Posted on 08/19/2022 9:28:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
You really covered yourself in glory this week, Wyoming.
The right column is comprised entirely of blue states while the left column is comprised entirely of red ones — except for Georgia, which I suppose technically qualifies as blue for the moment given that it went for Biden and two Democrats in last year’s Senate runoffs. But let’s revisit that this fall, after Brian Kemp takes care of business against Stacey Abrams. Georgia may be the truest purple state in the union in 2022.
The vaccine data comes from this fascinating survey by Morning Consult, which has been tracking public opinion on the jab since March of last year. The most arresting single data point in the many graphs at the link has to be the fact that the percentage of refuseniks nationally has been rock steady since spring of 2021. It was 21 percent on March 15 of last year and it was 21 percent as of a few days ago. No amount of persuasion, no volume of data was ever going to flip that hardcore one-fifth of the population, it seems.
Most of the “plans to get vaccinated” group was converted into “vaccinated” over time, obviously. So was the lion’s share of the “uncertain” faction, which was 18 percent of the public in mid-March 2021 and is down to just six percent now. All in all, 71 percent surveyed said they were vaccinated.
Is that good by first-world standards? Not really — although we’re not that far behind other U.S. allies.
The weirdly outsized percentage of partial vaccinations in the U.S. numbers may be due to the fact that data is gathered and reported differently across a patchwork of 50 states and many counties, leading some who are actually fully vaccinated to fall through the recordkeeping cracks and “appear” to be only partially vaccinated. The 67 percent figure may be misleading.
Then again, it’s also misleading to analyze the U.S. vaccination rate as an integral national metric when in reality there are really two nations existing side by side with very different rates of uptake. Per Morning Consult, some 84 percent of Democrats are vaccinated; among independents and Republicans, just 65 percent and 63 percent are, respectively. There are also divides by race (72 percent for whites, 61 percent for blacks) and education (89 percent for postgrads, 83 percent for college grads, 63 percent for those who didn’t go to college). The red/blue divide is to some extent a function of a wider class divide, especially among whites.
Oh, and as you might expect, at-risk senior citizens are waaaaay more likely to have been vaccinated than young adults. Among those 65 and over, 87 percent are vaxxed. Among those 18-34, just 59 percent are.
As for very young children, hoo boy. These numbers from Gallup are stark:
All of the age differentiation is rational. Your young child has practically nothing to fear from COVID, raising the relative cost of side effects from the shot. Totally different calculus for grandma and grandpa.
I’m curious to see what sort of uptake there is next month when the new and improved vaccines tailored to Omicron and its subvariants begin rolling out. My guess is that many who’ve already had two or three shots are going to pass, concluding that COVID is no longer a meaningful risk. That’s not true — Americans are currently dying at a rate of around 500 per day, or 180,000+ per year — but it is true that this summer’s wave was markedly less severe than the waves of 2020 and 2021. And I’m using the past tense there advisedly. By every metric, the worst appears to be behind us:
Cases, hospitalizations, ICU admissions, and positivity rate are all in decline. (Deaths are flat lately.) It’s hard to do apples-to-apples comparisons between surges in cases and positivity now with surges in cases and positivity in prior waves since rapid at-home tests weren’t widely available in those earlier waves. But although COVID is less “visible” than it’s ever been, it’s conceivable that there were more infected people this summer than there were during any previous stretch of the pandemic. That’s because not only are Omicron’s descendants insanely contagious, it turns out that most people who are infected don’t even know it. According to one new study of blood samples, among 210 people whose blood was found to contain COVID antibodies, just 44 percent had suspected that they had the virus at some point. Lotta asymptomatics walking around out there, spreading that BA.5 around.
I’ll leave you with this insanity from China as a rejoinder to those who say “you can never be too careful.” Uh, you really can.
Catch of the day! It doesn't matter if you're young or old, fish or crab – can't escape China's zero-covid policy and the nucleic acid tests. pic.twitter.com/stoqsGyYf1
— Manya Koetse (@manyapan) August 17, 2022
“...The Envelope, please..”
Analpundit is Karl Rove
He’s disparaging us Pure Bloods?
Fine. We’ll see who is smarter.
I still made the podium it’s a very proud moment and I want to thank all my informative FRiends ☺️
BIL and his wife are practically in line now for Jab #5.
He says they are getting it every time a new one becomes available. He’s 76 and she is 69. Obama, Clinton, Biden voters.
He’s trying to disparage Wyoming too.
Most of these percentages are wrong.
Last May the White House said they knew that 210 million Americans had at least one shot.
If you think about it. Both Pfizer and Moderna required 2 shots to be fully vaccinated. They are the two most popular because Johnson and Johnson (required one shot) was pulled for 5 months. So if most people had Pfizer and Moderna, and it required two shots. Then take 210 and divide it by 2 and you get 105 million. Then some people did only have one shot and stopped. Others had a booster. So part of the 210 million jabs is the same person with 3 jabs. Oh and some did have the J&J which only required 1 shot.
When you start considering the above. Then the true number comes around 85 million fully vaccinated.
Our Republic has 330 million people in 2020, and that did not include the illegals. Add illegals and it’s about 400 million.
So in other words 85 million out of 400 million or 1 in 4 Americans actually took the jab.
Lots of unrelated statistics.
MAYBE if they had rate of vaccination, rate of death and rate of adverse reaction per state.
Then again, 93.6% of statistics are made up.
Precisely.
Blue Blood for Evah.
I’m surprised Florida isn’t in that first list. Of course, they do have a high percentage of elderly, and they were considered especially high risk. And they fell for it. My two friends in their late 70s and early 80s fell for it. (Their funerals were lovely.)
We are such an obedient country. Needle kneelers are in the majority. In other words, those who are slaves to the fear of death.
These cowards could never be counted on in the event we had to fight for our freedom.
Being willing to inject your body with this because an expert said it’s okay… many people have lost their careers thanks needle kneelers.
Our county’s death is all about you obeying the drunk with power left.
Your children, grandchildren and all of your posterity will never know freedom. Isocialism.. you can’t jab your way in, but you will have to shoot your way out.
Article: “most people who are infected don’t even know it”
Every “virus” reported after May 2020 is a version of the flu or the common cold. Whatever was here in early 2020 is gone.
The word ‘refuseniks’ must be Russian for ‘no gullible’.
Even the Pfizer President said the shots had little to no effect.
Just as i figured. Lowest are all dbag, sheeple states. I detest driving north of Fredericksburg Va.
Hard to believe that the people in most of those states in the 1600s-1700s came over here on wooden sailing ships and lived without modern conveniences or utilities.
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