Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

There are 85,000 residents in my county. Probably 65-70K are over 18 and thus eligible for vaxes. As of today, almost 41K have one shot and almost 28K are fully vaccinated. We are getting there.

I'm exaggerating of course, but the last Republican left my county about 10 years ago, which might explain why so many people are getting vaccinated without any questions or worries.

 

They do not, but thanks for hitting your long-established level of ignorance.

 

Just did some number-crunching.
There are 456 counties or county equivalents in which ≥25% of the population is vaccine-hesitant and for which we have election data.
In those places, Trump beat Biden nearly 2:1. Otherwise, he lost 46%-52%.
He won 87% of those counties. He won 70% of other jurisdictions.
If we still haven't beaten this thing in a few months, we'll know where to point the finger. Thanks, Trumpists. You fucking despicable people.

Vaccine Hesitancy for COVID-19 | Data | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

 

Roughly about 15% of Americans smoke. I'm thinking that's the floor for number of people who will refuse to get vaccinated. Roughly 22.6% of Americans voted for Trump. I'm thinking that's a pretty good landing point for how many people will ultimately refuse to get vaccinated...somewhere between 15% and 23%...my gut says 20%-21%.

 

The problem is that 20 percent are all clustered in the same rural areas and really rich wacko anti-vaxxer enclaves. So we’ll have cities almost 100 percent vaccinated and rural and select suburban areas at 50 percent.

We talk about there being two Americas. We’re about to literally live in it.

 

Lot of good cheap housing buys coming up in those rural areas.

 

What's going to happen is COVID will keep bouncing around these anti-vax populations and eventually, a new variant will pop up that overcomes the vaccines we have now. Then we'll have to start all over.

 

That’s the big concern, certainly.

 

At that point everyone who didn’t get vaccinated should be issued laminated cards declaring them Registered Dipshits.

 

Let’s check on how Sweden’s approach to the pandemic is working out.



Hmmm … seems suboptimal.

 

Seems . . . by and large the same as they have been doing.

It's like the mother who tells her kid, "It's time for bed" and then 15 minutes later, "I really mean it this time!"

https://www.thelocal.se/20210413/ho...l-lockdown-different-from-the-rest-of-sweden/

And finally . . . COVID deaths per million.
Sweden: 1,351
California: 1,536

 

Wouldn't it be more accurate to compare the proportions of the entire population of the U.S. versus Sweden?