TX Governor - Karma is Calling

Yeah, I woke up to this news this morning. Someone should remind Dan that Black people are only 12% of the population in Texas. Whatever percentage of them are unvaccinated, the raw numbers are much lower than the number of white Republicans who are unvaccinated.

And his assertion that Democrats have “done nothing” to get people vaccinated is a big old lie. Typical of Dan.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/04/what-about-black-people-defense-republican-vaccine-hesitancy/

The ‘what about Black people’ defense of Republican vaccine hesitancy

Given how frequently Republicans have relied on whataboutism during the era of Donald Trump’s primacy in politics — what about Hillary?! what about the Democrats?!, etc. — it’s probably not surprising that questions about Republican vaccine hesitancy would eventually get to the same point. Where many on the right have landed is in a particularly awkward place: Sure, Republican vaccination rates are low, but what about Black people?
There’s certainly an element of “other”-ism at play, an effort to redirect the ire of outside observers and the left toward a distinctly non-Republican group. Don’t blame us, blame Black people is certainly a rhetorical choice one might make.
But it is also the case that, in many places, vaccination rates among Black people do trail the rates among Whites. Bloomberg News has compiled state-level data showing the frequent disparity, including in New York. Here, for example, are the current numbers for New York City itself, which makes up a bit under half of the state’s population.
Among White residents, the vaccination rate for the entire population is a bit under 50 percent. Among Black residents, it’s only 35 percent.

Of course, one reason that more emphasis is put on Republican hesitancy than low vaccination rates among Black Americans is that there are a lot more Republicans. There are about twice as many Republicans as there are Black people in the United States. In New York City, there are more unvaccinated White people than Black people, despite the difference in vaccination rates.

Polling data from the Kaiser Family Foundation released Wednesday morning makes obvious the disparity in the importance of each group. It estimates that Black Americans make up about 13 percent of the unvaccinated population and 13 percent of the group that says it will never receive a dose of the vaccine. Republicans, by contrast, make up more than half of each group, including nearly 6 in 10 of those who say they won’t get vaccinated.
Black Americans are only slightly more hesitant than Whites to get vaccinated, according to the Kaiser survey. (Whites make up two-thirds of those who say they won’t get vaccinated, according to the survey.) But that group of White adults includes a lot of White Republicans. Compared with White Democrats, there’s a bigger disparity.

Of course, that Black Americans are more hesitant about being vaccinated than White Democrats in particular doesn’t really help the argument that Black hesitation rates should be compared unfavorably with Republicans. It’s also disingenuous to compare Black and White vaccination rates overall, since White rates are actually higher in part because so many White people are Democrats! Those making this comparison are essentially using high vaccination support among White Democrats as a way to disparage lower rates among Black people.
This partisan split among Whites helps explain the difference in vaccination rates in New York City. After all, most White New Yorkers are Democrats, meaning that one might expect there to be a higher vaccination rate among Whites there than in places where Whites are more heavily Republican (and, therefore, vaccine skeptical).

All of that said, there has nonetheless been a great deal of reporting both on why Black Americans might be more hesitant to get vaccinated and on why they might be less likely to have received a shot even if they want one.

In April, for example, Duke University professor Gary Bennett explained that there were historic trust issues between Black Americans and both medical and governmental institutions that might lead to more caution in getting vaccinated. He also pointed out that social networks play a significant role in assessments of vaccination — something obvious among Republicans, too. Again, though, Black people express only slightly more hesitance about being vaccinated than Whites.
That suggests that the question of access is important. In February, NPR mapped vaccine distribution sites, finding that more-White neighborhoods often had better access. In June, with access more broadly available, The Washington Post looked at the process in Philadelphia, where officials proactively tried to account for a number of structural issues that Black residents might face.
“City health officials said they considered the barriers that fuel disparities in vaccinations — transportation difficulties, scheduling conflicts, skewed demographics of those in early eligibility categories and the location of clinics — when they were opening about 275 sites,” Akilah Johnson and Dan Keating reported. Yet the city still struggled.
People who have means and resources, who in Philadelphia tend to be more White, are the ones who are able to game the system better,” James Garrow, spokesman for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, told The Post. “So even as we tried to set up these systems to facilitate getting access to underserved populations … they didn’t have all of the safeguards that they probably needed.”
Again, there’s lots of documentation of these effects.
In New York City, we see a similar overlap of resources (or at least income), race and vaccinations. Zip codes with lower average incomes have lower vaccination rates — and more non-White residents.

In other words, the reasons that low vaccination rates among Black Americans are not somehow a counterpoint to low vaccination rates among Republicans are as follows:
Black people are much less likely than Republicans to say that they refuse to be vaccinated.
There are about four times as many Republicans as Black people in the ranks of the unvaccinated and a slightly higher proportion of Republicans among those who say they won’t get vaccinated.
Vaccination rates among Black Americans also reflect structural problems that often overlap with income.
Oh, also? Trying to rebut a largely partisan opposition to vaccination by blaming a historically disadvantaged group as the real problem without actually exhibiting any curiosity about the distinctions is not a real testament to intellectual rigor.

Here I am quoting myself again, but just had a thought!!So he is more interested in the Democrats and what they do, then trying to save the lives of ALL Texans, white, black, pink or purple!!

Any chance he again pointed out how this was due to his having the vaccine and told everyone to go get their damned vaccine!?! And then took the time to tell people that if they got really sick there is no where for them to go?

Eh.  We're getting real good at telling him to eff off.

He's had all 3 of his vaccines.  He's just pandering to his base voters now.

Follow the money. He’s not anti-vax, he’s pro-Regeneron.

Texas dad strips down to.... Undies to prove his point on wearing masks...

WATCH: Father strips down to his underwear at school board meeting to expose the foolishness of anti-maskers
Sarah K. Burris
August 25, 2021

The Dripping Springs Independent School District is among those Texas towns refusing to mandate masks be used in schools.

In response to the move, one Texas father stripped down to his underpants during a local school board meeting to prove a point about safety and social expectations, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported Wednesday.

"I do not like the government, or any other entity, telling me what to do," James Akers said while fully dressed. "But sometimes I've got to push the envelope a little bit. And I've decided I'm not just going to talk about it, I'm going to walk the walk."

He then began taking off his clothes.

"At work they make me wear this jacket," he said, pulling it off. "I hate it."

"They make me wear this shirt and tie," Akers continued. "I hate it."

Over and over he went through his clothing explaining that he hates wearing lots of clothes, but that his opinions are dictated by people other than him and his family.

"It's simple protocol, people. We follow certain rules. We follow certain rules for a very good reason," Akers said.

He noted, "I have every right to drive as fast as I want to" and then joked that he parked in a handicap spot when arriving at the meeting.

All of the comments were to illustrate that rules exist in society for safety and masks are no different.

He drew cheers and boos from the crowd, as well as gaveling from board president Barbara Stroud, who requested that he kindly put his pants back on.

Among those who commented about the incident online was a person who explained, "Nobody catchin' covid from a guy in a swimsuit. But, someone without a mask…could happen."

Dripping Springs man bares thoughts on mask mandates at heated school board meeting
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www.rawstory.com/father-strips-mask-mandate-schools/

Sorry, not sorry, but I just needed that laugh.



ETA - not laughing at the article, just at the thought of someone standing there in his skivvies and being asked to put his pants on. (Humor me. I'm not in the best mood at the moment.)

I'm sure the maskholes are too idiotic to even understand what he was doing.

Not really outnumbered. They are just so much louder.

Here is one of the lovely ladies that spoke at a school board meeting this week. Scroll down to the post on Aug 23 to see the shirt she wore to the meeting. 

link

Sorry I can't seem to imbed the twitter account.

You got the twitter link or you got it as you understand my frustration?

Both!