Have You Been Vaccinated?

A serious question for the few that post here.

If you have then why?
If you haven't why not?

I'll start. I have. 3 days before Johnson and Johnson was halted and it was J&J of course.
I didn't worry. It was halted due to a one in a million chance of serious reactions. Reactions happen in all vaccines.

Why did my wife and I get vaccinated? I've had congestive heart failure and am type 1 diabetic. My wife has had two strokes. We're in the high risk group so it made sense. Especially when one considers that Covid is killing "healthy" people.

Did I have reservations? Absolutely. A vaccine being developed so fast is odd for sure. That and the fact that I had no vaccinations since childhood.

So how about you all? Vaccinated or not?

 

Yup . . . the benefits outweigh the risks.

Not all republicans are idiots . . . in fact, counter to widely held liberal belief, the vast majority are not.

 

My entire family is vaccinated because it is the the smartest move you can make. I was never a huge fall flu vaccinator because I almost never got the flu anyway. I guess I was counting on everyone around me to get vaccinated and I could ride the herd immunity train. The first time I ever got the fall flu vaccination was at the beginning of COVID. So I wouldn't call myself an anti-vaxer. I just thought an annual flu vaccination was unnecessary in my case because even when I got the flu, I just stayed in bed for a day and then I was fine.

Clearly, the Right-wing, from Fox to GOP governors, are pushing the anti-COVID vaccine rhetoric to the detriment of their constituents. Anyone who disputes this fact is a delusional fool and I have no time or patience to argue with fools. The way I see it, the more vaccine for liberals, the more deaths and illness for conservatives. Win-Win. You be you and I'll be me.

 

Twenty years ago I contracted what my doctor called "true flu". For 4-5 days, my fever never went below 103. I was delirious and lost twenty pounds during that five days and had to throw out my mattress when all was said and done. I never, ever again want to be that sick again in my life... Ever.... I am now first in line each year for the flu vaccine and the day my age was approved for the Covid shot, I was calling for my appointment. I received the one shot J&J vaccine.

 

Not all liberals think all republicans are idiots.
Actually when I posted this I figured both yourself and Mopar Dude were smart enough to get vaccinated. Seems I was right.

 

Well, I'm feeling a little better now.

So, do we still get lumped in with the racists?

 

Comes part and parcel with the territory I am afraid, TC….. Figure I may as well go buy me some white sheets and go to sewing.

 

yes, and the bigots.

 

and the morons

Least Vaccinated U.S. Counties Have Something in Common: Trump Voters

About 31 percent of adults in the United States have now been fully vaccinated. Scientists have estimated that 70 to 90 percent of the total population must acquire resistance to the virus to reach herd immunity. But in hundreds of counties around the country, vaccination rates are low, with some even languishing in the teens.

The disparity in vaccination rates has so far mainly broken down along political lines. The New York Times examined survey and vaccine administration data for nearly every U.S. county and found that both willingness to receive a vaccine and actual vaccination rates to date were lower, on average, in counties where a majority of residents voted to re-elect former President Donald J. Trump in 2020. The phenomenon has left some places with a shortage of supply and others with a glut.

For months, health officials across the United States have been racing to inoculate people as variants of the coronavirus have continued to gain a foothold, carrying mutations that can make infections more contagious and, in some cases, deadlier. Vaccinations have sped up and, in many places, people are still unable to book appointments because of high demand. In Michigan, where cases have spiraled out of control, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, recently urged President Biden to send additional doses.

But in more rural — and more Republican — areas, health officials said that supply is far exceeding demand.

In a county in Wyoming, a local health official asked the state to stop sending first doses of the vaccine because the freezer was already stuffed to capacity with unwanted vials.

In an Iowa county, a clinic called people who had volunteered to give shots to tell them not to come in because so few residents had signed up for appointments.

In a county in Pennsylvania, a hospital set up a drive-through in the park, stocked with roughly 1,000 vaccine doses. Only about 300 people showed up.

And in interviews with more than two dozen state and county health officials — including some who said they were feeling weary after a year of hearing lifelong friends, family and neighbors tell them that the virus was a hoax or not particularly serious — most attributed low vaccination rates at least partly to hesitant conservative populations.

“I just never in a million years ever expected my field of work to become less medical and more political,” said Hailey Bloom, a registered Republican and the public information officer for the health department that covers Natrona County, Wyo., which Mr. Trump won by a wide margin last year.

The health department, Ms. Bloom said, set up a clinic in a former Macy’s at the local mall and was prepared to give 1,500 shots a day, four days a week. But it has never been able to fill all the slots, she said; usually, 300 or 400 people show up.

Ms. Bloom, like many other county officials, said she feared that reaching herd immunity might not be possible in her community. “It’s terrifying to think that this may never end,” she said. “So much hinges on these vaccinations.”

About 27 percent of Natrona County’s adult residents have been fully vaccinated, and the federal government has estimated, based on Census survey data, that about 32 percent of its residents may be hesitant to get a shot.

The relationship between vaccination and politics reflects demographics. Vaccine hesitancy is highest in counties that are rural and have lower income levels and college graduation rates — the same characteristics found in counties that were more likely to have supported Mr. Trump. In wealthier Trump-supporting counties with higher college graduation rates, the vaccination gap is smaller, the analysis found, but the partisan gap holds even after accounting for income, race and age demographics, population density and a county’s infection and death rate.

When asked in polls about their vaccination plans, Republicans across the country have been far less likely than Democrats to say they plan to get shots. Most recently, on Wednesday, Monmouth University and Quinnipiac University polls indicated that almost half of Republicans did not plan to pursue vaccinations. Only around one in 20 Democrats said the same.

Using survey data collected in March, the federal government recently created new estimates of hesitancy for every county and state in the United States. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services modelers used demographic factors and state-level responses of adults who said they would “probably not” or “definitely not” get a Covid-19 vaccine from the Household Pulse Survey, then used Census data to estimate the share of residents who might say that in every county.

In more than 500 counties, at least a quarter of adults might not be willing to get vaccinated, according to the estimates, and a majority of these places supported Mr. Trump in the last election.

In the 10 states where the government projected that residents would be least hesitant to get a Covid-19 vaccine, voters chose Mr. Biden in the 2020 election. Mr. Trump won nine of the 10 states where the most residents said they would probably or definitely not get the vaccine. (He did not win Georgia, which is among those states.)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/17/us/vaccine-hesitancy-politics.html

 

FD doesn’t like us MD . . . My life has lost meaning

 

No just you.

 

read the article

 

Quit being so bossy.

 

Mr. Trump won nine of the 10 states where the most residents said they would probably or definitely not get the vaccine. (He did not win Georgia, which is among those states.)

 

Who cares about Trump?

 

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trump voters = gop. did you vote for trump twice?

 

Out of necessity, yes. I voted AGAINST LIBERALISM twice.

 

Perhaps it isn't Liberalism that is failing if Trump is the best Conservatism can come up with?

 

Trump was vaccinated early in the game. If he actually gave a damn about ANY other Americans he'd be pushing people to do the same. It's that simple.

That's one of the many reasons liberals still care about Trump. He's still working at destroying our democracy.

 

The problem is that Liberalism is both winning and failing.