Covid blame poll

[Pigeon]

Most unvaccinated Americans don’t blame themselves for the recent surge in COVID-19 cases across the U.S., pointing instead to international travelers, mainstream media and President Joe Biden as causes.

An Axios/Ipsos poll released Tuesday found that among the unvaccinated, 37% blame people traveling to the U.S. from other countries, 27% (mainstream media), 23% (Americans traveling to other countries), 21% (Biden) and 10% (the unvaccinated.)

Meanwhile, among vaccinated respondents, 79% blame the unvaccinated, 36% (former President Donald Trump), 33% (conservative media), 30% (people traveling to the U.S.) and 25% (Americans traveling outside the country.)

The survey was conducted July 30-Aug. 2 based on a sample of 999 adults. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.0-3.4 percentage points.

“It’s purely political at its core,” said Cliff Young, president of Ipsos U.S. Public Affairs. “To the unvaccinated, it just reinforces an already existing false belief system.”

“We’re dealing with a serious misinformation wall at this point that’s clouding facts” for a “recalcitrant group ... The only way to get to them if you’re going to get to them is hard policies, hard mandates,” Young said.

Overall, 21% of respondents said they won’t get the vaccine, and Republicans, people with a high school diploma or less and Black Americans are less likely to say they’ll get vaccinated.

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[Royal]

It’s the same logic that locks people people into stubborn belief systems. God does everything —> god creates disaster —> god must have a plan. One can see the failure in this logic and question what kind of god creates tragedy to test faith?
Take current events Virus made in China lab —> prepars buckle down , mitigation’s needed —>. Life required adaptation —> conspiracy of Masks and vaccines emerge —> fits into anti authoritarian narrative in the wrong direction

But if we view reality through the lens of a simulation, then we realize fear and death could be illusions all to make our world feel real. But the choices remain real and consequential.

[Pigeon]

the choices remain real and consequential.

says the denier after get covid and being jarred into reality

[Royal]

the choices remain real and consequential.

says the denier after get covid and being jarred into reality

Correct. That there’s aspects of the game of life that require user participation in science.

[Pigeon]

That there’s aspects of the game of life that require user participation in science.

No mental participation required, just following the laws of science which are inescapable.

[Pigeon]

Arkansas governor says he regrets signing ban on mask mandates

Dah. Dumb ass for thinking covid listens to ignorance. Even more dumb ass for not even understanding how much he has screwed up.

[Royal]

“Covid don’t listen to nobody” *southernnblack grandma voice

[Pigeon]

Everyone knows it is just magic.

[Pigeon]

A GOP official from Texas who regularly espoused anti-vaccine and anti-mask views online has died from COVID-19, five days after posting a meme on Facebook questioning the wisdom of getting inoculated against COVID.

Another human poking a stick at covid.

[Pigeon]

The Delta variant has several mutations on its spike protein, the crown-like piece of the virus that latches onto a person’s cells, explains John Sellick, D.O., an infectious disease expert and professor of medicine at the University at Buffalo/SUNY. Thus, Delta “binds very tightly” compared to other variants, he says, allowing it to “stay attached very well” once it gets ahold of cell receptors.

"Viruses evolve over time—that’s just part of the natural history of evolution,” says Shobha Swaminathan, M.D., associate professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. “Delta is much stickier compared to the previous variants, so it’s able to infect the host cells in a much more effective way, and with fewer viral particles.”

Evolution is real or god just want to kill more people. Fun stuff.