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This entire conversation began with Krugman’s statement: “Do we think people should be free to drive drunk? No, not just because in so doing they endanger themselves but even more because they endanger others. The same was true for refusing to wear masks last year — and for refusing to get vaccinated now . . . “

And Mr. Hale immediately dragged us from the subject of Covid-19 , which has effected about 615,000 known U. S. deaths.in 16 or 18 months , to the subject of alcoholic impairment.

I believe the comparison here by Krugman was intended to illustrate non-use of the law in controlling fatal behavior by the American public . On average over the 10-year period from 2010-2019, a few more than 10,000 people died every year in drunk-driving crashes—with an 0.08 alcoholic impairment law. But we seem to be utilizing the law weakly and erratically at best in connection with 500,000 or so deaths a year associated with Covid-19.

Incidentally, Americans who say they will definitely not get vaccinated against COVID-19 are overwhelmingly white and Republican, according to polling by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Only 14% of Americans say they will definitely not get vaccinated. But even this lesser group is 69% white, compared with 7% Black and 12% Hispanic. Republicans make up 58% of this group, while Democrats account for 18%.

From: Just Sayin'. . . | Tom Camfield

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