I don't think anybody likes needles, outside of a few people whose kinks I won't shame. I suspect that people with various phobias are over -represented among vaccine resisters, though I haven't been able to find a study that shows to what degree. As in most things like this, vaccine resistance is likely a combination of factors that vary wildly among individuals.
It is clear that at the core of vaccine resistance is a distrust of our political and public health institutions which is being more or less successfully exploited by the right.
Will a less invasive delivery system make any difference? Maybe not, but we've done a poor job of effectively educating people about the virus problem, and an even poorer job of enforcing public health standards which I think is a partial result of a neglected infrastructure.
I do think doing a better job of selling vaccination like we did war bonds in WWII couldn't hurt and might help a great deal. Find out who the resister's icons are, get them publicly vaccinated and actively promoting vaccination as the hip thing to do. Bribe them heavily if you have to.
Otherwise we're in for an indefinite spiral of virus mutations, and while we've been lucky so far that we've haven't faced a really aggressive strain that wipes out fifty percent or more of our population, that may not keep up.
Back to education, then. I'm not sure how you educate people who are convinced that the science is bunk and just a way for the government to exert control, but I do know that if they were a threat only to themselves it wouldn't matter.
Sadly, this is not the case. It may be time to start levelling criminal charges against people who are proven to have knowingly exposed other people who have subsequently suffered, but I really don't want to go down that path.
I am also greatful for Minnesota's Gov, Tim Walz. The MN GQP keeps suing him for listening to scientists, and I hope Minnesotans get a clue and go completely Dem soon (we have a GQP Senate and a Dem House).
The Trumpiest members of my family are in GA. It’s such a cult mentality that it’s impossible to have a conversation with them that goes beyond “How are you? Good! Ok, Bye!” They still bring up “the Sandy Hook hoax” in polite conversation if you let them. Whatever happens to them is no ones fault but their own.
As a Georgia Tech student, I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I am using the distance learning option and not stepping foot in that virus-riddled state until graduation, so I have no fucks left to give about the willfully unvaccinated. OTOH, I still have no fucks to give about the willfully unvaccinated, but recognize that those filthy vectors are going to get people killed in the short term who for whatever reason cannot be vaccinated, and going to get people killed in the long term as they use their host bodies to gestate new variants.
Though he won't say it directly, Kemp is trying hard to keep Georgia safe from progressives, equality, and science.
They are awfully white overall for Georgia, aren't they? Echo says African Americans make up about 32% of the population in Georgia.
That fits them so well.
So there are mandates, and no one is following them, ipso facto mandates don't work!
I had an ex of mine pick up a Parrot from an ex of hers...
I love the Pips.They crack me up on this song—“superstar but he didn’t get far.”
What was on the centerfold?
You misspelled "especially".
I don't think anybody likes needles, outside of a few people whose kinks I won't shame. I suspect that people with various phobias are over -represented among vaccine resisters, though I haven't been able to find a study that shows to what degree. As in most things like this, vaccine resistance is likely a combination of factors that vary wildly among individuals.
It is clear that at the core of vaccine resistance is a distrust of our political and public health institutions which is being more or less successfully exploited by the right.
Will a less invasive delivery system make any difference? Maybe not, but we've done a poor job of effectively educating people about the virus problem, and an even poorer job of enforcing public health standards which I think is a partial result of a neglected infrastructure.
I do think doing a better job of selling vaccination like we did war bonds in WWII couldn't hurt and might help a great deal. Find out who the resister's icons are, get them publicly vaccinated and actively promoting vaccination as the hip thing to do. Bribe them heavily if you have to.
Otherwise we're in for an indefinite spiral of virus mutations, and while we've been lucky so far that we've haven't faced a really aggressive strain that wipes out fifty percent or more of our population, that may not keep up.
Ain’t it ironic that the smrtst folks call themselves ‘Mensa,’ when it means “female dumbass” in Spanish?
Back to education, then. I'm not sure how you educate people who are convinced that the science is bunk and just a way for the government to exert control, but I do know that if they were a threat only to themselves it wouldn't matter.
Sadly, this is not the case. It may be time to start levelling criminal charges against people who are proven to have knowingly exposed other people who have subsequently suffered, but I really don't want to go down that path.
I love how much shade the Pips throw in that song! Guess who's gonna be right by his side *eyeroll*
I am also greatful for Minnesota's Gov, Tim Walz. The MN GQP keeps suing him for listening to scientists, and I hope Minnesotans get a clue and go completely Dem soon (we have a GQP Senate and a Dem House).
The Trumpiest members of my family are in GA. It’s such a cult mentality that it’s impossible to have a conversation with them that goes beyond “How are you? Good! Ok, Bye!” They still bring up “the Sandy Hook hoax” in polite conversation if you let them. Whatever happens to them is no ones fault but their own.
I think it's telling that while they have three whole persons of color in that picture, none of them are women.
As a Georgia Tech student, I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I am using the distance learning option and not stepping foot in that virus-riddled state until graduation, so I have no fucks left to give about the willfully unvaccinated. OTOH, I still have no fucks to give about the willfully unvaccinated, but recognize that those filthy vectors are going to get people killed in the short term who for whatever reason cannot be vaccinated, and going to get people killed in the long term as they use their host bodies to gestate new variants.