The 20 states that met the COVID-19 goal of at least 70% vaccinated by July 4

[hlthe2b]

I just wanted to share the map because the visual really drives the point home for the impact that politics has had within our states. Granted, I'd like to express a bit of pride for my own state of Colorado and our southern neighbor, New Mexico. It wasn't that many years ago that both states would have followed the path of all those red locales.



Still, we have such a LONG way to go in ALL of the states, Red state politics aside. Can we do it?

[question everything]

1. Would have been nice to have Michigan and Wisconsin

[Kaleva]

5. Michigan is at 61.9%

https://www.michigan.gov/coronavirus/0,9753,7-406-98178_103214_103272-547150--,00.html

[WHITT]

2. So Sick

of the MSM repeatedly reporting that Biden FAILED to get to 70%. It's been a while, but when you used to do 97% on a test in school, only coming up 3% short, I believe THAT WAS STILL AN 'A'.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. Visual impact indeed. Thanks for providing such a graphic picture of the coming chaos that will...

ensue, as a result of policies undertaken by gop states (or the lack of policies)...I find it especially ironic that these same gop governors are now pushing for more of their citizens to get vaccinated.

[dsc]

4. Basically

It is the Hillary states minus Nevada and with Pennsylvania added

[struggle4progress]

6. As Biden met his earlier goals, he set more ambitious new ones

In late March, Biden updated his 100 million vaccination doses in 100 days to 200 million vaccination doses. He hit that target

The 70% by 4 July goal was set at the beginning of May

That was the right thing to do, and I won't fault him for it

Meanwhile, rightwing whackjobs (to Putin's delight) keep pushing vaccination-as-Nazi-yellow-star and try-our-malaria-and-wormpill-cure, while variants surge

[Moostache]

7. It's time to unleash the evils of private pay insurance on those Red States...

First cut all federal aid beyond compassionate use allowances in states failing to meet a 50% vaccination threshold.

Second, allow insurers to no longer cover anyone refusing to vaccinate. Those are your biggest "free market solutions" people, your "makers not takers" crowd (at least in their addled little brains...in reality they are resource drag on the rest of the nation and have been for 150+ years)...at least that's what they WERE...now, they are just over-run with lunatics and fools and attention seeking asshats as representatives.

Bottom line is this - you are going to roll the dice either way (vaccinated or not), but on one side you have almost no one dying, very few side effects and infinitesimal risks plus a way to end the pandemic and return EVERYONE to a new normal life; and on the other side, you have a 2-3% chance of dying and a much higher chance of debilitating illness or costly absences from work or business.

Have private pay health insurance companies get a waiver to allow denial of coverage to unvaccinated policy holders, classified as adverse health behavior and either raise policy premiums like a 65-year old smoker trying to buy $1,000,000 life insurance policy or flat out deny coverage as that Republican favorite "pre-existing condition" (in this case that condition is terminal stupidity).

You'll get 100% vaccination in about 3 weeks...


*Yes, OF COURSE I know that is an over-simplification...I am just sick to death of science denying Confederate States and their idiotic population medians. And what the hell is wrong with Nevada, Michigan and Wisconsin these days? They used to be reliably sane areas with pockets of insanity...seems like 'teh crazee' got out of the cage and into the water supplies now...

Sure, there are always SOME good people stuck in these hell-holes (I don't lay claim to 'good' status, but I do reside in Red State hell here in the St. Louis area of East Kansas)...but I believe society and the nation would be far better off if the herd were culled significantly by their own lemming-like adherence to their political marching orders....Right that way morons...the cliff awaits you all with a special lesson in the theory of gravity.

[WA-03 Democrat]

8. This is a job for the free market!

They will clean it all up in a jiffy!

Boot straps and all that shit!

[DFW]

9. None of the states where we live were even at 60% recently

Our state of NRW wasn't at 60% for a first dose yet, and it's the most populous state in the country. At least there pockets of sanity in the United States, even if not enough to ensure national safety.

[roamer65]

10. Isn't that exactly like the 2016 election map?

Green look like Hillary states.