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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]WarGamer
(18,967 posts)Even in your example, the GOP'ers are only 57% of deaths and people talk about "reducing the ranks of the GOP" through C19 deaths.
Here's where the lack of CDC data hurts us.
We don't know how many of the dead were even voters.
Here's the bottom line.
People shouldn't be ghoulish.
The idea of a D vs R fatality scorecard is disgusting.
Since I've PROVEN that most C19 deaths have been in Urban areas... those cheering fatality numbers are cheering a lot of OUR own folks dying.
And BTW, here's the text from my OP (100% consistent with all my replies here):
Between the fantasizing and wishing/hoping there seems to be a lot of people under the impression that Rural whites (apparently believed to be GOP'ers) are most of the recent victims.
Having not seen any actual... you know, evidence of that... I checked out the CDC.
They have these cool interactive graphs and data to access.
Total deaths and death rates are not the same thing.
700 people may die of C19 in the NYC area in a week... and that is a far lower death rate than the 15 that die in some upstate NY County but in gross numbers... NYC leads the State, by far.
But in the larger States I looked at... it seems like 75%+ of the fatalities (in the State) are in the big blue counties.
So... I guess some are theorizing that in big blue Counties, it's actually just the GOP'ers that are dying.
I'd need to see evidence of that because it sounds laughable, actually.
How about people stop rooting for the deaths of others?
There is NO political GAIN to be made from people dying.