The incessant media/social media focus on the stories of the few highly-determined "anti-photogenic" individuals—the ones that confirm all the caricatures—is obscuring the many who might get vaccinated with the right push, mandate or loss of options. *That* should be our focus.https://twitter.com/juliettekayyem/status/1425106831010062347 …
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Twitter has been showing me this story for days, a nurse who won't get vaccinated despite having lost two parents to COVID. Yes, she exists. But if you look broadly, we also see a lot of "afraid of side effects", "doesn't have time off" and "just needs to speak to someone."pic.twitter.com/a8SNIjgLaV
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Substantial numbers of the remaining unvaccinated are minorities and/or working poor. Our healthcare system has never worked well, so here we are. Yes, the Tucker Carlson onslaught is terrible but almost all the elderly—prime target for Fox—are vaccinated! Reality *can* trump.
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Given the age breakdown of Covid illness/death, I don't think 85% counts as "almost all." And the fact that in many red states 20% or more of senior citizens remain unvaxxed is a sign of how deep-seated vax resistance is.
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No, at least 90% of 65+ have had at least on dose—we couldn't get 90% agreement among any age group that puppies are cute. That number is, in fact, incredible and proof of how not deep-seated this resistance is viewed broadly, given the scale of the propaganda onslaught.
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