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No kidding. Who would think that places with low vaccination rates would have highest risk for COVID harm?
We have a solution for a deadly contagious disease and people from red areas are not taking the remedy.
Obvious correlations are not widely accepted in the shallow end of the gene pool.
“The vaccine rollout was meant to prioritize vulnerable communities, but four months of data shows healthier — and often wealthier — counties have been faster to vaccinate.”
I’d wager the above line could be as follows:
The vaccine rollout was meant to prioritize vulnerable communities, but four months of data shows less educated — and often heavily Republican— counties have been slower to vaccinate.
If you live in an area where you believe God and Trump will protect you while you allow yourself to become morbidly obese, smoke like a chimney and believe watching football on the TV while you clean your assault rifle is a form of exercise, you don’t need a government microchip injection for the Chinese flu.
Pay no attention to those sciency statistics from the Socialists at ProPublica. Trump will fix everything come July 4.
Darwin addressed this.
Sooner or later Democrats will come to realize Trump is still President.
Really . . .
Sheesh… that’s like planes with no wings are at greatest risk of crashing.
~OGD~
I hereby propose the creation of the United States Vax Force, an elite squad of tranquilizer gun assassins with full authority to vaccinate stupid people on sight.
Let’s not be too hasty.
My county has 85% of people having their first shot and 64% fully vaccinated. 6 days until I get Pfizer #2.
Though the system used to register was a clusterfuck, the drive-up vax site itself was a breeze.
Well they obviously wouldn’t be deployed to your county.
ETA: Also, 85% seems improbably high, possibly unless you’re excluding under 16’s.
Let’s just say they should be guided by the same statistics used for gerrymandering house races. 
…from black helicopters.
It’s important to note that it’s not just stupid Trump supporters who are refusing to be vaccinated. For example, Black Americans haven’t been vaccinated at the same rate…part of that is the inequality that always comes down on them, and part of it is mistrust of the government. Mistrust that is justified, after all the things the US government has done to them for generations, including medical experiments. I think a lot of that is melting away though, as more people are vaccinated without effects and the vaccine effort moves from big centers into more personal interactions that hesitancy appears to be decreasing.
The stupid Trump voters, they aren’t going to get vaccinated, even with Trump telling them to do it (as quietly as he can). They will be forced by circumstance, or get COVID and risk their lives. If we end up with 30% of Americans refusing to be vaccinated, at 0.5% of them die from COVID, that’s 500,000 Trump voters choosing their freedom, and probably helping our democracy along the way.
Except the counties they are talking about, like Baltimore City and Kansas City are NOT red, but largely minority. The vaccine is now in almost every pharmacy. The pharmacies are now asking people who come in to get their regular prescriptions if they want the Covid vaccine. There comes a point where one can only do so much.
Then I guess it’s survival of the smartest.
It’s hard to identify stupid people on sight.
Wyandotte County is a reliably Blue county. It has a high percentage of Hispanic and black voters. It also has a high percentage of poorer urban voters who tend to distrust government programs.
I love the smell of Republican self-genocide in the morning.
It’s the Asshole Rapture.