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I have had several in depth conversations with patients. Not certain if I've been successful or not. Honestly, in my experience, the African-American population is by far the most skeptical and untrusting group I run across and $100 isn't going to change minds. In short, non-compliant conservatives simply don't believe any of the imposed measures are necessary and are willing to take their chances. Liberals run the spectrum from compliance to unhinged covid crazies.
Again obvious...continued reliance on government as restrictions and monetary handouts are not only continued, but also increased. All in the name of covid, the gift that keeps on giving, hey?
Move to a conservative state and you'll find that is not the case. In some deep red states people secretly get the vaccine and then lie to friends/family saying they haven't because they will be damn near disowned. Places where getting kicked out of a store for refusing to wear a mask gets your applause and is a badge of honor.
Afraid to come out as vaccinated.
But yes, it's libs and Blacks -- and don't forget illegals streaming across the border! -- who are causing COVID-19 spikes in Missouri.
We have one political party whose popular leaders are drawing standing ovations at rallies for ripping on the vaccine. We have the governor of one of the most Delta-infected states selling anti-science merchandise to stock his campaign fund. We have right-wing media outlets actively undermining vaccination efforts. And we have MAGA counties in red states avoiding the vaccine in droves.But yes, it's libs and Blacks -- and don't forget illegals streaming across the border! -- who are causing COVID-19 spikes in Missouri.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/07/29/missouri-doctor-says-people-disguise-coming-covid-vaccine/5413341001/Sad world.
And we have teachers who don't want to teach, business owners who are either hurting or gone out completely, people who don't want to work, landlords who can't collect their due rent, unmeasurable psychological issues related to covid and its handling, etc., etc.When's it going to end, hey?
Probably never. I've kinda resigned myself to the fact that eventually Covid illness and death will be normalized as just "another thing that happens." We're pretty good at tolerating fatal risks as a society when we've decided they're too hard to fix or prevent. It's only a matter of time before this becomes one of them.
Yep. I actually thought we were there already, or at least would have been with higher vaccination rate.
Except, as we all know, this one isn't too hard to fix.Get the unnatural carnal knowledgeing shot you unnatural carnal knowledgeing morons.
I believe I saw today we are now at Biden’s goal of 70% of Americans getting at least their first shot. So we hit his goal yet still seem to be on a path back to mask mandates and other restrictions. We did our part (generally speaking) and helped the administration hit their goal, albeit a couple weeks late. Now it’s their time to hold up their end of the bargain and let us return to normal without threat of increased restrictions etc.
A large problem with the lack of workers is the lack of day care. And the unwillingness of mothers (or stay at home fathers) to put their unvaccinated child in a day care with other unvaccinated children. Because, despite what the virus lovers are trying to get you to believe, the Delta variant does affect children. It isn't laziness. It isn't sitting on their ass because of overly generous unemployment benefits. Many families have figured out how to make it on one income and are unwilling to endanger their children. Home schooling will be up again this fall. And day care is having a problem on both ends because there aren't enough people willing to work for minimum wage and be exposed to all of these unvaccinated children. So, how do you propose to have adequate affordable day care for the unvaccinated? Can you imagine if Americans had taken the same attitude toward Nazis, smallpox, polio, measles that they have toward COVID?
To be fair, some did when it came to the Nazi’s.