Tillis Echoes Conspiracy Theory on Pandemic Deaths

[brooklynite]

Source: Political Wire

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) told a virtual town hall audience that he believed the 200,000 deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the U.S. had been inflated in order to “encourage people to use social distancing.”

He claimed the actual death count was much lower.

Read more: https://politicalwire.com/2020/09/24/thom-tillis-echoes-conspiracy-theory-on-pandemic-deaths/

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[Evolve Dammit]

1. No dumbfuck. We're just trying to keep ourselves and each other ALIVE. How's Gomert doing?

[patphil]

2. Since the initial surge in the North East,

red and blue states all over the nation have shown large numbers of cases and deaths.
If it's manipulation, than all those red states are in on it.
That includes his home state of North Carolina where there have been over 200,000 confirmed cases and, as of today, 3356 fatalities.

Not to mention Texas and Florida where their combine total is nearly 29,000 deaths. Abbott and DeSantis must be inflating their numbers.

What is with that guy? Oh, I forgot, he's a Republican. That explains the dumb statement.

[mtngirl47]

3. Ashamed that he's my Senator. n/t

[moose65]

5. I'm right there with ya

Hopefully we can get rid of him in a little over a month.

[RVN VET71]

6. Nah, he may be occupying the seat

but it's obvious he's not your Senator. And he may not even be occupying that seat for much longer.

[MadLinguist]

4. And the benefit to the conspirators of achieving social distincing practices IS ....

I don't discount all conspiracy theories, because well, people conspire to do all sorts of shyte.
But this one, like most RW nut job conspiracy theories, can't even sustain a full twist of the pretzel.
So all these people and institutions and governments went to all this trouble and risk to fake a pandemic to do this necessary thing.
Ok, and so now that people are socially distancing to some extent amid 200K+ deaths, the conspirators arrive at what devilish end?

[Beartracks]

13. "can't even sustain a full twist of the pretzel"

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[intrepidity]

7. 257,000 more deaths in US than usual from March to August 2020

Regardless of cause, those deaths came from something. Just throw that number at them.

[Beartracks]

12. Right? All these are people that supposedly would've died anyway - but total deaths are WAY up.

Their conspiracy theory math doesn't add up. Surprise, surprise.

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[George II]

8. Really bizarre - this morning I got a voicemail from Tillis, 55 seconds long! I live in Connecticut.

[PatSeg]

9. These people are shameless

as well as extremely dangerous. They don't care how many get sick or die because of their lies. That is truly evil.

[Beartracks]

10. OMG, yes, the dastardly plan to make everyone stand 6 feet apart! Who could be behind it?

No, really - WHO the fuck is supposedly behind it? Tillis, you're a dumbshit.

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[CRK7376]

14. Just STFU you cowardly scum blowhard.

Cal Cunningham is going to pound you into dust in a few weeks!