I have come to the conclusion that some republican governors, right wing talkers, and "Christians"..

[Botany]

... want more Americans to die and or get sick because they have done their own political calculus and
they don't want Joe or the democrats to solve the problem. The J & J "blood clot problem" is really
a non issue. Something like 6 cases in the 7 million vaccine doses given which is statistically so small
that it doesn't exist and the fact that you have a 1 in 20 chance of getting blood clots if you get the
virus should have put this "problem" to bed. They are trying to stop mask restrictions and they want to
open society back up which THEY KNOW will cause the disease to spread.

They really don't like the J & J shot because it is a one and done vaccine and a real game changer too.

BTW the country of Vietnam which is a lot closer to China then we are and has 90 million people has
something like a total of 35 deaths from C-19 and why? Because they wore masks and took simple
precautions. (I think those #s are right)

The corona virus pandemic should be a public health/medical science problem and not a political one
except if "they" want people to die.

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Human beings are livestock to the christofascists.

The economy must be maintained for the rich. A couple million dead is fine as long their stock market is chugging along and they have revenue coming in.

[ananda]

2. The GOP is a fullfledged death cult.

It has been for a while.

[Initech]

3. They have literally evolved into a death cult.

And this is definitely going to get worse before it gets better.

[Permanut]

4. Well said. KnR

[SoCalDavidS]

5. I Don't Think The Pause Was Driven By Politcs Or Political Pressure From Any One Party

Seems to me they're just being extra careful and want to investigate further.

The repubs certainly don't care whether Americans die from Covid, but I don't think this situation has anything to do with that fact.

[Botany]

6. I think the pause was and is the right thing to do but the fix seems simple ...

... No J & J shots for women between 16 and 50.

However many on the right are taking this little nugget of the blood clotting problem and are trying
to use it to hurt the J & J vaccine program and Joe and company.

[SoCalDavidS]

7. They'll Play To Their Base

Their base of Morons.

The math is quite simple. If the 7 Million were extended to the full U.S. population, that's times 50.

So 6 x 50 deaths means 300 deaths out of 350 Million citizens. Versus 600,000 deaths so far from Covid.

But we all know repubs can't read, let alone do math, so 6 out of 7 million will allow them to revert back to their ignorant views of the vaccines. You can't fix stupid.

If you're waiting for even a single repub to say 1 nice thing about President Biden, or the things he's doing, you'll be waiting for hell to freeze over.

[Botany]

11. Joe Biden being nice

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215336435

[hamsterjill]

12. I think we need to wait a little while and see if there are more issues

I agree with you.

I understand that the J&J vaccine is now paused for 7 to 10 days while more data is collected. This is prudent. There will either be a large number of cases found, or hopefully recommendations applied to gender and age going forward so that no one gets a blood clot beyond this time frame. Perhaps there will be better measures understood to treat a reaction should one occur. But caution is a good thing here.

I refuse to discount even six fellow human beings in a million. They aren’t just a small percentage; they are family members, neighbors, coworkers, etc. While there are risks to everything in life, these people got the shot believing they would be safe. Now, at least one is dead.

It’s appropriate that this be investigated.

[rampartc]

8. trump wanted the vaccine to be named "trumpzine"

put that label on the johnson & johnson labels "made in the usa" and make it available to trump fans.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

9. But that name is too close to his kids, the Trumpanzees.

[LakeArenal]

10. As Scrooge said: "Decrease the Surplus population"