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Why is this? It’s always the same states - those in the Deep South- that are always at the bottom. Highest rate of poverty, smoking, obesity and diabetes. Lowest rank in education and life expectancy. Now lowest for vaccinations. I’m not surprised, but it makes you wonder.
Why is this? It’s always the same states - those in the Deep South- that are always at the bottom. Highest rate of poverty, smoking, obesity and diabetes. Lowest rank in education and life expectancy. Now lowest for vaccinations. I’m not surprised, but it makes you wonder.
Liberals can no longer diss Georgia as a red state.
Why is this? It’s always the same states - those in the Deep South- that are always at the bottom. Highest rate of poverty, smoking, obesity and diabetes. Lowest rank in education and life expectancy. Now lowest for vaccinations. I’m not surprised, but it makes you wonder.
I think this has more to do with the Republicans politicizing mask wearing,and the pandemic in general in this case.
Whats weird to me is how much Trump did it...then suddenly said "nevermind-go get vaccinated", and they couldn't reverse course, so many of them are still refusing.
Why is this? It’s always the same states - those in the Deep South- that are always at the bottom. Highest rate of poverty, smoking, obesity and diabetes. Lowest rank in education and life expectancy. Now lowest for vaccinations. I’m not surprised, but it makes you wonder.
We don't trust the government. You forgot that one.
You also forgot that higher rates of COVID are also in the northeast and California. But hey - I'm sure the view is great from your lofty perch as you look down on the other rabble in the country.
And yet, the top for states for deaths per million from the virus...are some of the bluest in the nation. There doesn't seem to be much of a relationship between vaccination rate and deaths, or even cases.
I think this has more to do with the Republicans politicizing mask wearing,and the pandemic in general in this case.
Whats weird to me is how much Trump did it...then suddenly said "nevermind-go get vaccinated", and they couldn't reverse course, so many of them are still refusing.
Or maybe it's Democrats politicizing "social responsibility" over individualism. Not all Americans, regardless of politics, are into groupthink. And some of us lost loved ones after vaccinations.
With your post, you're as guilty of politicizing vaccinations as the Republicans you accuse of politicizing masks.
I’m not shocked to see blue states at the top. Democrats believe Covid is a way more serious illness than it actually is because cnn and msnbc have been exaggerating it since day one
Why is this? It’s always the same states - those in the Deep South- that are always at the bottom. Highest rate of poverty, smoking, obesity and diabetes. Lowest rank in education and life expectancy. Now lowest for vaccinations. I’m not surprised, but it makes you wonder.
It’s not just that we are Deep South, it’s that we are not as urban-centric. In my state the large cities have had impressive vaccine rates but the sparser populated areas not so much. Why?
With lower population density we were less likely to know someone with it. And, even then.... being told your county was “in the red” was eyeball rolling when what it really meant was you suddenly went from “green” with zero cases to “red” when Bob and Mary Francis got it from visiting their kid at college Saturday before last.... and, they are indeed the only two cases in the county.
Anyone who truly got sick from it got whisked off to one of the regional hospitals.... just like he did a year ago when his COPD acted up.... You know your neighbors well enough to know this was a person who had underlying health problems or were pretty obese to begin with.
When they first started rolling out the vaccines they weren’t offering in your county, you were looking at a 1-2 hour drive. And in many places they would only take their own county’s people. That, by the way, was highly annoying.
You had to make an appointment by computer to get an appointment to begin with. (Seriously, this was the single biggest “WTF” of the rollout. The people that most needed the vaccines were the least likely to be capable of using that mechanism to access an appointment.)
By the time the vaccines arrived at local pharmacies and there was a way to get one without using a computer the cases were decreasing, people had already caught it, and/or things were already normalizing again. People were no longer anxiously awaiting help from a scourge, they were happily enjoying its retreat.
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