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all of your ASSumptions about vax-hesitant people

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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 6:04am

Democrats 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.

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday July 22 2021, @08:09PM (3 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 22 2021, @08:09PM (#1159212) Journal

    ‘It’s too late’: US doctor says dying patients begging for Covid vaccine [theguardian.com]
    At least 99% of those in US who died of Covid in the last six months had not been vaccinated, says CDC director Dr Rochelle Walensky

    What the US government is calling “the pandemic of the unvaccinated” [theguardian.com] is playing out in painful ways as some realize too late that they wish they had had the shot, while others hold out even as they suffer in hospital amid a national surge of new Covid-19 infections, primarily caused by the Delta variant.

    At least 99% of those in the US who died of coronavirus in the last six months had not been vaccinated, Dr Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has said.

    Life lessons: what a doctor learned from death and dying in Covid wards
    Read more

    Meanwhile vaccination rates have slowed down nationwide and are especially low in some of the more conservative, southern parts of the country, despite more than 610,000 people in the US dying of the virus since the pandemic hit in early 2020.

    In places such as Alabama, only 33% of people who can receive the vaccine had been fully vaccinated, as of 20 July.

    ‘It’s too late’: Doctor forced to turn down COVID patients begging for vaccine [nypost.com]

    Young, unvaccinated patients are begging for the COVID-19 shot as they fight for their lives at an Alabama hospital.

    But Dr. Brytney Cobia has to deliver a heartbreaking dose of reality, instead.

    “One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that I’m sorry, but it’s too late,” Cobia, who works at Grandview Medical Center in Birmingham, wrote in a Facebook post on Sunday. [facebook.com]

    Cobia said she has been forced to turn down the desperate pleas from coronavirus patients about to be placed on ventilators.

    “I’m admitting young healthy people to the hospital with very serious COVID infections,” she wrote.

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  • (Score: 2) by Socrastotle on Friday July 23 2021, @04:43PM (2 children)

    by Socrastotle (13446) on Friday July 23 2021, @04:43PM (#1159429) Journal

    The articles I find quite interesting are things such as Pfizer shot only 39% effective against delta infection [forbes.com]. This shouldn't really come as a surprise, but to most Americans who of "faith" (and I am not speaking of the Beyond), it would - because we continue to put out an incredibly misleading narrative around the vaccines.

    And just as importantly, this emphasizes that there is no grand social benefit to vaccination. It's becoming increasingly clear that these vaccines are simply ineffective at preventing the spread of COVID, so all vaccinating does is help to reduce your own personal chances of facing a severe outcome if you do get it. That said, an increasingly large number of people who are double vaccinated are dying. In places such as England, they have now become the majority. The reason for this is that the elderly are those primarily dying and they have a high vaccination rate, but it's emphasizing that the US narrative, with no data provided, claiming 99% of deaths are among the unvaccinated is likely, at best, cherry picked. And, at worst, simply a lie. In either case, I expect we will also see some "updates" to this narrative as well. And finally this is all happening at the nearly the exact same time that a heavily publicized and totally-honestly-completely-impartial study [nejm.org] claimed that Pfizer is 88% effective against the Indian/delta variant.

    If you want to believe that there is no intent to mislead people, then you must instead accept gross incompetence. In neither case it encourage a desire to participate in this experiment.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 23 2021, @08:07PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 23 2021, @08:07PM (#1159466)

      If you want to believe that there is no intent to mislead people, then you must instead accept gross incompetence.

      Have you ever considered the possibility that the "gross incompetence" you speak of is within you?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 24 2021, @09:24AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 24 2021, @09:24AM (#1159534)

      The Israel study, as even your own article points out, is very suspect. But even 39 percent results in a fairly large reduction in the effective reproduction, would drastically cut the overall amount of total cases, and drastically reduce the chances of reaching a critical MCE.