Still such a mystery to me how so many people were willing to believe that “it’s just a cold.” They had the same access to stories about overwhelmed doctors and nurses and people being proned and intubated. It wasn’t a serious virus unless it was. But they were willing to roll the die. I still get every new covid vaccine iteration that comes out. If I can do something to guarantee that any covid I catch is milder, that’s what I’m doing. |
If this is accurate and applies to the entire country, wouldn't it suggest that a net ~700K people died of COVID since vaccines in red counties? |
The graph is "per 100,000 people" not "100,000" people. |
If this was in response to the last comment, then you didn't do the math. 200 excess deaths per 100,000. With a population of ~341,000,000, this would imply ~680K in excess deaths in Trump counties. |
Moderna says thank you! |
Shouldn't you be thanking Trump for making the vax? |
The only thing Trump did was guarantee a market for the drug if it was helpful against the virus. The platform for the drug had been developed years before. He otherwise had NOTHING to do with either the Moderna drug or the Pfizer drug, which was actually developed in German by immigrants. |
I thank Trump for losing the election so more people didn’t die needlessly. |
I say thank you. I know you’re trying to make some point about me being beholden to big pharma but the fact is that I can’t cook up my own covid vaccine, the more covid you catch the more likely it is that you’ll develop long covid and I know enough people who have gotten seriously knocked back by covid in the last year that I don’t want any of that. I get a flu shot and a covid shot and when I age into them I’ll probably get the vaccines recommended for those ages too. It’s like obeying the speed limit and paying my taxes on time. |
Your math is off, because you are including the entire population of the US to calculate excess deaths rather than the population of Trump counties. |
Look MAGA had the right to not get vaccinated. If they died from that choice so be it. It was their call. |
I'm well aware of this. As I previously said, if you applied this to the entire population (200 excess deaths per 100,000 as a proxy for Trump supporters), it would suggest an amount of that magnitude. What wasn't clear about this? |
It has been proven that Republicans are dying more from COVID since they didn't get the vaccine. That Republicans deny this... and deny COVID in general.... there are now fewer of them. |