So now we have a second vaccine, 95% effective. MAGAT's no doubt will decline to get vaccinated.

[Augiedog]

Cause it’s all a hoax.

So by the time the next election rolls around there will be FAR fewer republicans available to vote. Nothing like killing yer base to advance yer cause. What kind of advanced thinking goes on out in MAGAT land.

They’re going to show us who’s boss. Not gonna git one o’ dem democrat needles stuck in dem by golly. If da vibrus comes near dem, da’ gonna whip out der automatic howitzer and blow dat ting off da’ face o’ de’ earth.

[still_one]

1. Then they will get a lesson in natural selection

[lagomorph777]

9. Culling the herd...

...is one way to achieve herd immunity.

[mitch96]

16. +1

[flibbitygiblets]

2. More for us.

Somehow I fear they’ll be first in line to get the vaccine though. Many of them anyway.

[Cbus Girl]

3. Right

Pushing the elderly, healthcare and frontline workers out of the way.

[angrychair]

4. In fairness

Moderna seems to have a connection to trump and his program and I absolutely will never take anything to do with trump and his administration. Do not trust them or anything they produce.

[Backseat Driver]

7. Isn't this company's vaccine the one the US bought 1.5B doses, "safety and effectiveness unknown"?

intending to share those doses with the world at large? I too smell something odd with their claim of 95% so fast on the heels and just a hair above the Pfizer claim of 90% (cold-storage issues at distribution points nothwithstanding) all good to go! Either way, I suspect ALL competitors will get immunity from American-style prosecution...

That said, I got the flu shot this year! (DH is "essential&quot .

[MerryBlooms]

5. When a magat tells you they're not taking the vaccine until the second round,

point out to them they voted for trump, but don't trust the vaccine? They get a blank look on their face and then come up with even more lame excuses. Just smile and shake your head. A lot of them will admit they're anti vaxxers and they're kids aren't vaccinated- natural selection stuff... It gets weird from there.

[roamer65]

6. I will probably take the Moderna one.

[samnsara]

8. yup yup yup dag bern demo-rats!

[helpisontheway]

10. I'm at high risk but I'm not getting the vaccine

right away. I want to see what kind of side effects others have first.

[octoberlib]

11. It won't just be MAGAts

#RobertKennedyJr

[bottomofthehill]

13. Let the Trumpets take the Moderna one

And anyone else who wants to and others take the Pfizer one. The goal here is to reach heard immunity as quickly as possible through the distribution. If the trump people only want to take the trump vaccine, so be it.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

14. Why do I feel such skepticism at the claim of 95% effectiveness?

And don't place your hopes in significant numbers of Republicans dying simply because of refusing a vaccine. The death rate from this still isn't all that high.

[Aristus]

15. Anyone who declines gets thrown out of my clinic.

I can't understand the mindset of people who walk in to a medical clinic, ostensibly for medical advice, only to reject that medical advice.

I have smokers all the time tell me they don't want to quit smoking, but they don't tell me that the health hazards of smoking are a hoax...