What's in YOUR wallet?
If you voted for Biden, it might be a vaccination card
If you voted for Joe Biden for president — as the majority of the country did — chances are you got vaccinated against the coronavirus.
If you voted for the other guy, well…
KFF (formerly the Kaiser Family Foundation, and not to be confused with Kaiser Permanente) has been tracking the partisan divide among voters who get the vaccine as opposed to voters who don’t, and while the foul stench of the other guy is slowly dissipating from the halls of Congress, it’s a pretty safe bet that the vast majority of the so-called “vaccine-resistant” are also “Trump-humpers.”
As we barrel toward another cold, long winter, that divide is spreading and the other side is calcifying.
This entrenched mistrust and ignorance points to the power of social media, and one man’s ability to manipulate the masses. Sadly, we’re seeing that once a rock starts rolling down a hill, it’s really hard to stop it. Early on, the other guy did such a bang-up job sowing mistrust around the actual science of vaccinations (Drink bleach! Cut ourselves open and expose our innards to sunlight!) that when he recently encouraged acolytes to get the vaccine, they booed him.
So how to convince the unconvinceable? This Quartz post has some ideas, and I wish you great luck with it. I’m too mean and I’ve lost all patience.
and these same anti-vaxxers fully support our country careening toward financial calamity - you know their mantra "freedom"....freedom to infect others, freedom to storm the Capitol and assault police officers, freedom to watch America devolve into a banana republic!
Frankly I have no patience for them anymore. They are taking not only other’s lives, but resources and time that vaccinated people need. Hearing that vaccinated people are not getting cancer treatments or surgeries because of shortened resources hurts my heart more than I can say.