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

[TexasTowelie]

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/

[Croney]

1. According to some of my LA relatives,

"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]

18. Sarah Palin was on that team.

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."

[catrose]

23. Trig got it? Oh no! I hope he's okay.

Down's kids often have underlying conditions.

[pazzyanne]

25. Trig got it.

That may be one of the reason's for her change of heart.

[DENVERPOPS]

29. Making themselves Probable candidates for a Darwin Awards......NC

[DemUnleashed]

2. To Croney

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

[bucolic_frolic]

3. +1

[flying_wahini]

10. Cuz fear?

[Croney]

32. They do own guns because they hunt.

They hunt, they fish. They church. Louisiana.

[Duppers]

42. Excellent point!

😅

[ramen]

4. Ugh. Another sad factor in this number is the catholic church:

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]

8. Wacky but they DID say to get the Pfizer and Moderna instead of J&J.

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]

33. Totally. I'm glad they didn't go full anti-vax,

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

[CurtEastPoint]

36. Oh, I agree. I am Catholic and it just pisses me off. Like there is ONE issue to focus on.

[ramen]

41. What still terrifies me is how many voters are single-issue in that exact way.

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.

[Raven123]

5. Then divert the vaccine to those who want it but can't get it.

[Arkansas Granny]

6. I am quietly encouraging friends and coworkers to get the vaccine.

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.

[Demnation]

7. Whatever with the troglodytes. Got my 2nd shot Thursday, still masking, distancing.

[AllyCat]

9. I talked to someone last night who said she won't get it

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

[SammyWinstonJack]

13. With some people, that would be a good thing, namely those who refuse the vaccine for political

reasons.

[PortTack]

31. It may make them sterile, but not in the way they think!

[mitch96]

37. "I talked to someone last night". My anti vax conservative buddy is now spouting

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]

11. I remember in the 70's when DeBakey did the heart transplant and the Christians were

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]

12. Got my second Moderna shot yesterday

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

[niyad]

14. Science is god's answer to prayer.

[pazzyanne]

19. + 1 nt

[AllyCat]

38. Love this!

[niyad]

39. I believe I stole it from Speaker Pelosi.

[mountain grammy]

15. so white are refusing the vaccine

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]

16. I'm guessing about 40% won't get it. So they will get sick and the virus will further mutate. Great.

[housecat]

17. So does that mean the 1/3 keeps spreading covid to each other? Ironic.

[TexasTowelie]

20. Supposedly there will be an endpoint after the reluctant develop herd immunity.

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

[DownriverDem]

22. Why not?

I don't get your comment at all.

[TexasTowelie]

26. Some of the vaccines may not be as effective against the new variants that develop through

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]

21. At this stage

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]

34. No sympathy for them from here, either, but

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.

[NNadir]

24. This should go a long way to turning Louisiana blue, via the Darwin award. n/t.

[TexasTowelie]

27. My brother is a respiratory therapist

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]

35. Well, among "medical professionals" there is Dr. Birx and Redfield...

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]

40. Oh dear. I am a nurse and 98% of us got the vaccine

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

[PatrickforB]

28. For the life of me, I just cannot understand why someone would choose

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]

30. My anti-vax brother is still beating the hydroxychloroquine drum.

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.