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."

  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Governments outside of the USA government have done studies on the US made vaccines on their own Covid 19 variants and declared the vaccines safe. Does sub Saharan African governments declaring the Phizer and J and J vaccines safe and effective for our variants of Covid make you feel more at ease?

      • Dirtbag [they/them]
        ·
        3 years ago

        There ARE rational reasons to be anti vaxx.

        :bugs-no:

        • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          Rational is the wrong word. But there are understandable reasons. If someone was medically experimented on by SAIMR, and antivaxx as a result, I'd understand it. I'd try to convince them otherwise for the sake of the sake of their own health, but at the end of the day I can't hold it against them.

          Thankfully this is a rare thing, and most of the antivaxxers in my country are white chuds that have no understandable reason to be antivaxx

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        I'm just trying to have an honest conversation. I don't think you're a chud or anything. I understand why people are antivaxx. Medical experimentation on minorities, stuff like SAIMR conducting medical experiments against Africans. The vaccines being American, and a general distrust against the USA. I'm trying to address this by saying that even anti US governments and institutions are saying that the US made vaccines are safe, and are making efforts to acquire them. And that people are desperate for vaccines over here. Despite all of the bad history with the USA and the medical community.