Poll: As Omicron looms, a growing number of Trump voters consider going full Jonestown

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

As the heavily mutated Omicron variant starts to spread across the U.S., more Donald Trump voters now say they oppose officials “encouraging” Americans to get vaccinated than say they support such encouragement, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll.

That’s a sharp reversal from earlier this fall, when 2020 Trump voters favored a policy of vaccine encouragement by a nearly 20-point margin — and a worrisome sign of declining trust in COVID-19 vaccination among conservatives at a time when public health officials say all adults should be scheduling their booster shots.

In September, Trump voters largely opposed vaccine mandates, and they continue to oppose them today. Still, a full 54 percent of Trump voters said back then that they would favor a gentler approach, that is, “encouraging as many people as possible to get vaccinated” in their area in response to “a new wave of COVID-19 cases” triggered by the hypercontagious Delta variant, which was beginning to spread. Just 35 percent were opposed.

But Yahoo News and YouGov’s latest survey of 1,558 U.S. adults, which was conducted from Dec. 9 to 13, found that nearly half of Trump voters (48 percent) now oppose encouraging vaccination in response to Omicron. Fewer (41 percent) say they support doing so.

Among Trump voters, that represents a net shift of 26 percentage points against encouraging vaccination in just three months.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/as-omicron-looms-a-growing-number-of-trump-voters-oppose-even-encouraging-vaccination-204057154.html

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Good. More voters alive to vote for Democrats.

Let the Republican voters against vaccinations and COVID protocols die off in droves to own us Libs.

[Deminpenn]

12. Yep

Natural selection at work although the rw doesn't believe in that either.

[bluestarone]

2. I wish there was a way for hospitals to treat ALL UNVAXINATED covid pts

OUTSIDE the hospitals in tents only! Only normal patients allowed inside! (Sorry that's how i feel)

[Enter stage left]

3. Me too! And google educated doctors to treat them.

[rockfordfile]

4. Then they should die from it.

[Takket]

5. the "earlier this fall" number is clearly flawed. There is no way in hell 54% ever favored

encouragement.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Remember, Trump himself tried encouraging it

only to get booed at a rally. And of course had the shots himself. The demonization of the vaccine among the wingnuts has been a gradual thing; Trump wanted credit for the "Warp Speed" program.

But this statistic shows how insane the wingnuts now are - literally paranoid: "47 percent of Trump voters now say the vaccines pose “a greater risk” to their health than the virus".

[Mad_Machine76]

9. If anybody wants certifiable proof

How gone right wingers are in an alternate reality. I’ve been shot three times now and millions have as well and if the vaccine was as bad or dangerous as they act like it is evidence thereof would be much more obvious. But I know I’m preaching to you the choir here, of course.

[Carlitos Brigante]

6. If only they were just killing themselves. nt

[Wounded Bear]

8. There's a lot of bad data out there, especially in the "vaxxes don't work anyway" crowd.

They'll never let us defeat the virus. Never.

[myohmy2]

10. they're killing us...

...but not with love...

...if you're non-Hispanic white (63%, 493,638) 65 and over (74.9%, 590,089) were in a hospital (68%, 536,120) you're probably dead from COVID...

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/mortality-overview.htm

...we need to contact every Democratic voter to see if they've been vaccinated and boosted or ask if they need a ride to a COVID shot...

...the 2022 election could be determined by which Party loves their Boomer...

...live voters vote better...

[Buckeyeblue]

11. Where do we send the Kool-aid?