Posted on 03/14/2021 6:15:55 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Almost half of Republicans say they will not get the COVID-19 vaccine when it is available to them compared with just six percent of Democrat men, according to a new poll.
The study, released by PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll Thursday, surveyed 1,227 US adults from March 3 to March 8 about their views on taking one of the three vaccines approved by the federal government.
It uncovered stark differences in opinion depending on political beliefs with 49 percent of Republican men saying they would not be taking the shot, while just 6 percent of Democrat men said the same.
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“at least i’ll be alive.”
You’ll be alive no matter what you do. Stop sweating it.
Strangely, it seems that the more a person hates Trump the faster they want to get the vaccine. They believe Biden is responsible for a life-saving vaccine and Trump had nothing to do with it. This shows the power of our dishonest Ministry of Truth media
Until and unless, of course, major complications erupt from the vaccine.
That’s when PDJT will get 100% of the “credit.”
Amen, there is some sense in some not to be injected with yet more and the WORST biological warfare! :)
Amen to that too!!
They don’t exist, you are right.
HELL TO THE NO!!
Exactly correct. In truth Trump had everything to do with speeding up the processes for getting the vaccines permission to be used. He had nothing to do with the actual science as he is not a scientist. So he should be credited with the speed with which vaccines got to the people. He should never be blamed for the science involved but he will if needed.
The federal government, private industry, and major research labs have spent decades, and hundreds of billions of dollars trying to create vaccines for cancer, HIV, the common cold. The results — nothing.
In less than 12 months vaccines were developed for COVID alleged to be safe and 95% + effective. No long term testing of these vaccines has been conducted. The vaccines have not received FDA approval, they are being given under “emergency use” authorization. The companies involved in developing the vaccines have been given full immunity from any damages resulting from taking these vaccines. The US and state governments have prevented US citizens from receiving low cost therapeutic drugs being successfully used around the world in countries where death rates are much lower and sanitation is far below the US. Physicians and scientists who have expressed concerns about the vaccines, or have recommended using the low cost therapeutic drugs successfully employed around the world, have been harassed, condemned, fired from jobs, and silenced.
The mortality rate for a healthy person who contracts Covid is under 2% and likely far below that number since many infected display no symptoms or only mild symptoms and are not tested. The tests themselves, are suspected over reporting cases due to the 40 cycle processing.
In my extended network of friends, family and acquaintances, numbering in the thousands I am only aware of 5 people who contracted Covid. All experienced some symptoms, were checked, experienced 2-3 rough days, and none were hospitalized. None received any therapeutic treatment other than staying at home and resting in bed. All reported it was an unpleasant experience, in some cases worse than the normal flu.
I continue to question the mask mandates, primarily because we are told the “science” says to wear masks yet the “scientists” provide no studies proving the efficacy of mask wearing and the scientists have set no standards for the design and construction of masks. If masks were truly essential, and effective, wouldn’t there be minimum standards for material, design and construction of the masks? Instead, Fauci simply one day pops up and tells us two masks are better than one.
“Scientists”, medical professionals, politicians, and the media seem to have little concern about the negative health repercussions from mask wearing, the psychological damage from the stress of lockdowns and controls on movement, the suicides of people who have lost their jobs, their life savings, and all hope. There is zero effort to study and analyze the total health impact on society and individuals. Any suggestion there be a true assessment of the total picture is immediately condemned.
Once 50% of the population is vaccinated, and the remaining population declines to be part of the RNA vaccine experiment, there will be a strong movement to punish those who refuse to subject their bodies to an unproven vaccine technology. Soon the choice will be to take the vaccine or have the scarlet letter tattooed on the forehead for the “safety” of others.
Cases spiked last summer as well. Cases deceased faster than and earlier than seasonality explains.
Number of infected and people vaccinated is providing herd immunity as numbers increase.
Since vaccinations started with health care workers we have almost no cases among us on covid wards.
Take the shot or not. I’d never make it mandatory. It’s rarely fatal to children. Less than flu. So the decision is each person’s to make. Wish it had been available before I lost a 67 year old friend.
Hope your vaccine works. But please don’t force your fear on us.
I'm not trying to "force (my) fear" on anyone. I'm simply acting on my own analysis of the readily available info that's been out there for ~ a year now, and making what I believe are informed decisions based on what I've come to understand.
I do believe, however, that many on our side of the political spectrum have looked at this too skeptically - assuming that it's all overblown and/or a big hoax. Those same folks also appear, based on comments, to either not believe or not been exposed to the very real health risks that exist BEYOND "simply" fatality rates. Candidly, I'm more concerned about the potential long term health effects after "recovery" than I was about fatality rates, because for those who care to look, the stories are endless of people who have been wrecked potentially for life by this virus with severe damage to lungs, heart, brain, etc.
Everyone needs to make their own decision with regard to the vaccine..but I was simply responding to the "I don't know ANY Republican male who's taking it" post - and I'm not only male and Republican, but have been a solid conservative since I've been old enough to know what politics is..I don't view this as a "freedom" or "government control" issue. It's a health issue, plain and simple.
BTW & FWIW, roughly 50% of Republican men [and 90+% of Dems and 80+% of Indies) have said they DO plan to take the vaccine. It's sad that it's so low, but it's not like the number is near zero, either.
That was a regional rise, attributable to states that had been spared from the initial wave. Also, cases are bad metrics as they can reflect more intense testing vs viral intensity
Cases deceased faster than and earlier than seasonality explains.
Hmmm...looking at actual data the actual seasonal pattern of fatalities attributable to COVID19 is very similar to the influenza pattern I posted. Indeed, I suspect when the autumnal equinox brings back the bug, people will be perplexed when they shouldn't.
I'm not a Flubro. This IS a real, and highly contagious bug though the CFR of 0.2% if you're under 50 isn't that scary. Certainly, people who work as missionaries should get a malaria shot, so healthcare workers SHOULD be protected.
But even the Salk vaccine had operational failures early on ("Cutter incident"). My willingness is dampened, to take some jab that was fast-tracked through a bureaucracy peopled by DMV-like professionals, to avoid something that kills as often as a car accident.
Yep
Many of our group have been through airports, in large crowds indoors-basically everything we have been told not to do
That being said every one of us is on a vitamins/c/k/zinc regimen and none of us have been sick with Covid—including a number of over 60 and 70 people
I wonder what term they’ll come up with to disparage those of us who simply keep ourselves healthy
Similar options planned should they become necessary for travel
The chance of various age groups dying AFTER they catch covid (that is, IFR) is shown in the link below. For healthy younger under 60 people, the IFR is BETTER than the 99.5% I quoted. That’s my point: why do we healthies need this experimental unnatural junk in us? Do not judge anyone for this personal decision, or force anyone.
The vaccine only helps you after you get sick; that is why IFR is important here.
See the science here: https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/11/18/covid-infection-fatality-rates-sex-and-age-15163
“I wonder what term they’ll come up with to disparage those of us who simply keep ourselves healthy”
Maybe they will call us “pharmaphobes” or Christian Scientists. Something to imply that we are science fearing religious nuts who believe all sickness can be cured by prayer alone.
The Left rejects individual freedom to experiment. Their world view discourages competition of ideas and is devoid of science and innovation. They always claim to have science on their side, but in fact socialism is incompatible with the scientific method.
In a world run by Leftists, we would all probably be going nowhere, because some bureaucrat decided wheels should be square.
The % I quoted was from either cdc or w.h.o, it was in a report they published, of course it was buried by the main stream media.
My neighbor, 77 years old got covid, nothing more than a cold. I’m not say it’s not real but it’s been used to damage Trump. Haven’t you noticed how fast it’s disappearing under Biden? Take the vaccine or don’t, that’s your decision. But if the government tells me it’s night time chances are it’s 12 noon. They are enemies of our freedom.
God bless you.
You are welcome.
Now you have time to wait out the vaccine rush and pick and choose which one.
Novavax seems safest.
https://qz.com/1950365/what-is-the-novavax-vaccine-and-how-does-it-work/
Oh the drama. Every doctor I know has had the vaccine and was glad to get it
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