Since we've known from early on that elderly people are most likely to die from Covid,
and we've been so many R's dismiss those deaths on that basis, maybe the anti-vax and anti-mask propaganda is a deliberate attempt on the part of some conservative organizations to kill off old people.
The giant Baby Boomer generation has hit retirement age, the age to collect Social Security. Rather than raising taxes to shore up the Social Security "trust fund" (which has been raided over the decades for other governmental purposes), I bet some of these think tank and dark money people have decided the simplest thing to do is kill old people off, by steering them away from vaccines and masks. If more elders in red states happen to die -- as they are -- great. That's what they want. They just wish they could get more old people in blue states to die, too.
They're just focused on reducing the burden to Social Security. A dead person isn't drawing Social Security checks.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tedknutson/2020/07/17/social-security-financial-health-to-be-helped-by-coronavirus-deaths-says-agencys-top-actuary/?sh=4753d0e828c9
The financial health of Social Security will be helped by deaths from Covid-19, Social Security Administration Chief Actuary Stephen Goss told Congress today.
As in most recessions, Social Security’s finances will be weakened by the increased burden from some people applying for benefits earlier because they have lost their jobs, Goss noted. “However, unlike in most economic recessions, the potential effects from increased Social Security benefit applications will be partially offset by increased deaths among our beneficiaries due to the pandemic,’’ he said. He added that it was too soon to determine how the pandemic will play out and the relative effects on the economy and longevity.
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