Living through it, it is impossible for us to appreciate the insanity of people *choosing relatively high risk of suffering & death* because their political party has decided convincing their supporters to choose unnecessary suffering & death is good for their electoral chances.
"It’s not that they don’t know anyone who has had COVID. Almost everybody here does. They just don’t believe that masks and vaccines are the solution...[Unvaccinated dude] says his support for Trump has nothing to do w/ his decision-making on vaccination" washingtonpost.com/education/2021…
Unvaccinated dude may say his support for Trump is not why his family is unvaccinated & unmasked in the middle of deadly pandemic regularly killing people he knows, but it is the reason: if Republicans were strongly pro-medicine he would be vaccinated & masked.
WaPo article carefully avoids assigning blame, but it paints a clear picture: unvaccinated dude is both living in place where (1) doing the right thing (vaccine & masks) for himself, family, community is ostracized (2) gov't failing to push these solutions makes it even harder.
I feel terrible for good people living deep red counties/states who just want to keep their family & community safe. There is only so much you can do it, if your community & government is actively against public saftey & health.
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