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How Many Republicans Died Because the GOP Turned Against Vaccines?
The Atlantic ^ | Yasmin Tayag

Posted on 02/12/2023 12:52:34 PM PST by nickcarraway

Party leaders are unquestionably complicit in the premature deaths of their own supporters.

No country has a perfect COVID-vaccination rate, even this far into the pandemic, but America’s record is particularly dismal. About a third of Americans—more than a hundred million people—have yet to get their initial shots. You can find anti-vaxxers in every corner of the country. But by far the single group of adults most likely to be unvaccinated is Republicans: 37 percent of Republicans are still unvaccinated or only partially vaccinated, compared with 9 percent of Democrats. Fourteen of the 15 states with the lowest vaccination rates voted for Donald Trump in 2020. (The other is Georgia.)

We know that unvaccinated Americans are more likely to be Republican, that Republicans in positions of power led the movement against COVID vaccination, and that hundreds of thousands of unvaccinated Americans have died preventable deaths from the disease. The Republican Party is unquestionably complicit in the premature deaths of many of its own supporters, a phenomenon that may be without precedent in the history of both American democracy and virology.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: coven; laurenejobs; lotsandlots; republican; stevejobs; theatlantic; unvaccinated; vaccines; yasmintayag
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To: nickcarraway

“when a Republican created it, and proudly proclaims it?”

I don’t believe for a minute that Fauci is a Republican.


121 posted on 02/12/2023 2:00:24 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Stupid is supposed to hurt.)
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To: FreedomPoster

+1


122 posted on 02/12/2023 2:01:02 PM PST by South Dakota (Patriotism is the new terrorism )
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To: nickcarraway
it is difficult to determine just how many people died as a result of their political views. In the “excess death” study, researchers dealt only with rates of excess death, not actual death-toll numbers. Overall, excess deaths represent a small share of deaths. “On the scale of national registration for both parties,” Wallace said, “we’re talking about relatively small numbers and differences in deaths” when you look at excess-death rates alone.

In a free and rational country, individuals have the responsibility to educate themselves about vaccines and make informed choices about their health, regardless of the opinions of political leaders and bureaucrats. Individuals have the freedom to make their own choices about their health and should not be influenced by political affiliations or opinions. It's important to understand and respect the choices that individuals make about their health, regardless of their political affiliations

Vaccination decisions should be based on scientific evidence and research, not on government opinions and mandates.

123 posted on 02/12/2023 2:01:12 PM PST by mjp (pro-freedom & pro-wealth $)
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To: nickcarraway
How Many Republicans Died Because the GOP Turned Against Vaccines?

Exactly ZERO.

124 posted on 02/12/2023 2:01:47 PM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: MayflowerMadam
I was talking about Trump.

Democrats used to hate Fauci, because they say he made AIDS worse.

125 posted on 02/12/2023 2:02:43 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

I got vaxxed before she died actually, but that hit close to home. During the shutdown I used to go walking around town as a way to get out of the house. Walking to the local graveyard was a wakeup call because there were so many fresh graves that the people making the headstones couldn’t keep up. It looked like they had had a fire sale!

BTW, I was one of the mask makers and have been posting pro-vax for quite a while now.


126 posted on 02/12/2023 2:02:48 PM PST by BlackAdderess (Representatives are supposed to represent their constituents, that is their job. )
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To: Reily

Trump helping Kennedy?


127 posted on 02/12/2023 2:02:48 PM PST by M_Continuum
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To: nickcarraway

Well we have a princess and a Major Rock star’s daughter that died suddenly from the vax. The Atlantic is a liberal rag.


128 posted on 02/12/2023 2:07:18 PM PST by Revel
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To: nickcarraway

This unvaccinated Republican is still alive.


129 posted on 02/12/2023 2:07:19 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: Spok

“I knew from the start that they were lying about the vax being safe, not because I knew it was unsafe, but because I knew they couldn’t know that it was. How could anyone know that a new medical procedure would have no long term consequences?” -Steve Kirsch


130 posted on 02/12/2023 2:07:27 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Stupid is supposed to hurt.)
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To: NorthMountain

Ain’t over yet, I’m afraid. Meanwhile Fauci has gone anecdotal, “Given my age , I might have had a more severe infection if I hadn’t been vaccinated. “


131 posted on 02/12/2023 2:08:58 PM PST by sopo
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To: Revel

Who were they?


132 posted on 02/12/2023 2:09:13 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

How many democrats have died and or dying of the vaccines- a lot more than republicans


133 posted on 02/12/2023 2:10:20 PM PST by revivaljoe ( )
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To: CFW

“They didn’t expect the parents to notice and object to what they found the teachers were doing to their children.”

The law of unintended consequences. You’re right; TPTB didn’t think it through when it came to lockdowns.


134 posted on 02/12/2023 2:13:04 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Stupid is supposed to hurt.)
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To: nickcarraway

“I was talking about Trump.”

Good grief. You think that Trump, a real estate mogul, CREATED a drug?


135 posted on 02/12/2023 2:15:01 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Stupid is supposed to hurt.)
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To: nickcarraway

So have more republicans than democrats died of covid?


136 posted on 02/12/2023 2:16:00 PM PST by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: nickcarraway

Did Yasmin Tayag just get back from her home planet. She seems to not have a clue about vaxxed and un-vaxxed mortality.


137 posted on 02/12/2023 2:16:46 PM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: nickcarraway

No one ever died from not taking a vaccine. Some may have died from not taking a vaccine that might otherwise have prevented their death- that is a wholly different thing . The inability to make logical distinctions is the reason stupid persons called “reporters” write such articles.

How many people have died from making this or that choice, eating this or that, taking this medicine or not? Unknown and irrelevant. That is not the cause of death. A virus was the cause of death in COVID-19, not “refusing a vaccine”. That’s a choice every individual can make, along with the consequences, if any.


138 posted on 02/12/2023 2:17:18 PM PST by libertarian66
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To: MayflowerMadam

This technology had been talked about for almost a decade before being used for COVID. It was not unknown. They knew for a long time.


139 posted on 02/12/2023 2:19:19 PM PST by M_Continuum
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To: nickcarraway

How many Democrats have died because their sluts have aborted their bastard offspring? Isn’t that the real question? That is at least a real, not illlogical and imaginary question.


140 posted on 02/12/2023 2:19:51 PM PST by libertarian66
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