Thursday, August 26, 2021
Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Most Not Worried About Decreasing % Of Whites In U.S.
The charts above are from the Pew Research Center. They surveyed 10,221 adults nationwide between July 8th and 18th, and the survey had a 1.5 point margin of error.
The percentage of whites in the United States has been decreasing for several decades now, and for the first time, the number of whites actually decreased in the last decade.
Does this have Americans worried? Not according to this poll. About 76% said it was not a bad thing (15% saying it was a good thing and 61% saying it was neither good nor bad). And that includes 73% of whites (11% saying it was a good thing and 62% saying it was neither good not bad).
Public Supports Mask And Vaccine Mandates In Schools
The charts above are from the new AP / NORC Poll -- done between August 12th and 16th of a national sample of 1,729 adults, with a 3.2 point margin of error.
It shows that a majority of adults support the mandating of vaccinations and the wearing of masks in our schools.
Republicans oppose both. They still believe the lies about COVID-19 and the vaccines that they have been told by their leaders.
You Are Not Wrong To Be Angry With The Unvaccinated
We have had three vaccines that work for several months now -- and yet, the number of new cases of COVID-19 and the number of deaths from it are once again surging. There is only one reason this is happening -- too many people are refusing to be vaccinated, and sadly, many of them are doing it for political reasons (following the lead of Republican officials who don't want President Biden to get credit for ending the pandemic).
The unvaccinated are responsible for the resurgence. They are responsible for the shortage of medical personnel and the lack of space in our hospitals. They are responsible for the breakthrough cases of COVID among the vaccinated. They are responsible for the spread of the new and more virulent Delta variant (which is even attacking young people and children).
It short, they are responsible for putting everyone in danger. And I sick of it. I'm angry -- especially at those who claim it is their right to put the lives of others in danger by refusing the vaccine. It's time to mandate the vaccine in schools and in all workplaces -- and I don't care whether the vaccine refusers like that or not!
The following is a small part of an op-ed by Paul Waldman in The Washington Post:
On Monday, the Food and Drug Administration granted full approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for the coronavirus, and approvals for the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines could follow soon. This could be a significant step in convincing the millions of unvaccinated Americans to finally get vaccinated, even if it doesn’t quickly transform the state of the pandemic.
It’s also an opportunity for us to say to the hard-core vaccine refusers: We’re done with you.
We’ll treat you when you come to the hospital, of course, because that’s how medicine works; while doctors and nurses dealing with the wave of covid-19 patients caused by the delta variant might like to turn away anyone who refused to take a vaccine, they won’t. But it’s time to refocus our outreach efforts and our public and private pandemic policies so that accommodating, understanding and pandering to the refusers is no longer one of our chief concerns. . . .
To those who say “mocking those people will never convince them to take the vaccine!”, let me suggest that it’s too late to persuade them. I’m not talking about the hesitant and the uncertain — they can be persuaded, and we need to redouble efforts to reach them. But when you see that in Mississippi — which like many states with low vaccination rates is now being ravaged by the delta variant — the state’s chief public health official felt compelled to make a public plea for people to stop drinking livestock dewormer, since a good number got the idea that it’s a treatment for covid, you have to ask if there’s anything at all that would persuade committed refusers.
Actually, we know how they got the dewormer idea: the supercharged rumor-spreading machine known as social media. Over the weekend, Facebook reluctantly admitted that “an article raising concerns that the coronavirus vaccine could lead to death was the top performing link in the United States on its platform from January through March of this year.”
It’s gotten to the point where at a rally on Saturday in Alabama of his most loyal dead-enders, former president Donald Trump said that while he believes in everyone’s freedom, “I recommend: take the vaccines. I did it. It’s good. Take the vaccines,” and boos rang out.
I’m pretty sure that if between swigs of horse dewormer, your uncle is booing his god-king Donald Trump for saying a good word about vaccination, gentle persuasion isn’t going to have much effect on him. . . .
They’ll be trying out insane new treatments, while the rest of us shake our heads at people who’d rather gargle with turpentine (or whatever the next Facebook remedy is) than get a free lifesaving vaccine. They’ll keep engaging in unhinged and violent public behavior (like assaulting teachers over mask policies), for which they should just be arrested. Our only concern should be keeping ourselves safe from them; they deserve no more consideration than that.
They won’t disappear, but we can treat them like social pariahs. And if they don’t like it? They can go ahead and wallow in their fantasies of oppression and courageous independence. Nobody said “freedom” was free.
Tuesday, August 24, 2021
Public Supports Withdrawal But Thinks It Has Gone Badly
The charts above are from the CBS News / YouGov Poll -- done between August 18th and 20th of a national sample of 2,142 U.S. adults, with a 2.3 point margin of error.
Why Is The U.S. Doing So Badly With The Pandemic?
The chart above is from The New York Times. It shows that in the last 14 days, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown a 4% increase in both cases and deaths worldwide. But the United States is doing much worse. It has had a 36% increase in cases and 95% increase in deaths in the last 14 days.
Why is the U.S. doing so much worse than the World? The answer is obvious -- Red State governors, who refuse to take public safety seriously, and have banned mask mandates while discounting the need for citizens to be vaccinated.
These Red State governors are killing their citizens by putting politics over public safety!
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