re: #29 Eclectic Cyborg

(Via NPR) This weekend, 80,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines will expire in Arkansas. There simply weren’t enough people in the state willing to get their jab — even though cases and deaths from the delta variant are rising there at an alarming rate.

”Prior to the vaccine, I was heartsick because people died and we couldn’t help them. Now, they don’t get the vaccine and we can’t help them,” says Tammy Kellebrew, a pharmacist who travels to rural hospitals around the state. “And so after every death, I go back to the pharmacy and I cry, and then I go back to work.”

”I’m angry, upset, disappointed,” says Dr. Jose Romero, health secretary for Arkansas. “As a nation, we’ve worked so hard to get this vaccine out. And not to have them accepted by the public is difficult to understand and difficult to accept.”

Vaccine doses other countries are desperate for are going in the trash here because no one wants them.

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I really think there is a huge backlash building. What will it be when another million people, almost all un-vaccinated, have died? What will parents do when their children are permanently disabled by a disease that the parents themselves had the power to prevent, but they chose instead to listen to hucksters and bigots.
A few years ago, a wingnut I knew declared that “in ten years, Republicans will be hunted like wild animals!” I thought he was nuts, but now there is a non-negligible possibility that it will come true. After all, if you act like a predatory beast, you will be treated like one.