Pro-Trump counties now have far higher COVID death rates

Pro-Trump counties now have far higher COVID death rates. Misinformation is to blame 

"Since May 2021, people living in counties that voted heavily for Donald Trump during the last presidential election have been nearly three times as likely to die from COVID-19 as those who live in areas that went for now-President Biden. That's according to a new analysis by NPR that examines how political polarization and misinformation are driving a significant share of the deaths in the pandemic."

I'm angry. They were trusted fucking leaders (to their constituents) and instead of leading, they pandered and killed their citizens, some of which are my family in another state. No, I don't agree with them, but I didn't want them to die because they are easily duped. This is genocide at some level, especially when you have many of these Republican leaders themselves getting the vaccines while investing in things like Regeneron, a COVID treatment, while being against vaccine mandates. Or having differing views of the vaccine depending on your audience, indicating that some of them are well aware of what would result in less deaths for their people. Do they not have some kind of obligation to not lie, when the lies result in people dying to a contagious disease? Can blue states sue red states for their policies when it caused issues in blue states, like when people in Idaho came to Washington and Oregon for medical services and started to overwhelm the hospitals there? Can people sue these political leaders as individuals, can they get jail time, will we ever get fucking justice for this disgusting display of leadership?

They went on TV amplifying these talking points when they should have been the counternarrative. It didn't negatively affect most of the leaders: they didn't die; their families didn't die; their investments went up. The poor people were the ones who died. Look at the houses with Trump flags, the vast majority need new roofs and siding, some look like they should be condemned.

And Q tells them that pushing vaccines is how the left is killing off the right - because the left knows the right won't do it solely because the left is asking them to do it.

I still find it funny that conspiracy theory believers are so adamant about rejecting the vaccine.

Because even using their logic about how the government is an evil cabal and only "sheep" do what they are told, then by their own logic the government would want to protect those sheep. Why would an evil government secretly be poisoning all their loyal sheeple followers?

Trump supporters love Trump and believe everything he says.

Trump takes credit for inventing the vaccine and getting it distributed.

Trump gets vaccinated, although tries to hide the fact.

It comes out that he is vaccinated, and he eventually encourages his followers to get vaccinated, multiple times.

His followers say no to the vaccine because the vaccine was created by Democrats, Fauci, Bill Gates, aliens, tentacle monsters, or whatever stupid conspiracy of the day is out. They think the vaccine was invented to kill, mind control, or whatever stupid conspiracy of the day is out. Keep in mind Trump said he created the vaccine.

Trump followers still love Trump and say they only trust him, except apparently on his suggestion they get the vaccine he invented, that his followers think some devious force invented to kill them.

Many more Trump supporters die because they don't listen to Trump on this one thing. They double down on dumb and continue to listen to bullshit peddlers like Joe Rogan instead of people who actually know what they're talking about, like most doctors.

Stupid is as stupid dies.