Sunday subscribers thread for April 18, 2021
Happy Sunday! This week’s headline polls:
The best use of polling this week is in gauging the public’s reaction to the CDC’s decision to pause one-dose J&J vaccinations. So far, it has not changed public demand for vaccines or increase overall hesitancy. Two like on this: one and two.
Another important poll found that a broad majority of Americans oppose laws that would prevent transgender athletes from participating in school sports.
Finally, a CBS News poll picked up a big partisan divide on whether Americans would use a time machine to travel to the past or to the future. The results are exactly what you’d expect but not immediately clear as a question to ask to get at the underlying dynamic of nostalgia.
That’s pretty much it. Are you vaccinated yet? Would you go forward in time or back? I’ll be visiting this thread periodically for the next few hours as I finish up the weekly newsletter.
First vaccine shot on Monday, finally!
Regarding hesitancy:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/04/17/veterans-coronavirus-vaccine/
I've lived in that area. I grew up with people like this, but in the pre-Fox era, so gullibility was not a feature at that time. It's very hard, still, for me to comprehend the wild stuff people will believe. I mean...can they even make a functional microchip that will fit through the .25 millimeters of the typical vaccination needed? And it's transmitting to...where?
And all the while, their cell phones are providing real-time tracking of their locations while they freely share every moment of their day on Facebook. Who needs a microchip? It's mind-boggling.
What has always driven me insane is the contradictions in their positions they can't even reason through.
These same people who get many government benefits, hiring preferences, etc. still hate the government and redistributive policies...while being redistributed to. I see the same thing in farmers, who on the whole get massive welfare in the form of crop subsidies and various programs. But in my rural home town, you CANNOT point out how much more they get in government assistance than they pay in taxes because THEY deserve it while others are just suckling off the government without justification.
I just don't know what to think about the conservative mind anymore.
Was going to get J&J but had had settle for Moderna. So 6 weeks until I am fully vaccinated. I waited this long...