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> Fucking Republicans

As a vaccinated, boosted republican, this attitude isn't helping. Yeah, there are a bunch of idiotic republican politicians out there. But there are also a lot of idiotic democrat politicians out there who aren't making COVID policy decisions based on science and evidence, but based on their ideological side: outdoor mask mandates, travel bans, blocking people's access to their own private property, etc. So no, not fucking republicans. Fucking tribalism. It's making humans act completely irrationally.

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I identify myself as an independent. I have voted for both republicans and democrats.

But it’s undeniable that there are large numbers of republicans that are unvaccinated.

See the below two links

https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/poll-finding/import...

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/05/1059828...

And basically calling anyone “deplorable” for not taking the vaccine isn’t going to work this time either.

Realities aside, this is why a therapeutic might be the best way out of the pandemic.

Until a new variant comes along which bypasses natural immunity and we are looking at Populationmortality_rate0.9ish deaths. The problem is we can only push mortality_rate so much with new medicine and hospital bets, missing days at work are other externalities.

Vaccinations move from the population in to the vaccinated bucket which has preferable externality rates and if enough people are vaccinated we might be able to even push 0.9ish fudge factor lower.

"deplorables" comment was made years before covid, by someone who hasn't been in government in almost a decade now

That's a false equivalency. Republicans have been far, far worse. They have been anti-science across the board on all kinds of policy. Donald Trump is absolute low point in American history. The guy who said vaccines cause autism, pushed unproven and dangerous treatments, pressured scientists to change their recommendations, called climate change a hoax, wanted to nuke a hurricane and rake a forest. He owns the party right now. I can respect political differences but I can't respect being a republican in 2021. The party is fundamentally irrational and has abandoned reasoned policy discussions. And there a measurable real world consequences measured in death rates for red states.

Some of the things you've said are just flat out incorrect. It's blatantly obvious you're parroting CNN and Late Show hacks.

Please do not take HN threads further into flamewar. Not what this site is supposed to be for.

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Please don't take HN threads further into partisan flamewar hell, especially not after someone just tried to get the baby halfway out of the burning tar. We don't want this kind of thing here because it's entirely predictable and nearly always nasty.

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