Covid deaths have tripled in Repub counties

[BigmanPigman]

Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) Tweeted:
📍DEATHS BY POLITICS—The pandemic shouldn’t be political, but it has become so. ➡️In recent weeks, #COVID19 death rates in US counties that voted 80%+ for R have TRIPLED—big divergence from D counties. So tragic. #vaccinate #MaskUp

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. People are gonna do what they're gonna do

Heart disease patients continue with cheeseburgers and fries, diabetics love donuts and ice cream, Covidiots think the vaccine is a government plot out to get them. You can't change people. So be it. It's time to stop trying.

[Permanut]

5. I'm right with ya, bucolic, no sympathy for them here..

just want to add that heart disease patients and diabetics don't present such a threat to you, me and the rest of us. You and I are entitled to equal access to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Can't change 'em, maybe, but any and all penalties are fine with me.

[stopdiggin]

12. hear what you're saying, but

I think the gov and health care has to keep messaging and advocating strongly - as really the only ethical and responsible option available. But - I also think, at this point, it will take a really stunning wave of deaths and dislocations to result in any change in minds and/or behaviors.

[Blue Owl]

2. That's a shame....

[Botany]

3. Do not use hospital bed space on these idiots.

Give them a cot in a tent, all the pain killers they want,
and no extra care. Fuck 'em they are spreading C-19 by being hosts. They can die for Donald as they read Russian posts on Facebook.

[ShazzieB]

24. It's really not that simple.

I've seen so many posts like this, and while I fully understand why people feel this way, I find these posts disturbing.

Health care professionals have a code of ethics that underlies decisions about the allocation of care, for covid or anything else. I don't think it's appropriate for those of us outside that field to make pronouncements that they should start doing things that violate that code (such as having different standards of care based solely on vaccination status), even in jest.

Health care workers need all the support we can give them right now, and imo, saying that they should flush their professional ethics down the toilet when dealing with covid patients is neither supportive nor helpful.

I realize this may not be a popular stance right now, but all this talk of denying care to a specific group is highly problematic, imo, no matter who that group consists of.

[Botany]

27. Tell me about the ethics where a large local hospital in Columbus, OH has told one of their ....

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... top oncology surgeons that there will be no more cancer surgeries starting Monday because of
a new and massive wave of C-19 cases from un-vaccinated selfish jerk wads? Instead of being
part of the solution to this global pandemic they have chosen to be part of the problem by being
hosts to the virus where it can live, mutate, and keep on killing millions of people world wide.

I know it will not happen but it sickens me that health care workers, neighbors, teachers, familues,
and friends are being exposed and put at risk because of these people who refuse to accept the
outcome of the election or medical science so if they end up in a wall tent on a cot that can be made
into a coffin that is their choice. No supplemental O2, no breathing machines, minimal exposure
to other people and only if they are protected too. And they can have all the pain killers they want
too.

[Irish_Dem]

28. Also the Covid patients and families are attacking health care workers.

So they are hurting non Covid patients and staff.

[SheltieLover]

4. K&R!

[Cha]

6. "Death by Politics" is

is Right!

Rt TY & I bet they haven't a clue why or even care.

Never mind that the big sacred cow had his shots.

[applegrove]

7. So sick. Does Fox News not want viewers? Or are viewers just an

expendable underclass?

[DENVERPOPS]

10. Do Republicans not

want their Republican Voters.???? Maybe the top of the Republican Party already knows that the actual votes won't be counted in the next elections, so they don't worry about having enough Republican votes to win ?????????

[KS Toronado]

11. You may have hit on exactly why........

They already know they are gonna CHEAT to win, and they don't need voters to do that.

[TheRealNorth]

26. They are willing to accept a 1% loss in viewership...

It don't really matter because they make their money from cable/dish subscriptions. And it's not like they have a need to pay for top-flight investigative journalists.

[paleotn]

8. Correlates strongly negative with vaccination rates, I'd wager.

[Ms. Toad]

9. Note the complete inversion from the relative death rates

March 2020 - June 2020 (at which time the death rates were highest in Democratic counties and lowest in Repubican counties.

[NullTuples]

13. And sadly, they're killing Democrats & other vaxxers with them.

Over and over they fill up all the beds occupy them for a while...and then all too often, die.

Meanwhile, people who followed directions and science rather than Trump are ending up not getting the care they need and sometimes the results are fatal.

This aspect of this pandemic is really bothering me. Doctors & hospitals have their own ethical choices to make, but there is a larger effect to their choice that ends up perhaps not being unethical but it is immoral.

[mountain grammy]

14. I just returned to my republican county

after spending a few days in Denver where mask use looked to be 100%. Stopped for groceries on the way home, mask use about 25%, which is about the percentage of Democrats in my end of the county. The theater is doing a Christmas show. I'd love to go, but no proof of vax or tests or masks required, so no go.

fucking stupid republicans.

[OrangeJoe]

15. Instant Karma

Our state senator, the only Republican who represents our district was a big anti-vaxxer no masks allowed COVID denier. He managed to contract COVID while in El Salvador doing some shady business. Last time he went overseas he managed to convince the Cambodians he was a United States Senator and got a $500,000 lobbying contract from the repressive assholes that run that country.

After testing positive he called for the whamnbulance to send him down some monoclonal antibodies. That didn't happen but he did manage to grift a med-evac charter flight to Florida. Unfortunately, Senator Erickson, the man who organized an early Trump rally up here in 2016 but then was so lame he couldn't get a job in the administration (Doug wanted to run the Region 10 EPA office but do it all from home, this was way before COVID hit) passed away from COVID yesterday. Tots and fries, Dougie, tots and fries.

[COL Mustard]

25. I Didn't Realize He'd Died

Sorry, not sorry. I only hope he set the right example for the rest of his covidiots.

[IronLionZion]

16. Freedom isn't free

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But safe effective vaccines are. We all make our own choices in life. The pro-life party has helped their voters make deadly choices.

We could pick up some Senate and House seats next November

[Kablooie]

17. No sympathy here.

They voluntarily chose this path themselves.
They were warned that it was dangerous and foolish for no reason whatsoever and still they decided to do it.

What bothers me is that people this stupid have votes that are just as influential as educated, informed voters.

[Skittles]

18. I sympathize with the folk who have to take care of them

yes indeed

[LiberalArkie]

19. Must be the rapture coming for the true believers

[TeamProg]

22. Yes! and their own special, personal Apocalypse for an appetizer. n/t

[BigBearJohn]

20. I never used to believe in people actually having death wishes. I do now.

[TeamProg]

21. A LOT of people resisted SEAT BELTS, too! And it's still not a complete, 100% of auto occupants,

law in New Hampshire.

Peepo B cra

[Glaisne]

23. Not tragic at all.

Sorry.