THE SIDESTREAM OF AMERICAN CULTURE

Depending on which side of the fence you are on, this is either extremely depressing, or immensely cheering: "National polling by NPR, PBS NewsHour and Marist finds that rural, white Republicans — particularly supporters of Trump's — are among the least likely to get a vaccine. The issue is evident in state-by-state vaccination rates, with Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee trailing the rest of the country."

[Source: White, Rural Southerners Hesitant To Get COVID Vaccine - NPR.]


"Rural areas have a larger share of people in the most vaccine-resistant groups: Republicans and white evangelical Christians"


Elsewhere in that article it mentions that while ten percent of our urban population is vaccine resistant, it's over twenty percent out in the countryside.

What that means is that we won't achieve herd immunity this year. But as the Republicans and white evangelical Christians -- plus of course the hippies who believe in apple cider vinegar and crystal healing -- die off, at a much faster clip than those of us who have protection, we might by the time of the next presidential election. With added benefits.


Try to look on the bright side.




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