Last week, the hashtag “GOPDeathCult” was trending on social media as Republican governors continued to refuse to take precautions to keep their states safe. The recent COVID-19 numbers now show that out of the 23 worst states for the virus in the country, 21 of them voted for Donald Trump in the last election.
The Washington Post revealed that of the 23 states in the country that exceed the national COVID average, all but two of those are from Republican states.
“This isn’t a game,” President Joe Biden said Friday about governors who aren’t taking the pandemic seriously.
Sadly, the same high numbers for COVID cases apply to COVID deaths. Of the 18 states that have higher death rates than the national average, 14 voted for Trump. For vaccinations, the statistic shows the 17 least-vaccinated states (except for Georgia) voted for Trump.
The chain of correlation makes it “much harder to assert that politics is not playing a role,” wrote the Post’s correspondent Philip Bump.
“Republicans have been less concerned about the virus, less […]
So all of those unvaccinated illegal immigrants crossing the southern border must be Republicans!
You are so ill-informed Michael. Those unvaccinated immigrants get vaccinated, and are not a major factor in the spread of Covid. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/biden-vaccines-migrants-border/2021/08/03/afaff516-f471-11eb-83e7-06a8a299c310_story.html.
https://apnews.com/article/public-health-mexico-health-coronavirus-pandemic-immigration-74eba36e8cd2f842987c0e6e57bcfae1
Michael, that’s such an obvious Republican response.