The unvaccinated Americans are now overwhelmingly Republican, which is unusual for a number of reasons. For one, they claim to be smarter than the average bear, and if that’s true, smart people believe in & go with science. But then again, these same Repiublicans believe there’s bearded old white man in the sky that controls life as we know it, so i don’t lend any stock to them being smarter.

The vaccine was created under a Republican president. Trump was our leader when the vaccine was developed & first rolled out to front-line workers in the war on Covid. The plan to get America vaccinated began on Trump’s watch, and the methodology behind getting the vaccine out was a Trump-era plan. Biden has little or nothing to do with getting Americans vaccinated even though the plan didn’t kick in until after he was inaugerated. It simply took that long to get the plan in gear.

But what’s really appalling are the number of Republican politicians who have been vaccinated, but are creating an undercurrent of non-compliance to the vaccine in the Republican fan base. I call it a “fan base” because they’re loaded with fanatics — watch the January 6, 2021 Capital videos on YouTube if you dispute that. The GOP pols are telling people that they have the right to deny the vaccine, which paints the vaccine in a negative light, even though the is currently no effort to mandate vaccines, which would not be unique as we currently require kids who enter public schools to have been vaccinated against certain diseases.

To date (July 25, 2021), Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, Steve Scalise, Tommy Tuberville, and Fox owner Rupert Murdoch have all gotten the Covid vaccine, as have many other GOP pols. These are the leaders of the party & some of the most conservative members of it, yet they continue to muddy the waters and tell people “it’s your choice”. Sure, it’s also your choice if you want to jump off a tall building, but that doesn’t make it a good idea. Instead of gving people reasons to not take the vaccine, they should be telling people to not make excuses & to believe what the CDC & WHO are telling you to do becuase they use science to come to conclusions and they’re smarter than you about this, and probably most everything else you think you know.

One big issue is the pseudoscience behind antibodies after infection. The majority of the ignorant Republican fan base (and many of its GOP pols) believe that the antibodies acquired via Covid infection are enough to protect you against a 2nd bout, and the science behind this opinion is that it’s 100% not true and completely against it. Sen Rand Paul has said he would not get the vaccine due to his bout with Covid. But many people have gotten Covid twice, as quickly as appx 2 months later, and the antibodies from infection typically decay quickly, whereas the antibodies from vaccination are long-lasting — the CDC says we may not even need a booster shot anytime soon.

Here’s another irony I haven’t seen mentioned yet, but the Republican’s want the government to mandate a woman’s right to do what she wants with her body, in that case abortion, but they don’t want the government mandating a vaccine that has been proven safe & will save them from a Covid death. ignoring that science and facts is not an intelligent decision. Keep in mind this is the party that’s tough & fearless & wants to go to war with anybody & everybody, but they’re afraid of a vaccine. We’d still have polio & smallpox ravaging us if these same people had been in charge years ago. Smallpox was eradicated & polio hasn’t been a problem for the USA since the 50s.

This virus will never be contained if we fail to believe in science and ignore the call to get a Covid vaccine. Just like the business closures, this issue should never have been politicized.