OMG; after the two columns today, yours and Steve's i think a cage match or tables and ladders match is in order. For real, imagine ticket sales to see two good friends throwing one or the other off a twelve foot tall cage. Spectacular.
Just kidding, it is really more is a set up for the question: "what's going to happen over the next 6 weeks?" Now that professional wrestling has brought back the crowds (predominantly in red states where vaccination rates are pathetic), will there be a spread? Screaming, drinking, spitting and being bellicose is the norm. No masks, no social distancing just out there having fun. Sorry, not for me.
It gets better, or worse. We are already seeing athletes pulled from the Olympics. They have to have been really careful and yet they still test positive. How many will there be before they are done? We'll see,
Delighted you brought up the dirty dozen. I didn't get into it with Steve in my response this morning but read the articles and like you was delighted to see it came from an outside organization. Tracking that should be simple and once identified easy to fix. What won't be easy is to change the minds of those already poisoned by the crap they touted.
Finally, don't look for trump to do anything to help people get vaccinated. You know darned well his deal is simply getting the suckers to pony up and the only way to do that is by feeding them the red, tainted meat.
Maybe this is a long shot, but perhaps President Biden should call Trump effusively praise him privately for Operation Warp Speed, and then encourage him to publicly push to get his supporters vaccinated. A little charm offensive on Biden's part might help. Realistically, the chances of that happening are slim, but at this point, the outcome matters when it comes to vaccinations, and the President should pull all the stops there.
I also think Biden should recruit some credible Republicans who are pro-vax but have some pull with the Trump base. They should publicly condemn the anti-vaxxers, and do some positive outreach for getting vaccinated, among the Republican base. Recruiting conservative Republicans who are pro-vax to do a grassroots push for vaccination would be a good idea, and that something that Biden should consider. At this point, having reasonable conservative Republicans drive this effort is the way to go.
There is plenty to criticize about Sean Hannity, but on Covid-19 he's taken it seriously, so props to him for that. Hannity has a lot of pull with the Trump base, and him making a push for vaccinations would go a long way in helping. It is really too bad that Tucker Carlson has chosen to use his platform to cause a lot of harm. The fact that he is vaxxed makes his commentary all the more contemptible.
Oh, and then Biden should send Alex Berenson to GITMO while he is at it. He would earn my effusive praise for that.
I thought the left just wasn't nice enough to people on the right. That we needed to kiss their butts and they would just magically decide to take the vaccine. And now your telling me that people like Trump should actually do something about his own voters not wanting to participate in his administrations greatest success? Absurd! Everyone knows that its the lefts fault and we need to stop holding people responsible for their abject stupidity and selfishness.
More about who's hesitant about vaccine.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/09/politics/vaccine-hesitant-analysis/index.html
OMG; after the two columns today, yours and Steve's i think a cage match or tables and ladders match is in order. For real, imagine ticket sales to see two good friends throwing one or the other off a twelve foot tall cage. Spectacular.
Just kidding, it is really more is a set up for the question: "what's going to happen over the next 6 weeks?" Now that professional wrestling has brought back the crowds (predominantly in red states where vaccination rates are pathetic), will there be a spread? Screaming, drinking, spitting and being bellicose is the norm. No masks, no social distancing just out there having fun. Sorry, not for me.
It gets better, or worse. We are already seeing athletes pulled from the Olympics. They have to have been really careful and yet they still test positive. How many will there be before they are done? We'll see,
Delighted you brought up the dirty dozen. I didn't get into it with Steve in my response this morning but read the articles and like you was delighted to see it came from an outside organization. Tracking that should be simple and once identified easy to fix. What won't be easy is to change the minds of those already poisoned by the crap they touted.
Finally, don't look for trump to do anything to help people get vaccinated. You know darned well his deal is simply getting the suckers to pony up and the only way to do that is by feeding them the red, tainted meat.
Maybe this is a long shot, but perhaps President Biden should call Trump effusively praise him privately for Operation Warp Speed, and then encourage him to publicly push to get his supporters vaccinated. A little charm offensive on Biden's part might help. Realistically, the chances of that happening are slim, but at this point, the outcome matters when it comes to vaccinations, and the President should pull all the stops there.
I also think Biden should recruit some credible Republicans who are pro-vax but have some pull with the Trump base. They should publicly condemn the anti-vaxxers, and do some positive outreach for getting vaccinated, among the Republican base. Recruiting conservative Republicans who are pro-vax to do a grassroots push for vaccination would be a good idea, and that something that Biden should consider. At this point, having reasonable conservative Republicans drive this effort is the way to go.
There is plenty to criticize about Sean Hannity, but on Covid-19 he's taken it seriously, so props to him for that. Hannity has a lot of pull with the Trump base, and him making a push for vaccinations would go a long way in helping. It is really too bad that Tucker Carlson has chosen to use his platform to cause a lot of harm. The fact that he is vaxxed makes his commentary all the more contemptible.
Oh, and then Biden should send Alex Berenson to GITMO while he is at it. He would earn my effusive praise for that.
Okay, just kidding about the latter, but hey.
I thought the left just wasn't nice enough to people on the right. That we needed to kiss their butts and they would just magically decide to take the vaccine. And now your telling me that people like Trump should actually do something about his own voters not wanting to participate in his administrations greatest success? Absurd! Everyone knows that its the lefts fault and we need to stop holding people responsible for their abject stupidity and selfishness.