Posted on 07/18/2021 3:24:53 AM PDT by Chickensoup
But most vaccine skepticism, if by that we mean reluctance, is not based on conspiracy theorizing — it’s based on risk-benefit calculations. You may think it’s an innumerate calculation. But when you look at patterns of uptake in the United States, two factors stand out, factors that are larger in their effect than partisanship: age and density. The older you are and the denser your community, the more likely you are to be vaccinated. The younger you are, and the more rural your community, the less likely you are to have gotten it. This reflects the real facts about the risk of death from COVID. People may be wildly overestimating their risk from the vaccine and underestimating their risks from COVID — but they have the directional thinking correct. Those who are in less danger, act like it.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Maybe the Democrats shouldn’t have played politics with it prior to the election.
They gave me every reason to think that it may not be safe, because they said so.
i think that reporting on anecdotal problems along with the mishandling of JNJ vaccine pause have afflicted vaccination psychology. i read little about the years of research that the vaccines built upon as well as the details about successful therapeutics.
It should be obvious to observers that compliance with vaccination goes along social class lines: the Knowledge Class unsurprisingly embraces gene therapy masquerading as vaccination while the Working-Independent Business Class does not. The National Review article suggest using humiliation as a way to gain compliance. Humiliation has always been a tactic of Communism.
Every day I and all of my family (near and far) are rewarded with the comfort of knowing we have not received these inflammatory life shortening substances in our bodies and those of us who have supposedly contracted this and recovered are apparently 6 times more protected than we would be had we received these inflammatory substances.
In a nutshell, the article takes as a given that the “skeptics” are wrong, but suggests showing them respect, and presenting them with reasoned arguments.
One might go further and listen to the arguments of those with whom you disagree, and wholeheartedly accept the possibility that it is you, not they, that are wrong. If you can’t, then understand that what you consider rational argument is just a rationalization of your own dogmas.
Why should a President and administration installed in office through massive vote fraud be trusted about anything?
The Democrat-Socialist were seizing every weapon they could, whether it was appropriate or not, to club the Trump supporters back from their hold on power.
Of course the Democrat-Socialists were playing politics with just about every aspect of the introduction of the vaccine and the continued use of masks (which never worked in 99% of the cases anyway), as a means to shame and bully the more easily intimidated voters, by herding the stampede over the nearest cliff.
And where the stampede was not possible, there were land mines strewn about the landscape in the form of strategically placed instances of voter fraud in those states where it was possible to sway only a few precincts to eke out a narrow victory in the Electoral College in just a handful of states, or to be so overwhelming in other states as to make up an artificial “popular vote” majority that was supposed to vindicate the defeat of Herself in 2016, where only a couple of states provided a “supermajority” that gave Herself the popular vote margin.
Voter integrity was overwhelmed in so many places that the entire election was thrown in doubt. This includes a lot of downticket races, like in the US House and Senate.
This article gives no shrift to the rather large and growing database of complications linked to the vaccine itself. Sticking one’s head in the sand and taking it in the rear seems to be the stance advocated by NPR. Saying that just because the FDA hasn’t approved it because no long term studies have been completed is doublethink. Well duh good for the FDA. Obviously the CDC which is complicit with the NIH/Fauci and WHO in creating this scamdemic take a different stance. Cases are reported, probably over reported, while outcomes are not. Follow the money on this one.
The NR punks are so pathetically not what they pretend to be, which is actual intellectuals. Instead they are smug, bought-off shills.
This clown is exhibit A. It is clear that he hasn’t seriously dealt with the evidence from the other side, as he doesn’t actually engage with or address it at all—and can’t characterize it with any specificity or accuracy either.
That is how adult Americans run their lives. We weigh risk and rewards.
Do I refinance my mortgage? Do I home-school my kids? Do I run for Town Council? Do I interview for that job?
This is how we navigate through life - why is anyone surprised?
Some of the anti-vax is that the demonkkkraps are reaping what they have sown.
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