Politics is now tied in serious ways to vaccination rates. It's also true that FL and TX have done better than virtually all red states and yet received the bulk of the media's hatred. Which would at least partially explain why so many Republicans think this is political.
If we care about people getting vaccinated -- and we should -- perhaps it might behoove those in the media, whose job it is to tell the truth about both politics and vaccine efficacy, to take a look in the mirror when it comes to why so many people don't believe them.
Institutional credibility is required to get people to do something like take a vaccine for a disease that does not kill the vast bulk of people who get it. When the institutions have destroyed their own credibility for years, it's tough to turn it on like a light switch.
And when you spend the bulk of this pandemic lying (You don't need masks! You must wear a mask!) or pandering (Don't gather in groups to protest lockdowns! Protest George Floyd by the millions!), or even downplaying vaccines (They're Trump's!) you aren't strengthening your case.

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I'm vaxxed, anti-mandates, obviously.
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