That's too general of a definition for me. I see a big difference between hesitant (even if it's right in front of me, I'm not ready because of XYZ about the vaccine) and access (I'll take it if it's right in front of me). The solution to getting more people to vaccinate are thus different (yes, some solution can apply to both group). Solution could be making it easier, painful (restriction), more valuable (money), trustful (education, disinformation), and so on.
Naw, Texas Republicans are just pissed off because they haven't found a way to send black people back to the plantations so they can pick cotton for "massa"...
It would be great to hold this man accountable for deaths, but apparently being a politician is a get out of jail free card.
I think there's a couple of different hats to wear. If you put on your public health official hat and you're trying to solve the problem of how to increase the vaccination rate in a community, then it makes sense to finely segment your targets by motivation, make marketing archetypes and so on. But I guess I'm reacting to the other track here. There are op-eds and social media arguments that are essentially saying to the layman (who doesn't wear a public health official hat), "don't just dismiss these minority or oppressed demographic groups as anti-vaxxers; they have legitimate reasons for not getting vaccinated so please lay off of them." And that gets my back up. Yeah, they have their reasons, just like a QAnon conspiracy theorist has his reasons, but I won't lay off. The public health officials should think of whatever they can think of to overcome barriers and meet the customer where they're at. But, I'm not a public health official. I'm a private citizen being asked to live alongside risky people and tolerate the potential for collateral damage from their life choices.
My redneck uneducated family members sing his praises as he is the only thing protecting us from all those illegal, COVID carrying immigrants. Can we still complain they are stealing our jerbs? Since there are so many jobs now isn’t the new protocol to complain that no one wants to work because the government gave out too much money right? Hard to keep up with the pretzel logic.
We need to start pointing fingers and calling MORONS ----MORONS...... We can't pretend like the stupid uneducated people who think their opinions are as important as an educated one matter, they don't. Today we lost 2 officers from APD due to Covid here in Austin, and from what I understand - neither was vaccinated....it is HARD to care, when people are literally KILLING themselves with stupidity. DD
No lie man. As a licensed professional, it is ****ing insulting that politicians can get away with doing stupid **** and not suffer severe consequences for it, yet here I am always being super diligent on all the work I do to ensure that I can keep my career long term. **** Abbott.
We were overwhelmed working at the ER the other day and I told the Doctor that this was Abbott's fault, his response was that Abbott doing a great job with the border. This xenophobia really wins people.
Explain to him that America's birth rate has dropped below it's death rate, and we need Immigrants to keep up with the job market, if we start shrinking we die as a country and as an economy. We need MORE immigrants not less. DD
