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The death gap between Democrats and Republicans was larger in counties with lower vaccination rates.

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[-] bedrooms@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] AmidFuror@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Republicans became shittier drivers during COVID.

[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Considering the stories I’ve heard about nurses being threatened for “making up” an illness during COVID, I think they’d have plenty of “explanations”

[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] mindbleach@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Excess mortality's hard to cover up.

I mean, unless the right wants to pretend those people are still alive.

[-] Nessussus@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

@realcaseyrollins

Being antivax falls into the category known as "a danger to yourself and others."

[-] C4RP3_N0CT3M@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

"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.

[-] kabe@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Here’s the thing about excess mortality during COVID… most of it was from COVID

[-] robocall@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I wonder what a republican thinks when they read a study like this. Especially the jerks that argued with cashiers during that time.

[-] Candelestine@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Depends. The fascist wing will just cry fake news. The moderates will just point at the fascist wing.

[-] Lemmylefty@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

“See? I told you that doctors don’t care about you: look at how they do everything they can for vaxxers but the SECOND they hear you’re questioning, they don’t give a shit about you. Fucking sick.”

[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Probably similar to the whole "narcissist prayer"

[-] baked_tea@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

They'd be very upset if they could read

[-] elscallr@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

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.

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