Lack of education?
Americans are not a monolith. Tons of Americans are concerned. Tons are not. Also many Americans have lives where these issues the news typically stirs up don’t really actually impact their daily lives. Others are dramatically affected. It really depends on location and status, among so many factors.
Various news and online channels might have you thinking all Americans are basically the same and experiencing things the same, but they are definitely not.
With god as my armour I need no vaccines
But we hanged that dude on a cross, did you miss the news?
Yes but that was so he could absolve us of our diseases! Maybe. I’m not so knowledgeable of Christianity, I’m Republican.
Probably the same reason Europeans drink and smoke too tbh
The risk seems worth it. Either because the see it as lower than it is or that the loss of life less valuable than others see it.
Science showed things like climate change, which was hurting the bottom line of giant corporations who donate huge amounts of money to Republicans, so Republicans convinced their base that science is against God, and that it’s all part of the evil woke liberals thing. So now anything that comes from science, including vaccines, is tainted.
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The people who aren’t idiots are already vaccinated so they’ll be fine.
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The people who are idiots think they are safer without vaccination. They are the ones who will die (or their children) but they aren’t aware of it.
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The people who can’t get vaccinated but aren’t idiots are kind of just screwed but this is an incredibly small minority of the population.
People who are vaccinated are 100% going to die from mutated versions of diseases their idiot neighbours have been incubating.
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We’re actively disinformed. That’s why. It’s really that simple.
Because we also die from totally preventable school shootings too.
Sad thing is that I don’t think gun restrictions would work cos criminals get their guns unlawfully
Which other countries with stricter gun restrictions than the US regularly have school shootings?
Because
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taxing the rich is a partisan stance
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people are unaware that the government would spend less on singlepayer than it spends currently dealing with middlemen
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a non-negligible number of people don’t believe in micro-organisms, nutrition, or cancer as it is understood by doctors
TLDR: decentralized education with zero funding makes a whole country of dumb assholes.
Congressional democrats have no interest in actual taxing the ultra wealthy either. It’s bipartisan to not “bite the hand that feeds.”
Well the last tax bill was written and passed by the GOP in 2017, it got 0 DNC votes in the house the first time and it passed but with 3 congressional violations which would otherwise protect budget bills from filibuster at the time and so it was filibustered, then it passed the house again with changes and then the Senate 51 to 48 with 0 DNC votes and this time was immune to filibuster.
Now they get to write the new bill again this time because it is about to expire.
We DO have an idea of the DNC tax plan from the Kamala Harris Campaign promising to tax unrealized gains over 1M and to remove the upper limit that rich people pay to Socia Security Taxes, while also keeping or lowering taxes on anybody who made less than 400k.
We also know that the previous Biden Administration supported the IRS and gave them every resource and incentive to Audit the Rich, which they absolutely did.
So I guess if you ignore literally everything that happens then you can make that claim. Take your pick: ignorant or liar, which do you claim to be?
It’s all posturing. When they actually have the power to fully pass tax bills they don’t. It’s only when they know it won’t become law that they pander to their voters. It’s all a show.
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To own the libs!
YEA!
U-S-A! U-S-A!
'MURICA
Please send help
Help ? You mean prayers ?
“preventable disease” and “Americans” are very broad terms
Most of us are concerned.
The minority are concerned because the US government has done unethical and malicious medical stuff to minorities, which makes some level of hesitancy for those groups understandable. Not the cod oil instead of vaccines bullshit white middle class and up promote, that is pure snake oil propaganda.
Intentionally infecting black airmen with syphillus and giving them placibos instead of treatments so they could track long term effects.
As an example.
Not just americans. this started in the uk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield
We’re concerned, we just can’t afford health care
So why do Republicans like Jesse Watters say things like, “I’m offended that Canada wouldn’t want to be a part of america.”
Because they’re not used to people saying no to them.
Every cult has as one of its core tenets that only evil, terrible people wouldn’t want to be part of it.
The U.S. is currently being run by a cult.
Not everyone in the U.S. is part of that cult. But a damned lot of the population of the U.S. is.
Source: Am american.
I hate that you’re right.
I think a lot of Americans have the option that these contagious diseases aren’t really dangerous anymore and that THEY won’t be affected by any fallout. THEY will be able to survive it so THEY don’t care.
In reality, lots of people live in small communities and even though they might go on the internet, they don’t go very deep. So unless it’s in their face, they don’t know much about it. And “my gran pappy had the mumps and he was fine!” mentality.
Just for the record I hate they gran pappy and he was not fine, the syphilis addled fuck.
i hear ya. it’s a major fucking bummer knowing that most of the people around me a fucking stupid
