Steve Mitchell has been voting in Republican in the state of Michigan for over thirty years and sees a rift that the coronavirus vaccine.
“If you ask, ‘Are you going to be vaccinated?’ And people say ‘No or not sure’, 25% of Democrats say ‘No, or not sure.’ “50% of Republicans say ‘No,’ or they do not know if they are going to be vaccinated. That’s a big difference,” he told CBS News’ David Begnaud.
He said he believed the difference of opinion “consists of the ideology in the philosophy that the Republicans have.”
“If you start with this fundamental mistrust of the big government and an aversion to government regulations and now they’re going to spray it in my arm? They’ll start not wanting it,” Mitchell said.
One of those people is Chris Howe. He is a conservative man in Clarkston, Michigan, where he runs his own hardwood flooring business. Courts said he and his family came down with COVID-19 earlier this year and experienced mild symptoms, leaving him doubting how deadly the virus is and the need for a vaccine.
“I do not think it is necessary,” he said. “I got it and am not dead.”
To target enthusiastic people like Courts, Michigan local health departments work with community leaders, such as faith groups.
A recent Marist poll in collaboration with NPR and PBS NewsHour found that 49% of Republican men said they would not take the vaccine if it was available.
Vaccination of vaccines among Republicans, especially Republican men, is something the GOP party leaders are trying to tackle, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who recently asked people to take the vaccine and said: ‘We need to take this vaccine. set aside. ‘
In an interview with Fox News, former president Donald Trump said he took the vaccine. “It’s an excellent vaccination. It’s a safe vaccination. It’s something that works,” he said.
Courts have said he has not yet heard enough information from sources that he trusts he wants to get the chance, and although the vaccines are consistently considered safe and effective by doctors around the world, he said he just does not move. not.
“When I go into stores, I’m civilized and I wear a mask and everything like that. The mask is beautiful, it takes the social distance. I’ll do it,” Howe said. ‘What would change me and to get it is for them to come out and say’ If you get this vaccine, you are not going to give it to anyone else. If you get the vaccine, you are not going to get it. ‘If it comes down to where I hurt the rest of the population, I’ll get the chance. If I have to go somewhere, I’ll get the chance. ‘
“Aren’t you going to get the chance?” Ask Begnaud.
“Probably not. Probably not,” Howe said.