Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Presidential legacy of Donald Trump: GOP vaccine hesitancy


Months and months of his lies and disinformation lead Trumpers to parrot vaccine conspiracy theories.



New York Times, 3/15/2021
While there are degrees of opposition to vaccination for the coronavirus among a number of groups, including African-Americans and antivaccine activists, polling suggests that opinions in this case are breaking substantially along partisan lines. 
A third of Republicans said in a CBS News poll that they would not be vaccinated — compared with 10 percent of Democrats — and another 20 percent of Republicans said they were unsure. Other polls have found similar trends.


1/26/2021 update, "Rejection of science", starts here.

 



New York Times, 1/17/2021



1/26/2021 update, "Unhinged passengers abuse airline employees over masks", starts here.



New York Times, 1/25/2021
Aviation safety officials have received dozens of confidential complaints in the past year from attendants trying to enforce mask safety rules. The reports, filed in the Aviation Safety Reporting System database, at times describe a chaotic, unhinged workplace where passengers regularly abuse airline employees. “I felt like if this man is bold enough to scream ‘SHUT UP' at me in the cabin, there is no limits,” a flight attendant said in one report.



1/17/2021 update, "Racism, nativism", starts here



New York Times, 1/16/2021



1/4/2021 update, "Covid case count", starts here.

 


1/3/2021 update, "Botched rollout of vaccine", starts here


New York Times, 1/3/2021


12/18/2020 update, "Dismissive approach to the pandemic", starts here.

New York Times, 12/13/2020





Only 4 of 50 GOP U.S. Senators can bring themselves to vote to confirm Deb Haaland as first Native American cabinet member

 



Meet the fossils.
Not everyone was celebrating. Some Republican senators have criticized Haaland's views on oil drilling and other energy development as “radical” and extreme, citing her opposition to the Keystone XL oil pipeline and her support for the Green New Deal, a sweeping, if mostly aspirational, policy to address climate change and income inequality.

Related posts:
Cabinet confirmation naysayers leaderboard.  (3/10/2021)
These 4 Southern white men can't bring themselves to confirm a Black woman as Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers.  (3/3/2020)
Miguel Cardona, Jennifer Granholm.  (3/2/2020)
Meet the demographically representative GOP troglodytes who voted 'nay' to confirm Linda Thomas-Greenfield as United Nations Ambassador.  (2/24/2021)

Judith Toner Scheno (1935-2021) Warren High School class of 1953



1953 
Dragon yearbook


Borden Funeral Home, Sheffield

1967 Warren City Directory

  • Toner Albert lab Webster's Plumbing and Heating rStarbrick
1983 Warren City Directory


The popularity of Judith as a baby name is graphed here.  Let's take a look at classmate Coral.

Coral has made the list just 14 times.

Other class of '55 members (17):
2021
Roger Siggins.  (3/3)
David Swanson.  (1/2)

2020

2019
Rose Quiggle Barney.  (7/23)

2018

2017
James Rose.  (12/17)
Mary Sperry.  (4/11)
James Graziano.  (3/28)

2016
Martin Gage . (12/5)
Lester Nero.  (9/8)

2015
Cleo Stack Yaegle.  (10/24)