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by my count, if you guessed whether a state had above 40% vaccine rate today using only the electoral college vote in November, you'd score an 86.  B.  Not bad. Outliers in red.

 

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Location Doses given Fully vaccinated % of population fully vaccinated
Texas
23.1M
23,100,000
 
10.4M
10,400,000
 
35.7%
35.7%
 
California
38.5M
38,500,000
 
17.1M
17,100,000
 
43.3%
43.3%
 
New York
19.8M
19,800,000
 
9.18M
9,180,000
 
47.2%
47.2%
 
Florida
18.9M
18,900,000
 
8.44M
8,440,000
 
39.3%
39.3%
 
Pennsylvania
12.6M
12,600,000
 
5.62M
5,620,000
 
43.9%
43.9%
 
Illinois
12.1M
12,100,000
 
5.1M
5,100,000
 
40.2%
40.2%
 
Ohio
9.93M
9,930,000
 
4.72M
4,720,000
 
40.3%
40.3%
 
New Jersey
9.15M
9,150,000
 
4.36M
4,360,000
 
49.1%
49.1%
 
Michigan
8.72M
8,720,000
 
4.22M
4,220,000
 
42.3%
42.3%
 
Virginia
8.4M
8,400,000
 
3.88M
3,880,000
 
45.5%
45.5%
 
North Carolina
8.16M
8,160,000
 
3.79M
3,790,000
 
36.2%
36.2%
 
Massachusetts
8.08M
8,080,000
 
3.72M
3,720,000
 
54.0%
54.0%
 
Washington
7.68M
7,680,000
 
3.57M
3,570,000
 
46.9%
46.9%
 
Georgia
7.61M
7,610,000
 
3.41M
3,410,000
 
32.1%
32.1%
 
Maryland
6.16M
6,160,000
 
2.92M
2,920,000
 
48.2%
48.2%
 
Arizona
5.98M
5,980,000
 
2.63M
2,630,000
 
36.2%
36.2%
 
Colorado
5.64M
5,640,000
 
2.63M
2,630,000
 
45.6%
45.6%
 
Wisconsin
5.49M
5,490,000
 
2.6M
2,600,000
 
44.6%
44.6%
 
Minnesota
5.43M
5,430,000
 
2.61M
2,610,000
 
46.2%
46.2%
 
Indiana
5.12M
5,120,000
 
2.39M
2,390,000
 
35.5%
35.5%
 
Tennessee
4.86M
4,860,000
 
2.18M
2,180,000
 
31.9%
31.9%
 
Missouri
4.69M
4,690,000
 
2.12M
2,120,000
 
34.5%
34.5%
 
Oregon
4.09M
4,090,000
 
1.92M
1,920,000
 
45.6%
45.6%
 
Connecticut
4.05M
4,050,000
 
1.92M
1,920,000
 
53.7%
53.7%
 
South Carolina
3.79M
3,790,000
 
1.75M
1,750,000
 
33.9%
33.9%
 
Kentucky
3.66M
3,660,000
 
1.72M
1,720,000
 
38.6%
38.6%
 
Louisiana
3.1M
3,100,000
 
1.46M
1,460,000
 
31.4%
31.4%
 
Alabama
3.03M
3,030,000
 
1.44M
1,440,000
 
29.3%
29.3%
 
Oklahoma
2.96M
2,960,000
 
1.34M
1,340,000
 
33.8%
33.8%
 
Iowa
2.85M
2,850,000
 
1.39M
1,390,000
 
44.0%
44.0%
 
Puerto Rico
2.72M
2,720,000
 
1.19M
1,190,000
 
37.4%
37.4%
 
Utah
2.59M
2,590,000
1.04M
1,040,000
32.5%
32.5%
Nevada
2.52M
2,520,000
 
1.14M
1,140,000
 
37.0%
37.0%
 
Kansas
2.33M
2,330,000
 
1.12M
1,120,000
 
38.5%
38.5%
 
New Mexico
2.15M
2,150,000
 
1.01M
1,010,000
 
48.0%
48.0%
 
Arkansas
2.08M
2,080,000
 
943K
943,000
 
31.3%
31.3%
 
Mississippi
1.79M
1,790,000
 
816K
816,000
 
27.4%
27.4%
 
Nebraska
1.76M
1,760,000
 
821K
821,000
 
42.5%
42.5%
 
Hawaii
1.62M
1,620,000
 
676K
676,000
 
47.8%
47.8%
 
Maine
1.59M
1,590,000
 
739K
739,000
 
55.0%
55.0%
 
New Hampshire
1.55M
1,550,000
 
675K
675,000
 
49.6%
49.6%
 
West Virginia
1.32M
1,320,000
 
611K
611,000
 
34.1%
34.1%
 
Idaho
1.24M
1,240,000
 
587K
587,000
 
32.9%
32.9%
 
Rhode Island
1.17M
1,170,000
 
550K
550,000
 
51.9%
51.9%
 
Delaware
945K
945,000
 
423K
423,000
 
43.5%
43.5%
 
Montana
894K
894,000
 
410K
410,000
 
38.4%
38.4%
 
Washington, D.C.
791K
791,000
 
328K
328,000
 
47.4%
47.4%
 
Vermont
779K
779,000
 
353K
353,000
 
56.6%
56.6%
 
South Dakota
777K
777,000
 
376K
376,000
 
42.5%
42.5%
 
North Dakota
615K
615,000
 
279K
279,000
 
36.6%
36.6%
 
Alaska
613K
613,000
 
288K
288,000
 
39.4%

 

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Well, that's a stupid fucking question.  Are we advising people who are vaccinated or those who aren't?  Democrats, being naturally far more intelligent than Republicans, no doubt assumed with no further information that it's still in people's best interest to distance and mask UNLESS FULLY VACCINATED.

Your shitty little "gotchas" don't gotcha anyone, @GRHorn.  You're still the same troll.  Negged.

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6 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Well, that's a stupid fucking question.  Are we advising people who are vaccinated or those who aren't?  Democrats, being naturally far more intelligent than Republicans, no doubt assumed with no further information that it's still in people's best interest to distance and mask UNLESS FULLY VACCINATED.

Your shitty little "gotchas" don't gotcha anyone, @GRHorn.  You're still the same troll.  Negged.

Don’t be such a pussy. It’s a Gallup poll, not a gotcha. 

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19 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

You think the responses are a gotcha.  Pussy.

So you’re triggered by the responses to a tweet. Next level.

The CR is populated by independent polymaths. That poll isn’t taking any shots at them. 

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On 6/3/2021 at 10:00 AM, OneOfTheOutOfFocusGuys said:

by my count, if you guessed whether a state had above 40% vaccine rate today using only the electoral college vote in November, you'd score an 86.  B.  Not bad. Outliers in red.

We need to boost the competition between states if the goal is to get more shots in arms. It is a national security risk at this point.

Injections puts the United States and her interests on firmer footing in a unsteady geopolitical sphere. I presume we all seek stable ground for the People of the United States? No?

 

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Bumping this thread since a good one about NEWS vs. POLITICS (Get it right people) is needed. 

Delta variant making an ugly run. Lambda was just announced (emerged from South America), and who the fuck knows what could come out of Collie Station. 

We are seeing new lockdowns from Australia to Zimbabwe and shit is not going away. 

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2 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

If this motherfucker mutates and makes my vaccine useless, I'm gonna be pissed off beyond belief.  

Scientists did the damn near impossible and got a fantastic vaccine out in less than a year from the original lockdown and the stupid among us are going to fuck it up.

God damn them. 

the variants are coming from other parts of the world where there's limited vaccine availability. it's not from hesitancy, numbnuts.

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6 minutes ago, GRHorn said:

the variants are coming from other parts of the world where there's limited vaccine availability. it's not from hesitancy, numbnuts.

Well, in addition to the holdouts. But yes, the billion people in India that can’t get it, and the useless Chinese vaccines not helping the situation. 

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Do the stupid people think that the variants are still coming out of a lab in China or from the bodies of unvaccinated where the variant can sort of play DJ and mix and match the tracks he loves best?  

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11 minutes ago, washparkhorn said:

California (more Trump voters than any other state including Texas and Florida) is now chasing Texas as the numbers swell:

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Take it to the Politics Thread. This is for news. It is why I started it and due to peoples inability to control where they post it was moved the CR. Maybe we can get it back to where it belongs. DT with NO FUCKING POLITICS. 

Got something to say about Cali, fine, post the news. Leave the Trump or Biden discussion where it belongs so the overlords do not kill it all together. 

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Take it to the Politics Thread. This is for news. It is why I started it and due to peoples inability to control where they post it was moved the CR. Maybe we can get it back to where it belongs. DT with NO FUCKING POLITICS. 

Got something to say about Cali, fine, post the news. Leave the Trump or Biden discussion where it belongs so the overlords do not kill it all together. 

Vaccine hesitancy among Trump supporters is not political in this context. It helps illuminate trends in the virus and correlates the data with facts.  Vaccine hesitancy is a public health issue, not a political dispute.  As a nation and a world, we need vaccinations in arms, yesterday. 

But I understand your concern. 

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5 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Take it to the Politics Thread. This is for news. It is why I started it and due to peoples inability to control where they post it was moved the CR. Maybe we can get it back to where it belongs. DT with NO FUCKING POLITICS. 

Got something to say about Cali, fine, post the news. Leave the Trump or Biden discussion where it belongs so the overlords do not kill it all together. 

I'd suggest starting a new thread on variants in DT, then. This one is dead, Jim.

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I want an active thread for news. So just say Cali is trending up. We are smart people on this board. We know politics. All I am asking is leave the politics to the other thread in the CR.

If I had wanted to start a CR Thread I would have. This thread should be in DT. It is not. That sucks. 

 

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Just now, InkaUtexas said:

I want an active thread for news. So just say Cali is trending up. We are smart people on this board. We know politics. All I am asking is leave the politics to the other thread in the CR.

If I had wanted to start a CR Thread I would have. This thread should be in DT. It is not. That sucks. 

 

You want a thread where no one comments on why a state or region is trending up?  

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4 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

I want an active thread for news. So just say Cali is trending up. We are smart people on this board. We know politics. All I am asking is leave the politics to the other thread in the CR.

If I had wanted to start a CR Thread I would have. This thread should be in DT. It is not. That sucks. 

 

Maybe go back to Bada Bing and start another thread with just news. There's a Texas thread still there. I don't think imma or blacklab are going to slap your hand if you do it. 

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Bumping this thread since a good one about NEWS vs. POLITICS (Get it right people) is needed. 
Delta variant making an ugly run. Lambda was just announced (emerged from South America), and who the fuck knows what could come out of Collie Station. 
We are seeing new lockdowns from Australia to Zimbabwe and shit is not going away. 
Lambda was first identified in March 2020 in Peru I believe.
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1 hour ago, InkaUtexas said:
Bumping this thread since a good one about NEWS vs. POLITICS (Get it right people) is needed. 
Delta variant making an ugly run. Lambda was just announced (emerged from South America), and who the fuck knows what could come out of Collie Station. 
We are seeing new lockdowns from Australia to Zimbabwe and shit is not going away. 

Lambda was first identified in March 2020 in Peru I believe.

Yes, but making a massive push into Chile now as well. Seems to kick the shit out of SINOVAC which is the dominant vaccine in South America.

Here is an article about P.1 from Brazil. 

Scientists have also had their eye on a third concerning variant that arose in Brazil, called P.1. Research had been slower on P.1 since its discovery in late December, leaving scientists unsure of just how much to worry about it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/health/covid-19-coronavirus-brazil-variant.html

 

More. 

P.1 has a triple spike mutation

When it comes to genetic analysis, the team found that P.1 is different from the previous strains of COVID. The Brazilian mutation has collected 17 mutations – including an important trio of mutations in the spike protein (K417T, E484K and N501Y).

The spike is what the antibodies in vaccines are generally identifying and destroying, so too many mutations of the spike can give the virus an edge against naturally created antibodies – that is, antibodies that happen in a person after they survive COVID-19.

For context, the Indian variant has a double spike mutation. This one has a triple spike mutation.

Samir Bhatt said: “Our analysis shows that P.1 emerged in Manaus around November 2020. It went from not being detectable in our genetic samples to accounting for 87 percent of the positive samples in just seven weeks.

https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/brazilian-covid-mutation-2/109385/

 

 

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It is in our self-interest to get good vaccines to big-ass countries where the virus is still running wild.

We spent the last 20 years taking a "take out the terrorists where they live, so they aren't able to attack us here at home".....it's damned sure a sound strategy for dealing with a highly-transmissible disease.

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21 minutes ago, washparkhorn said:

Mine were not political posts. Vaccine hesitancy is a fact in this nation and provide us with NEWS of where this is headed. 

It is tho. Another massive group of hesitancy is POC. While I’m not certain how most of them voted, you can make an assumption they weren’t trumpkins.  So yeah, it’s not hard to avoid the politics with news, but diving into it further can complicate that. 

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4 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

It is though. Another massive group of hesitancy is POC. While I’m not certain how most of them voted, you can make an assumption they weren’t trumpkins.  So yeah, it’s not hard to avoid the politics with news, but diving into it further can complicate that. 

No it's not. Some of you - not the author of this thread - want a bubble where you do not have to consider the consequences of poor behavior in this public health crisis. That's not how facts and news work.

You can't make up facts. News forces you to consider uncomfortable facts. That is an essential function of the Press in our nation. 

News informs - whether the news is flattering for the reader or not.  

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your news was fine. Posts which added  political slant, like your editorial addition about how the state's voting numbers were set is what got this thread pushed into the CR. That is all I am saying kind sir. And there is a thread to ridicule all the anti-vexers. 

 

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2 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

your news was fine. Posts which added  political slant, like your editorial addition about how the state's voting numbers were set is what got this thread pushed into the CR. That is all I am saying kind sir. And there is a thread to ridicule all the anti-vaxxers. 

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I don't want to ridicule the vaccine hesitant, but each of us need to recognize the continuing threat they pose to this nation's economy and health.

Those adults without legitimate reasons to avoid the vaccine should be seen for what they are - free riders in a nation where herd immunity has not been reached. This free rider problem in the US is a public health and economic concern. News about the free rider problem informs and helps solve this public health and economic problem. 

Covid should have never been political issue. The nation should have rallied together. We didn't and the negative externalities from the divide continue to obstruct the public health and economic response to the pandemic. We can do better. 

 

Can we go back to the news and not the definition of the news now? 

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2 minutes ago, washparkhorn said:

Last post on the topic of what is and what is not news.

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I don't want to ridicule the vaccine hesitant, but each of us need to recognize the continuing threat they pose to this nation's economy and health.

Those adults without legitimate reasons to avoid the vaccine should be seen for what they are - free riders in a nation where herd immunity has not been reached. This free rider problem in the US is a public health and economic concern. News about the free rider problem informs and helps solve this public health and economic problem. 

Covid should have never been political issue. The nation should have rallied together. We didn't and the negative externalities from the divide continue to obstruct the public health and economic response to the pandemic. We can do better. 

 

Can we go back to the news and not the definition of the news now? 

Sure thing Boss. 

We are seeing African Nations go back into full lock downs. Just had a call from a client in Rwanda. They are back to lock down and CDC just stated they are at level, thus zero travel unless critical. 

Africa is a mess, hard to get good news on it though. I have sent an email blast to contacts across the continent and will try and keep up with what countries are doing what. 

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20 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Sure thing Boss. 

We are seeing African Nations go back into full lock downs. Just had a call from a client in Rwanda. They are back to lock down and CDC just stated they are at level, thus zero travel unless critical. 

Africa is a mess, hard to get good news on it though. I have sent an email blast to contacts across the continent and will try and keep up with what countries are doing what. 

We are trying to schedule some in-country work in Israel in the early fall and nobody will commit to doing it right now.  It's a wait and see game.

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46 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

We are trying to schedule some in-country work in Israel in the early fall and nobody will commit to doing it right now.  It's a wait and see game.

Plane is standing by:

 

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