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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Why don't they want to be vaccinated?[/quote]
For any of the reasons any other Americans don't want to be vaccinated:  they think Covid isn't a big deal, they don't trust the government, they are afraid of "long-term" side effects, they heard that their cousin's friend's testicles swelled... any of the nonsense that is keeping people from getting the shot.  [/quote]

Seeing that African Americans are the least vaccinated demographic, that's why we should not have vaccine passports.  Just a month ago, only 28% of black New Yorkers 18 to 44 were vaccinated.  If you support vaccine passports, you're for barring almost 3 of every 4 black people from going to a restaurant.  Now, even Black Lives Matters is protesting vaccine passports in New York.

People should actually trust the vaccines. COVID is not going away, no matter if 100% of people get vaccinated. Hopefully Virginia does not do this new form of segregation.

We should use positive messages to get people vaccinated, not coercion and racial segregation.[/quote]
I'm sorry, but I feel the same way about African Americans (or any other Americans) who do not get vaccines as I do about low-income people who vote republican.  They are acting against their own interests in an illogical way.  It is well known in the African American community that they suffer worse health outcomes from Covid.  The vaccines have been in circulation since December of last year and there have been no significant long-term side effects (unlike Covid, which can leave people with permanent reduced lung function).  People are making their choice... and that's fine, but it is not reasonable to expect society to bend over backwards  to protect them indefinitely while people "do their own research".  We should not enable bad choices at the expense of others...[/quote]

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