Posted on 07/27/2021 9:04:47 AM PDT by Fractal Trader
If you listen to Democrats, or the mainstream media (but I repeat myself), you’d think the resistance many have to taking the COVID vaccine is clustered among Republicans, religious conservatives, and other deplorables. Interesting to see this idiosyncratic chart showing vaccine rates by religious affiliation—and notice which group comes in last.
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I guess there are lots of atheists in vax-holes. This connects with an observation I saw somewhere that yoga instructors seem to be over-represented among anti-vaxxers.
Meanwhile, the good people at the Committee to Unleash Prosperity reminds us of just who is was who started promoting mass distrust of the COVID vaccine:
New York governor Andrew Cuomo last September calling for an independent review of the safety of the vaccine:
“Frankly, I’m not going to trust the federal government’s opinion [on the vaccine] and I wouldn’t recommend to New Yorkers based on the federal government’s opinion.”
Joe Biden, September 2020:
“Let me be clear: I trust vaccines, I trust scientists, but I don’t trust Donald Trump. At this moment, the American people can’t either….Scientific breakthroughs don’t care about calendars any more than the virus does. They certainly don’t adhere to election cycles. And their timing, their approval and distribution, should never, ever be distorted by political considerations.”
Kamala Harris in the Vice Presidential Debate:
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Conclusion: Atheists about 20 percentage points less likely than religious folks to take the vaccine
Gov. Kate Brown(D), OR, also said they would not accept the vaccine until her people looked at it. All the while outlawing HCQ while accepting money from Remdisivir.
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I think the smart folks are less likely to take the jab.
Belief in a God is immaterial.
Black Americans are the largest unvaccinated demographic, by a long shot. Yet the media persists in blaming MAGA hat-wearing Trump voters for refusing to be vaccinated
May be true…but 90% of the conservative Christians I know won’t take the vaxx because we refuse to have a baby die for us, and we don’t trust our Malthusian overlords of Fauci/Gates/Big Pharma/CDC/Gubmint
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