Trump Voters Hesitant About COVID Vaccine Won t Be Swayed by Former President
On 3/15/21 at 1:45 PM EDT
When trying to convince former President Donald Trump s supporters to get vaccinated against COVID-19, officials should look to hammering home facts about those who have been vaccinated and not rely on the former president s persuasion, a recent focus group indicates.
In an effort to reduce opposition and help America reach herd immunity, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, advised Trump to tell people to get vaccinated. However, the focus group found that people don t respond to politicians or anyone perceived to be partisan because they don t trust them.
What happens when our luck runs out?
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It’s been almost three weeks since Donald Trump began his exile from public life on a Florida golf course. I thought this would be a moment of relief after years of exhaustion and misery. But as we start to get some distance from his presidency, I haven’t been able to shake a thought that’s increasingly haunted me of late: The United States got very, very lucky over the past four years.
By “luck,” of course, I don’t mean that Americans reaped any benefits over the last four years. This country is less healthy, less wealthy, less happy, and less stable than it was when Trump became president four years ago. At least 400,000 Americans died from the Covid-19 pandemic just while Trump was in office; his mismanagement of the response will also likely kill scores more before things stabilize. It’s hard to wrap that level of mass suffering around one’s head. By one estimate, there may have been fewer Americ