MI Governor was on CNN last night. He said he highly encourages masks and recommends them but lifting the mandate to wear them.... ok..... little contradictory but let's say he wants to pander to his base and not make it mandatory but still thinks it is important to do. He said it is time to get the economy back.....masks don't stop people from shopping or going out. Just double talk. He kept linking masks and getting the economy going.....stop the bullshit. He then wanted to say that the numbers are coming down evne though only 9% of his state is vaccinated and the question was, why not wait one more month like Alabama next door? His answer was basically that since the numbers are going down, it is the right time to do away with masks and social distancing.....He cited medical data on cases but then said he is not going to listen to medical data on CDC guidelines. Bottom line......we have doctors, politicians and health officials spread out on both sides of the issue with never any consensus and 100% hypocrisy and we wonder why we are still fighting this 1 year later half assed.
antivaxxing has historically been a lefty, trehugging, anti-GMO, hippy shit, which the French strike me of being in love with. Of course, cultists will cult so Donnie just made a ton of right wing converts
Following their leader has converted anti-vaxxer into a right-wing thing in the U.S... Nearly a third of all Republicans say they ‘definitely won’t’ get vaccinated, citing Trump’s Covid falsities ‘I think the president set the tone early on by downplaying the coronavirus or comparing it to the flu’ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ine-trump-republicans-polls-gop-b1814060.html
I should've said contemporaneously. Historically, conservative, religious zealots led the charge against vaccines
Europe has had more problems with the anti-vaxer movement for a longer period of time than the U.S. This problem in the EU is once again apparent in the COVID vaccine administration. Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Is Worse In E.U. Than U.S. https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshua...tancy-is-worse-in-eu-than-us/?sh=6eaad8a6611f Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, the U.S. has been somewhat of an outlier. With merely 4% of the world’s population, the U.S. accounts for more than 20% of globally reported deaths and nearly 25% of confirmed cases. But in the vaccination race the U.S. is proving to be a formidable competitor, having administered 30% of the world’s vaccine doses; approximately 26.3 doses per 100 people. Among Western industrialized nations only the U.K. has a better vaccination rate. Of those in the U.S. in the 65 and above age group, 59% have received at least one dose, and 69% of those over 75 have gotten at least one dose. This is not to say that there aren’t issues with the vaccine rollout in the U.S. It’s been bumpy and uneven, with some states performing well and others lagging. Inequitable distribution across socioeconomic strata continues to be problematic. Moreover, the U.S. contends with an outspoken anti-vaccine movement. But getting shots into the arms of European Union (E.U.) residents has proven to be much trickier. The U.S. is vaccinating at a faster pace than any member of the E.U., and three times the E.U. average. Some of this can be attributed to better supply in the U.S. By contrast, Europe has faced unexpected manufacturing delays as well as a failure to procure sufficient inventory. Thus far, most of the focus on explaining differences in vaccination rates has been on the supply side. So, for example, last summer the U.S. and the U.K. bought tens of millions of doses of several vaccine candidates prior to their emergency use authorization. The U.S. and U.K. didn’t know which vaccines would make it through the emergency use authorization process. But, both nations wanted to be sure they secured a supply so that once their respective regulatory agencies gave the go-ahead the initial batches would be immediately available. On the other hand, the E.U. took a much more risk-averse, wait-and-see approach, which meant that when the European Medicines Agency granted emergency use authorization there was little or no supply available at launch. The U.S. and U.K. gamble paid off, while E.U. dithering did not. Yet supply is not the only factor impacting vaccination uptake. On the demand side, most of Europe is flailing while the U.S. is succeeding on the whole. According to a recent Pew survey, nearly 70% of the U.S. public intends to get a Covid-19 vaccine or has already been vaccinated. This represents an impressive 10% jump in vaccine receptiveness in less than three months. Furthermore, a whopping 83% of registered Democrats are inclined to get vaccinated or have already received a coronavirus vaccine. Even among registered Republicans the numbers are improving, with a solid majority (56%) now saying they’re willing to get vaccinated or have already obtained a coronavirus vaccine. Independents fall somewhere between the Democrats and Republicans in terms of their vaccine receptiveness. Notably, the difference in vaccine receptiveness between black and white Americans has diminished since November. Sixty-one percent of black Americans now say they plan to get a Covid-19 vaccine or have already received one, up dramatically from 42% in November.
CDC Launches Ad Campaign Featuring Racist Mascot In Effort To Get More Conservatives Vaccinated https://www.theonion.com/cdc-launches-ad-campaign-featuring-racist-mascot-in-eff-1846439799 ATLANTA—Targeting the series of PSAs towards communities that were skeptical of inoculation, the Centers For Disease Control launched a new ad campaign Tuesday featuring a racially offensive animated mascot in an effort to get more conservatives vaccinated. “We’re hopeful that associating the vaccine with this outmoded and reprehensible caricature will help give right-wing Americans some comfort and familiarity and increase their likelihood of signing up,” said Director Rochelle Walensky, confirming that the mascot, whose design was based largely on World War II propaganda imagery, would speak in an offensively broad accent to continuously spout racial catchphrases completely unacceptable to modern sensibilities. “Our goal is to provoke a massive public pressure campaign which forces us to remove this hateful mascot, leading conservatives to locate as many vaccines as possible lest the country lose an important part of its heritage to cancel culture and the woke mob.” Walensky added that the CDC also hoped to discourage travel amongst conservatives by claiming without evidence that Delta Airlines gives discounted rates to Planned Parenthood members. (Yes folks... it's satire.)