Republican men are a central part of coronavirus vaccine resistance

[LetMyPeopleVote]

I love the response of the Hoarse Whisperer

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The group most dependent on Fox News as a source of information is Republican men. Pew Research Center measured America’s media consumption habits last year and found that a third of Republican men cited Fox News as a major source of post-election news, with another 40 percent identifying the network as a minor source of information. That 72 percent was higher than other sources of information like CNN (37 percent), network television (62 percent, mostly as a minor source), NPR (24 percent) or conservative radio (52 percent). No other group was as likely to cite Fox News as a source.

Earlier in the day on Thursday, NPR released the results of a poll conducted by Marist College with PBS NewsHour. Among the questions included in the poll was one asking Americans if they planned to get vaccinated for the coronavirus when vaccines became available. No group was more likely to say that they wouldn’t than Republican men, about half of whom rejected the idea.

Interestingly, the percentage of Republican men rejecting the vaccine is up substantially from December, when Marist asked the same thing. Then, only about a third of Republican men said they wouldn’t get the vaccine. No other group turned so robustly against the vaccine over that period.
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It’s possible that this is a statistical anomaly. Such things happen. But this finding that Republicans are among the most fervent vaccine skeptics tracks with other polls, like one released earlier this week by Monmouth University. In that poll, 36 percent of Republicans said that they didn’t plan to get the vaccine — a lower percentage than the Marist poll but similarly larger than other groups. In both polls, for example, Republicans were more likely to express skepticism about the vaccine than non-White Americans, a group that has been a focus of concern about vaccine uptake.

This is the best possible response to these idiots

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[tanyev]

1. Okay.

[Ocelot II]

2. Most of them have probably already reproduced,

so it's too late for covid to remove them from the gene pool. But these older, obese men - the stereotypical MAGAt, whose characteristics make them especially vulnerable to the virus - might be removed from the political gene pool. Biology meets politics, and nature always bats last.

Since most people do survive, though, enough of them will still hang around to spread the virus and allow it to mutate.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. I fear that you are correct

[Geechie]

3. Quelle surprise... nt