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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m probably shouting into the wind here, but yet again the big barrier to vaccination is income, not party affiliation:

https://www.axios.com/covid-vaccines-low-income-poor-workers-58698275-0451-4158-a967-37189dbf673c.html[/quote]

I don't think low income is the cause for low vaccinations rates...at least not in the way the article suggests.  The article suggests that low-income Americans want to get the vaccine, but have problems getting it and I don't think that's case.  I grew up poor/low income and I'm still very close to family and friends that would fall in that category.  When I discuss vaccines with family and friends, it's not lack of access that keeps them from getting the vaccinated, it's purely a lack of want-to.

At first I was shocked by the reluctance, but now I'm not even surprised when some one from back home says that haven't gotten or aren't getting vaccine.  At best, they'll say "I don't know about it...".  They don't trust the vaccine or have doubts about the vaccine based on nothing more than the continued recycling of bad information within the community.  Grocery stores, drug stores, medical clinics/hospitals are all offering the vaccine for free and getting one is easier than picking up something from the store.  I don't want to draw correlations between low income and low-education (or intelligence) because I don't that's quite fair.  However, many of the ones that are low income because of some of their own personal choices are the same people refusing to get vaccines.[/quote]

You might be right. The article, I'm pretty sure, aims at what well-off, powerful people can or should do to reduce the disparity. Even if it has that right, lots of people will still not get it.

The political narrative does seem tired to many of us. Especially when every deep blue city or deep blue state has vast pockets of low vaccination rates and those pockets are so reliably low-income.[/quote]

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