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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

Mr nickcaraway
Thank you for posting this.
I picture a flaming idiot writing this, face all puffed up and red from anger.
I’m still laughing as I post this.


141 posted on 02/12/2023 2:20:01 PM PST by dagunk (Gravity Always Wins)
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To: MayflowerMadam

He said he did. Do you think he was lying?


142 posted on 02/12/2023 2:21:17 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: rdl6989

The Atlantic is as honest as the Enquirer OH WAIT they went bust.


143 posted on 02/12/2023 2:22:47 PM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: MayflowerMadam

Fauci doesn’t have the background to create a drug, any more than Trump does.. He doesn’t work in a lab.


144 posted on 02/12/2023 2:25:03 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: EvilCapitalist

Nine un- “vaccinated” adults in my immediate family and all voting republicans! But thanks for your concern Atlantic!


145 posted on 02/12/2023 2:25:08 PM PST by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: nickcarraway

Ask these petty tyrants about the whole premise that COVID-19 is THE WORST PLAGUE EVER!!!!

Why are they so scared of this disease?


146 posted on 02/12/2023 2:25:17 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV.)
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To: M_Continuum; 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.

My understanding is none of the previous drugs using the technology worked out.

147 posted on 02/12/2023 2:26:44 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: MayflowerMadam

In re unintended consequences, look at San Francisco. THE most politically liberal area in the country. It’s dying. Who knew we could not survive a seemingly endless lockdown.


148 posted on 02/12/2023 2:26:58 PM PST by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: nickcarraway
From fall of 2021:

GOPers didn't buy into the vaxx because they didn't buy into the fear epidemic in the first place.

149 posted on 02/12/2023 2:27:31 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: nickcarraway

How come Africa which has a 7% vaxx rate has essentially irradicated covid from the continent.


150 posted on 02/12/2023 2:29:42 PM PST by fuente (Liberty resides in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box--Fredrick Douglas)
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To: libertarian66

My wife and I were watching a movie last night and a drug commercial came on for women and cycles. The side effects were Heart attack, stroke, blood clots (similar to the pill). When folks say the shot killed people they should be taking into consideration other drugs and side effects. A woman would triple her threat of the above if she was on the pill, this other drug and vaccinated. Easy to say “vaxx-death” when they don’t have all the facts.
BTW I’m not vaccinated, but find the anti-vaxx movement 🦇💩🤪 They’re running on pure emotion and paranoia. They get a sick pleasure in scaring folks here.


151 posted on 02/12/2023 2:30:12 PM PST by M_Continuum
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To: M_Continuum

Who knows?
Nothing surprises me now.


152 posted on 02/12/2023 2:31:36 PM PST by Reily
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To: M_Continuum

Yes, but the important thing is if she gets that brand of birth control the company will make more money.


153 posted on 02/12/2023 2:33:59 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

It’s intended purpose (cancer) was helpful. It was never meant for a flu.
It has advanced considerably since COVID and now being used for several medical issues.
It’ll be difficult to avoid the spike protein in the future. Folks have been debating this vaccine for 3 years, while the biotech field enlarged it’s use.


154 posted on 02/12/2023 2:35:18 PM PST by M_Continuum
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To: Reily

I hear you. Trump road Kennedy as a friend to give him anti-vaccine status and once in office discarded him. Trump’s son, Baron, is fully vaccinated. It’s so convoluted, it’s impossible to figure any thing out.


155 posted on 02/12/2023 2:38:10 PM PST by M_Continuum
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To: nickcarraway

I had to look up the pharmaceutical from commercial. It is MyFembree.


156 posted on 02/12/2023 2:41:29 PM PST by M_Continuum
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To: nickcarraway
We know that as of April 2022, about 318,000 people had died from COVID because they were unvaccinated…

Ummm… wait…

We supposedly had a million die from this thing.

Wouldn’t that make being “vaccinated” twice as likely to die? 🤔

157 posted on 02/12/2023 2:46:18 PM PST by Magnatron
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To: nickcarraway
Did they break down the no-vax GOP by age groups?

The Covid USA fatality rate for age 30 to age 60 (in good health) is the same as or lower than influenza.

For healthy people under age 30, the Covid fatality rate is almost zero.

In the USA, age 70 and older seniors have a Covid vax rate over 90%.

158 posted on 02/12/2023 2:48:32 PM PST by zeestephen (43,000)
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To: nickcarraway
So it’s the GOP that forced Republican voters to not get the experimental gene therapies? I think not. I never heard McConnell, McCarthy and McDaniel (the three Micks) discourage anyone. While I don’t live in Florida and get all the news down that way, I don’t think I heard DeSantis discourage anyone. Trump certainly didn’t.

Maybe Republican voters think for themselves and do their own research and make their own decisions. I certainly do and I was and continue to be bombarded by government propaganda here in PA.

Quite honestly, I am very disappointed in how so many Republican politicians saw fit to take action during the pandemic. It shows how much trust they have in the deep state. That makes me question their abilities to make good decisions when they had no business in making any decisions.

159 posted on 02/12/2023 2:54:16 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: rigelkentaurus

not nearly enough.


160 posted on 02/12/2023 3:01:39 PM PST by TygertLane (One World Order)
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