The Coronavirus thread

Quote: fleaswatter

Yes you are right, I interpreted the chart wrong.

The actual numbers based upon a US population of 332,915,073 should be:

Black non-Hispanic: 21.6% fully vaccinated

Asian non-Hispanic: 32.3% fully vaccinated

Hispanic/Latino: 26.5% fully vaccinated

American Indian/Alaska Native non-Hispanic: 34.0% fully vaccinated

The numbers are much higher than my earlier post but the numbers still show anti-vax tendencies among minorities

Isn't black by definition non-Hispanic?


I think you are looking at it the wrong way. What the chart shows when you take in other evidence even if anecdotal is that the only group rushing out to get the vax is liberal whites. Everyone else seems to have an attitude of maybe they will get it and maybe they will not, whatever. Goes to my earlier posts of liberal whites being very, very risk adverse in life in general.

Quote: missedhervee

Hell, let the anti-vaxers contract covid and perish.

Culls the herd of reTrumplicans, and that's a good thing.

I try not to say that out loud, because.... well because wishing a painful death on idiots and political opposites has a bit of a bad optic.

But then again, many are a menace to society. Antivaxxers especially.

I prefer to wish these folk the blessing of an early and thorough acquisition of antibodies. By whatever means they choose. That some will get seriously ill or die is at least their choice. Pity about the collateral damage to our various health care systems and frontline care givers.

I wonder which of these vocal antivaxxers do or have actually discouraged their elderly loved ones from getting it?

Beats the hell out of me why anyone would choose the antivax way. They must have a clue by now that infection rates in the (often partly vaccinated) people that they mingle with are high and getting exponentially higher. The risk to The antivaxxers is getting higher. The risk to the rest of us is getting mitigated.

What alternative defences are the antivaxxers equipping themselves with? lysol? a pocketful of hydroxychloroquine just in case? A UV lamp on a dildo?

Or are they staying home like EvenBob? Not his worst idea.

Quote: AZDuffman

Yes, we are sure. Unless 80% is not your idea of "vast majority."

Doesn’t appear to be a vast majority.

Quote:

In a recent survey conducted by Government Business Council, the research arm of Government Executive Media Group, 44 percent of respondents identified as Democrats or Democratic-leaning independents, while 40 percent identified as Republicans or Republican-leaning independents. The remaining respondents were undecided or did not identify with either party, though a plurality of them said they were “conservatives.”

Quote: AZDuffman

Yes, we are sure. Unless 80% is not your idea of "vast majority."

Source?

Quote: OnceDear

Source?

Just look at the voting patterns in and around both DC and any state capital.

Quote: AZDuffman

Just look at the voting patterns in and around both DC and any state capital.

So, you don't have a source?

Quote: OnceDear

So, you don't have a source?

I just explained it to you.

Quote: OnceDear

So, you don't have a source?

Unless he’s got a source other than what I just quoted, it appears to be nowhere near 80%.

Quote: rxwine

Unless he’s got a source other than what I just quoted, it appears to be nowhere near 80%.

Go back to where I explained how to read critically and not literally. We still have a problem here with people not getting how to do that.

Quote: AZDuffman

Go back to where I explained how to read critically and not literally. We still have a problem here with people not getting how to do that.

If you say “80%” what should I read critically instead?