Yes.
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Texas doesn’t have statewide guidelines for critical care and triage, which means that caregivers are left to their own local organizing. But tough times like the ones brought on by low vaccination rates and the delta variant require a re-examination of priors. This fourth wave of Covid hospitalizations differs from all the others, because almost everyone who is severely ill is also unvaccinated. In Texas, more than 12,800 people are in the hospital because of Covid-19, and between 93 and 98 percent of them are unvaccinated.
It’s tempting to blame this wave not on the virus but on the people who didn’t get their shots. “This has been bubbling up—this anger, this frustration, this fear, this worry. Every day, we’re seeing the ascent of the curve. Now it’s the steepest it’s ever been,” Fine says. “So I and the other leaders of the task force, we decided, you know, these numbers are not looking good. These questions are coming up."
Cool, then 4. We straight up should only have had 1, but that’s besides the point.
There’s been more than enough time to see that the vaccines are safe. Still being antivax at this point is fucking ridiculous.
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Rational as in we don’t want to be the first subjects of testing - sure, after 100 millions of vaccinated people - nah, it’s not rational, it’s something else
There’s totally a fucked history there from shit like Tuskegee and the US needs to own that more.
Antivaxxers harm minorities and the working class disproportionately because they often cannot work remotely and have a greater chance of contracting Covid from working in public-facing jobs.
Being antivaxx is being anti-worker. Being antivaxx is being anti-minority.
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I am not discrediting anyone who is antivaxx. They have already done that to themselves.