More unvaccinated Americans blame vaccinated Americans for the Delta surge than blame themselves

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

More unvaccinated Americans blame vaccinated Americans for Delta’s devastating U.S. surge than blame themselves, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll.

The survey of 1,649 U.S. adults, which was conducted from Aug. 16 to 18, found that just 6 percent of those who remain unvaccinated say they are the ones who deserve “the most blame for the new surge of COVID cases in the U.S.” The share who say vaccinated Americans deserve the most blame is slightly higher (7 percent).

Likewise, when asked “how much” blame each group deserves, just 9 percent of unvaccinated Americans say they themselves deserve a “great deal of blame.” Nearly twice as many (15 percent) say vaccinated Americans deserve a great deal of blame.

The fact that unvaccinated Americans say their vaccinated peers bear more responsibility for Delta’s spread flies in the face of data showing that it’s actually unvaccinated Americans who now account for a vast majority of new COVID cases, hospitalizations and deaths — and it underscores just how difficult it will be to convince most unvaccinated Americans that they have a role to play in ending the pandemic.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/poll-more-unvaccinated-americans-blame-vaccinated-americans-for-the-delta-surge-than-blame-themselves-194934930.html

[Texaswitchy]

1. Of course.

They are never to blame.

[captain queeg]

3. Took the words right out of my mouth

[RockRaven]

2. Almost nobody believes themselves to be the villain of the story...

So if they aren't the ones behaving foolishly, selfishly, dangerously, it must be those other people who are behaving oppositely.

[madaboutharry]

4. Did I miss something?

I read the article at the link and didn’t see how these unvaccinated geniuses explain how vaccinated people are spreading Covid and specifically the Delta variant.

[ck4829]

7. Well, you know...

The vaccines are gonna sterilize everyone, everyone who takes them is going to die in two years, they make you magnetic, they turn you into a 5G hotspot, they turn you pansexual, they make you allergic to red meat, they give you gas at your next business meeting…

So OF COURSE they would ALSO be the reason behind the delta variant.

[madaboutharry]

9. Oh, ok.

Thanks for explaining it to me!

[Crunchy Frog]

10. I've seen a forum where they were speculating

that the Delta variant came from vaccinated people shedding virus.

They haven't got the tiniest clue how these vaccines actually work, or how variants come about. It doesn't stop them from sharing their expertise though.

[Mr.Bill]

5. Blaming themselves

is a concept they cannot even grasp. We all know or have known people like that. Now it's been normalized by electing one of them president.

[dweller]

8. Like this ?!?

“No, I Don’t Take Responsibility at All”: Trump on His Botched Coronavirus Response

“I just think it’s a nasty question.”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/03/no-i-dont-take-responsibility-at-all-president-trump-on-his-botched-coronavirus-response/


✌🏻

[ck4829]

6. Well, at least they'll be properly socially distancing since they're gonna be as Jesus on the cross

[Wingus Dingus]

11. Who cares what these mental defectives think?

[Renew Deal]

12. It's not surprising considering many of them are delusional.

[Beartracks]

13. One relative tried to tell me that vaccinations lead to variants!

He didn't take time to explain, but I imagine he took a little bit of knowledge -- about how the over-use of antibiotics over time can lead to antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains -- and then completely inappropriately applied it to a viral pandemic. That is so not how viral pandemics work. But, unfortunately, because he "reasoned it out" himself. he's not been particularly open to accepting, you know, facts.

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