Public sentiment on the importance of safe, lifesaving childhood vaccines has significantly declined in the US since the pandemic—which appears to be solely due to a nosedive in support from people who are Republican or those who lean Republican, according to new polling data from Gallup.
In 2019, 52 percent of Republican-aligned Americans said it was “extremely important” for parents to get their children vaccinated. Now, that figure is 26 percent, falling by half in just five years. In comparison, 63 percent of Democrats and Democratic leaners said it was “extremely important” this year, down slightly from 67 percent in 2019.
Vaccines shouldn’t be political. What is wrong with some Republicans?
I can start but I think there’s a character limit
Better just list what isn’t wrong with them, because it’s a much shorter list.
Here, I’ll show it to you:
They figured out how to weaponize science-illiteracy like many authoritarians before them.
It’s not always political, but it’s always stupidity, and stupidity is worse on one side than the other.
You know, like facts having a liberal bias.They’re weird.
My theory is that it’s a combination of lead poisoning from going to NASCAR races (which still used leaded gas until 2007 or so) and right wing media indoctrination, mainly Fox News.
It’s part of “don’t trust gubment”.
It’s the group with the least information. They’re morons.
These idiots are not only harming themselves and their children, they’re harming and sometimes killing others who are medically prevented from receiving vaccinations. These scumbags are literally spreading disease.
Plague rats.
Actually it’s worse than that, if you have enough unvaccinated people in an area you’ll increase the viral load received by the local population. Vaccines raise immunity significantly, but don’t make you fully immune. If you experience enough of a viral load despite being vaccinated you can still get sick. This is how outbreaks occur and why we’re seeing them in low vaccination communities. These viruses then spreads to others that shouldn’t normally get the virus. So in short it harms everyone including those vaccinated.
That number is… eerily close to the percentage population estimated to be hardcore unshakeable Trumpers.
I suppose it’s good news that this belief hurts them the most, but it’s also a public health problem.
Yeah, their children will be wracked with disease complications and the whole country will be on the hook to help care for them.
Even worse, it forms a reservoir of disease that the most vulnerable of the population, those who have not/cannot be vaccinated, will suffer tremendously from.
This is gonna be the real maga legacy. A generation of kids that have to deal with the consequences of horrific, preventable, disease
The good news is that number will go down over time.
Make Polio Great Again.
Owning the libs with Mumps.
Recently at a doctors visit, this came up. We were discussing the use of AI to design vaccines. Doctor said that it didn’t make any difference because people like his staff nurses wouldn’t take a vaccine in any case. I was shocked. So, he opened the door and asked his nurses. Sure enough, not one nof them would take a new vaccine. I still can’t believe it.
My mother has worked in healthcare most of her life and it’s always blown my mind how many people she’s worked with are anti-vax.
Lockdown taught me that most nurses receive an inadequate education. There were big antivax nursing groups 3 years ago.
They are dumbasses. Weird, dumbasses.
31 percent of republicans are a danger to themselves, their families, and others…
scratch that.
better make it ‘100 percent’.
Everyone likes to wag the finger when we call these people morons. What else are we supposed to call them?
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I sincerely hope that 31% of Republicans contract Polio. Then maybe they’ll shut the fuck up
Yes, a sore arm and a mild fever are clearly worse than a life spent in an iron lung due to polio.
follow guidance on COVID-19 provided by medical authorities
My, what a gentle way to retell events. It was just guidance. That’s all. Just guidance.
Unrelated story: I know somebody who went to a private christian school. He tells me that he probably would have remained fairly neutral on religion …if not for the experience of having Jesus rammed into his cranium on a daily basis. He is now a rather staunch athiest. A few of his classmates have a similar experience. It’s as though forcing shit onto people can lead to them closing off from whatever it is that you’re trying to force onto them. Totally unrelated to what I said above though. Don’t overthink it.
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