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Hemmingway Destroys Dem Narrative on Vaccines: 61% of Vaccine Hesitant People are NOT Republicans
Steve Straub By Steve Straub
Published July 19, 2021 at 6:04amDemocrats and their media allies like to claim that the vast majority of vaccine hesitant people are Republicans who get bad information from Fox News or Facebook.
The truth is the exact opposite as Mollie Hemmingway explains to Maura Liasson:
Rather than editorialize further, here’s the transcript of this exchange, it stands by itself:
LIASSON: “Well, you know, what we’ve heard from public health officials who has studied the way to communicate about the vaccine is that people need to hear from medical experts and get their questions answered.
In other words, the vaccine problem is not going to be solved by people calling Fauci a hack or people calling right-wing talk show hosts some kind of — I don’t know what they were calling them, but attacking them for raising questions about the vaccine.
You have to go to people where they are. What I also think is interesting about this whole controversy, it’s a big debate happening without Donald Trump. Donald Trump is proud of what he did to get the vaccines online fast.
A lot of his supporters don’t want to take them. He’s had the vaccine. He’s talked in favor of it. So I think this is kind of interesting. This is a big polarized debate and a it’s missing an element that has been present in almost every polarized debate in the last five years.”
HEMINGWAY: “If I can just point — just really quickly, this is one of the examples that you see, people make it out like it’s the Republicans that don’t want to take the vaccine. In fact, 61% of the people who are hesitant about the vaccines are not Republican. And the more the media make it out that it’s something that’s partisan, that will also going to contribute to the problems.
The more that they fail to remind people that it was President Biden and Vice President Harris, when they were running for office, who said that they didn’t have trust in the vaccine, that also makes people not trust what the media are saying.
So I think we need to be very careful and not have forgetfulness about what was happening during the campaign when the vaccine messaging was very different.”
Mollie Hemmingway really nailed that.
I agree with Mollie Hemmingway that the Biden / Harris team made a major contribution to vaccine hesitancy during the campaign by putting it down if it resulted from a Trump effort.
The administration also continues to contribute via their constant flip-flops, lack of consistency on the benefits of being vaccinated and lately, constant talk of being okay with local mandates.
After all, what ever happened to “my body, my choice?”
The Biden administration would be wise to look inward in trying to figure out why so many are hesitant to take the vaccine instead of blaming Fox News, Facebook and others.
Sadly, we all know by now that the likelihood of that happening is almost zero.
https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/hemmingway-destroys-dem-narrative-vaccines-61-vaccine-hesitant-people-not-republicans
further reading:
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/americas-vaccine-hesitant-demographics/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-vaccine-hesitancy-presidential-encouragement/
https://www.aei.org/op-eds/if-biden-wants-to-convince-the-vaccine-hesitant-give-trump-credit-for-the-vaccines/
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/democrats-have-become-the-party-of-anti-vaxxers
https://www.wfae.org/politics/2021-04-17/are-covid-19-vaccination-rates-as-simple-as-republicans-vs-democrats
The AP story notes that polls have shown Republicans to be more vaccine-hesitant than Democrats. It doesn’t mention that some African Americans are wary about being vaccinated, although recent polls show vaccine hesitancy is declining among Black Americans.
The five worst-performing states per the AP analysis are also some of the states with the highest percentage of Black residents. Mississippi is the worst-performing state in terms of vaccine performance; it also has the highest percentage of African American residents. Louisiana has the second-highest percentage of Black residents, and it’s in the bottom five in terms of vaccine performance.
And New Hampshire? It’s one of the whitest states in the Union, where less than 1% of residents are Black.
That is not to say that African Americans are the main reason some states are lagging in vaccines. But it could be a factor.
Louisiana residents could be grouped two ways: Black Democrats and white conservatives. There is no significant constituency of white Democrats – the group that’s most enthusiastic about getting jabbed.
If you buy into simplistic CNN and Democrat explanations for vax hesitancy, you are a fool.
(Score: 4, Informative) by FatPhil on Monday July 19 2021, @04:31PM (18 children)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Monday July 19 2021, @04:37PM (17 children)
No, my Fat Pal, there is little if any difference between "hesitancy" and "resistance". If a guy ain't gonna get vaxxed, he ain't gonna get vaxxed. And, it matters little what you've told us - you ain't the boss of nobody!
Now, if you wanted to make noises of any significance, you might go to the predominantly black communities, and convince those black folk that they should obey the orders of privileged white liberals. Because, everybody knows that privileged white liberals know what's best for black folk!!
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by krishnoid on Monday July 19 2021, @05:47PM (5 children)
There's at least a little difference between hesitancy vs. resistance. George Floyd wasn't going with the intention of being asphyxiated, but he got asphyxiated.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 19 2021, @09:56PM (4 children)
See? Resistance kills.. Don't resist, and don't hesitate to comply, and you'll survive until tomorrow
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday July 20 2021, @01:24AM (3 children)
Too bad Ashli Babbitt didn't...!
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 20 2021, @06:58PM (2 children)
The gun went off.. Shit happens.. Whaddya gonna do?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday July 20 2021, @07:33PM (1 child)
But if she'd just complied with the officer's lawful orders...!
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 20 2021, @09:52PM
She was in the bullet's path. It couldn't be helped. Such is life in the big city
(Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Tuesday July 20 2021, @05:42PM (10 children)
O'really? Let's go to the source** [kff.org] and skip the fucking propaganda, those federalist toilet papers don't like my "Do not track" settings anyway.
So vaccine hesitancy going down while vaccine refusniks stay the same.
So 21% Democrats haven't got a vaccine yet (and maybe some of them will) but definitely 29% Republicans continue to refuse any vaccine.
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** Kaiser Family Foundation [wikipedia.org] - the linked report is a lot more detailed, digging into ethnicity and motivations for the choices (including those of the refusniks). The drilldown is a bit painful tho'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday July 20 2021, @06:23PM (9 children)
And - how is that broken down by race?
Ahhh, they do address racial differences:
Huh - looky heah! It's only 3 in 10 republicans!
Well, I've never researched that idea, but I would have thought that evangelicals were more liberal minded. Oh, never mind - politicans use the term in a somewhat different manner than I do . . . https://www.nae.net/evangelicals-and-politics/ [nae.net] kinda puts that all into perspective. FWIW, I am not, have never been an evangelical - those people are a little warped.
Don't you think there should be 100% availability before you start the wailing and gnashing of teeth? Hey, if you can't get it, you're not going to get it, that much is certain!!
I'll note here that those who fear the potential for long-term side effects aren't demonstrating and picketing to prevent people getting shots. Instead, they've quietly made their own decisions, for their own selves. But, apparently, you aren't cool with that.
Help me out here. You get vaxxed. I don't get vaxxed. I get sick and die. You go on living. How has that harmed YOU? Be specific - how have I harmed you?
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday July 21 2021, @01:07AM (8 children)
Told ye many times to stop straining your back moving goal posts.
My reply was meant to say:
- fucking go to the source before gulping the shit those people fed you. You should be able to make your mind by yourself. The shit they feed the fact that you like it sicken me less than the fact that you chose to mindlessly vomit it back in larger quantities.
- your assertion is wrong, there *is* a difference between "hesitancy" and "resistance". It actually goes beyond just the two and includes those of "only if required". Correct your views on the issue.
OK, I'll take a shot on the new position of the goal posts.
See, it's your selfish position without good reasons that irks me the most - this world contains more people of value than only you.
- before croaking you and the refusnik herd you so strongly defend are acting as a breeding ground for new mutations
- it would be fine with me if you'd just go a die in the woods, also refusing upfront the care that the society will try to get you before dying. But no, your selfish ass wants to be treated on the expense of others, who will need to reserve you a space and equipment which could be used in treating non-covid conditions and work overtime to do it. Even if this entire thing could have been avoided by the vaccine of which you are feigning to be scared of or to which you object on "muh libhurties" grounds;
- there are also a good number of people who can't get vaccinated and that's where herd immunity was supposed to help. I'll grant you, in the covid19 case, we are past the point we could eradicate it. And you, the selfish "muh libhurties" assholes of this world, have your own part of responsibility in it with your constant refusal to follow the basic public health countermeasures that could made eradication happen earlier. Also, because of the existence of the selfish and greedy segment of the population, the public health guys in USofA needed to lie about the efficiency of masks in the beginning. It was a mistake and they will have to live with the responsibility of this lie, but I can't say their justification doesn't partially ring true.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday July 21 2021, @01:22AM (7 children)
I haz an idea for ya. Go check out Africa, and their growing immunity to AIDS. Remember when AIDS was teh newest horror of horrors? 'Murica and Europe had money to throw at the problem, and Africa had jack shit, like always. AIDS was going to decimate Africa, again and again and again. Except - it didn't. Really, go read up on that shit. Search for the prostitutes who have been exposed again, and again, ad nauseum - but not one antibody or anything in their blood.
Pandemics die out, immunities happen, whether they be herd or not, and life goes on. COVIDS aren't the end of the world.
I wish all you guys would just give it a break. You realize that you're not getting out of this life alive, don't you? Almost everyone dies the same way - gasping for that last breath that just won't come to them.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 4, Informative) by c0lo on Wednesday July 21 2021, @01:34AM (6 children)
Moving goal posts again, asshole? Let me summarize your batch of brain vomit this time.
"Sure, we are not responsible of anything that happened, it's the Africa. Or prostitutes. Or mother nature. 'Twas gonna happen anyway, one way or the other - we have to do nothing but let it happen (as long as it doesn't happen to us).
Or something, anything but us, the pure lovers of "muh libhurties", we love them so much we fuck them to death. And if you have something to object to, fuck you to, I got mine and I'm the only one that matters"
Fucking cognitive dissonance, keeps Runaway always on the run away from himself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday July 21 2021, @01:52AM (5 children)
I'm not moving goalposts, asshole - I just move faster than you can think.
And your "quoted" inanities aren't even in the field. Want to fall back 20 and punt?
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Wednesday July 21 2021, @02:19AM (4 children)
Whatever. I call it running from yourself once shown your ground is shifting under your irrational position.
I'll end this thread by pointing to you:
1. if you like so much "the natural order of things that happens in Africa long term", go live there. You'll have better opportunities of postfactum rationalizations for your choices.
2. In re your original "if you buy into simplistic CNN", it just happens that I picked the link to the report from a piece on CNN [cnn.com]. I did not stop there, tho'; and you should not have stopped to the level of vomiting back the undigested matter in those those toiler papers from which you lick your shit. Somehow, I don't see you "moving" from them in any way that suggest a "thinking" process - you just mindlessly accept it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday July 21 2021, @03:21AM (3 children)
Damn, boy, you sure getting mean. Are you all of a sudden taking yourself serious? Lighten up, Francis, you're gonna stroke out!
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday July 21 2021, @03:31AM (2 children)
Sleep deficit and chronic hypoalcoholemia will eventually wear one down, yes.
Winter time during pandemic, not enough occasions to treat the second.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday July 21 2021, @03:38AM (1 child)
Dr. Runaway prescribes an afternoon off, chasing after some timid wallabies.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday July 21 2021, @03:43AM
No wallabies in a 5km radius. Snap lockdown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0