幾天前，我兒子，做為年輕人裡面鳳毛麟角的conservative，轉給我一條新聞看。他跟我說，他對現在的共和黨從失望到厭惡。在對待疫苗與疫情方面，被川普家族挾持的共和黨已經變成了愚蠢和愚昧的代名詞。
我完全同意兒子的看法。
這是兒子轉發的新聞。。。
As you’ve probably heard by now, a new pet cause among Republicans is to convince Americans that the COVID-19 vaccines are bad, and that any campaign to encourage people to get vaccinated against the highly contagious disease is akin to Nazism. That necessarily requires disseminating loads of misinformation, like that the federal government is basically knocking on people‘s doors and doing forced vaccinations, and shutting down reason and science wherever possible. And in Tennessee, that apparently means firing someone whose literal job is to promote vaccines for…promoting vaccines.
The New York Times reports that Tennessee’s top immunization official, Michelle Fiscus, says she was forced out of her job this week after writing a memo regarding a 34-year-old legal doctrine that suggests some teenagers can get vaccinations without their parents’ consent. That doctrine is obviously an important one in the event that a teenager happens to be under the parental care of someone who gets their medical advice from Fox News or the ex-president of the United States, particularly given the fact that, in the past two weeks, newly reported cases of COVID-19 have been on the rise, while the overall vaccination rate in Tennessee has stalled and is significantly lower than the national rate, according to the Times. But apparently, letting teens know their rights was a bridge too far for conservatives in the state.
兩天前我碼了一篇文章（美國疫情飆升，疫苗注射率卻瓶頸了，奈何？！），從讀者留言中，發現很多人在對待疫苗上，有很多困惑。在這裡，針對讀者的疑問，做一下統一解答：
為什麼要打疫苗？
疫苗接種後，會大大降低感染率。moderna 與 pfizer vaccine，對covid-19 type A，B，C 都有 95%+ 的efficacy。既使是面對傳染性與毒性極強的delta variants, pfizer的疫苗 ，依然有80%以上的efficacy（moderna的數據我沒找到）。而不打疫苗，被感染的機率則是100%。川粉們把打疫苗與不打疫苗的感染率相提並論，就如切同把巴西足球隊與中國足球隊等同一樣，連最起碼的科學常識都沒有。
為什麼美國疫情遠未結束？
疫情結束的標誌，是全民能夠achieve herd immunity（群體免疫）。針對covid-19這種傳染性極強的病毒，要達到群體免疫，需要90%以上的全民接種率。可是美國超過1億6千萬人未打疫苗，所以，依然是疫情高發區，任重而道遠。
究竟是些什麼人拒絕打疫苗呢？
Recent polling has found high levels of vaccine hesitancy among Trump supporters, including Republican men (49%), people who supported Trump in the 2020 election (47%), and Republicans (41%). There is also evidence of overlap on Facebook between vaccine hesitancy and users affiliated with the debunked QAnon conspiracy theory, according to documents related to an internal Facebook study obtained by The Washington Post. 再比較一下美國紅州與藍州的接種率，藍州遠高於紅州。
那麼，川粉為何拒絕疫苗呢？
正如上邊的紐約時報專題文章所述，大量的fake news 充斥着川粉群，充斥着川粉聚集的社交平台。在人命關天的大事上，逼得油管，臉書，推特等社交平台不得不把這些聳人聽聞的謠言刪除，把謠言傳播者封號。但謠言燒不盡，川粉吹又生。
舉例說明，被川粉州長控制的Florida，打過疫苗的人，居然會遭到歧視，連參加爬梯聚會，都不敢承認自己打過疫苗。但是，在Florida醫院裡面，重症死亡的，99.2%都是沒打過疫苗的人。
It tells ALL
