Posted on 03/14/2022 3:38:38 AM PDT by MtnClimber
How much damage and carnage could have been avoided if COVID hadn’t been politicized? History will judge this era harshly, and deservedly so.
From the beginning of COVID two years ago, health authorities and the media have been preaching “follow the science,” but what they don’t say is that it’s not medical science that they are following but instead political science.
How else does one explain sudden new rules and recommendations, contradicting past “settled science,” regarding everything from natural immunity and off label therapeutics to the futility of masks and social distancing. It seems that overnight the science changed with this viral pandemic due to an upcoming election and the convenient distraction of Russian-Ukrainian war.
Does anyone doubt that COVID would have played out far differently in 2020 if it had been President Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders running for reelection rather than Donald Trump? The Pew Research Center analyzed the COVID timeline regarding voting patterns, confirming the continued political lens which is being applied to COVID.
From Pew’s recent article,
In the spring of 2020, the areas recording the greatest numbers of deaths were much more likely to vote Democratic than Republican. But by the third wave of the pandemic, which began in fall 2020, the pattern had reversed: Counties that voted for Donald Trump over Joe Biden were suffering substantially more deaths from the coronavirus pandemic than those that voted for Biden over Trump. This reversal is likely a result of several factors including differences in mitigation efforts and vaccine uptake,
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The depths that some politicians will sink to gram power os amazing.
Some ‘test-to-treat’ COVID sites at CVS, Walgreens are ready to see patients
Your only two treatment options: A Pfizer pill or a Merck pill.
No Ivermectin for you!
“follow the science,” but what they don’t say is that it’s not medical science that they are following but instead political science.
Nailed it.
What everyone ignores is that the flight migration of idiots who voted for their own destruction in Democrat hell-holes continued throughout the COVID crap into the Trump voting areas!
The Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex continued to grow at a rapid pace over the last two years! How many of those fleeing Democrat voting areas came here, picking it up on the way, dying in Trump voting areas?
Not. Nearly. Enough.
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