COVID Mortality Gap Shows How Deadly Conservative Rhetoric Can Be

A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Assocation (JAMA) once again proves that conservatives died at a higher rate from COVID than Democrats, with Republicans experiencing a 43% greater chance of dying in some areas of the country after vaccines were introduced. This is what conservative rhetoric does, and the Republican politicians and pundits who pushed the medical misinformation operated with complete disregard for their audiences and voters. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what happened.

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The Journal of the American Medical Association. JAMA recently put out a study showing that in the states of Ohio and Florida, after vaccines for c Ovid 19 became widely available, meaning you could get yourself an appointment, go in and get a C Ovid vaccine, uh, starting around May of 2021. Once that happened, the disparity between the deaths of Republicans from Covid and Democrats from Covid became crystal clear, and the death rate among Republicans was 43% higher than it was for Democrats. Again, this is not from a partisan magazine. This wasn't the nation or Mother Jones putting this out. This was the Journal of the American Medical Association that looked at the vaccination rates. They pulled together all of this data. My God, I mean, the numbers here are astounding. I can't even make sense of them other than the final conclusion where they tell us that if you're a Republican, there was a 43% graded greater chance that you would die from C O V I D versus a Democrat who contracted it at the same time, under the same circumstances, and this is 100% because of the talking points from Republican politicians and conservative media, this gap should not exist.

We as a country, not we, I didn't have a role in this. You didn't have a role in this, but we politicized vaccines, we politicized masks. We politicized staying your butt at home so that you don't risk getting the disease or spreading the disease. That's why the United States saw more waves more frequently and more deaths per capita than most of the rest of the world. Because our stubborn asses had to make C O V I D political, we were given the opportunity as a country to actually come together to be like, Hey, listen, this isn't a Democrat thing. This isn't a Republican thing. This isn't a political thing. It's not left versus right. It's humanity versus a virus. And if we band together, if we put our minds together and if we look out for one another, we can beat this thing. It's not gonna be pleasant, it's not gonna be fun, but by God we gotta do it to keep people alive. We couldn't even do that. We couldn't even have anybody come out and spread that message because it was too politicized. And the result is that we did have more

Republicans die from covid than Democrats because they're the ones who kept telling us, oh, the vaccines are dangerous. Oh no, we don't know what's in them. We do. You may not because you don't understand science, but it wasn't a big mystery. It wasn't a big secret. But the bottom line is that conservatives didn't care that they were killing off their base. They didn't care that their own supporters, their own funders were dying from covid. They didn't care when their fellow allies like Herman Cain died of Covid. They didn't care, and they don't care. Today, you your life, if you are a Republican, please understand this. Your life means nothing to the people that you are defending every day. The podcasters, the pundits, the hosts at Fox News and newsmax, the Republican politicians, the ones you go out there and fight for online every day, defend whatever they do. They don't give a if you live or die, and that is what this study proves. You deserve better than that, but they just use you as the cannon fodder because if you drop dead from a illness that could have easily been prevented, someone will just pop up to take your place. And those pundits, those politicians, they won't even notice. You're gone.