COVID Derangement Is Working Out Just Fine for the GOP

[L. Coyote]

https://www.thebulwark.com/covid-derangement-is-working-out-just-fine-for-the-gop/

The Republican treatment for coronavirus is quite simple. You mix doubt with denial, look past the lost lives and then wait. When the infection spreads, the virus replicates and mutates, and new variants jolt the economy, you then blame President Joe Biden.

For nearly two years we have witnessed an entire cohort of Americans reject the social compact and discard the welfare of others, including their own loved ones. In the name of liberty they have proudly protected the rights of Americans to reject vaccines, refuse masks, spread the virus, demand expensive therapeutics, claim ICU beds, clog up hospitals, and gum up the economy.

The virus champions in the GOP know that their unvaccinated supporters are 17 times more likely to be hospitalized and 20 times more likely to die from COVID. You will not hear them lament that more than 10,000 mostly unvaccinated Americans are dying each week as we approach the loss of 900,000 American lives. On this they are largely silent. Mass death is another casualty of the long culture war; the cost of doing business in today’s Republican party.

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Link to tweet

[Faux pas]

1. Kickety Kickin'

[tanyev]

2. Seems like their war on mail-in ballots would affect many of their voters as well.

[Cha]

3. No, Stupid.. the Virus is REAL &

Brainwashing is the Enemy of Eradicating IT.

Rt TY

[L. Coyote]

5. This isn't rocket science. What may be missing is message delivery.

Too many people living in alternate reality media bubbles.

[Cha]

6. YES.. They're all or most all fox truthers..

which is a lie.. there is No truth there.

& hate radio & now podcasts like rogan..

It's a deadly pandemic in itslef. brought to them by Greedy Fascists who hate Democracy.

What exactly is that chart saying? Sorry.. don't get it.

[L. Coyote]

8. Charted is 70-year-old's risk of ICU if infected, comparing unvaccinated, vaccinated, and boosted.

And also noting the delta and omicron difference.

Meanwhile, the stat I'm watching is the 70-79-year-old demographic's risk of death if testing positive, almost 6% in my state right now.

ON EDIT: corrected to 70-year-old

[Cha]

11. Mahalo! If the 70 to

79 year old people are vaccinated with booster I've read that death would be less likely.

[L. Coyote]

12. That stat is from the State of Oregon w/o distinguishing vaccination status.

The Weekly Data Report PDF at OHA. https://govstatus.egov.com/OR-OHA-COVID-19

Link to tweet

[Crunchy Frog]

13. The risk on the chart is for a 70 year old.

The dotted line is for an unvaccinated 40 year old with Delta.

[L. Coyote]

14. Good catch.

[dwayneb]

15. What are they greedy for?

We have to understand that this is all about power, not politics. Fascists simply use the guise of politics to pave the road to despotism.

[Lucky Luciano]

7. Note that this is a log base 2 scale which is understating vaccine effectiveness if you don't look

…closely!

[SharonClark]

4. Excellent article that clearly supports its

conclusion that Biden and the Dems can’t win the Covid culture war if they don’t fight it.

[L. Coyote]

10. A thought, great public service announcements promoting vaccination work against them politically,

taking down the anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers without being political ads.

[PortTack]

9. But they didn't plan on the Biden Boom...ha!

[ancianita]

16. If they're losing voters to covid, maybe gerrymandering won't work for them after all.

[Moebym]

17. A point I wish she had touched on

Was how the media hasn't exactly been the most helpful in pointing out which party is responsible for spreading disinformation that has led to all these preventable deaths.

And what exact methods other than getting our candidates to hammer home the GOP's dangerously cynical ploy we can employ to spread the word.

Otherwise, I like the article.

[Eyeball_Kid]

18. Ten thousand a week, and 85-90% of them are Trumpers...

and Trump lost Georgia by 11 thousand votes.

If the GOP leadership refuses to do the math, they won't have the votes to win anything.