As I mentioned above, the narrowing of Covid’s gaps does involve some bad news: The share of white Americans who have received a Covid vaccine shot has barely budged since last summer.

The main culprit is politics. Only about 60 percent of Republican adults are vaccinated, compared with about 75 percent of independents and more than 90 percent of Democrats, according to Kaiser. And Republicans are both disproportionately white and older. Together, these facts help explain why the white death rate has recently been higher than the Asian, Black or Latino rate.

In heavily conservative, white communities, leaders have not done as good a job explaining the vaccine’s benefits — and Covid’s risks — as leaders in Black and Latino communities. Instead, many conservative media figures, politicians, clergy members and others have amplified false or misleading information about the vaccines. Millions of Americans, in turn, have chosen not to receive a lifesaving shot. Some have paid with their lives.

  • kristina [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    :grillman: just runnin around licking doorknobs and rubbing themselves on monkeys

    • SaniFlush [any, any]
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      2 years ago

      Carrying pale, sickly toddlers around while they cough in every object in their sights like an electronic turret

      • Sea_Gull [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        A toddler's wet cough triggers a fight or flight response in me.

        • SaniFlush [any, any]
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          2 years ago

          This is what happens when there are no extended families and nobody can afford a babysitter

          • Sea_Gull [they/them]
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            2 years ago

            It sure is nice that systemic failures for parents and children has no direct effects on me.

            Normal country!

        • SaniFlush [any, any]
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          2 years ago

          But no, no reason to keep the schools closed or even enforce social distancing…

  • amber2 [she/her,they/them]
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    2 years ago

    "we need to stand up against white genocide!"

    "nooo not like that, I meant we should harras minorities and white women who won't have sex with me"

  • SerLava [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHA

    THE GREAT REPLACEMENT IS HERE AND ITS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE

    LMAAAAO

    • duderium [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      So basically the NYT is wrong because Black people aren’t living long enough to die of covid. Meaning that the NYT here is once again trying to conceal eugenics.

  • star_wraith [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Now all of the sudden you'll see MSM starting talking about how people dying is bad and we need to solve the current uptick. As soon as something affect white folks, it becomes a "crisis".

    • silent_water [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      nah, it's not affecting the owning class so they'll continue forcing everyone to unmask and go to the office.

      • MerryChristmas [any]
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        2 years ago

        It's wild how none of these dudes wear masks at 200+ person events, though. I photographed a few and part of my job was to convince these c-suite guys to put on their masks for the pictures to avoid bad press if it became a superspreader event. I got so few usable shots.

        • SuperZutsuki [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          They really believe they're invincible. They made the kool-aid and started chugging it along with their acolytes.

  • UlyssesT
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    1 day ago

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    • Commander_Data [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      A lof of poor white people have been acting against their class interests for so long I don't feel like there's much that can be done to redeem them. It's probably not great to point and laugh at them, but news like this pretty much gets a shoulder shrug from me.

  • D61 [any]
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    2 years ago

    :grillman: We're always going to be number 1!