Herd Immunity May Depend on Republican Voters

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Herd Immunity May Depend on Republican Voters

March 8, 2021 at 1:30 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 266 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/03/08/herd-immunity-may-depend-on-republican-voters/

"SNIP........

Washington Post: “While other groups have also been wary about the shots, for instance, communities of color, polling shows that hesitancy has started to wane while GOP resistance to the vaccines remains relatively high. A Kaiser Family Foundation poll released last month found that 28 percent of Republicans said they would “definitely not” get vaccinated, and another 18 percent said they would ‘wait and see’ before getting a shot.”

“As a result, millions of Republicans could remain unvaccinated, a potential roadblock to efforts to achieve the high levels of immunity needed to stop the virus in the United States — an irony that isn’t lost on Trump officials who worked to end the pandemic.”

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[applegrove]

1. Oh god. We are dependant on QANON and the Proud Boys for our health

and welfare.

[PJMcK]

2. Republicans can die for all I care

I got my vaccination. Anyone who doesn't is stupid.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Who are these "Trump officials who worked to end the pandemic??"

[applegrove]

9. I was curious too.

[Rhiannon12866]

10. The article just ends there

[Celerity]

12. Full article

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/03/07/republicans-covid-vaccine/

[applegrove]

14. Paul Mango, Operation Warp Speed, so he was several steps away from the Trump WH.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/03/07/republicans-covid-vaccine/

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“It’s a little bit confounding,” said Paul Mango, who helped lead the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed initiative that sped coronavirus vaccines to market in less than a year. “I really don’t understand it, to tell you the truth. To me, this was the most spectacular medical development in our lifetimes.”

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Some of that hesitancy is embodied by Trump himself, who spent years raising questions about vaccine safety, dismissed the value of flu shots while president, and opted not to publicly disclose or televise that he was vaccinated against the coronavirus in January, shortly before leaving the White House.

The Post spoke with more than two dozen people about Republicans’ vaccine hesitancy, including Trump voters balking at the shots, analysts who have studied vaccine concerns, health officials from the Biden administration, counties that voted for Trump and the de Beaumont Foundation, a public health group that has teamed up with longtime GOP political strategist Frank Luntz to win over vaccine skeptics.

“I’m determined to crack this code,” Luntz said, detailing his plans to bring together a focus group of Republicans this week, trying to craft messages to persuade conservatives to get the vaccine. “Their decision affects everyone.”

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[empedocles]

4. However, in the meantime, the trumpers may be reducing their own numbers?

[Have not seen anything in that direction, but it could be 'interesting'?]

[Turbineguy]

5. And we know they like the pandemic.

What's the point of having freedumb if it doesn't kill you?

[Iliyah]

6. There will be enough of them for Herd Immunity . . .

[GeorgeGist]

7. If they die ...

they're no longer part of the herd.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

8. We need a mask mandate,

A federal one. Because apparently republican voters are too stupid,selfish,psycho and defiant to wear masks. Once a bunch of antimaskers go to the federal pen, for reckless endangerment they'll quit the bullshit and wear masks .


Because not wearing one will finally effect these wastes of skin personally.
And the consequences will be tied to thier behaviors and choices.

In other words They themselves need direct consequences to do the simplest of things .

An object lesson of make bad choices get bad rewards.

[Rhiannon12866]

11. We needed one in January of 2020 when the virus first became known

That could have made all the difference.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

13. Yeah we did

But the orange asshole got in the way.
The insurrection,
Moscow mitch

We don't have those excuses now.

Especially when the filibuster bullshit ends.