COVID-19 pandemic is turning into a largely Republican pandemic.

[BlueWavePsych]

Republican leaders are getting their wish: COVID-19 is now mostly a partisan pandemic

We have noted multiple times in the last year that the COVID-19 pandemic is turning into a largely Republican pandemic. That doesn't mean that non-Republicans aren't still getting sick, but the places where the most COVID-related deaths happen are places that most vote Republican, have Republican-controlled government, and cast their votes for Donald Trump one year ago.

That hasn't changed. If anything, the divide has only been widening in recent months. That's the conclusion reached by The New York Times' David Leonhardt, who notes that the gap in new deaths "between red and blue America has grown faster over the past month than at any previous point."

Take a bow, Tucker freakin' Carlson. Your network is killing the folks that watch it.

There's no expectation that these trends aren't going to continue. There's no reason to believe that anyone in Republican governance will treat masking, vaccination, or other pandemic measures with any less scorn than they currently are. If anything, the DeSantis experience of allowing a massive red-state surge, weathering the resulting deaths, and boasting when the resulting infections dwindle again after local pockets of herd immunity are reached may encourage other conservative leaders that they, too, can bluff their way through 60,000 or so deaths and still claim a leadership trophy after the worst of it is over.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/8/2063056/-COVID-19-is-now-an-even-more-Republican-pandemic

[Ray Bruns]

1. And this is a bad thing because......?

[BlueWavePsych]

2. Silver lining is ...

[Duppers]

3. ...

[Paladin]

4. Suits me. (nt)