Missouri & Spain comparison of vaccination rates & death tolls:

[tblue37]

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Hi from Spain, home to almost 50 million people. Over the past week, Spain has averaged about the same COVID death toll as Missouri., home to 6.1 million people. The difference is vaccinations.

David Frum
@davidfrum
Missouri is 48% fully vaccinated; Spain above 80%. Which is why Spaniards are living in safety, and Missourians are dying unnecessarily and preventably

[tblue37]

1. BTW, Spaniards also wear masks.

[Mickju]

2. Every time I read something like this I become enraged.

[rustysgurl]

3. My mind snapped to religious differences and beliefs

Spain is approximately 58% Roman Catholic; Missouri is approximately 77% Christian-based faith. The bully pulpit is alive and well (especially in rural MO). Pastors are preaching that receiving the vaccine is akin to getting "the mark of the beast." People I've spoken with will come right out and say that getting the vaccine would be a "lapse of faith" and that they are "relying on the Good Lord to cover them" and protect them from COVID-19. A high school classmate, who is the wife of a preacher near Springfield, was very proud and considered it an "answer to prayer" when a letter they wrote for a friend "saved" them from having to get the vaccine or lose their job. So churches are actively assisting their parishioners in avoiding the vaccine on religious grounds to the point of writing letters and/or speaking with their employers.

That may be happening in Spain, but I kinda doubt it.

[maxsolomon]

7. 58%?

what are the rest of Spaniards? "Non-religious"? I thought it was a 99.99% RCC country.

[rustysgurl]

8. Here's where I got my info

According to the Spanish Center for Sociological Research, 57.4% of Spanish citizens self-identify as Catholics, (39% define themselves as not practising, while 18.4% as practising), 2.5% as followers of other faiths (including Islam, Protestant Christianity, Buddhism etc.), and 38.9% identify as atheists (14.6%), agnostics (12.9%) or non-believers (11.4%) as of September 2021.

[Ford_Prefect]

4. American exceptionalism in its finest hour.

The same sort of racist arrogance that doomed the English aristocracy.

[johnthewoodworker]

5. I bet some dip shit Republican/Nazi's are really showing up 'libtards'.

[LudwigPastorius]

6. Freedumb!

The maskless MAGAts who live in Missouri should really adopt their own version of New Hampshire's state motto.

"Live Free and Die"