Angry, Stupid Americans To Get Angrier, Stupider? Probably.

Yet another biased liberal scientist tries to scare us. Doesn't scare me, I'm just glad I lived to see the whole shithouse go up in flames. 'Though you could hurry it up a bit; I'm not booked on this plane forever.

Meanwhile, business leaders and the Biden administration have appropriately begun employer and federal vaccination mandates, respectively. These are necessary steps to ensure society can continue to function during this terrible time in the pandemic. In order to remain in the workforce or because they see their friends or family fall ill, we might anticipate that there will be some “auto correction” as some Americans finally agree to be vaccinated.

But ultimately, some unknown percentage of those 80 million still unvaccinated will dig in and continue refusing vaccinations, even if they have to risk unemployment and other penalties. Some surveys indicate that the defiance is deep-seated, so we should expect a sizable number of marginalized, unvaccinated, unemployed, and profoundly angry Americans. These are the groups who might gravitate to leading or taking part in political violence, as we got a taste of with anti-lockdown protests last year.

This fall, we could enter a period of great instability, and possibly one that resembles the unrest linked to Civil Rights and Vietnam War protests during the late 1960s. The differences between now and previous waves or surges of the pandemic include some signs of acceleration in pandemic aggression arising from an increasingly disenfranchised far right, an even more exhausted and depleted health system, and in some cases, the lapse of federal aid measures like eviction protection and federally-boosted unemployment.

Not to mention the possibility of deadlier variants emrging from the reservoir of the unwashed & unvaccinated.

It’s hard to estimate the number of last holdouts who are deeply suspicious and resentful of vaccinations, but we must recognize that this group will likely become the ones responsible for both continuing this current surge and even the potential evolution of new virus variants, and that some might even act on their anger and resentment. While we need a more assertive White House making the case to the American people that full and complete vaccinations are essential to our safety, we also need to brace for an even uglier wave of pandemic backlash.

When does it all stop?