But let’s give it up for the sane majority. 72% of eligible Americans have had at least one shot.
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…when 0.00% of Americans were vaccinated
In a non-monoculture with bad & incomprehensible public-health programs (like the U.S.), people are always going to miss or reject even tried-and-true vaccines.
The people I have badgered to get it are not ideological.
They don’t know it’s free. They don’t have time with inhumane work schedules & can’t get time off. They are anxious about needles. They have had Covid & mistakenly believe they’re immune.
Literally some have told me they “don’t know which one to get.”
One heartbreaking guy told me no one had ever shown concern for his health. That has been his experience w his community generally when it comes to chronic pain & he seems to think he almost doesn’t deserve care.
One said “I don’t follow politics.” !! I suspect he’s used to people with burning eyes trying to get him to love or loathe Trump.
He’s opted to stay aloof for fear of people yelling “science!” or “deep state!” at him.
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Am I a bigger optimist than Max? It’s nearly 73% of those over 18, and those under 12 still aren’t eligible. Unlike the Grp of Seven, we are also home to the Bill of Rights & can’t just introduce statutes by fiat. Also home to all social media but TikTok so it’s disinfo central.
Imagine too if we had a national health service didn’t have this pervasive idea that we all are supposed to be swashbuckling mavericks with our own health decisions.
Once again as the Ned Flanders of vaccine proselytizing I urge everyone to hand-sell it to laggards. It’s still surprising how many people don’t know it’s free, don’t know “which one to get,” are scared of needles, etc.
In 2011 @DylanByers did a profile of me for Ad Week, which Wolff then run. I was told it was about my work at the NYT. It was, kind of. Also it was a way for Wolff to drag other writers at the NYT by praising me & also write about my non-sex life.
Dylan is not Wolff, & he was upfront. But the whole thing played to my vanity, with photo shoots & false eyelashes, & I learned my lesson when friends & colleagues thought the piece insulted them, & my friend @euanrellie got to have another laugh abt the URBAN MYTH in the piece.
Congratulations to @billmckibben & the incredible activists who got this done—gg divestment is not just the biggest thing to do to mitigate the climate crisis, but really the only thing. Yale, Princeton, even UT — your moves.
Remember when Tom Cotton cited this tweet, and this tweet alone, to suggest that rioters were lavishly-funded instigators in “exotic cars” and thus needed to have their heads cracked?