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TexasTowelie

(117,533 posts)
Sat Apr 3, 2021, 06:09 AM Apr 2021

A third of Louisianians have no intention of getting vaccine, survey finds

A third of Louisianians have no intention of receiving the COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available to them, while 17 percent have already received the COVID-19 vaccine and another 41 percent said they plan on getting it, according to the latest report of the Louisiana Survey.

Michael Henderson, director of LSU’s Public Policy Research Center, said what surprised him most about the survey respondent’s’ vaccine hesitancy were the demographics. Henderson said there were concerns that “because of the racial history in the United States with respect to medical health and public health, there may be some skepticism — particularly among Black Americans — about getting vaccinated.”

However, more Black Louisianians (67 percent) than White Louisianians (57 percent) reported they would get the vaccine once it became available to them. And the survey found that White Republicans were the most likely to say that they have not yet received a vaccine and they don’t intend to, which Henderson said was due to the “politicization of everything associated with the pandemic over the past year.”

In fact, just 18 percent of Black Louisianians said they don’t intend to get the vaccine while 35 percent of White Louisianians said they wouldn’t get it.

Read more: https://lailluminator.com/2021/04/02/a-third-of-louisianians-have-no-intention-of-getting-vaccine-survey-finds/

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A third of Louisianians have no intention of getting vaccine, survey finds (Original Post) TexasTowelie Apr 2021 OP
According to some of my LA relatives, Croney Apr 2021 #1
Sarah Palin was on that team. pazzyanne Apr 2021 #18
Trig got it? Oh no! I hope he's okay. catrose Apr 2021 #23
Trig got it. pazzyanne Apr 2021 #25
Making themselves Probable candidates for a Darwin Awards......NC DENVERPOPS Apr 2021 #29
To Croney DemUnleashed Apr 2021 #2
+1 bucolic_frolic Apr 2021 #3
Cuz fear? flying_wahini Apr 2021 #10
They do own guns because they hunt. Croney Apr 2021 #32
Excellent point! Duppers Apr 2021 #42
Ugh. Another sad factor in this number is the catholic church: ramen Apr 2021 #4
Wacky but they DID say to get the Pfizer and Moderna instead of J&J. CurtEastPoint Apr 2021 #8
Totally. I'm glad they didn't go full anti-vax, ramen Apr 2021 #33
Oh, I agree. I am Catholic and it just pisses me off. Like there is ONE issue to focus on. CurtEastPoint Apr 2021 #36
What still terrifies me is how many voters are single-issue in that exact way. ramen Apr 2021 #41
Then divert the vaccine to those who want it but can't get it. Raven123 Apr 2021 #5
I am quietly encouraging friends and coworkers to get the vaccine. Arkansas Granny Apr 2021 #6
Whatever with the troglodytes. Got my 2nd shot Thursday, still masking, distancing. Demnation Apr 2021 #7
I talked to someone last night who said she won't get it AllyCat Apr 2021 #9
With some people, that would be a good thing, namely those who refuse the vaccine for political SammyWinstonJack Apr 2021 #13
It may make them sterile, but not in the way they think! PortTack Apr 2021 #31
"I talked to someone last night". My anti vax conservative buddy is now spouting mitch96 Apr 2021 #37
I remember in the 70's when DeBakey did the heart transplant and the Christians were flying_wahini Apr 2021 #11
Got my second Moderna shot yesterday localroger Apr 2021 #12
Science is god's answer to prayer. niyad Apr 2021 #14
+ 1 nt pazzyanne Apr 2021 #19
Love this! AllyCat Apr 2021 #38
I believe I stole it from Speaker Pelosi. niyad Apr 2021 #39
so white are refusing the vaccine mountain grammy Apr 2021 #15
I'm guessing about 40% won't get it. So they will get sick and the virus will further mutate. Great. Evolve Dammit Apr 2021 #16
So does that mean the 1/3 keeps spreading covid to each other? Ironic. housecat Apr 2021 #17
Supposedly there will be an endpoint after the reluctant develop herd immunity. TexasTowelie Apr 2021 #20
Why not? DownriverDem Apr 2021 #22
Some of the vaccines may not be as effective against the new variants that develop through TexasTowelie Apr 2021 #26
At this stage DownriverDem Apr 2021 #21
No sympathy for them from here, either, but ramen Apr 2021 #34
This should go a long way to turning Louisiana blue, via the Darwin award. n/t. NNadir Apr 2021 #24
My brother is a respiratory therapist TexasTowelie Apr 2021 #27
Well, among "medical professionals" there is Dr. Birx and Redfield... NNadir Apr 2021 #35
Oh dear. I am a nurse and 98% of us got the vaccine AllyCat Apr 2021 #40
For the life of me, I just cannot understand why someone would choose PatrickforB Apr 2021 #28
My anti-vax brother is still beating the hydroxychloroquine drum. callous taoboy Apr 2021 #30

Croney

(4,926 posts)
1. According to some of my LA relatives,
Sat Apr 3, 2021, 06:28 AM
Apr 2021

"Faith Over Fear" is a provable scientific fact and they don't need no stinkin' vaccine. A couple of them even got Covid, but they didn't die so there's your proof that all you need is prayer.

Idiots.

pazzyanne

(6,618 posts)
18. Sarah Palin was on that team.
Sat Apr 3, 2021, 08:21 AM
Apr 2021

She has really changed her position on that since she and her family have tested positve.

"The former governor of Alaska said she tested positive after one of her daughters and her 12-year-old son Trig, who has Down syndrome, were both infected. She said she experienced "bizarre" symptoms, including loss of taste and smell, and warned COVID-19 can "really knock you down." People Magazine said that these were recent diagnoses but it's unclear when exactly they fell ill.

"I strongly encourage everyone to use common sense to avoid spreading this and every other virus out there," she said, adding that her case shows "anyone can catch this."

DemUnleashed

(633 posts)
2. To Croney
Sat Apr 3, 2021, 06:47 AM
Apr 2021

Croney, if those relatives own guns, please ask them why they need them when their faith is there to protect them!

ramen

(862 posts)
4. Ugh. Another sad factor in this number is the catholic church:
Sat Apr 3, 2021, 07:04 AM
Apr 2021
https://www.wdsu.com/article/archdiocese-of-new-orleans-calls-jandj-covid-19-vaccine-morally-compromising/35686477

The church holds significant influence in LA. Some other leaders are being more compassionate towards public health, like https://www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/news/coronavirus/article_82795246-7b9e-11eb-afaf-2f2acf673d71.html but, at a moment where we need something like 80-90% of people vaccinated, trying to make vaccines a culture war battleground due to an abortion in the 1970s is irresponsibly stupid.

CurtEastPoint

(19,226 posts)
8. Wacky but they DID say to get the Pfizer and Moderna instead of J&J.
Sat Apr 3, 2021, 07:33 AM
Apr 2021

The statement said that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine uses "abortion-derived cell line in development and production of the vaccine as well as the testing."

For that reason, the Archdiocese is asking Catholics to receive the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines instead.

ramen

(862 posts)
33. Totally. I'm glad they didn't go full anti-vax,
Sat Apr 3, 2021, 09:25 AM
Apr 2021

but this is a terrible moment to insert abortion into the vaccination rollout.

CurtEastPoint

(19,226 posts)
36. Oh, I agree. I am Catholic and it just pisses me off. Like there is ONE issue to focus on.
Sat Apr 3, 2021, 09:41 AM
Apr 2021

ramen

(862 posts)
41. What still terrifies me is how many voters are single-issue in that exact way.
Sat Apr 3, 2021, 11:14 AM
Apr 2021

There are so many possible things to focus one's energies on. How are so many voters a monoculture? That problem is not specific to any particular faith, either.

Here's hoping that rising public confidence in the vaccines spur increased willingness to vaccinate before we breed some version of covid that sets us back to the drawing board for a new variant's booster! I'm still hopeful about that.

Arkansas Granny

(31,869 posts)
6. I am quietly encouraging friends and coworkers to get the vaccine.
Sat Apr 3, 2021, 07:24 AM
Apr 2021

I don't know how many I've convinced, but a couple of people I've spoken to have decided to get the shot. One has talked his wife into doing the same.

Most people I know have already gotten the shots or are signed up and waiting for an appointment.

AllyCat

(17,218 posts)
9. I talked to someone last night who said she won't get it
Sat Apr 3, 2021, 07:38 AM
Apr 2021

Because it makes people sterile. Where does this crap come from? Is this Russia? My word we are dumb.

SammyWinstonJack

(44,169 posts)
13. With some people, that would be a good thing, namely those who refuse the vaccine for political
Sat Apr 3, 2021, 07:51 AM
Apr 2021

reasons.

mitch96

(14,767 posts)
37. "I talked to someone last night". My anti vax conservative buddy is now spouting
Sat Apr 3, 2021, 10:21 AM
Apr 2021

that the "Gubment" is gonna have concentration camps for people who DON'T get vaccinated.
Your right... where do they get this batshit crazy stuff from.... Oh that's right...
conspiracy theory over science ... uffda
m

flying_wahini

(8,043 posts)
11. I remember in the 70's when DeBakey did the heart transplant and the Christians were
Sat Apr 3, 2021, 07:47 AM
Apr 2021

All about that heart surgery was an Abomination to God. That it was God’s
will if he gave you heart disease, blah blah blah....... same with abortions.

Guess who jumped in line when they started doing heart surgeries?

They are consistent, I will give them that.
When they can’t see their Grandkids without a shot, that will change fast.

localroger

(3,719 posts)
12. Got my second Moderna shot yesterday
Sat Apr 3, 2021, 07:48 AM
Apr 2021

...in Jefferson Parish. And my wife got her first, in St. Tammany. Let the Darwin Awards begin.

mountain grammy

(27,378 posts)
15. so white are refusing the vaccine
Sat Apr 3, 2021, 07:56 AM
Apr 2021

I know a few up here in my little red tourist village. We'll have thousands of tourists here in a month but they have trumpskin and trumpbrains.. STUPIDITY abounds.

Evolve Dammit

(19,056 posts)
16. I'm guessing about 40% won't get it. So they will get sick and the virus will further mutate. Great.
Sat Apr 3, 2021, 08:01 AM
Apr 2021

TexasTowelie

(117,533 posts)
20. Supposedly there will be an endpoint after the reluctant develop herd immunity.
Sat Apr 3, 2021, 08:26 AM
Apr 2021

In the meantime the risk that a variant will evolve means that even those who are vaccinated should not feel too confident or relieved.

TexasTowelie

(117,533 posts)
26. Some of the vaccines may not be as effective against the new variants that develop through
Sat Apr 3, 2021, 08:51 AM
Apr 2021

mutations. There are some who believe that we may have to vaccinated against COVID on a frequent basis similar to what we do for flu vaccinations.

DownriverDem

(6,679 posts)
21. At this stage
Sat Apr 3, 2021, 08:38 AM
Apr 2021

I think I'm not alone in saying, let them get Covid then. If they get it I will have no sympathy for them at all.

ramen

(862 posts)
34. No sympathy for them from here, either, but
Sat Apr 3, 2021, 09:28 AM
Apr 2021

the problem is the virus will continue to mutate, given the opportunity by the unvaccinated, and that puts everybody at risk. These people are why we can't have nice things.

TexasTowelie

(117,533 posts)
27. My brother is a respiratory therapist
Sat Apr 3, 2021, 08:56 AM
Apr 2021

and he along with his colleagues are not getting the vaccination because they are Trump supporters. Even after seeing so many infected patients, I'm amazed at how brainwashed some of these "medical professionals" are. One of his colleagues still thinks that Trump is going to be reinstalled as president.

NNadir

(34,841 posts)
35. Well, among "medical professionals" there is Dr. Birx and Redfield...
Sat Apr 3, 2021, 09:39 AM
Apr 2021

It doesn't entirely surprise me that some well trained people are entirely compartmentalized, competent in certain mechanical settings, but deluded in many others.

AllyCat

(17,218 posts)
40. Oh dear. I am a nurse and 98% of us got the vaccine
Sat Apr 3, 2021, 10:47 AM
Apr 2021

in my hospital. It is the patients that are telling us all this nonsense.

PatrickforB

(15,126 posts)
28. For the life of me, I just cannot understand why someone would choose
Sat Apr 3, 2021, 08:58 AM
Apr 2021

not to get the vaccine.

554,000 Americans will never have the chance to get this vaccine, because they are dead of COVID.

I mourn for the ignorance of people who are refusing to get it.

callous taoboy

(4,673 posts)
30. My anti-vax brother is still beating the hydroxychloroquine drum.
Sat Apr 3, 2021, 09:05 AM
Apr 2021

He claims that his two 20-something kids caught Covid and he treated them with hydroxychloroquine. He told me he will never get vaccinated, and he strongly urged me no to but I did last Monday.

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