The MAGGATS had an identity crisis when Donald criticized Biden for pausing JNJ vaccines over safety concerns
But Donald says they are "Trumpcines" -- there is no such thing as a COVID vaccine in the U.S. because Trumpy says he is personally responsible for their creation -- therefore ALL the COVID shots are Trumpcines. The MAGA supporters must be losing their minds over this.
Of course the federal government has been working to reach out to Trumpers via typical shows many of them watch. One of them is Deadliest Catch. Now a Deadliest Catch star is telling the story of his own COVID hospitalization and urging everyone to get vaccinated. 'Deadliest Catch' Captain Hospitalized With COVID-19 https://popculture.com/reality-tv/news/deadliest-catch-captain-hospitalized-with-covid-19/ Deadliest Catch Captain Keith Colburn has been hospitalized with COVID-19. Colborn announced in a video posted from his hospital room that he'd had the virus for at least 20 days. He maintains he went 10 days without needing any medication while he self-quarantined, but he still wound up needing to seek medical attention. While the virus has worked its way out of Colburn's system, he claims he's still dealing with its after-effects. He's now battling a case of pneumonia as a result of his coronavirus diagnosis that's left him in the hospital for the last eight days. Captain Colburn went on to encourage his followers to get the vaccine if they're able, saying a shot is better than living with the virus for 20 days, being in the hospital, or potentially not being able to breathe. He tells some of his followers who don't believe in the virus, "Covid is real," in his caption. "I’m sharing my story in the hopes that it may help you take actions to steer clear of this virus," he added. There are also many people within the Deadliest Catch fanbase that remain hesitant to take the coronavirus vaccine. He's received a great amount of support from his fans since his hospitalization. Many of whom sent along well wishes or shared their personal anecdotes underneath his original post. Some mentioned losing family members due to the pandemic, others announced that they’re also in the hospital with COVID and deeply regretted not getting the vaccine. There were also a few fans that said they were now contemplating getting the vaccine. The Captain isn't the only Deadliest Catch cast member to catch COVID. Andy Hillstrand was another member of the ship to contract the virus, causing him to take a break from the show. Josh Harris stood in for him, at Jonathan Hillstrand's request. Viewers also saw a scare in Season 17. Nick McGlashan was sick in his bunk, leading him to take a COVID test. Luckily, his test results came back negative, but it still left a mark among the others in the crew. The scare prevented them from grabbing any crabs that day.
Franklin Graham believes Jesus would take COVID vaccine. He’s still catching grief. https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article250748454.html Evangelist Franklin Graham is still catching grief from some of his Facebook followers weeks after saying Jesus would have supported getting a COVID-19 vaccine. Based on the parable of the Good Samaritan, Graham said he concluded that Jesus would have supported getting all types of vaccines. He said nobody should have to endure what some of his staff and their family did after contracting the coronavirus. Some “spent weeks on a ventilator and months hospitalized as a result,” Graham said. “Vaccines have worked for polio, smallpox, measles, the flu and so many other deadly illnesses — why not for this virus?” Graham posted last month. “My wife and I have both had the vaccine; and at 68 years old, I want to get as many more miles out of these old bones as possible!” Some of his followers, however, are still fuming about his COVID vaccine recommendation. “You my friend Franklin Graham are leading your sheep to slaughter,” a woman posted Friday. “Satanic sell out,” another woman posted. “STOP,” said another last week. “It is NOT your job as a pastor to try and talk people into taking a vaccine that is considered experimental.” “I WILL NOT GET THE VACCINE!!!” yet another woman posted. “God knew when I was conceived when and how I was to die.” The woman said she’s twice had cancer “and I am still here. I am 77 years old. My God is good.” Others backed Graham. “God gave us a blessing and that blessing is the vaccine,” a woman posted. To anti-vaxxers, a man said somewhat angrily: “I hope you hydrate well and get plenty of rest the natural way if you get COVID and thus not clog up our hospitals.” Another woman skirted the debate, asking instead: “Why would Jesus need a vaccine? Really.” Last year, the Charlotte-based Billy Graham Evangelistic Association started a 24-hour COVID-19 prayer line. Graham, association president and CEO, said thousands of Americans called the line in days.
U.S. counties with more Trump voters are less likely to be vaccinated, data shows https://www.cbs17.com/news/national...-are-less-likely-to-be-vaccinated-data-shows/ Some counties in some U.S. states are finding they have too much COVID-19 vaccine supply with too little demand, while others don’t have enough to go around — and who these counties voted to elect president in 2020 has more to do with it than you might guess. While many factors likely contribute to vaccine availability nationwide, the New York Times recently examined survey and vaccine administration data for all U.S. counties, finding states and counties with high concentrations of people who voted to re-election former President Donald Trump in 2020 are the most likely to have adults who are vaccine hesitant. Additionally, states with bigger shares of Trump voters are less likely to have larger shares of their populations who actually did get vaccinated, regardless of hesitancy. The Times’ data review found that the rate of adult vaccinations was below 1 in 4 residents in U.S. counties where Trump beat Biden by a 50-point or higher margin. Currently the states with the lowest vaccination rates are Wyoming, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Washington State, and Virginia. Just last week, a Quinnipiac University poll found 45% of Republicans say they don’t plan on getting the COVID-19 vaccine, while 50% planned to or had. Meanwhile, a Monmouth University poll from April 14 found political affiliation was the main factor in deciding who chooses to get vaccinated. Forty-three percent of Republicans in this poll said they want to avoid getting the vaccine, while only 5% of Democrats said this. Overall, according to Monmouth, President Biden is receiving a majority of approval for his administration’s handling of the pandemic. Sixty-two percent said he has done a good job addressing the emergency, while 31% said he has done a poor job.
Fauci: Republican vaccine deniers are hurting efforts to lift Covid restrictions ‘On the one hand they want to be relieved of the restrictions. On the other hand, they don’t want to get vaccinated’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...fauci-republican-vaccine-deniers-restrictions Republicans who refuse the Covid-19 vaccination are actively “working against” efforts to lift the very coronavirus restrictions they insist are an infringement of their civil liberties, Dr Anthony Fauci, the US government’s leading infectious disease expert, said on Sunday. Fauci’s comments came as the government announced that half of all adults in the US had received at least one Covid-19 shot, marking another milestone in the nation’s largest-ever vaccination campaign. Almost 130 million people 18 or older have received at least one dose of a vaccine, or 50.4% of the total adult population, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported. Almost 84 million adults, or about 32.5% of the population, have been fully vaccinated. But Fauci, who was involved in a fiery exchange over the issue with the Republican congressman Jim Jordan on Thursday, told CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday he was frustrated by recent studies showing that up to 45% of Republicans would not take the vaccine. “The fact that one may not want to get vaccinated, in this case a disturbingly large proportion of Republicans, only actually works against where they want to be,” he said. “They want to be able to say these restrictions that are put on by public health recommendations are things that they’re very concerned about. But the way you get rid of those restrictions is to get as many people vaccinated as quickly and as efficiently as possible. “When that happens for absolutely certain you’re going to see the level of virus in the community go down and down and down to the point where you would not have to have those public health restrictions.” Fauci said the attitude displayed by the Republican vaccine deniers was “paradoxical”. “On the one hand they want to be relieved of the restrictions. On the other hand, they don’t want to get vaccinated, it just almost doesn’t make any sense,” he said. “This is a public health issue, it’s not a civil liberties issue.” Fauci clashed with Jordan, a congressman from Ohio, when the US’s top health officials testified before Congress on Thursday and Jordan asked Fauci when Americans “get their liberty and freedoms back”. “We’re not talking about liberties. We’re talking about a pandemic that has killed 560,000 Americans,” Fauci told the congressman. About one in four members of the House of Representatives had not been vaccinated by March, three months after shots were being made available. A list of those who are not vaccinated is not publicly available, but several Republican members of Congress have admitted they do not plan to get the jab. Fauci’s comments come amid a resurgence of Covid-19 across the US, with an 8% rise in new cases in the last two weeks even as the number of those vaccinated continues to grow. Fauci said the single shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine, the use of which was suspended in the US last week after reports of extremely rare and severe blood clots in six women, could be reinstated as early as Friday at a meeting of the CDC’s advisory committee on immunization practices (ACIP). “I doubt very seriously they’ll just cancel it,” he said in a later appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press. “I do think that there will likely be some sort of warning or restriction or risk assessment. I don’t think [the advisory committee] is going to say, ‘everything’s fine,’ I think it’ll likely say, ‘OK, we’re going to use it, but be careful under these certain circumstances’.” He said that although the incidences of blood clots were rare, “you have six cases in close to seven million people,” he said, the temporary suspension of the J&J vaccine was necessary. “There’s a twofold reason for doing it, to pause and take a look in more detail about it, and to make sure that the physicians treat people appropriately,” he said. Meanwhile, the Michigan governor, Gretchen Whitmer, acknowledged on Sunday her state was at “a very serious moment” as new infections continued to rise, but she continued to resist growing pressure to reinstate restrictions she lifted in March. Michigan has become a new Covid-19 hotspot, with hospitalizations setting a new pandemic record last week and the state recording more than 2,200 cases of the B117 coronavirus variant, more than one-tenth the total for the entire US. “In the waning months I have been sued by my legislature, I have lost in a Republican controlled Supreme Court, and I don’t have all of the exact same tools,” Whitmer told MTP host Chuck Todd, who asked if she was backing away from a firmer stance. “Despite those things, we still have some of the strongest mitigation measures in the country, masked mandates, capacity limitations, working from home. We’re moving fast to get shots in arms, a million in two weeks, a million in just the last nine days. [But] I’m working with a smaller set of tools at my disposal. “We are at a very serious moment and that’s precisely why we’re going to keep following the science, imploring people to do the right things, keep our mitigations up and keep moving vaccines as quickly as we possibly can.” Globally, coronavirus deaths passed the grim milestone of three million on Saturday. Jeremy Farrar, director of the UK’s Wellcome Trust, warned that the true number of deaths was probably much higher. “Worryingly, this pandemic is still growing at an alarming rate. Hundreds of thousands are dying every month,” he said. The US leads the world in Covid-19 deaths with 566,937 deaths and almost 32m cases, more than twice as many as any other country according to the Johns Hopkins university of medicine on Sunday.
The cases and death rate are being properly provided, just like they are in every other state. If there is a particular stat you are referring to, please clarify it and show that all other states provide this data. If they do, and Florida does not, you have a case. If they don't, or you can't/won't show this, then you all you have is your usual shrieking.
No one is hurting efforts to life COVID restrictions in states like Florida. We're all living life normally (and have been for some time).
The data is not being properly in Florida. This is well documented. For instance DeSantis is not providing state data on COVID variants. DeSantis stated publicly he would not provided the federal Coronavirus Task Force reports -- and news outlets had to sue in order to get them.