4/15/21
Vaccination rates are improving at a steady clip. As of Wednesday afternoon, almost 124 million Americans have received at least one shot and over 76 million are fully vaccinated. There have been no meaningful bad effects from either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine and only a handful of extremely rare incidents that have forced the FDA to temporarily pause the administration of Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The vaccines are safe, effective, and well-documented on social media. These are the exact conditions — basically, other people getting it first and proving it's safe — that many vaccine-hesitant Americans were telling pollsters that they wanted to see in order to convince them to get the vaccine. And yet, a new poll released Wednesday by Monmouth University shows the number of Americans — 1 in 5 — who refuse to get vaccinated has barely dropped from where it was in polls conducted in January and March. The only thing that's really changed is the excuse people are offering for why. In the past, 21% of Americans gave the "let others do it first" answer. Now only 12% of people are even bothering to pretend that condition hasn't been met yet. Instead, what's becoming ever more clear is the reluctance to get vaccinated is about one thing and one thing only: Owning the libs.
The number of people who have been skittish about the vaccine has dropped as more Americans line up for the shot, but the hardcore group who want to avoid it at all costs has barely budged. The reasons for this are not mysterious. Right-wing media networks like Fox News and various personalities have gone out of their way to signal to conservatives that refusing the vaccine is a way to demonstrate tribal loyalty and, even more importantly, demonstrate contempt for liberals. The anti-vaccination sentiment is clearly building on a tendency on the American right to define "manhood" as an unwillingness to act like an adult who can handle even basic responsibilities, which is no doubt one reason why women are more likely to get vaccinated than men. Tucker Carlson, who Media Matters' Senior Fellow Matt Gertz says "has become perhaps the nation's most prominent coronavirus vaccine skeptic," has taken to portraying vaccines as a massive hoax. On Tuesday, for instance, Carlson suggested that the vaccine "doesn't work and they're simply not telling you that." Conservatives who refuse to get vaccinated are going to spread disease — indeed, that's what right-wing media is counting on. So anything that can be done to reduce the political salience of vaccination, to make it seem less "liberal" and more like regular health care, can benefit us all.
Why Republicans are rejecting the COVID vaccine
GOP wants to drag out lockdowns to hurt Biden's economywww.salon.com
You can bet your Trump flag that media personalities like Tucker Carlson have already received both shots of the COVID vaccine.
We have also learned that Trump' and Melania also got vaccinated when Trump was still president.
Meh, I think this is a case of Hanlon's razor: "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"Why Republicans are rejecting the COVID vaccine
GOP wants to drag out lockdowns to hurt Biden's economywww.salon.com
You can bet your Trump flag that media personalities like Tucker Carlson have already received both shots of the COVID vaccine.
Why Republicans are rejecting the COVID vaccine
GOP wants to drag out lockdowns to hurt Biden's economywww.salon.com
You can bet your Trump flag that media personalities like Tucker Carlson have already received both shots of the COVID vaccine.
Trump is running in 2024, so of course we don't want to give Biden any wins. Democrats didn't Trump's first term.That is exactly what I think. Stopping Covid in its tracks would be such a huge win for Biden and Republicans can't be having that! Starting with Trump, minimizing and politizing the pandemic has been their priority. They would rather see Americans die than see Biden succeed. The irony is, that in their zeal to do that, they are destroying the very win they wanted to so desperately give Trump......the vaccine.
Need a tissue?Trump is running in 2024, so of course we don't want to give Biden any wins. Democrats didn't Trump's first term.
You still need a tissue after the witch lost in 2016.Need a tissue?
I feel much better since 1.20.21.You still need a tissue after the witch lost in 2016.
Nope. You feel "better" because you were brainwashed by the media fr 4 years about Trump.I feel much better since 1.20.21.
Do you believe that President Biden won a fair election free of statistically significant voter fraud last November?
Don't presume to know me. Answer the question? Yes/NoNope. You feel "better" because you were brainwashed by the media fr 4 years about Trump.
They want to drag out lockdowns AND they want COVID to remain as a crisis which they THINK is "manageable".Why Republicans are rejecting the COVID vaccine
GOP wants to drag out lockdowns to hurt Biden's economywww.salon.com
You can bet your Trump flag that media personalities like Tucker Carlson have already received both shots of the COVID vaccine.
CT forum ↓
Also, Hateful Liberal Pro-Abortion Feminist Amanda Marcotte.
Hardly.Why not just admit that you're Pro-Virus?
We have also learned that Trump' and Melania also got vaccinated when Trump was still president.
This is a joke, right?Why Republicans are rejecting the COVID vaccine
GOP wants to drag out lockdowns to hurt Biden's economywww.salon.com
You can bet your Trump flag that media personalities like Tucker Carlson have already received both shots of the COVID vaccine.
Democrats better stop letting Biden down then, eh? Repub governors are serving up success after success.That is exactly what I think. Stopping Covid in its tracks would be such a huge win for Biden and Republicans can't be having that! Starting with Trump, minimizing and politizing the pandemic has been their priority. They would rather see Americans die than see Biden succeed. The irony is, that in their zeal to do that, they are destroying the very win they wanted to so desperately give Trump......the vaccine.
I know more about you people than I wanted to know. Sadly. Your actions are out in full display everywhere. Rioting, yelling in the sky like children. I've seen it all.Don't presume to know me. Answer the question? Yes/No
This is--with two exceptions--the most ridiculous theory I've ever read on DP in a little under two years.Why Republicans are rejecting the COVID vaccine: GOP wants to drag out lockdowns to hurt Biden
Why Republicans are rejecting the COVID vaccine
GOP wants to drag out lockdowns to hurt Biden's economywww.salon.com
You can bet your Trump flag that media personalities like Tucker Carlson have already received both shots of the COVID vaccine.
It is from Salon.com after all. And written by Amanda Marcotte. Two-for-one craziness.This is--with two exceptions--the most ridiculous theory I've ever read on DP in a little under two years.
This is "Elvis shot JFK with a magic gun" -level ridiculous.
...Anyway. Sorry. Carry on, citizens.
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