This is the website I check every day, sometimes twice a day: www.bloomberg.com/… It shows how many covid vaccines were admitted each day in the United States. It also shows how many were administered in each country. Today, there have been 1.87 million doses administered in the United States, and 28.4 million doses in the world. So far, 1.63 billion doses have been administered in the world which is about 1/5th of the doses needed. They’re getting there but not nearly as quickly as the U.S.
Scrolling down further, I can see how each state is doing. I’m happy to see my state, Virginia, has vaccinated 48% of its population, but other states aren’t doing as well. Alabama for one is only at 30% even though they are getting as many vaccines per population as we are. This is most likely because there are a lot of people there that refuse to get vaccinated.
Vaccine skeptics — anti-vaxxers — will keep us from achieving the 80-90% level experts are saying we need to get vaccinated to achieve herd immunity.
Omer and a team of scientists found that skeptics were much more likely than nonskeptics to have a highly developed sensitivity for liberty — the rights of individuals — and to have less deference to those in positions of power.
I think a lot of these skeptics are a lost cause. But while I have concern for the people in the U.S., I’m also concerned about the people throughout the world. I’m distressed about all the people in India who aren’t vaccinated. So far, only 7% are vaccinated and there are 1.4 Billion people there!
I have a proposal. How about we get those people who are adamantly against being vaccinated to sign over their designated vaccine to someone in another country in need, e.g. India. The skeptics don’t want it and it will only sit in a freezer in a state like Alabama and Mississippi, but it could be saving lives in another country and also helping to prevent variants from evolving!
Do you think the skeptics will go for it?