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Polls continue to show white people are far less likely to take #COVID precautions.

% who have changed behavior due to news of increases of COVID (inc. wearing a mask or avoiding high risk spaces):

Black 59%
Hispanic 52%
White 29%

Source: https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/poll-finding/kff-covid-19-vaccine-monitor-september-2023/

KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor September 2023: Partisanship Remains Key Predictor of Views Of COVID-19, Including Plans To Get Latest COVID-19 Vaccine | KFF

This poll finds that nearly half of the public expects to get the new COVID-19 vaccine, which was recently recommended by the CDC,. About 6 in 10 expect to get a flu shot. The survey also examines attitudes about COVID-19 and vaccine safety, and the RSV vaccine. It also examines partisan divisions around vaccines.

KFF

COVID impacts Black and Brown communities the hardest.

Communities of color are far more likely to take COVID precautions such as wearing a mask or avoiding high risk spaces.

If you care about racial justice, you should be continuing to take actions to mitigate COVID spread.

Overall, 4 in 10 people in the US have taken recent precautions (inc. masking or avoiding spaces) because of increases of COVID-19.

Imagine how many more would if instead of minimizing, the government told them it was important to continue precautions.

https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/poll-finding/kff-covid-19-vaccine-monitor-september-2023/

KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor September 2023: Partisanship Remains Key Predictor of Views Of COVID-19, Including Plans To Get Latest COVID-19 Vaccine | KFF

This poll finds that nearly half of the public expects to get the new COVID-19 vaccine, which was recently recommended by the CDC,. About 6 in 10 expect to get a flu shot. The survey also examines attitudes about COVID-19 and vaccine safety, and the RSV vaccine. It also examines partisan divisions around vaccines.

KFF

Important context: https://www.npr.org/2022/04/04/1090919953/white-people-feared-covid-less-after-learning-other-races-were-hit-hardest-data-

El Mal de Nuestro Tiempo Sep 28, 2023

@luckytran Why am I not surprised.
Then again everyone was comfortable with covid being a danger for people with disability...

We Can Be Gyros Sep 28, 2023

@luckytran that's fuk!ng Gross. What.

Darwin Woodka Sep 28, 2023

@luckytran figures

Richard R Lee Sep 28, 2023

#COVIDSurrender.

Jarvis Slacks Sep 28, 2023

@luckytran @_L1vY_

Slavery is violence Sep 28, 2023

@luckytran FFS 🤦‍♀️

Mike Sep 28, 2023

@luckytran Ugh. Why do white people suck. Yes, I am white as they come.

Elio Campitelli Sep 28, 2023

@LeafyEricScott I saw that you boosted this and had to look the study up. Here's the link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027795362200257X#appsec1

I think that there's a lot of strange things in the study (like numbers in the text that are the opposite of what's shown in the plots) but here's a table from the supplemental material which actually shows that perceived disparities and knowledge of racial disparities are *positively* (albeit weakly) correlated with fear, support for safety measures and empathy.

Geoff Winkless Sep 28, 2023

@luckytran I mean... isn't that just logical? Here is evidence that something you fear will not harm you as much as you thought? The rational response is to fear it less.

Just because I fear COVID less doesn't mean that I would not take all reasonable steps to protect those more vulnerable around me.

Just feels like a weird hot-take.

C.S.Strowbridge Sep 28, 2023

This reminds me of this quote:

“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”
― Lyndon B. Johnson

J.H.Noyes Sep 29, 2023

Heck, all you have to do is convince people that they're superior to the sorry bastards on ventilators and they'll go cough all over the produce down at the Piggly Wiggly in celebration of their good fortune.

@luckytran @hannu_ikonen

apalu Sep 28, 2023

@luckytran just in case anyone still needed a reason to stop saying cops beating people up is a racism issue... I do not know who's coming up with the messaging on those issues but they are not aware of human nature. :/

Liz "Not A Convicted Felon" D.Sep 29, 2023

I'm an old white lady living predominately black city of Newark, NJ (and I love it} but no one is taking any precautions that I can see. NJ is pretending covid no longer exists. The new vaccine is free but no one knows about it.

I am still masking in public places but the only one these days. Tomorrow, I get the new booster

Reach for the Stars

@luckytran The government has lost its authority and has in fact acquired a kind of "anti-athority" where people upset with past actions by the government will go out of their way to defy and distort government messaging. Anyone who would listen to a CDC message about additional precautions is likely already on your 40%. Why set off the starting gun of anti-government rhetoric for a small number of people who might listen to more than what is already being said?

I promise you there are a lot of smart well informed people in the Biden administration and they know that they are doing playing this low key. It is not just political, it is valid social science. When the government faces a hostile lack of authority, the worst thing to do is press that authority and loose.

Yami no senshi Sep 28, 2023

@antares @luckytran I think governments all over the world basically gave up they downplaying it now and the Media Circus also travelled on because they see that most people are sick of the topic and want to ignore it also most people trust the politicians when they say it’s harmless now what is quite silly because when they said be careful they don’t believed them seems like the people just want to hear their opinion repeated from them. People want events and party

Keith Ammann @ GameStorm Sep 28, 2023

@antares I think you're mistaken about that. I live in a very blue city and send my kid to a progressive preschool. The parents and teachers there are exactly the sort of people who'd take increased precautions if they were told they needed to. No one is telling them anything, though, so they're not doing anything.

We've had five confirmed COVID cases since Labor Day.

Reach for the Stars

@KeithAmmann A very progressive school in a very blue city like this Morris Brown College in Atlanta?

Are you ready to drop your children off at a school surrounded by “We Will Not Comply” protests, because that will be the result of new mask mandates. There are a lot of upset people looking for a fight. I think the CDC as well as local governments and school board would do well not to give them one.

Let parents know that there has been in increase in Covid community spread and ask people to take appropriate precautions. Those who will listen will understand what that means.

Atlanta College at Center of COVID Backlash Confirms End of Mask Mandate

Morris Brown College had announced it was reinstating its COVID-19 mask mandate following reports of positive cases but has since repealed the order.

Newsweek

Keith Ammann @ GameStorm Sep 28, 2023

@antares No, not like that.

And "appropriate precautions" is weak and toothless language. People look to the relevant health authorities to tell them what precautions are appropriate. If they don't hear anything, they assume they don't need to do anything.

CurrentBias Sep 29, 2023

@KeithAmmann @antares not only that, but waiting until cases rise before acting is the very opposite of "precaution"

Truly precautionary behavior is inherently proactive/preventative, not reactive

Sue Sullivan Sep 28, 2023

Another striking contrast was more than half of parents saying they were worried about their kids getting seriously ill from COVID and less than half of parents saying they will get their kids the latest COVID vaccine. #makeitmakesense

Eniko (moved ➡ gamedev.place)Sep 28, 2023

@luckytran if 40% of people aren't buying that covid is over anymore despite the enormous amount of propaganda I'd say things are pretty dire

Threadbane Sep 28, 2023

@luckytran
If it weren't for the fact that they represent a reservoir for further mutations and infection risks for innocent people, I'd encourage the Republicans to go unmasked and unvaccinated.

Denny Sep 28, 2023

@luckytran Is that true globally? In London UK it feels very opposite to me, although admittedly at this point pretty much everybody is terrible.

Pup Orion Sirius Sep 28, 2023

@luckytran
It also heavily impacts the disabled community. And the infection vector is often those around them giving them the assistance they need to function.

eena meena me Sep 28, 2023

@luckytran is this because Black and Brown people are more likely to work shitty jobs that expose them? Live in cramped, often multi-generational houses, or even apartments?

I wonder why what socio-economic circumstances could lead them to doing such reckless things… probably just a poor people thing……………………

otoh! I am fairly certain that in whole numbers there's more poor white people living in similar circumstances… so uhm… why aren't they taking precautions?

Carolannie Sep 28, 2023

@luckytran we just have special super powers (gaffer's hook yanks idiot offstage)

Angela Sep 28, 2023

@luckytran *jots note* "Avoid crowded, poorly ventilated spaces with lots of white people..."

I'm in Christchurch, New Zealand, this is gonna mean continuing as many click and collect orders as possible and only risking outdoor events, lol

pnwpetey Sep 28, 2023

@luckytran What’s the percentage on Asians? Oh, I see. We’ll be fine.

Bunnytown 💜⁷ Sep 28, 2023

@pnwpetey @luckytran
Ya I was wondering where we even are on here

C.S.Strowbridge Sep 28, 2023

As a white person... I'm not surprised.

The fact that only 29% have taken any precautions means we are doomed as a species. Anyone outside of the 29% should not be allowed to vote.

Yami no senshi Sep 28, 2023

@csstrowbridge @luckytran we probably should start to make babies with non white people to secure at lest some of our genpool

Richard R Lee Sep 28, 2023

#Trumpistan. @luckytran

Terminhell Sep 28, 2023

@luckytran it's been basically a non-starter issue here in Louisiana. Only during the most mandated parts of masking and such did I see, maybe about 40-50% of people bothering. Now? Not even medical facilities are wearing them.

ouinne Sep 28, 2023

@luckytran horror movies do not lie, white people do not take precautions against obvious dangers. 😔

Tofu Golem Sep 28, 2023

@luckytran
Part of the reason white supremacism is gaining so much traction among conservatives is that white people are now a plurality instead of a majority, and conservatives are freaking out.

Thanks to the extreme rhetoric of white supremacists, fewer white people are taking precautions in response to COVID-19.

No one ever accused white supremacists of a surfeit of intelligence.

Evannakita Sep 28, 2023

@luckytran The metric of “changing behavior” is an interesting one. The recent news about increasing case rates didn’t lead me to change my behavior, because I was *already* taking precautions. So what these metrics capture are the middle of the bell curve—the folks who take precautions sometimes but don’t do so reliably.

Yami no senshi Sep 28, 2023

@luckytran I wonder why they don’t also asked Asian people I mean there are a lot of them in America too!

Spiru Sep 28, 2023

@luckytran americans need to stop using hispanics as a race. There are full white and full black people in latin american too. And a lot.

Inkdependence Sep 28, 2023

@luckytran I never stopped being cautious, so I wouldn’t really know how to answer that poll. 🤷🏼‍♂️ I hardly ever see people here masking indoors anymore, though, and I don’t get it. How’re you just gonna be breathing other people’s air these days?

arestelle Sep 28, 2023

@inkdependence @luckytran all of this. I always wear a mask indoors, only go indoors when I need to, usually wear a mask at outdoor markets (only don't if there are very few people walking around), have not traveled since 2019 and won't anytime soon, don't eat in restaurants anymore either, and basically have very little room to be *more* of a hermit

Kat Kimbriel Sep 29, 2023

It's distressing how few people are upping their precautions. I never stopped mine, but if I stop at a local gas station/quick mart, I'm the only one masked in there.

Debbie Belair Sep 30, 2023

@luckytran 😡It’s all about racism. Canada is one of the worst places for racism. People in this country need a kick in the ass.

Debbie Belair Oct 5, 2023

@luckytran This may be evolution.😂