“See (Robo) Spot Run” (COVID ROBO PATROL DOGS)
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May 11, 2020Publisher”s Note: As champions of informed consent and health freedom, we’ve covered the vaccine issue here in Vermont’s Green Mountains for years. Take our 3 question vax quiz here. Remember that the “PRO versus ANTI vaxxer” frame so often advanced in the US “news” media is a false binary. A better 3 part question to ask about one of the world’s most powerful and pervasive industrial technologies backed by very powerful organizational players like Bill “THE VAX MAN” Gates and the World Health Organization (WHO?): “Is a vaccine 1) needed; 2) tested; and 3) proven safe?” At the risk of stating the obvious, by the time a COVID-19 vaccine is developed, the coronavirus will most likely have mutated into some other viral entity (assuming conventional wisdom re: “viruses” is accurate). Perhaps this is why the Seattle Times alarmingly (?) reported that 23% of Americans in one recent survey “said they would NOT get vaccinated against COVID-19,” Go outside, remove your masks, and build that “herd immunity,” #TeamHuman! Seattle Times article below.
Scientists across the globe are working hard to develop a COVID-19 vaccine as worldwide deaths from the coronavirus illness push toward 300,000.
But there’s no guarantee these vaccine efforts will succeed — and millions of Americans seem to be fine with that.
The results from a new set of surveys by Morning Consult found that 14 percent of American adults would not get a COVID-19 vaccine if one were available and 22 percent aren’t sure if they would. In a separate recent survey, currently undergoing peer review, political scientists Kristin Lunz Trujillo and Matt Motta found that 23% of U.S. respondents said they would not get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Anti-vaccine activists have participated in many of the protests across the U.S. against governors’ stay-at-home orders, which are meant to slow the coronavirus pandemic. Anti-vaccine leaders tend to argue that fear of COVID-19 is being manufactured by corrupt governments and corporations. Various false claims are being spread, such as “the idea that a vaccine has existed for years and has been kept from public consumption,” write Trujillo and Motta.
Morning Consult’s latest data shows that 64% of American adults overall say they would get a COVID-19 vaccine. That rises to 80% among those 65 and older.
The age group most likely to take a pass on a vaccine: those between 35 and 44. In the Morning Consult polls, only 53% of Americans in this age group said they’d get vaccinated, and 18% said they wouldn’t. Twenty-eight percent said they don’t know if they would.ADVERTISING
Trujillo and Motta’s data, meanwhile, indicates that 62% of Americans of all age groups “who are skeptical of vaccines said that they will forego COVID-19 vaccination.”
By a wide margin in the Morning Consult surveys, Republicans (20%) are more likely than Democrats (7%) to insist they would not get vaccinated against COVID-19. Sixteen percent of political independents said they wouldn’t get vaccinated.
With most U.S. residents being under emergency stay-at-home orders for more than a month, Americans of all political persuasions are becoming less worried about the coronavirus pandemic. Morning Consult found that the percentage of Americans who say the coronavirus is a “severe health risk in their community” has dropped 11 points from early April, now standing at 30% of U.S. adults.
Public-health officials says the earliest a COVID-19 vaccine could be available will be sometime in 2021. A vaccine typically takes many years to successfully develop.
— Douglas Perry @douglasmperry
