Despite the country hitting record numbers of daily vaccinations against COVID-19, recent polling has shown higher vaccine hesitancy among Republicans, prompting growing concerns among GOP governors amid the White House decrying the partisan divide over vaccinations to combat the pandemic.
Hogan says there are people on the left telling people not to get the vaccine? Iād really like to see who is doing thatā¦there is a lefty anti-vax movement, but itās tiny and not party officials and highly visible like those on the right. Total false equivalence there, and shame on him for trying to blame the left for what is obviously a right wing issue.
Getting everyone vaccinated is a high priority, but itās very likely we will end up with pockets of people who refuse to be vaccinated, and who will then get COVIDā¦and I have no doubt they will blame Biden for the resulting sickness and death. Hopefully the rest of America doesnāt fall for such nonsense, the right wingers insisting that they wonāt take the vaccine are the same ones that cry that actions have consequences.
We donāt get back to normal until a giant percentage of Americans are vaccinated. If we had Republican governors who would keep the mask mandate going a few more weeks and spent time teaching people just how important getting vaccinated is we might be able to whip Covid sooner.
Time to make sure that Dem. voters understand the need to get vaccinated so we can get the country up and running again. Aside from that, let Darwin do his thing while the covid-hoaxers deny themselves into oblivion.
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If only they could trace this back to the causeā¦
That would certainly T**** the problem.
Thatās a natural reaction and I feel it myself sometimes, but the reality is that it harms everyone both Red and Blue, when someone canāt get prompt treatment for a heart attack or serious car accident because the hospital ICUās are jammed with Covid patients. I donāt want to bleed out in the ER waiting, while some gasping anti-vaxxer fool is wheeled in ahead of me.
After the hospitalization rate is low enough that this never happens, Iām fine with anti-vax idiots dying off.
What are the ācommentatorsā at Fox News saying now about the vaccine? Thatās where all good Trumpers get their ānews,ā and over-simplifications, and told what to think. Will Hannity, Carlson, Ingraham, and Pirro come out for the vaccine? That would help.
There are many downsides to this. The most cynical one I can think of is this:
Darwin is unlikely to have a say here. Covid-19 does not kill everybody that gets it and it does not keep the rest from procreating.
āHogan stopped short of pinning full blame on Trump by arguing that there are āa lot of disinformation campaigns out there from the right and the leftā working to dissuade the public from getting vaccinated.ā
Seriously?
Not even 100 days into the new administration, and the Never-Trumpers are already starting to pivot?
I hope everyone who enjoyed our temporary āalliance of convenienceā with Come-to-Jesus-Moment Republicans (Hogan, Kristol, TLP, et al.) remember that tale of āThe Scorpion and the Frogā.
Fine. Let them flaunt their ālibertyā on a ventilator. Freedumb!
Nitpicker! 
But youāre right about Darwin. Trump is the perfect example. Got the virus and shrugged it off (how the hell did that happen?). And even if it had killed him, he already reproduced. Maybe if the mythical bone spurs hadnāt kept him out of 'Nam, there would have been a chance.
You are correct, of course. But at the end of the day, you canāt force the moran to take a vaccine any more that you can make a horse drink water. Itās time for Dems. to get vaccines to all who want them, limit the ability of deniers to interact in society to infect others (restrict interstate travel, require vaccines for drivers licenses and cut highway funding for states that donāt comply, require vaccines for a child to enter public school, etc.), and keep it moving.
This refusal to get vaxxed in irrational, based on rumor, old wivesā tales and just plain stupidity.
That, having been said, my niece, daughter and son had a nasty reaction to the 2nd Moderna shot. They were sick for about 24 hrs. All regard it as a small price to pay. Iāve had a zillion shots in my life, never had a reaction. This 2nd shot might be my first.
47% of 46.8% is 22% and all Trumpsters. Iām trying to find a down side. The rabid Trumpster percentage usually runs 28 or 29%. This suggests that 6 or 7% of these knobs are willing to get vaccinated. Take the win and move on.
Despite the country hitting record numbers of daily vaccinations against COVID-19, recent polling has shown higher vaccine hesitancy among Republicans
Republicans, always the idiot if not the asshole, and often simply both.
I am hearing something about vaccine passports, but I can also imagine that someone has already figured out a way to fake them, like driverās licenses.
My little sister is refusing on the grounds that vaccines cause autism. Sheās 58 years oldā¦
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I wish him much luck and hope the lawsuit succeeds:
Hogan is my governor and he has been mostly reasonable but he wants to run for Prez in 2024 (not a chance buddy) so heās going to start licking the rump of the right.