How COVID-19 is affecting society

[Isabeau]

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Jolene Benoir]

The Right's Anti-Vaxxers Are Killing Republicans

Since Covid-19 vaccines became available, the gap in excess deaths between Republicans and Democrats has widened, according to a new study.

theintercept.com

When people say, the Republicans cannot be compared to genocidal maniacs, remember that being anti-mask/anti-science/anti-vaccine came from their evil little hearts when the disease first was primarily killing people in primarily democratic cities. Still, today, they persist in making their political bones from the deaths of Americans.

Despite the fact that more than 1 million Americans have died from the virus, many Republican political leaders, particularly in red states, refused to impose stringent public health restrictions during the pandemic, and criticized mask and vaccination mandates. That opposition led many Republicans to deny that the vaccines worked and to refuse to get the shots. In Florida, one of the two states included in the study, Gov. Ron DeSantis transformed himself into a national Republican leader and possible presidential contender by leading the right-wing charge against public health mandates.

The partisan divide over vaccination developed almost as soon as Covid-19 vaccines became available in early 2021, and it continued to widen. By September 2021, 92 percent of registered Democrats had been vaccinated, compared with only 56 percent of Republicans, according to a Gallup survey at the time.

Between March 2020 and March 2021, excess death rates for Republicans in Ohio and Florida were 1.6 percentage points higher than for Democrats; but from April 2021 to December 2021 — after vaccines became widely available — the gap widened to 10.6 percentage points.

While those who have been vaccinated often still contract the virus, many studies have shown that people who have been vaccinated are much less likely to die from the disease.

Kushner's coronavirus team shied away from a national strategy, believing that the virus was hitting Democratic states hardest and that they could blame governors, report says

Some members of Kushner's COVID-19 team thought it was better to leave Democratic-voting areas to fend for themselves, a source told Vanity Fair.

www.businessinsider.com

A Native health center asked for COVID-19 medical supplies. It got body bags instead.

"Are we going to keep getting body bags or are we going to get what we actually need?" a Seattle Indian Health Board official asked.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Soen Eber]

I had to think a moment not to click the Yay! icon and to click the Sad icon instead. I really hate how recent politics have brainwashed so many otherwise good and decent people into joining a death cult.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

i want my 5g in brain already what a ripoff

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

I got my 5G brain, but there's no 5G service in my area yet, so that explains a lot really

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Oh, damn, was that Monday? I missed it! Just like I missed all those raptures, JFK Jr. coming back from the dead, and Trump repeatedly being reinstated!

I miss all the fun.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Mr. T is SO precious to me. Because like - okay, he's essentially a religious nut these days, almost every tweet he makes is praising god and talking about prayer and blessings or quoting a bible verse and all this; BUT he has also never, ever jumped on the anti-vaxxer/COVID-denier bandwagon AND he is not afraid to say so out loud like this, and I have come to really, truly treasure people like that these days, what can I say.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

he's essentially a religious nut these days

He was the same way in a Readers Digest article I read in the 80s, and just as wholesome.

 

[Caete]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

The pandemic is over and mask mandates are for cucks.

Nov 7, 2022 | Flourish

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[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Free]

COVID-19 vaccine politics could be linked to excess GOP deaths in Ohio, Florida: study

The politicization of COVID-19 vaccines may have led to a higher excess death rate among Republicans in Ohio and Florida during the coronavirus pandemic, a new study found. According to the study, …

thehill.com

The politicization of COVID-19 vaccines may have led to a higher excess death rate among Republicans in Ohio and Florida during the coronavirus pandemic, a new study found.

According to the study, published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, registered Republicans had a higher rate of excess deaths than Democrats after COVID-19 vaccines became widely available in May 2021.

The study from Yale researchers looked at 538,159 deaths for individuals aged 25 years and older in Florida and Ohio between January 2018 and December 2021 linked to their 2017 voter registration.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

From our public enquiry into how all aspects of the pandemic were handled (Johnson and Sunak will give evidence in early December)

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Partygate revelations destroyed trust in government, inquiry told

Ex-cabinet secretary says 'under no circumstances' should lockdown parties have taken place.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[detrius]

Mr. T is SO precious to me. Because like - okay, he's essentially a religious nut these days, almost every tweet he makes is praising god and talking about prayer and blessings or quoting a bible verse and all this; BUT he has also never, ever jumped on the anti-vaxxer/COVID-denier bandwagon AND he is not afraid to say so out loud like this, and I have come to really, truly treasure people like that these days, what can I say.

Religion can have some legitimate benefits for demographic groups that are victims of oppression. Harriet Tubman was a religious nut as well, MLK was a reverend.

The righteousness of the faithful can be a tool for good if it correlates with being right.

The problem is that it tends to not correlate.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

UK lockdowns were a policy ‘failure’, health expert tells Covid inquiry

Giving evidence at the Covid-19 public inquiry on Monday, Prof Mark Woolhouse of the University of Edinburgh – a member of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (SPI-M-O) – said the group failed to adequately assess the negative consequences of a nationwide lockdown.

“The harms of the social distancing measures – particularly lockdown, the economic harms, the educational harms, the harms to access to healthcare, the harms to societal wellbeing … just the way we all function … mental health – were not included in any of the work that SPI-M-O did and, as far as I could tell, no one else was doing it either,” Woolhouse told the inquiry.

“I take the view that it would have been very helpful if the government said explicitly: ‘We don’t want to go into lockdown. What’s your advice? How can we both minimise the health burden and stay out of lockdown?’ And we could have given a lot of advice and all the other things you could do other than lockdown.

“The question of how to avoid lockdown was never asked of us and I find that extraordinary.”

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Boris Johnson’s top media official said the Daily Mail’s eagerness to get people working in offices during the first Covid lockdown came from being “desperate” to sell newspapers, according to documents released to the official inquiry.

James Slack said a Mail headline in April 2020 predicting masks could allow people to return to work was spurred by a desire to revive their circulation figures. He had previously been the paper’s political editor before working for Johnson in No 10.


The comment, which was part of a series of WhatsApp messages, prompted Matt Hancock, the health secretary, to reply in block capitals: “WE DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH MASKS TO SAY THESE THINGS”.