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Anonymous wrote:Not quite the DMV but only 41% of blacks in Baltimore City are vaccinated. They make up 65% of Baltimore's population. City voted 90+% for Biden. Pretty sure they're not Trump voters.

It's not an equity issue as some of you want to pretend. They just aren't getting vaccinated because they won't get vaccinated. There's no shortage of vaccines anywhere.

Any why is this? Distrust. How do you overcome distrust? Boots on the ground from people of a similar background and race, reaching out and providing facts and rationale. It’s hard work. Typing on a blog site won’t help.

DC has been doing this for months now. It's not working. The only thing that is going to work is making vaccinations completely mandatory for everything -- going out in public, receiving benefits, etc. -- just as it's mandatory for kids to be vaccinated to go to school. Unless things turn around in a hurry, we're gonna need to implement that.

A too-large subset of people both in DC and around the country simply refuses to get vaccinated, and we're all going to suffer because of it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not quite the DMV but only 41% of blacks in Baltimore City are vaccinated. They make up 65% of Baltimore's population. City voted 90+% for Biden. Pretty sure they're not Trump voters.

It's not an equity issue as some of you want to pretend. They just aren't getting vaccinated because they won't get vaccinated. There's no shortage of vaccines anywhere.

Any why is this? Distrust. How do you overcome distrust? Boots on the ground from people of a similar background and race, reaching out and providing facts and rationale. It’s hard work. Typing on a blog site won’t help.

DC has been doing this for months now. It's not working. The only thing that is going to work is making vaccinations completely mandatory for everything -- going out in public, receiving benefits, etc. -- just as it's mandatory for kids to be vaccinated to go to school. Unless things turn around in a hurry, we're gonna need to implement that.

A too-large subset of people both in DC and around the country simply refuses to get vaccinated, and we're all going to suffer because of it.

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Anonymous wrote:Not quite the DMV but only 41% of blacks in Baltimore City are vaccinated. They make up 65% of Baltimore's population. City voted 90+% for Biden. Pretty sure they're not Trump voters.

It's not an equity issue as some of you want to pretend. They just aren't getting vaccinated because they won't get vaccinated. There's no shortage of vaccines anywhere.

Any why is this? Distrust. How do you overcome distrust? Boots on the ground from people of a similar background and race, reaching out and providing facts and rationale. It’s hard work. Typing on a blog site won’t help.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not quite the DMV but only 41% of blacks in Baltimore City are vaccinated. They make up 65% of Baltimore's population. City voted 90+% for Biden. Pretty sure they're not Trump voters.

It's not an equity issue as some of you want to pretend. They just aren't getting vaccinated because they won't get vaccinated. There's no shortage of vaccines anywhere.

Any why is this? Distrust. How do you overcome distrust? Boots on the ground from people of a similar background and race, reaching out and providing facts and rationale. It’s hard work. Typing on a blog site won’t help.

Anonymous wrote:Not quite the DMV but only 41% of blacks in Baltimore City are vaccinated. They make up 65% of Baltimore's population. City voted 90+% for Biden. Pretty sure they're not Trump voters.

It's not an equity issue as some of you want to pretend. They just aren't getting vaccinated because they won't get vaccinated. There's no shortage of vaccines anywhere.

Anonymous wrote:Everything that has been said about the idiots in the red states for not getting vaccinated applies to the DMV as well.

Anonymous wrote:Careful about what you share on social media, folks. There was just a post in a local mom group where a lot of antivaxxers commented. I screenshot the whole post so I know who to avoid, should I run into them in the future, either for business or personally. I shared the screenshot in some of my other, smaller groups, too.

Anonymous wrote:Careful about what you share on social media, folks. There was just a post in a local mom group where a lot of antivaxxers commented. I screenshot the whole post so I know who to avoid, should I run into them in the future, either for business or personally. I shared the screenshot in some of my other, smaller groups, too.

Anonymous wrote:Careful about what you share on social media, folks. There was just a post in a local mom group where a lot of antivaxxers commented. I screenshot the whole post so I know who to avoid, should I run into them in the future, either for business or personally. I shared the screenshot in some of my other, smaller groups, too.

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Anonymous wrote:My sister is a Democrat. Wanted to wait a bit to see how it shaped up. Now, she feels like we've been lied to. When the vaccine came out it was "yayyy slim chance you'll get Covid". The narrative has changed so much and the media definitely doesn't help. So she lost a lot of faith in the process and how honest people were being. She looked at the stats and decided her chance of becoming severely ill or dying is very very low. And whenever she hears people try to argue that she will get very sick or she will kill grandma, or she's a selfish ahole, she becomes more bitter about how information has been warped and what people do with it.

From talking to her, it seems like this isn't a terribly uncommon stance with people she knows (who aren't republican).

I'm a Covid nurse so I have grilled her extensively about her point of view

This is frustrating. The narrative on vaccines has changed because the nature of the virus has changed. Scientists could only report on the effectiveness of vaccines as they pertained to the virus as it existed at the time. The Delta variant is different. Why can't people understand that this is a fluid situation that evolves rapidly, and the "narrative" necessarily will keep changing. Sorry to say, but your sister needs to work on her critical thinking skills.

Vaccinated DP. Lots of people with ample critical thinking skills can see that the shifting covid narrative is often caused by reasons other than just science, and it understandably makes them skeptical. First, we were told no masks, and then we were told we must mask. First we were told there was no chance the virus came from a lab, and now scientists admit that it might have. Etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Who are they? I appreciate the press saying Republicans but - seriously - we don’t have many of those in the DMV. Vaccines should be mandated. Who are these folks that refuse to do the right thing?

I'm not vaccinated. 50 yo white female Democrat. I have medical issues, including severe allergies and an as yet undiagnosed auto immune condition, with risk of blood clots. I am doing the right thing for me, which is holding off on vaccination until I have a handle on my health.

Even if it means killing people you come in contact with when you inevitably catch the virus.

Wow.

You’re sooooooo selfless.

She is doing the right thing. If the only people who were not getting vaccinated had medical reasons, we would be at 99 percent now.

Anonymous wrote:Not quite the DMV but only 41% of blacks in Baltimore City are vaccinated. They make up 65% of Baltimore's population. City voted 90+% for Biden. Pretty sure they're not Trump voters.

It's not an equity issue as some of you want to pretend. They just aren't getting vaccinated because they won't get vaccinated. There's no shortage of vaccines anywhere.