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victor106

I identify myself as an independent. I have voted for both republicans and democrats.

But it’s undeniable that there are large numbers of republicans that are unvaccinated.

See the below two links

https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/poll-finding/import...

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/05/1059828...

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And basically calling anyone “deplorable” for not taking the vaccine isn’t going to work this time either.

Realities aside, this is why a therapeutic might be the best way out of the pandemic.

Until a new variant comes along which bypasses natural immunity and we are looking at Populationmortality_rate0.9ish deaths. The problem is we can only push mortality_rate so much with new medicine and hospital bets, missing days at work are other externalities.

Vaccinations move from the population in to the vaccinated bucket which has preferable externality rates and if enough people are vaccinated we might be able to even push 0.9ish fudge factor lower.

"deplorables" comment was made years before covid, by someone who hasn't been in government in almost a decade now

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