Was this true or false?

[ificandream]

Tweeted late last year and then deleted. I think it's likely true.

"In case anyone is curious, every 10 days more than 8,000 (unvaccinated) Republicans are dying of Covid-19. That's five times the rate for Democrats." -- Neil DeGrasse Tyson,

[link:|]

[Claustrum]

1. Probably false because the assumption is all unvaccinated are republicans and all vaccinated are

democrats. You have no real way to find out if those that died are republican/democrat/non-voters.

[brush]

2. I would say it's more true than false. Our Dem leaders...

have been pushing getting vaxxed since they came out a year ago. We Democrats on the whole are not stupid enough to listen to trump and Carlson and all the rest of the republican liars to not wear masks of get vaxxed.

[Claustrum]

3. Right. The number is skewed for sure but it's not exactly plug and play

as the tweet is suggesting. A mostly true statement is still a false statement if the question is a simple "true or false". The statement can only be true if it's completely true.

[70sEraVet]

5. You would get a good idea by looking at individual counties

Compare the death rates to how the county votes.
I suspect that the correlation would prove to be true.

[Claustrum]

6. Actually, I don't think it will be close.

There are just as many non-voters as democrats or republicans. You really can't predict or find out who the dead person affiliation is.

I agree that unvaccinated is more likely to be republican. But it won't be matching exactly at a 5:1 rate.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. Why was it deleted?

[ificandream]

7. Reason he deleted ...

... because he said it was causing too much conflict between Dems and R's.

[ificandream]

8. Link on Snopes to story..

[link:https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/neil-degrasse-tyson-vax-tweet/|]

[fierywoman]

9. Do we even have accurate covid numbers from states like Florida or Texas?