From the Department of Obvious News comes the flash that no personal records are kept of visitors to Presidential private homes, whether you're talking about Palm Beach, Hyde Park, Chappaqua, Crawford, Texas — or, currently, Delaware. They just aren't.
Another item from the same department: More Republicans are dying from COVID than Democrats.
That's been speculated before, and now there's actually some preliminary proof. The National Bureau of Economic Research has published a working paper demonstrating that in Florida and Ohio, members of the GOP were dying of the coronavirus at significantly higher rates than folks on our side of the aisle. This only became clear after the advent of the COVID vaccine — a minor scientific miracle that began under (yep) the Trump Administration, but which MAGAts and other morons have insisted on demonizing, for reasons unknown.
Once people started getting vaccinated (or not), definite gaps began to emerge in excess COVID death rates. Researchers compared voter registration data to COVID mortality and — voila — found that lots of Republicans were checking out unnecessarily. "The results suggest that the well-documented differences in vaccination attitudes and reported uptake between Republicans and Democrats have already had serious consequences for the severity and trajectory of the pandemic," they write. And, kicker: "The higher excess death rate among Republicans is likely to continue."
It's not much of a stretch to imagine that MAGAts' resistance to vaccines may already have had an impact on close races in the 2022 midterms, and could also affect results in 2024. But go ahead, Trumpsters and Republicans — cherish your "freedom," whatever that is, while you're alive to enjoy it. We cats HISS.
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