"Backlash" against door to door vaccination effort

lbp , if you can't even acknowledge that there are people out in the world who may not be able to 'just go get it' in regards to the COVID vaccine for any single or combination of unknown-to-you reasons, then you absolutely DO have blinders on about what sorts of circumstances people different from you might live in.

All I'm saying is that NOT everyone can do what you did.   If you can't even agree that this MIGHT be true, then in my opinion, you ARE being willfully ignorant.


^^^  THAT. 

I was coming to equate the getting the vaccine and voting/IDs....

I think are couple of important points are being overlooked

1. No one from the government is going door to door. Everyone involved in the effort is a volunteer - clergy, community leaders, community organizers etc. In some communities, these volunteers are reaching out to people. There is no coercion involved. They are only providing information. If you don't want them coming to your door, there's a simple solution - don't answer it.


www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2021/07/08/press-briefing-by-white-house-covid-19-response-team-and-public-health-officials-44/

As the President said, we do this by going community by community, neighborhood by neighborhood, person by person; by partnering with local leaders, governors, mayors, doctors, school administrators, employers, faith leaders, and community organizers — leaders that people know and trust. One shot at a time. One person at a time.

And the good news is we know this local, community-by-community approach works. In June, we focused much of this work in places with some of the lowest vaccination rates. We worked with local organizations in these communities to make sure people knew where to get a vaccine and how effective the vaccines are against COVID-19. We focused much of this work in states including Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, and Texas — states with some of the lowest vaccination rates.

Across June, vaccination rates in these states grew faster than the overall national vaccination rate. So we’re going to stay at it and continue to make progress. We will get vaccines to more and more family doctors so Americans can get a shot at their doctor’s office.

2. The current Covid hotspots are in areas with low vaccination rates. Especially in light of the Delta variant, it is in our collective best interests to get more people vaccinated.

www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/07/09/1014512213/covid-is-surging-in-new-hotspots-driven-by-low-vaccination-rates

www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2021/07/08/press-briefing-by-white-house-covid-19-response-team-and-public-health-officials-44/

Of the 173 counties with the highest case rates, the vast majority — 93 percent — have less than 40 percent vaccination of their residents. These counties are where more than 9 million Americans live and work, and are the locations in the country where we are seeing the increased hospitalizations and deaths among unvaccinated individuals. Many of these counties are also the same locations where the Delta variant represents the large majority of circulating virus. Low vaccination rates in these counties coupled with high case rates and lax mitigation policies that do not protect those who are unvaccinated from disease will certainly and sadly lead to more unnecessary suffering, hospitalizations, and potentially death.

In terms of access, I think this describes it really well.

www.vox.com/2021/6/2/22463223/covid-19-vaccine-hesitancy-reasons-why

Access doesn’t just mean we’ve opened up eligibility to everyone,” Liz Hamel, director of public opinion and survey research at Kaiser, told me. “Access also means that I can find a way to get the vaccine without putting my livelihood at risk, or I can get it in a place I feel safe getting it.”

I also think this is an interesting point

All of the reasons people provide for not getting vaccinated, from lack of access to conspiracy theories, share a common theme: A significant portion of Americans don’t believe the vaccines are worth the potential downsides.

You need Internet access to use uber or Lyft. Many people do not have internet access.

I'd love to see the flip in attitude if the Trump administration was encouraging going door to door to increase the vaccination numbers.

Trouble is that with the growing numbers with serious hospitalizations and deaths happening, 98% are not vaccinated, it affects ALL of us. More so people who live in those areas who may need medical help from very overworked medical staffs taking care of Covid patients. Taking up needed hospital beds and staff. All they had to do is get a vaccine. But the anti-vaxxers and/or deniers seem to not care about their friends and family or the rest of us, or those who cannot get the vaccine.

Everyone also needs to remember that Former president Trump and his wife both received the vaccine while he was president and they were still living in the WH in January 2020. He didn't care enough about the masses to tell them or show them.

You asked why are conservatives so mad at Biden's suggestion... I gave a possible reason. Others have given reasons. You don't like the reasons because they don't align with how you feel about the situation.

I laughed about wondering what would happen if this was suggested by the Trump administration. You opted to be rude instead of acknowledging that it might be a shitstorm of angry democrats.

You pay very close attention to right extremism and it seems that you believe we all think that way. That's your prerogative, but you're wrong. Surely you don't align with all the dumbass extreme folks you have on your side either. We can politically disagree without thinking the other is a dumbass because of the stupid shit the extremes on our sides do or say. No?