COVID-19 is killing more Republicans than Democrats

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

I worry about my conservative family, friends, and co-workers. My daughter's best friend's mother just died of this disease. She was 50 and unvaccinated. Her husband and 4 kids now have to carry on without Mom, all because she listened to right-wing media instead of her doctor. She was otherwise healthy. This is truly tragic, and gut-wrenching because she very well could have survived if she had gotten the vaccine.

I listened to my doctor.

I am not vaxxed.

I eat right and exercise regularly. I am healthy as a horse. Not even a sniffle in more than 2 years.

So, now what?

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

I wouldn’t call it a mistake. I definitely think it’s interesting to see their behavior.

You’ll find that they’re very emotional and very easily agitated.

Said someone who calls themself XponentialChaos

And we REEEEAAAAALLY appreciate all the free entertainment you guys provide. Why blow money to go to a theater on a Friday night to see a dull movie when we have a free circus right here? Thank you!

 

[XponentialChaos]

And we REEEEAAAAALLY appreciate all the free entertainment you guys provide. Why blow money to go to a theater on a Friday night to see a dull movie when we have a free circus right here? Thank you!

Yup. It’s definitely a circus around here.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

I listened to my doctor.

I am not vaxxed.

No competent doctor would advise you not to get vaccinated unless you had a rare medical disorder that put you at risk. So either you do, or you are lying.

 

[struth]

Covid-19 is now disproportionately killing people in red states and red counties in blue states, and the GOP could lose enough voters to cost them in elections for years to come.

Conservative media is killing Republican voters the party can ill afford to lose

From the article:

The coronavirus pandemic now has a heavy partisan bias.

COVID-19 hasn't disappeared in blue states like California and New York. But places that have managed to surpass 65 percent vaccination are in a better position than red states like West Virginia, Idaho, or Wyoming, where hospitals are overrun with unvaccinated COVID-19 patients. (Idaho's COVID death rate last week, for example, was seven times that of New York state.) Even at the county level, as David Leonhardt shows at The New York Times, there's a marked partisan bias: Republican counties in blue states have vastly more cases and deaths on average, while Democratic counties in red states are faring better than their neighbors.

A primary reason for this disparity is how right-wing media has come out hard against COVID vaccines. From pundits on Fox News to the gutters of Trumpist Facebook, anti-vaccine misinformation is everywhere. As a result, vaccination rates are starkly partisan. Many Republicans aren't getting vaccinated, and a lot of them are dying. Rejecting the vaccines is costing the GOP votes it can ill afford to lose.

Thus far, pandemic deaths have been fairly evenly spread, because COVID-19 hit blue states like New York and New Jersey early. Now conservative Mississippi has shot to the top of the state death rankings, with Louisiana and Alabama not far behind. Biden's 2020 margin of victory in the three key states of Wisconsin, Arizona, and Georgia combined was only about 44,000 votes. Something like 53,000 people have already died in those three states — and it seems safe to assume the people dying there and in other swing states are disproportionately Republicans.

Here another article on the subject:

Red COVID? Coronavirus deaths are highest in counties with the largest share of Trump voters: report

From the article:

In counties where former President Donald Trump received at least 70% of the vote in the 2020 presidential election, COVID-19 has killed about 47 out of every 100,000 people since the end of June, health care analyst Charles Gaba tells the New York Times. But in counties where Trump won less than 32% of the vote, the number is a fraction of that — about 10 out of 100,000.

The Times report featured in its morning newsletter on Monday also referred to a recent Pew Research Center poll looking at the political divide in vaccination rates, which found that 86% of Democratic voters had received at least one shot, compared with 60% of Republican voters.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that as the delta variant surged in early summer, those who were unvaccinated were more than 10 times more likely than the fully vaccinated people to be hospitalized, and 11 times more likely to die.


And here's a chart comparing COVID deaths from counties Trump won by over 70% to counties Trump won less than 32% of the vote:

not surprised Republicans tend to be the ones still out working and therefore more likely exposed

dembot cultist aren’t gonna catch it playing on the computer in their parents basement using their internet

 

[XponentialChaos]

With the large gap in vaccination rates between Democrats and Republicans, this story doesn't surprise me at all.

It's mostly a choice at this point.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

No competent doctor would advise you not to get vaccinated unless you had a rare medical disorder that put you at risk. So either you do, or you are lying.

If you listened with your ears and not with your TV, you would hear doctors saying the same thing by the thousands. You can brand them incompetent only when you can show us your credentials as a professor in medical school or on a state medical licensing board. Otherwise, it's time for you to STFU.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

With the large gap in vaccination rates between Democrats and Republicans, this story doesn't surprise me at all.

It's mostly a choice at this point.

It sure is. And I'm glad that no one gets to make that choice but me.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

If you listened with your ears and not with your TV, you would hear doctors saying the same thing by the thousands.

What a stupid lie. Where are you "hearing" these thousand of doctors say this? The voices in your head? You can't even construct a plausible lie, ya clown.

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

I worry about my conservative family, friends, and co-workers. My daughter's best friend's mother just died of this disease. She was 50 and unvaccinated. Her husband and 4 kids now have to carry on without Mom, all because she listened to right-wing media instead of her doctor. She was otherwise healthy. This is truly tragic, and gut-wrenching because she very well could have survived if she had gotten the vaccine.

99.4% survival rate. Blame the news media. There is so much distrust now that many don’t believe what works and what doesn’t.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

99.4% survival rate.

Madeup lie.

 

[XponentialChaos]

It sure is. And I'm glad that no one gets to make that choice but me.

You're welcome to make dumb choices as far as I'm concerned.

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

Madeup lie.

Fuck you. If I prove otherwise will you leave this board forever? Yes or no?

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Fuck you. If I prove otherwise will you leave this board forever? Yes or no?

Do whatever you want. It's a lie. And no, I am not going to waste any time explaining why your attempts to support it are specious and stupid.

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

You're welcome to make dumb choices as far as I'm concerned.

Like rooting for the 49ers….

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

Do whatever you want. It's a lie. And no, I am not going to waste any time explaining why your attempts to support it are specious and stupid.

120.2 Million​

Estimated Total Infections

101.8 Million​

Estimated Symptomatic Illnesses

6.2 Million​

Estimated Hospitalizations

767,000​

Estimated Total Deaths

Coward. This is from the CDC. You are a liar and a loser. Don’t talk shit if you cannot back it up.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

120.2 Million​

Estimated Total Infections

101.8 Million​

Estimated Symptomatic Illnesses

6.2 Million​

Estimated Hospitalizations

767,000​

Estimated Total Deaths

Coward. This is from the CDC. You are a liar and a loser. Don’t talk shit if you cannot back it up.

This may come as a shock to a genius like you, but the US is only about 5% of the world population.

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

This may come as a shock to a genius like you, but the US is only about 5% of the world population.

We are discussing the US since he is talking about Republicans vs Democrats. Nice try, stupid idiot.

 

[XponentialChaos]

Like rooting for the 49ers….

Not really. Rooting for a team that has good seasons and bad ones isn't like gambling on your own health.

We can like different teams and still agree to get vaccinated.

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

Not really. Rooting for a team that has good seasons and bad ones isn't like gambling on your own health.

We can like different teams and still agree to get vaccinated.

Your obsession is cute. 99.4% survival rate. Let people make their own choices. Govt mandates just create a slippery slope.