In a poll out today 43% of Republicans

[samplegirl]

say they will not get a vaccine shot if they can avoid it.
It’s infuriating to be aware of Republican leaders who have secretly gotten the vaccine but lie to their constituents or downplay it, so they don't lose their base.

[Mopar151]

1. Freeloaders! nt

[Orrex]

2. They should be barred from entering any public space

Courthouses, schools, DMVs, etc.

[vercetti2021]

3. Then die

Fuck them, screw them. I'm over their bullshit

[wnylib]

18. When everyone else is vaccinated,

they will be the ones getting sick. No sympathy for them, only for the health care workers who have to deal with them.

[gulliver]

4. It's really kind of a quandary. How do you poll liars without the Cretans' paradox taking over.

You're polling a group of people for whom lying is fine. What's the scientific basis for evaluating their responses?

[RockRaven]

5. There's an easy way around this. "IF they can avoid it" All companies should be pressured to

mandate that their employees be vaccinated unless a physician says they should not be. Threaten their income and most will fold. That won't get us to 100% but it will get us high enough.

Also, most of these assholes are probably virtue signaling (in the mind of a deranged Repuke anyhow) in their answer. Their actual behavior may be quite different.

[doc03]

7. The ones I worry about are working in public service jobs like restaurants. nt

[Deminpenn]

26. Yep

and I believe most businesses will eventually mandate employees be vaccinated. Then there's travel. It won't surprise me if airlines, cruise ships, trains require passengers to be vaccinated in order to use their services.

[Ocelot II]

6. Fortunately, these days people who identify as Republicans

are down to about only 25% of total voters. Still, 43% of 25% is too many morons.

[teach1st]

8. Two family members who have been full-on anti-Fauci, anti-vax

surprised me by getting the vaccine last week. They are stone-cold Republicans and I'll bet, when asked by a poll, they would have said they weren't going to get the vaccine.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

14. Well, if they have already gotten

They won’t be lying that they “weren’t going to” get it.

[unblock]

9. Republicans are pro-covid. There's really no other way to describe their views.

At virtually every step, they've sided with the virus at the expense of humans.

They object to people even voluntarily wearing masks, I mean how can you explain that if they've not trying to help the disease along.

[Gaugamela]

11. "God works in mysterious ways."

Or so I hear.

[empedocles]

27. God thinning that herd a bit?

[SergeStorms]

12. I live in western New York...

and we're the hottest COVID spot in the entire state right now. The reason? Western New York, with a few exceptions, is the "red" part of the state. So many right-wing nuts here refuse to be vaccinated we'll never stamp out the virus here. It's truly sickening. They see it as a political stand and, of course, an attack on their masculinity. What a bunch of obstinate morons.

[roamer65]

13. Just like bright red areas of MI.

The virus is running rampant among them. Truly Darwinian.

[liberal_mama]

15. I live in Western New York too. Our Covid numbers are horrifying!

[wnylib]

20. What part of western NY?

I am near Buffalo. Rates in my community (small city in rural area outside of Buffalo) are climbing like they did around the winter holidays. I think it's a combination of anti maskers and the more contagious UK strain which is all over NY now.

[liberal_mama]

37. I am in a suburban town outside of Buffalo (Cheektowaga)

Lots of people not being careful, I suppose. I can't believe rates are this high again.

[samplegirl]

17. I'm in Ohio

and some hot spots here as well. What’s bad is how many people I see not wearing a mask at all now and walking right into the stores.

[wnylib]

19. NYC and region are higher, due to population size,

followed by western NY.

[SergeStorms]

30. Percentage of population-wise....

western NY has the top percentage, and Gov. Cuomo was quite concerned about it last week. I'm just so sick of these assholes not wearing a mask, wearing it so it doesn't cover their nose, and just making a public health hazard out of themselves. Employees in the stores don't say a word to them. This pandemic will never end with these selfish turds running around.

[wnylib]

31. Sometimes the employees themselves

are the problem. I have asked a few employees to cover their noses while I'm at their register. I have stopped going to the 7/11 near me because ALL of the employees except one leave their noses hanging out of their useless masks. Their customers buy slices of pizza and drinks in a cup and browse through the store eating and drinking with their masks around their necks. The whole store is a covid petri dish.

Whenever I go out, I am double-masked and wear gloves. I have a sanitation ritual that I go through when I get home. I still need eye protection beyond my glasses. I have some goggles, but have not worn them in public. I would rather have less conspicuos safety glasses with side and top shields.

I've had both Moderna shots. My two weeks post shots will be up this Friday. But vaccinations are not 100% effective and I don't feel safe with cases rising all around this area.

[SergeStorms]

32. Sickening (literally)...

isn't it? I've seen the same thing myself. We're never going to get rid of this virus with idiots like this acting like it's business as usual. The human race is doomed, and stupidity will be the cause.

[wnylib]

33. In one store, the register clerk insisted

that covid is no worse than the flu. I asked what made her so sure of that. She said her doctor told her. I said I doubted that. She switched to saying that she knew because she had it twice. I asked if she was tested both times and she said yes. Then she said she was a nurse. I asked why she was working in a retail store. She said it was part time after retiring. She appeared to be around 35, but might have been older.

I said she had changed her story too many times to be credible. She just gave me a smug grin.

I thought of a better answer later, of course. When she said it was like the flu, I wish I had said, "Yeah, the 1918 Spanish flu."

[SergeStorms]

35. She must be...

rehearsing for a job at Mar-ma-lardo, waiting on her lord and savior, Tangerine Idi Amin. Trump supporters really are the cream of the crap, aren't they?

[wnylib]

38. That incident happened a month ago.

I was in the same store this week. She did not seem to recognize me, but had pulled her mask up for the customer ahead of me. When she finished with my purchases, she said, "Have a nice day." i said, "You too, Nurse Ratchet."

[SergeStorms]

39. You're bad, wnylib!

And I mean that in a GOOD way.

[wnylib]

40. Thanks for the compliment.

I enjoyed doing it.

[Johonny]

34. My family lives in upstate New York

They said the positive in that was they were vaccinated in February-March. No lines. No fuss.

[SergeStorms]

36. One State run vaccination center...

is at SUNY Potsdam. Every other State run center is booked solid, but SUNY Potsdam always has openings. I originally made an appointment there when I couldn't find one closer to me. It would have meant a 300 mile drive, each way, and that was a month in the future. Luckily I found something else before that appointment came due, so I canceled it. The population is rather sparse in "The North Country", and they're mostly republigoons anyway.
Good for your Mum and Dad though!

[BigmanPigman]

21. Too bad they have made it seem "unAmerican" to get one.

I wish the store and restaurant owners, hospital workers, public transportation, etc. would refuse to admit them without proof of a vaccination.

When prisoners were released from German concentration camps they got special identification saying they were sprayed with DDT for their health and everybody else's health. It wasn't a political statement.

[speaknow]

22. There is never a poll taken of Repubs feel

about Race and racism. That POS that was in the WH
and his Family never mingle with lets say everyday
Repubs neither would most of the Repub Congress.
And the ones in Congress never vote for things that
would really help people so why do they vote for
them, what do they have in common simple answer
is Hate, yep they Hate the same things, and one for
sure is race.

[Stallion]

23. Counter Point: 80.7% of Americans Over 65 Have Been Vaccinated

[mnmoderatedem]

24. they bitch the loudest about shutdowns

yet refuse the vaccine.

You can't fix stupid.

[Scrivener7]

25. 43% of 25% is 10.75% of the population. We can still get to herd immunity, and let Darwin

take care of those idiots.

[hauckeye]

28. Sounds like my right wing sister and her husband

They cancelled a cruise around Hawaii this fall because the cruise line required a vaccine (rolls eyes)

[anamnua]

29. Darwinianism strikes again.NT

[Tree Lady]

41. My daughter was proud she got all the girls

Who work for her in office to get vaccinated but one, told me today the one hold out got it because of traveling to Hawaii they are requiring vaccine cards not to have to quarantine on the island.

So that is working and I wish more places would require it.