There’s been discussion here about how to get a Democratic message out to people, given that Democrats don’t have their own “news” universe like Republicans do. Well, one way is to write to your local newspaper. This is particularly important if you live in a small town or rural area. People do read their local news and they often read the Letters to the Editor. I live in a purple area with a lot of Trumper idiots and rising covid infection rate, so I fired off the following letter:
Around fifty-four thousand Americans are dead from the delta variant of the covid virus. Unvaccinated people are directly responsible for the deaths.
The delta variant spreads in the same way as the common cold: the virus enters a human through the nose or mouth, multiplies, and is exhaled for a day or two before the infected person gets symptoms and realizes they are infected. That's how colds spread and that's how unvaccinated people spread covid. So yes, the unvaccinated are to blame for the deaths.
Why aren't people taking the vaccine? After all vaccines and vaccine mandates (which ARE constitutional) have been with us since George Washington mandated that his soldiers get the small pox vaccine. Schools mandate polio vaccines which is why children rarely are crippled as my mother was. Vaccines are good and mandates are an established and legal part of our society.
So where did the hysterical anti-vaccine nonsense come from? Where did the sociopathic “It's my free dumb” nonsense come from? Republican “news” sources. Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, Dan Bongino, Townhall, Brietbart, and the Faux News lineup of of talking heads, to name just a few. Also Republican politicians such as DiSantis and Abbott—who have actively interfered on behalf of the virus in their states. DiSantis has used his power as governor to punish schools that require masks for kids, even though children can't get vaccinated and their only protection from disease is masking. There are now children dead and dying in his state from a preventable disease. COVID-19deaths in children more than doubled recently in Florida, data shows(msn.com)
Unvaccinated people are not all alike. However the data shows that the larger subgroups are the uneducated, middle-aged or younger people, white people, and the core group who say they will not ever get the vaccine are Republicans. This makes sense, given the tendency of Republicans to be consumers of the Republican “news” sources that are pumping out the anti-vaccine propaganda. Unvaccinated Americans Whiter, More Republican Than Vaccinated (voanews.com)Here Are The Biggest Groups That Are Still Refusing The Covid-19 Vaccine,Poll Finds (forbes.com)
So far unvaccinated people and Republican “news” sources have killed 56,000 Americans—so many dead Americans that they make Al Qaida look like amateurs. Think about that next time you hear someone on Faux ranting about the Taliban.