Even the most resistant states & territories are over or around 60% with one shot, over or around 50% fully vaxed.
The U.S. Virgin Islands have had 6,298 cases and 66 deaths.
American Samoa has had 4 cases of Covid and no deaths.
But they still need better vaccine distribution.
If you’re picturing exclusively pinwheel-eyed rightwing radio hosts talking about lizard people as repping the unvaccinated, you’re not seeing these maps.
If it seems the vax numbers will never go up, because the unvaccinated are entirely recalcitrant lunatics, also consider that some 800k shots are being given every day.
Here’s a phenomenon that can’t be helping:
Far right celebs keep disparaging the vax, but get it themselves.
People in places w/bad distribution & low information abt the vax sit it out in fear & confusion.
Right keeps praising them.
Left says they’re monsters.
PS. Here is another eye-popping chart:
The most vulnerable age groups are not standing on ceremony. 95.2% of all the 65-74s.
If you want to help, it's time to GOTVax. People will think you're annoying (and your kids will cringe, mine do) but time to hand-sell this vaccine like you're a damn Mormon. Here's where to volunteer in Greater Kansas City (someone asked about MIssouri):
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.
But let’s give it up for the sane majority. 72% of eligible Americans have had at least one shot.
Brought to you by your friends at 2021 > 2020
…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.
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?