{"id":13205,"date":"2021-04-05T13:14:57","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T17:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13205"},"modified":"2021-04-05T13:14:57","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T17:14:57","slug":"evangelicals-remain-hostile-to-vaccination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13205","title":{"rendered":"Evangelicals remain hostile to vaccination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White evangelicals are not merely ignoramuses &#8212; they&#8217;re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/05\/us\/covid-vaccine-evangelicals.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dangerous ignoramuses<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There are about 41 million white evangelical adults in the U.S. About <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">45 percent said in late February that they would not get vaccinated<\/span> against Covid-19, making them among the least likely demographic groups to do so, according to the Pew Research Center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we can\u2019t get a significant number of white evangelicals to come around on this, <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">the pandemic is going to last much longer than it needs to<\/span>,\u201d said Jamie Aten, founder and executive director of the Humanitarian Disaster Institute at Wheaton College, an evangelical institution in Illinois.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can&#8217;t reason with these morons, because they didn&#8217;t get reasoned into their screwed-up ideas; all you can do is protect yourself by keeping them at a distance.<\/p>\n<p>Businesses and schools can help by demanding employees get vaccinated, and by refusing to admit the unvaccinated onto their premises &#8212; and they should.  The pandemic is an existential threat to the country <i>writ large<\/i>, and those who refuse to join the fight against it deserve to be outcasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White evangelicals are not merely ignoramuses &#8212; they&#8217;re dangerous ignoramuses. There are about 41 million white evangelical adults in the U.S. About 45 percent said in late February that they would not get vaccinated against Covid-19, making them among the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13205\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13205"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13207,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13205\/revisions\/13207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}