What I underestimated.

[nwhiker]

I figured the stupid Maggots would resist vaccination because they are stupid and they long ago pooped out their brains.

What I honestly did not expect was that Republican officials would be totally ok with killing off their own voters, since R's are more likely not not be vaccinated, to "own" Biden and the libs. That the governors of TX, FL, AZ, AL etc would be willing to sacrifice human beings to their golden calf, and happily so, in hopes of making Biden a one-term president.

I have to say that that stuns me. I didn't expect it to be that bad.

Also, good pieces of the breakdown of stupid: We Fact-Checked Fox News' Racist Lie. It Turns Out, the Pandemic Is Worse in Republican States from The Root.

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[camelsamba]

in general i agree with everything it says, but am I misreading this?
Since African Americans are 12.9 percent of the state’s population and 7.9 percent of vaccinations, Patrick knows Black Texans are more vaccinated than white Texans.

if they are 13 of population and 8% of vaccinated population, seems like that is under-represented, that is, less vaccinated than white Texans. (But what I found at KFF shows that white Texans are 41% of population and 38% of vaxxed Texans, so also under-represented in vaxxed pop.)

[nwhiker]

When I looked at it, it was the numbers vs rate vs percentage of population thing.

How I read it: Dan Patrick was implying that Black unvaccinated Texans (and Black unvaccinated people) were the source of the "pandemic of the unvaccinated" but the rate of Black people in the population is low enough that they're not the major problem of unvaccinateds despite what he said. He said the biggest group in most states that have not been vaccinated are Blacks which might be true (in some states) RATE wise, but they're certainly not the biggest number.

[camelsamba]

okay, i see what you're saying. They could have worded it better. Given that Texas politicians are also trying to blame asylum seekers (also a small number of people), it does fit in with their overall blame game.

[camelsamba]

and this article at Texas Tribune breaks down demographics with more description / explanation than the chart at KFF: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/03/unvaccinated-texas-demographics/


so again, agree with the general point, but wish they didn't muddy it with errors.

[nwhiker]

Yeah, but I don't think it was an error: I think they were responding to implication that the flat out number ("biggest group" which tends to be understood as "largest number of people") of unvaccinated are Black, which is not the case considering their number the population.

Pretty much a racist dog whistle implying hordes of unvaccinated Black people.

[nwhiker]

Also, thanks for the article, it was interesting to see the breakdowns.