The death gap between Democrats and Republicans was larger in counties with lower vaccination rates.
It’s probably worse than we know because many states covered up Covid deaths. Politicians and hospitals didn’t want it to look like they were failing. Suspiciously, other causes of death (like pneumonia or heart disease) mysteriously spiked during the pandemic.
Florida did accounting trickery to try and downplay Covid deaths. If the persons primary residence was outside Florida they wouldn’t add it to the Covid totals. Then they tried to punish the health department workers who blew the whistle.
They didn’t “try to punish” her. They fired her after she blew the whistle on some sketchy pandemic data shit, and then DeSantis had a SWAT team raid and threaten her family in their own home. That’s a real thing that happened. It’s a matter of public record.
Excess mortality’s hard to cover up.
I mean, unless the right wants to pretend those people are still alive.
Conservatives all around the world made up claims of liberals making up death numbers by including distant cases like being hit by a car while covid-infected. This post makes a big part of that theory fall apart because it can’t explain Republicans having more deaths.
I wonder what a republican thinks when they read a study like this. Especially the jerks that argued with cashiers during that time.
I’m someone that would be Republican if the GOP hadn’t lost their fucking minds. You could call me a conservative.
Presumably you can already tell what I think. Those fucking idiots, I hope the contingent of that party dies off quickly enough that reasonable conservatives can salvage what’s left.
Anyone who is conservative but doesn’t want to buy into all of the anger and outrage all the time really doesn’t have a party right now.
You’re not wrong. And it’s worse for the people who think like I do. We’ve been labeled “neoliberals”, a term I’m not exactly a fan of and labeled centrists. In fact we’re quite the opposite. We’re so conservative it starts to look liberal again, bordering on anarchocapitalism (which is more where I find myself).
They’ll claim its because doctors weren’t treating people if they weren’t vaxxed. They were making claims like this during the height of the pandemic so now they just have evidence to prove it, obviously.
Remember when doctors/hospitals were getting paid if they claimed covid as the cause of death even for people who died in an accident? I member.
“The researchers did not have complete data—the linked data didn’t contain a cause of death or vaccination status.” Hmm, mighty bold claim there guys.
You missed an important bit:
But, they could evaluate excess weekly deaths by age, state, county, and party affiliation. They found that the gap in excess deaths was larger in counties with lower vaccination rates, suggesting that lack of vaccination among Republican voters may partly explain the higher death rates.
Being antivax falls into the category known as “a danger to yourself and others.”