What's it going to take to get more vaccinated?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Even as the rates for covid infections and hospitalizations nationwide continue their most recent surge, the lines have hardened between two camps:

Team Vax, which sees broader vaccination rates as the best shot — in the United States and worldwide —to limit the spread of the coronavirus and its variants and to stanch a growing death toll that by Nov. 1 is expected to top 685,000 in the U.S. and approach 5 million globally; and

Team No Thanks, those who doubt the severity of the pandemic and/or the safety and efficacy of any of three vaccines now easily available — at least in the U.S. — to fight covid-19.

If you’re expecting a balanced assessment of these two camps — one expressing sympathy for the skeptics and grudging permission to carry on as they please — you won’t read that here. Far too much is now at stake to indulge in it’s-your-funeral absolution.

The delta variant — and any other letters in the Greek alphabet that are likely to develop in the petri dish of increasing infections — now pose a rapidly growing threat to all because the coronavirus has shown a talent for adapting to the unprotected populations with which it is presented.

Those who have insisted they were safe because they believed it was the elderly and those with diabetes or other health conditions that were the ones at greatest risk for hospitalization and death from covid, should look again.

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/editorial-whats-it-going-to-take-to-get-more-vaccinated/

[underpants]

1. Nothing. They politicized themselves to support Dear Leader. Admitting now they were wrong

is next to impossible. They’d have some serious self reckoning to make that turn.

I’m commenting on white people. Issues with person of color is outside my expertise.

[viva la]

2. I heard a public health official say that to get the "hesitant" (not 'resistant')

a "nudge" might be needed-- their employer requires a shot or a daily test, the movie theater wants to see the vax card, etc.

And also making it very easy will help, like the employer arranges for shots there in the building.

And paying people to do it. As it becomes obvious that the vaccine is safe, as hundreds of millions have had it, then it might be just a matter of making it easy and necessary.

The resisters are impossible, no use trying to get them. She said we're just going to have to live around the reality that 12% of the population are very susceptible. But if the virus has only those to breed easily within, they might not actually be around long.

Ideally, we'll get rid of it altogether, or maybe it will just be like the flu- a booster every year, 200K hospitalizations, 20K deaths.

[Arkansas Granny]

3. I have wondered if the unvaxxed enjoy all the attention they are getting.

Does it make them feel special or powerful to have people pleading with them to do what's best for themselves and others they come in contact with?

[OnDoutside]

4. It'll take someone in their family circle dying, pour encourager les autres.

[Phoenix61]

5. I heard a good idea, paid leave if you have a breakthrough

infection. Unvaccinated and you get covid you use your own leave or take leave without pay.

[Stuart G]

6. I don't know...I have asked the same question..I don't know..

Perhaps a long hospital experience of some kind will do it?...
...I guess stupid is still stupid.

........And a feeling about not getting a disease is NOT.truth about not getting disease