COVID-19 Update

World

New Cases:   430,993 (⬆︎ .23%)
New Deaths:      8,194 (⬆︎ .20%)

USA

New Cases:   11,612 (⬆︎ .03%)
New Deaths:       202 (⬆︎ .03%)

Yesterday, July 6th, 2021

0 Vaccinated people

and

8,194 Un-Vaccinated people

were killed by COVID-19

182.7 million vaccinated

Including more than 157.6 million people who have been fully vaccinated in the United States.

In the last week, an average of 865.9k doses per day were administered,

a 2% increase over the week before.

So, basically, we've got about 50 million Americans who say they don't want to - or will never - get a vaccination, and what the rest of us have to do is sell 'em on the idea.

Fine - let's start with a little peer pressure:

There's 50 million people out there making it harder for you to get a job, get a meal, get a beer and get laid.

You ain't vaxxed yet? You're an asshole - step up .

WaPo: (pay wall)

A third of White conservatives refuse to get vaccinated — a refusal shown in polling and the real world

Two elected officials have weighed in over the past several days on the effort to vaccinate as many Americans as possible.

The first was President Biden. During a July 4 speech at the White House, he again encouraged the country to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, referring to covid-19, the disease it causes.

“Covid-19 has not been vanquished,” he said. “We all know powerful variants have emerged, like the delta variant, but the best defense against these variants is to get vaccinated. My fellow Americans, it’s the most patriotic thing you can do. So, please, if you haven’t gotten vaccinated, do it — do it now for yourself, for your loved ones, for your community and for your country.”

The second official to offer thoughts was Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who weighed in on Twitter.

“No one cares about the Delta Variant or any other variant,” she wrote. “They are over covid & there is no amount of fear based screaming from the media that will ever force Americans to shut down again.”

According to analysis from Harvard University’s Geographic Insights team, Greene’s district is one of the least densely vaccinated in the country. It seems safe to say that Greene is among those who’ve rejected a dose of the vaccine.

But that the vast majority of the least-vaccinated districts are represented by Republicans, often far-right Republicans like Greene, is not a surprise. There’s a strong correlation between politics and vaccination rates — stronger than any other metric.

A Washington Post-ABC News poll released over the weekend shows a stark divide in vaccination hesitancy by political group. Overall, about a fifth of Americans say they definitely won’t get vaccinated. That’s about the percentage for independents and Whites overall. But among Republicans and White conservatives, the figure is more than a third.

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Y'know what, though - on second thought - fuck 'em.