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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

In 1857, publisher Moses Dresser Phillips called his new magazine “Atlantic” (Monthly) because he wanted to claim the legitimacy of his authors supposedly being read across the pond. Nobody gave a damn in London or Paris, but its American writers and readers felt superior for the name.

Today, it’s even more of a Eurofag wannabe publication than when Phillips created it.


161 posted on 02/12/2023 3:06:53 PM PST by nicollo ("I said no!")
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To: nickcarraway

Another brain dead article by another brain dead tyrannical buffoon. View people are against vaccines, many people are against unproven experimental forced medical experiments. .


162 posted on 02/12/2023 3:07:29 PM PST by GrumpyOldGuy
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To: firebrand

“Hmm. I’ve gotten four of them. I think I’ve proved that vaccinated people can still post on FR after death.”

I truly hope you live a long life. The 7.5% number comes from the insurance company’s actuarial Assoc. BTW. I trust they know what their talking about. I think you can take that to the bank, since that’s what they get paid for...


163 posted on 02/12/2023 3:07:54 PM PST by babygene (Make America Great Again)
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To: ealgeone

That just means it’s working


164 posted on 02/12/2023 3:16:15 PM PST by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Roberor thert Heinlein)
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To: nickcarraway

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.

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Are Democrats complicit in every death that occurred as a rection to the vaccine?


165 posted on 02/12/2023 3:19:19 PM PST by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: babygene

I don’t care where it comes from, it remains mathematically impossible when you get to some ages.


166 posted on 02/12/2023 3:19:48 PM PST by firebrand
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To: Equine1952

Mass dose of D3 and C knocked it out in less than a day for me. Because of all the background buzz about putting the MRNA WuFlu vax in some or all other types of injections has made me wary of getting shots for anything at all. The first and last flu shot I got was at the AF induction physical in 1966. I never had worse flu than I got after that shot.


167 posted on 02/12/2023 3:25:57 PM PST by arthurus (covfefe+)
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To: nickcarraway

Real life turned against the jab narrative. It failed to do what it was supposed to and turned out to have a level of side effects and deaths well in excess of what has ever been considered acceptable in a “vaccine”.


168 posted on 02/12/2023 3:26:40 PM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: Bishop_Malachi

Those who are complicit are the ones who marketed it as almost civilization ending epidemic like the Plague of Justinian or the Black Death in the Middle Ages. The “over-the-top marketing” stampeded one and all into “over-the-top response” which included rushed therefore high-risk vaccines, poorly thought-out quarantine rules, unnecessary societal shutdowns and mandates. The original panic-mongers are the real criminals!


169 posted on 02/12/2023 3:28:29 PM PST by Reily
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To: Equine1952
Trump talked Ivermectin and HCL

HCQ (hydroxychloroquine) not HCL (hydrochloric acid).

We don't need any sequels to the "Trump told people to take bleach" lie.

170 posted on 02/12/2023 3:36:05 PM PST by TChad (Progressives are in favor of removing healthy sex organs from children. Conservatives oppose this.)
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To: M_Continuum

There is no “anti-vax” movement with regard to COVID; that was a paranoid movement long before COVID. The current concerns about MRNA vaccines are wholly different. The technology is wholly different, to the point that they aren’t been vaccines in the traditional sense. The concerns are different and the results are different. To lump it all together as “anti-vax” is simply uninformed hysteria. Two different phenomena, socially, scientifically, politically and economically.

There is overwhelming evidence that vaccines cause death in some cases. There is growing evidence that MRNA vaccines cause large numbers of deaths. This is a scientific issue, not one of a political movement. I’ve taken all standard vaccinations my entire life. All. I’m no anti-vaxxer but I sure as hell won’t take any more MRNA ones, based on a lack of safety evidence and growing threat signals in the data. To challenge concerns over these gene therapies as “anti-vax” is itself a conspiracy theory. Think about it : you’re positing that there is some sinister “movement” that for some unknown reason wants to destroy an entirely new technology and medical advancement. That sounds extremely paranoid to me.


171 posted on 02/12/2023 3:40:00 PM PST by libertarian66
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To: libertarian66

The folks here call themselves anti-vaxx. That’s who I’m referring to.


172 posted on 02/12/2023 3:49:27 PM PST by M_Continuum
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To: libertarian66

I’m not paranoid at all.


173 posted on 02/12/2023 3:50:32 PM PST by M_Continuum
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To: nickcarraway

I’m a Republican, and I’m still alive. So I guess that means I must be grandma killer.

Heads you win, tails I lose.


174 posted on 02/12/2023 3:59:26 PM PST by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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To: nickcarraway

The vaccine is useless with many horrible side effects. This is pure government propaganda pushed by government controlled corporations.


175 posted on 02/12/2023 4:08:49 PM PST by wildcard_redneck (The Ukraine is dead, the head just doesn't know it yet.)
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To: Persevero

I don’t think there are any liberals in San Francisco.


176 posted on 02/12/2023 4:10:25 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
15 states have the lowest vax rates, what is the reported death rates from Covid for these states and how does it compare to the vaxed ones? I wonder how many died because they weren't allowed to be treated with ivermectin.
177 posted on 02/12/2023 4:11:31 PM PST by DejaJude (I'll be back.)
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To: firebrand; babygene
I don’t care where it comes from, it remains mathematically impossible when you get to some ages.

Can you explain what you mean by that?

178 posted on 02/12/2023 4:15:16 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: M_Continuum

I believe it had been developed as a bio-weapon and just sitting there waiting to be used — against us. Covid was developed later as a vehicle to rationalize using the vax — against us.


179 posted on 02/12/2023 4:39:45 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Stupid is supposed to hurt.)
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To: nickcarraway

My fellow non-GMO friends and I are all going strong.

Up yours, Atlantic.


180 posted on 02/12/2023 4:47:22 PM PST by Allegra
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