Your effort to paint vaccine resistance as solely a function of Republican partisanship is false, it is dishonest, & it is belied by the data. You know it. I know it. Our readers know it.https://twitter.com/Timodc/status/1416503792707665923 …
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Notice Tim doing the thing where (some) white people are presumed to be making voluntary choices for which they are responsible, but non-white people are not. Vaccines are now pervasively available. Don't pretend that only one of the resistant populations is resistant.https://twitter.com/Timodc/status/1416503792707665923 …
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You can see the existence of those groups in the datahttps://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/us-vaccine-demographics.html …
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The idea that we should mockingly dunk on some ordinary folks who have a bad opinion while weeping crocodile tears for other ordinary folks who have the same opinion, distinguished only by their partisan voting patterns, is everything wrong with Extremely Online Partisanship.
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Any political party that contends for a majority will have a lot of people in it who are ignorant, resentful, bigoted, superstitious, and/or just plain stupid. This has always been true of all major parties in any democracy. Half the voters are below average in anything.
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"Our voters have excuses for their dumbassery, yours don't" is hackery. Everybody has their dumbasses.
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@michaelbd point about public health officials needing to meet all of these vaccine skeptics where they are: facts may not care about your feelings, but when you're charged with moving public sentiment, the feelings of the public are facts in & of themselves.Show this thread -
Put another way: if you want to convince people to stop being wrong, you have to take account of why they are wrong. That includes both good & bad reasons for being wrong. That's as true if you're selling vaccines as if you're selling cigarettes, life insurance, or Jeb Bush.
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This is also true, but also not a complete explanation. Anti-vaxx opinion may be more prevalent further down the social class scale, but it definitely has major pockets at all stages of that scalehttps://twitter.com/fredbauerblog/status/1416070086486597635 …
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In case you need background on why a certain faction of NR's critics are so testy today.https://twitter.com/rkylesmith/status/1416502670626525192 …
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Look at what people actually say: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/07/vaccine-equity-black-americans-biden-491973 … https://www.npr.org/2020/12/10/945136592/many-hispanic-and-black-people-say-they-are-skeptical-about-covid-19-vaccine … https://www.brookings.edu/blog/how-we-rise/2021/01/25/skepticism-and-mistrust-challenge-covid-vaccine-uptake-for-latinos/ … https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/20210202/black-vaccine-hesitancy-rooted-in-mistrust-doubts … https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article250171290.html … https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/11/23/covid-vaccine-hesitancy/ … https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article249017040.html … https://time.com/5925074/black-americans-covid-19-vaccine-distrust/ …https://twitter.com/HeathMayo/status/1416824541708390400 …
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Where there has been success in breaking down black mistrust of the vaccine, guess which strategy worked: 1) Mocking people for being anti-vaxx 2) Reaching out through people they already trustedhttps://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/getting-clearer-picture-black-americans-factors-overcame-their-vaccine-hesitancy-n1263787 …
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