Why Is COVID-19 So Racist Against Republicans? What Could It Possibly Beeeeeee?

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.wonkette.com/why-is-covid-19-so-racist-against-republicans-what-could-it-possibly-beeeeeee

Just to confirm what we've known for a while, another study of partisan differences in death rates from COVID-19 has found that Republicans are having a higher rate of "excess death rates" than Democrats in Ohio and Florida, NBC News reports, explaining that "Excess deaths refers to deaths above what would be anticipated based on historical trends."

The new research, in a working paper for the the National Bureau of Economic Research, follows a June study published in Health Affairs that found higher proportions of COVID deaths in Republican-majority counties nationwide than in Democratic-majority counties (through October 2021 at least).

So why might that be happening, exactly? The obvious answer is that Republicans live in an imaginary bubble where COVID is not a big deal, vaccines and masking are nefarious big-government means of controlling you, and where even though COVID is no big deal, you can treat it with horse dewormer or malaria meds. In fact, we suppose that's so obvious that the researchers didn't feel the need to get into the fallacious beliefs Republicans have about the pandemic, although that's sure to be a rich source of future research in terms of how future public health responses should be designed.

Rather, the question these studies raise for researchers is whether the higher COVID deaths among Republican-leaning folks are primarily because of wider refusal to get vaccinated, or because of wider resistance to wearing masks and maintaining social distance. In yet another example of outrageous media bias, the article doesn't even consider the possibility that the virus was genetically engineered to more aggressively attack the immune systems of people who love America the most, or in areas with the highest number of Alex Jones fans.

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[EYESORE 9001]

1. It's just fake death

Those so-called victims are all hale & hearty. They had crisis actors on those ventilators.

[Nevilledog]

2. My favorite: they didn't die from COVID, they died with COVID.

[Roland99]

3. Wouldn't have anything to do with GOP FUD and misinfo, would it??

COVID-death rates AFTER vaccines became more prevalent (the GOP is complicit in MANY deaths)

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217240351

[Croney]

4. Why is racist the word here?

Sounds out of place. Maybe I'm missing something.

[former9thward]

5. The CDC data say death rates are higher for Blacks and Hispanics.

Two groups which tend to favor Democrats.

From the CDC:

Risk for COVID-19 Infection, Hospitalization, and Death By Race/Ethnicity


Covid Death rates per 100,000 by race: (adjusted for age as of August 3, 2022)

White 269
Black 442
Hispanic 466
Asian 197

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investigations-discovery/hospitalization-death-by-race-ethnicity.htmlu

[Initech]

6. There's this forum called R/HermanCainAwards...

And if you have spent any amount of time there, you know that conservatives were more likely to fall for the bullshit propaganda and anti-vaxxer conspiracy theories being spread around Facebook. It doesn't really need research to figure that one out.