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The hope of herd immunity was fun while it lasted.

Therese Odell
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Your daily House of the Dragon photos.

Going Viral

Today’s shitty news is health experts now believe we will never reach herd immunity in this country because soft-brained morons here in the States are refusing to get vaccinated. This combined with how slow the vaccination is rolling out in other countries is dimming the hope of global herd immunity. The best we can do is make COVID a “manageable” disease with the occasional mass outbreak, and hope that in a generation or two, it’s no worse than the common cold. We also have to cross our fingers that a variant doesn’t mutate to become immune to the vaccine, and that our friends and loved ones who have compromised immune systems and can’t receive the vaccine don’t catch the virus from some ignorant selfish asshole. Because the Venn diagram of the people who are refusing to get the vaccine and the people who refuse to wear masks? A single circle.

Meghan McCain would have you believe the hesitancy is because liberals are SO MEAN to conservatives. But it’s much darker and deeper than that. Thanks in part to the previous administration who politicized everything about the virus, and in larger part to a general culture war that has been raging for the better part of three decades now, yes, some of the hesitancy is rooted in some conservatives’ need to be anti-anything-the-libs-are-for. And so the more people in the center and the left push for everyone to get vaccinated, the more those stubborn jerks are going to resist.

There’s also the piece of the puzzle involving the more religious corners of the right who are skeptical of modern science in general and/or worry that the vaccine is made of fetal tissue or contains microchips or some other nonsense. This piece about folks in Tennessee who are vaccine hesitant was eye-opening and profoundly upsetting: despite losing loved ones, friends, and acquaintances, there are still people out there — health professionals even! — who just flat refuse to get the damn shot to help end the suffering.

But I worry that there is another component at root: this very American sense of INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY! and the belief that the Constitution enshrines the right to do whatever you believe is singularly correct for you with absolutely no concern for the society as a whole. It’s all part and parcel of this right-wing animosity towards government and social services and having to pay taxes, as if they themselves don’t benefit from being a part of society. I don’t know what we do about that; I don’t know that there is anything we can do about that.

It’s infuriating, and it is EXACTLY why businesses, schools, and the government need to require people to get the vaccine, because the “IT’S MY GOD-GIVEN RIGHT TO BE A SCIENCE-DENYING, VIRUS-CARRYING PRICK!” crowd won’t do it unless they are literally forced to do so.

But hey: if you just loved all the culture wars over masks and social distancing, great news! There’s no end in sight for those!

John Oliver knows that nothing he says in this clip will change anti-vaxxer idiots’ minds, but he has to try anyway.

Please continue wearing your masks on planes, trains, and buses, even if you have been vaccinated. It would be nice if we didn’t have to, but thanks to SOME PRICKS OUT THERE WHO DON’T BELIEVE IN SCIENCE …

The United States is restricting travel from India as its COVID crisis spirals out of control. We are also sending supplies and the manufacturing supplies for the  AstraZeneca vaccine to help the embattled country.

90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way stars Jenny Slatten and Sumit Singh have tested positive for COVID-19 in the midst of the crisis in India.

In good news, New York state is planning on flinging its’ doors mostly open by May 19. Broadway can reopen its doors (but is unlikely to do so).

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R.I.P.

Olympia Dukakis, Legendary actress known for her roles in Moonstruck and Steel Magnolias, among many others

Nathan Jung, Actor who appeared in Star Trek, The A-Team, and Kung Fu.

Eli Broad, Billionaire philanthropist and art collector

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The Voice: The Road to Lives — 10th Anniversary Edition: Wait, this show has been on for 10 years now? How old AM I? 7 p.m., NBC

Incredibles 2: Mr. Mom meets superheroes. (See, for anyone reading this younger than 40, back in the 80s it was considered so ridiculous that a man would be a stay-at-home father that they made an entire comedy about it starring Michael Keaton. Look it up.) 7 p.m., ABC

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