine even though there is no science to support this notion, and some are continuing to do so like Pelosi. This does nothing to encourage people to get the vaccine, which has been shown in polling. Roughly 15% of republicans when surveyed last month said they would have likely gotten the vaccine if they would get back to normal. That is in addition to the 20% who said they would never get the vaccine.
Last, the hold put on the J&J vaccine, after only 6 of millions had blood clots, substantially increased hesitancy. If you look at the graph of daily doses, it drops like a rock the day after the FDA pulled the vaccine, showing a direct correlation between the two.
This is not a republican issue or a Trump issue, but a total blunder in the messaging from the Biden administration. And the idea we should all just share our medical procedures onliine is absurd.
And finally, surveys have also shown, repeatably, that republicans know the true risks of C-19 much more then Dems, with Dems being very likely to overestimate the risk of death and hospitalization. Point being, Republicans are more informed about C-19 and the risks and the fact that only certain age groups and people with certain health factors need to worry about C-19. If you are not part of that age group, C-19 does not pose a serious enough risk to worry about and therefore the need to get vaccinated is not as warranted without some kind of incentive, such as your employer requiring you to be vaccinated.
So the fact that so many Republicans dont see the need to get vaccinated as compared to Democrats is almost certainly due to Republicans being, overall, more informed and Democrats being more hysterical.