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Who Are the Vaccine Hesitant ?


President Biden is obviously disappointed because his prediction of how many Americans would be vaccinated by this time is not happening. He and many of the Democrats want to mandate that everybody get a Covid vaccine. Besides the fact that a mandate of this sort would be unconstitutional, the Dems have another problem with their “we are the government, and we know what’s best for you” diktat … they cannot afford to piss off any more voters than they already have. However, one might argue that further aggravating conservative pro-Trumpers will not really make much difference, implying , of course, that this vaccine hesitancy is all Trump’s fault. Really!

Let’s think back …where did this vaccine hesitancy start?

“I wouldn’t trust a Trump vaccine, and neither should anyone else.” 

Hmmm … this was spoken back in September, 2020 by none other than Kamala Harris. When smiling Kamala puts her foot in her mouth, like essentially calling then candidate Joe Biden a racist at a debate, she basically says that doing some things is just part of politics.(In other words, “I was just kidding!”). When should we believe her? How should we know when she is not really meaning what she says? (Another topic for another time.)

Who are those, who for whatever reason, are not getting the vaccine?

First off, Black and Hispanic people have had persistently lower rates of vaccination compared to their White counterparts across most states. 

Overall in the U.S. Asians lead with 62 percent vaccinated. Whites are at 47 percent, Hispanics 39 percent and blacks 34 percent (CDC). Much to the frustration of the left, unvaccinated Americans are the least concerned about the Delta variant.

So why are these groups not getting the vaccine? Historically these are not Republican voters. In fact a look at the data reveals that the vaccine hesitant group are not big Trump lovers. They’re actually likely not to be Republican. Instead, many of them are people who are detached from the political process and didn’t vote for either major candidate in 2020. This stat seems to be lost on the media.

And another issue that was brought up by the New York Times on 7/21:

The government has not formally approved any vaccine. The Food and Drug Administration has instead given only “emergency use authorization” to the shots from Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson. That’s a temporary form of approval that allows people to receive shots while the agency continues to study their effectiveness and safety.

The difference between emergency authorization and full approval matters. Right now, the military, schools and other organizations cannot easily require vaccinations. The “lack of F.D.A. licensure leave schools, colleges, businesses in a legal quandary,”
The situation also feeds uncertainty and skepticism among some Americans who have not yet gotten a shot. Those skeptics, as Matthew Yglesias of Substack wrote yesterday, are effectively taking the F.D.A. at its word. The F.D.A. leaders’ official position is that “they don’t have enough safety data yet,” Yglesias noted

Hmmm!

From my point of view, it is not the business of the government to know whether I am vaccinated or not … MYOB, Joe! When Biden’s pissants come door to door asking me whether not I have been vaccinated, I have my response ready, and you can bet the farm that it is not P.C.!

7/23/21

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