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Beachnutt

(7,311 posts)
Wed Aug 4, 2021, 09:29 PM Aug 2021

So if you are an anti vaxxer you're more than likely a rethug

and you will get covid, you will either die or have longhaul covid which will prevent you from voting or standing in line to vote with no water.
This next election season should go well for the Blue candidates.

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madville

(7,408 posts)
1. Black and Hispanic people have the lowest rates of vaccination in most areas
Wed Aug 4, 2021, 09:37 PM
Aug 2021

I wouldn't say those are the traditional Republican demographics. I was just reading today that 68% of Black people in New York City do not have the vaccine and that's a potential problem if they start restricting access to things for the unvaccinated.

Wishing death on the unvaccinated would apply to a lot of traditional Democratic voters as well.

mucifer

(23,525 posts)
4. Exactly!!! It's not a simple issue. There are reasons they don't trust the government that are so
Wed Aug 4, 2021, 09:42 PM
Aug 2021

much different than the republican B.S.

Beachnutt

(7,311 posts)
6. I realize that and wish death on no one
Wed Aug 4, 2021, 09:47 PM
Aug 2021

if you walk down the middle of a freeway at rush hour you may last a little while but your gonna get hit.
Same with covid, get vaccinated or its going to get you
The unvaccinated that believe the conspiracies are majority rethugs that are totally brain washed and consider noone bit themselves.
I have family that are totally brainwashed...No, I wish death on no one.

 

Treefrog

(4,170 posts)
11. Thank you. This is a real issue.
Thu Aug 5, 2021, 12:54 PM
Aug 2021

The vax hesitancy is affecting our voters too.

Never even mind the fact that they are at higher risk for serious illness.

NullTuples

(6,017 posts)
3. Statistically, you are wrong.
Wed Aug 4, 2021, 09:41 PM
Aug 2021

Only about 40-50% of adults are susceptible to severe COVID-19; that's before the protection of vaccines is included. Many of them may being long haul, but we don't know how many yet.

Around 2-4% of people who catch COVID globally will die from it; that includes nations with insufficient health care or availability. So far hospitals here in the USA are still handling the wave of cases.

That said, 99.5% of the people who do get severely sick or die will be unvaccinated, and sooner or later Republican voters are going to notice that connection.

Already, vaccination providers are offering "discrete" locations and entrances so that conservatives can get vaccinated and then go right on spreading the Good Word about how people should not get vaccinated because reasons.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
9. 50% x 4% means 2% of the unvaxxed may die.
Thu Aug 5, 2021, 11:18 AM
Aug 2021

If most of them are Reptilians (which I believe), that will make an electoral difference in battleground areas.

former9thward

(31,974 posts)
10. The death rate is not anywhere near that high.
Thu Aug 5, 2021, 11:31 AM
Aug 2021

And for some reason people that say that ignore that Blacks and Hispanics have the lowest rates of vaccinations. But it is what you "beleive" ....

LeftInTX

(25,245 posts)
5. There are "anti-pharm" Dems/Green Party types who are against vaccines....
Wed Aug 4, 2021, 09:45 PM
Aug 2021

Saw them on a message board last night. They were cursing Pfizer....

They used to be members here on DU

Nay

(12,051 posts)
8. Yes, there are -- a friend of mine from way back is one of those. She hates both political parties,
Thu Aug 5, 2021, 11:15 AM
Aug 2021

usually votes Green, is an herbalist who thinks herbs will protect her. Now, I am basically an herbalist, too, but I'm not an idiot. I got my vax. She and her husband have not. I'm waiting for the news that they have gotten sick; they take no precautions, so Delta is going to get them, I'm sure.

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