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Public sentiment on the importance of safe, lifesaving childhood vaccines has significantly declined in the US since the pandemic—which appears to be solely due to a nosedive in support from people who are Republican or those who lean Republican, according to new polling data from Gallup.
In 2019, 52 percent of Republican-aligned Americans said it was “extremely important” for parents to get their children vaccinated. Now, that figure is 26 percent, falling by half in just five years. In comparison, 63 percent of Democrats and Democratic leaners said it was “extremely important” this year, down slightly from 67 percent in 2019.
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Vaccines shouldn’t be political. What is wrong with some Republicans?
I can start but I think there’s a character limit
Better just list what isn’t wrong with them, because it’s a much shorter list.
Here, I’ll show it to you:
They figured out how to weaponize science-illiteracy like many authoritarians before them.
It’s not always political, but it’s always stupidity, and stupidity is worse on one side than the other.
You know, like facts having a liberal bias.They’re weird.
My theory is that it’s a combination of lead poisoning from going to NASCAR races (which still used leaded gas until 2007 or so) and right wing media indoctrination, mainly Fox News.
My theory is that it’s a combination of lead poisoning from going to NASCAR races (which still used leaded gas until 2007 or so) and right wing media indoctrination, mainlyFox News.FTFY
It’s part of “don’t trust gubment”.
Nah, they might repeat that as a talking point but they’re down with fascism, just like they’ll bitch and moan about the pharmaceutical companies having a profit motive to lie without wanting to remove the profit motive from healthcare.
They’re just liars and hypocrites who want their team, Team Racists and Bigots, to have total control and never forget it.
It’s the group with the least information. They’re morons.
These idiots are not only harming themselves and their children, they’re harming and sometimes killing others who are medically prevented from receiving vaccinations. These scumbags are literally spreading disease.
Plague rats.
Actually it’s worse than that, if you have enough unvaccinated people in an area you’ll increase the viral load received by the local population. Vaccines raise immunity significantly, but don’t make you fully immune. If you experience enough of a viral load despite being vaccinated you can still get sick. This is how outbreaks occur and why we’re seeing them in low vaccination communities. These viruses then spreads to others that shouldn’t normally get the virus. So in short it harms everyone including those vaccinated.
That number is… eerily close to the percentage population estimated to be hardcore unshakeable Trumpers.
I guess 20 years ago this was a scandal
Another factor in Obama’s favor at the time that Rogers didn’t mention is that the original Republican candidate, Jack Ryan,[6] had been forced to suspend his candidacy after his divorce and custody records were released to the press, revealing that he had taken his former wife, actress Jeri Ryan,[7] to various sex clubs (including, in at least one case, a bondage club) and tried to have her perform sex acts on him out in the open.[8] Keyes was the GOP’s last-minute replacement on the ticket after the sordid details of Ryan’s divorce came out.
Every time I see some of my relatives, I make sure I bring up “oh, by the way shouldn’t I be dead now? You made a pretty big fuss about how everyone who was vaccinated wilouod be dead within a year”
It’s always met with eye rolls and silence.
My dad contracted polio as a teen a year before the vaccine came out in our home country. Fuck people who think vaccines are dangerous. Ask my dad how well his legs work.
Same, but my mother.
Vaccines are dangerous.
The probability of vaccines progressing from phase 2 to licensure within 10 years was 10.0%The probability of vaccines passing phase 1 is between 63.3% and 82.5%
Licenced vaccines are safe.
31% of Republicans so stupid their genes should be prevented from being passed down
Yeah, nothing could go wrong with a little eugenics…
edit: those who down voted this should truly reflect on their humanity.
Fortunately, this is a self sorting problem, it’s not eugenics when it’s natural selection.
but they affect people who can’t get a vaccine for legitimate medical reasons.
No worries, they contradicted you so they must be a sHiTlIb
Eugenics is when one group of people dictates the reproduction of another group of people.
Natural selection is when one group of people fails to survive due to inferior decision making, while better decision makers carry on their germlines.
Refusing vaccinations based on conspiracy theories, and dying of disease because of it is 100% natural selection.
I suppose it’s good news that this belief hurts them the most, but it’s also a public health problem.
Yeah, their children will be wracked with disease complications and the whole country will be on the hook to help care for them.
Even worse, it forms a reservoir of disease that the most vulnerable of the population, those who have not/cannot be vaccinated, will suffer tremendously from.
I sincerely hope that 31% of Republicans contract Polio. Then maybe they’ll shut the fuck up
If we had a way to quarantine them all together so they can’t infect their unvaccinated kids, or anyone else who didn’t ask to participate in their bullshit, I’d be fully on board. Unfortunately, we saw what those dipshits did with COVID.
Ahh, yes, if only the iron lung encapsulated the head of ® to shut them up.
This is gonna be the real maga legacy. A generation of kids that have to deal with the consequences of horrific, preventable, disease
Recently at a doctors visit, this came up. We were discussing the use of AI to design vaccines. Doctor said that it didn’t make any difference because people like his staff nurses wouldn’t take a vaccine in any case. I was shocked. So, he opened the door and asked his nurses. Sure enough, not one nof them would take a new vaccine. I still can’t believe it.
Lockdown taught me that most nurses receive an inadequate education. There were big antivax nursing groups 3 years ago.
My mother has worked in healthcare most of her life and it’s always blown my mind how many people she’s worked with are anti-vax.
It helps to think of healthcare as just another business in the US.
It’s become such a huge industry. People aren’t necessarily there because they believe in the science, but because of all the typical mundane reasons to get any job - stability, income, prestige or appearance of status.
But yes, it’s crazy.
Well, to be fair, recently released vaccines are fairly untested, but it’s mostly fine, so I wouldn’t worry about it too much.
I suppose this falsehood started with the Covid 19 Vaccine. In early January 2020, labs received the first computerized model of the Covid virus. Due to the current level of science, and smart people, the vaccine was finished in six days. The rest of the year was taken in testing for FDA approval until it was made publicly available in December of 2020. It was well tested.
Well yes, but there was some complications with Jansen and AstraZeneca vaccines: Wikipedia:Jansen(Adverse effects) and Wikipedia: Embolic and thrombotic events after COVID 19 vaccination
There are known complications with flu shots too. In the end you have to answer the question for yourself. Are you going to chance complications and get a polio shot. Or are you going to sit in a wheelchair for the rest of your life? I think you’ll find that the FDA judged these to be minimal probabilities.
The good news is that number will go down over time.
Make Polio Great Again.
Owning the libs with Mumps.
This one can actually work though. Vaccines don’t make you 100% immune from diseases (it also depends on the individual as well).
I don’t find that particularly surprising considering that this demographic votes Republican.
They are dumbasses. Weird, dumbasses.
Wait until tetanus starts being a real issue again. It’s actually pretty scary shit. In advanced stages it can make your muscles contract and spasm so hard your bones can fracture.
At least tetanus isn’t really person-to-person transmissible
That’s true, but I figure it’s common enough and an entirely preventable illness.
It’s one of those examples of the vaccine working so well that the population completely forgot how bad it can be and that it’s a very slow and terrible way to die.
There’s this constant 30-35% of America. Get better lower third god damn.
