AndyinPA wrote: ↑Fri Jul 23, 2021 11:03 am https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ovid-cases
The Republican governor of Alabama has said it is “time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks” for rising cases of Covid-19, amid concern that months of misinformation over the need and efficacy of vaccines is fueling a resurgence of coronavirus infections in several states.
Kay Ivey said that vaccines are “the greatest weapon we have to fight Covid” and added that a surge in new cases of the coronavirus in Alabama is due to a reluctance among many people in the state to get inoculated.
Only about a third of eligible people in Alabama have got a vaccine shot, one of the lowest rates in the US.
“Folks are supposed to have common sense,” said the Alabama governor. “But it’s time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the vaccinated folks. It’s the unvaccinated folks that are letting us down.”
Ivey added that nearly all the new hospitalizations and deaths due to Covid are unvaccinated people. “These folks are choosing a horrible lifestyle of self-inflicted pain,” she said.
The criticism of those who are eligible to be vaccinated and have chosen not to get the shot despite vaccines being available follows a concerted effort among conspiracy theorists and others on social media and conservative media outlets such as Fox News to sow baseless doubt over the safety or need for vaccinations despite a slew of evidence over their ability to shield people from the worst effects of the virus, including death.
My Mister's daughter is in Alabama. The state has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country.
The data cannot be ignored.97% of those hospitalized are unvaccinated. The vaccinated aren't dying.
I'm sick of those who refuse to vaccinate, to wear masks, etc and then whine about how their rights are being violated. Viruses don't give a fuck about politics.
The unvaccinated want life back to the old normal* without taking any responsibility for doing the basic and necessary things to speed up our recovery. They don't get it both ways.
*We're never going back to the old normal.