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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy are right wing politicians and their media trying to..
... spread C-19? Because that is exactly what they
are trying to do. I have no idea who the hate talker is but he is filling in for some mid day hate talkers. .... Buck and somebody .... and he just said "well, when you include the relatively low impact of the virus." .... Good God in Butter 14 million (real #s world wide) have died from it and 200 to 500 Americans are dying everyday from it right now.
Wounded Bear
(58,765 posts)more spread raises the likelihood of another strain that might be vaccine resistant, not to mention all the innocents that will suffer.
Damned if we do, damned if we don't.
FalloutShelter
(11,896 posts)NOT over
"Markedly reduced" protection against rising BQ.1, BQ1.1, XBB, & XBB.1 COVID subvariants
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/27/2144119/--Markedly-reduced-protection-against-rising-BQ-1-BQ1-1-XBB-amp-XBB-1-COVID-subvariants
underpants
(182,988 posts)You watched as Trump denied deflected and politicized COVID. He made it science and common sense vs. him. Hundreds of thousands in the US died because of it.
Botany
(70,635 posts)Study course @ Ohio State and I mounted pieces of fungi on little stages and took them off to have pictures taken of them with an electron microscope and under high magnification you could see little grey things and they were viruses. What part of science being real don't they get? We don't get lock jaw because we have had tetanus shots, same with polio, and small pox too.
underpants
(182,988 posts)I was watching when Dr. Fauci laughed (sort of facepalmed) on live TV when Trump mentioned the deep state. I knew there was a mounting attack on Fauci but when that moment happened I looked at my wife and said, Oh the knives are coming out towards him. That couldnt be allowed and I knew theyd try to make an example out of his disobedience.
Better safe than sorry that was the root of the COVID prevention measures pre-vaccine. Trumps cult attack THAT saying. One that in some way factors in almost everything we do on a daily basis. They attacked that because its seen as disloyalty.
GoCubsGo
(32,099 posts)It's not so much that they're trying to spread it. They have been pushing the "COVID is a hoax" nonsense for so long, most of them actually believe it at this point in time. The politicians among them don't give a shit about their constituents, and couldn't care less if some of them dropped dead or were physically damaged. They'll do nothing about it as long as there's no way of lining their pockets from it.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,486 posts)And thier constituents become disabled by covid cruel stingy self serving republicans will make sure they cant go on disability to survive.
Mister Ed
(5,945 posts)...in order to improve GOP prospects
in the next election. They're that sick and cynical. They don't care who suffers and dies, as long as it increases their own power and wealth.
Botany
(70,635 posts)... right wing media and social media network structure more than ready to spread the lies and spin.
usonian
(9,930 posts)Their leader (and therefore, God) says it's a hoax.
It builds another mental wall against "the libs"
It gets votes.
It makes libs sick (though they don't exactly know that it does, since it's a hoax) AND
Jesus protects them from it.
--- Anyone he doesn't protect from it must have been a closet lib. (HOW CLEVER!)
And the Kool Aid is fun.