# Will Anti-vaccers take the Covid-19 vaccine?

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**Created:** [September 14, 2020, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-anti-vaccers-take-the-covid-19-vaccine/920605 "2020-09-14T19:42:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2021, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-anti-vaccers-take-the-covid-19-vaccine/920605/12 "2021-02-28T18:29:09Z")

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Bumping this because as I feared, reports are coming that the crank machine currently entrenched in the Republican party is succeeding in turning the vaccination issue into a political one, just like others where science was supposed to guide us.

> [@GIGObuster](#):
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> but more recently the crank/conspiracy magnet machine entrenched in the GOP is in the process of doing with vaccination what it did with tobacco use, evolution, climate science, mask use, and other items.
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> Turning issues where science should guide us into political litmus tests against it, is a feature now for the Republicans, while Democrats are discouraging leaders to follow the anti-vaxxination racket, Republicans are even getting anti-vaxxers in power now and giving them more power.

@Jackmannii , you were correct that among politicians the Republican leaders were more likely to have antivax views, but I still do not see that Democrats are following that death wish, and now most of the rank and file Republicans are the ones being affected by the propaganda as I feared.

> **[Colorado poll finds large differences among political parties in who wants to...](https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/colorado-poll-finds-large-differences-among-political-parties-in-who-wants-to-get-vaccinated?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark)**
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> As Colorado continues to roll out the COVID-19 vaccine and with nearly 6,000 people dead in the state because of the virus, a newly released poll found just around 1 in 3 Colorado Republicans plan to get vaccinated when doses become available to...

> But the party split was notable: Eighty-eight percent of Democrats said they planned to get vaccinated, compared to 57% of unaffiliated voters and just 29% of Republicans who were polled.
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> Rural voters (23% yes) and Trump voters (24% yes) said they were much less likely to get vaccinated in comparison to suburban women (61% yes) and four-year college voters (68% yes).

This is more deadly than swallowing the manufactured conspiracy that the last election was rigged.

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