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After vaccines became available, a huge partisan gap in Covid deaths opened. Even today, when most Americans have had the virus and have some natural immunity as a result, unvaccinated people are at much more risk.
Consider that about 95 percent of recent Covid-related hospitalizations in the U.S. have occurred among people who had not received an updated vaccine. This chart, based on data from Washington State, helps show the protective power of vaccines, especially for the elderly: [see chart]
Because so many Republicans remain unvaccinated, the partisan gap in Covid's toll has continued to widen over the past year: [see chart]
#1 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-03-12 10:52 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2
When the GQP asks are you better off today than four years ago...
Four years ago:
People were choking to death on their own fluids The dead were be buried in mass graves Bodies were stacked in refrigerated trucks We were wiping our asses with coffee filters Shelves in grocery stores were empty.
Donny dementia was calling it a democratic hoax and telling us to drink bleach.
#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-03-12 11:36 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 5
"When the GQP asks are you better off today than four years ago..."
That's why Britt changed the line to "Are you better of today than you were three years ago?" in her rebuttal to the SOTU.
#3 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-03-12 11:39 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3
Tangentially related...
As Covid Spread, a Strain of Flu Disappeared. Now Scientists Say a Second Could Go Too www.bnnbloomberg.ca
... Stay-at-home orders, border closures, mask-wearing and other measures aimed at stemming Covid-19's spread led to the global disappearance of a notorious winter germ. Now, scientists say it might be feasible with better vaccines to rid the world of a second one. For decades, flu epidemics were driven by four strains. One of them, the so-called Yamagata-lineage of type B influenza, was struggling to compete before the pandemic and hasn't been seen since March 2020, said Ian Barr, deputy director of the World Health Organization's Collaborating Center for Reference and Research on Influenza in Melbourne. Covid restrictions gave it "the killer blow which knocked it out," Barr said in an interview. The strain's disappearance eliminated a viral source of death and disease, especially among children, and a component of annual flu vaccines. It also showed that it might be possible going forward to eliminate its type-B cousin, a strain known as "Victoria." ...
For decades, flu epidemics were driven by four strains. One of them, the so-called Yamagata-lineage of type B influenza, was struggling to compete before the pandemic and hasn't been seen since March 2020, said Ian Barr, deputy director of the World Health Organization's Collaborating Center for Reference and Research on Influenza in Melbourne.
Covid restrictions gave it "the killer blow which knocked it out," Barr said in an interview.
The strain's disappearance eliminated a viral source of death and disease, especially among children, and a component of annual flu vaccines.
It also showed that it might be possible going forward to eliminate its type-B cousin, a strain known as "Victoria." ...
#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-03-12 12:24 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3
Also tangentially related:
Charlie Kirk instructs Trump to not take credit for COVID vaccines, warning that "fringe issues very well might end up defining this election"
Kirk: "If you're gonna put up a Truth Social post that can be viewed as you taking credit for the vaccine, there is a potential political cost to that ... I would stay away from the vaccine issue." www.mediamatters.org
Alex Jones is irate at Trump's recent post taking credit for vaccines: "If I see any more of this from Trump, I'm going to have to go on the warpath. I just cannot take this." twitter.com
#5 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-03-12 12:39 PM | Reply
So the usual clown boys are afraid of the losers and suckers?
#6 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-03-12 12:42 PM | Reply
I still blame Rudy Gobert.
#7 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-03-12 01:22 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
This was the zenith of Putin's butt ----- presidency.
www.detroitnews.com
#8 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-03-12 02:58 PM | Reply
#7
Yep. Patient Zero.
#9 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2024-03-13 04:28 PM | Reply
#1 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday
My youngest sister was a gun toting, evangelical Trumper who wouldn't mask, get vaxxed, or avoid crowds despite my repeated warnings to take precautions.
She died in an ICU in 2022 from COVID. Stupid idiot.
#10 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2024-03-13 04:42 PM | Reply
4 years ago today.
Acyn @Acyn Question: Do you take any responsibility for the lag in testing?
Trump: No I don't take responsibility at all
twitter.com
#11 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-03-13 04:45 PM | Reply
Those are the words of a real leader!
A leader who, Defunded the CDC in order to pay for his tax cuts. Called the threat of Covid a hoax. Told people to ignore mask mandates. Was caught on record admitting he always knew how dangerous Covid actually is.
Doesn't take responsibility for any of it.
What's worse is, there are morons who can't wait to vote for him again.
Mostly because they want to hurt liberals. And are too short sighted to see they're hurting America.
#12 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-03-13 04:50 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2
My favorite part of covid was how republicans were so determined to ignore public health advice and prove their loyalty to trump's covid delusions that they killed enough of themselves to lose the senate in the midterms.
#13 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-03-13 05:28 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2
My second favorite part of covid was trump sycophant herman caine catching covid at a trump rally where everyone was maskless to prove covid wasn't a real threat.
#14 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-03-13 05:40 PM | Reply
The COVID voter fraud hoax
#15 | Posted by THEBULL at 2024-03-13 07:22 PM | Reply | Funny: 1
#15 | Posted by THEBULL
Republicans think americans being able to vote during a pandemic is fraud.
#16 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-03-13 07:44 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
That #u(king Guy and his staff had the brilliant idea of providing Covid aid only to the Covid-denying red states, as a way to punish blue states for being disloyal to the d!(ktator
#17 | Posted by hamburglar at 2024-03-13 07:54 PM | Reply
#16
Of course they do. They also think that anyone who isn't a Trumpublican shouldn't be able to vote.
#18 | Posted by Corky at 2024-03-13 07:55 PM | Reply
Republicans think...
#16 | Posted by SpeakSoftly
Evidence says otherwise.
#19 | Posted by billy_boy at 2024-03-13 08:23 PM | Reply
#15 | POSTED BY THEBULL
Unfortunately, too many of them survived.
#20 | Posted by jpw at 2024-03-14 09:51 AM | Reply
Remember kids, if you get the vaxx, you wont:
contract COVID transmit COVID
And you won't
have to wear a mask or social distance. Ooops
Straight from the Brandon Administration.
They either lied or they didn't have a fkking clue what they were talking about. Either way, happy anniversary.
#21 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-03-14 11:49 AM | Reply | Funny: 1
Or you're an idiot who can't handle changing information in a dynamic situation.
Both of those were true when the vaxx was first widely administered.
#22 | Posted by jpw at 2024-03-14 12:25 PM | Reply | Funny: 1
#22 | Posted by jpw at 2024-03-14 12:25 PM | Reply | Flag:
Bullschitt, not according to Walensky. go listen to her testimony and watch how the Biden Admin painted her as speaking as a doctor and not Director of the CDC. Go flip a burger, moron.
#23 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-03-14 12:37 PM | Reply
Oh no, The President overstated the effectiveness of vaccines!
Better impeach him.
#24 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-03-14 12:57 PM | Reply
You mean "Operation Warp Speed"?
#25 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-03-14 01:02 PM | Reply
#21 | Posted by lfthndthrds
HOw come more republicans died of covid than democrats after the vaccine became available?
#26 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-03-14 01:26 PM | Reply
Go flip a burger, moron.
#23 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS
Not AccOdRinG to WaLenSkY!!
STFU idiot. I could give a ---- what your misinterpretation of what she said is.
I read the actual studies that found the reductions in infection and transmission.
You're such a clueless ---- but can't help yourself from opening your ignorant trap.
#27 | Posted by jpw at 2024-03-14 01:33 PM | Reply
I'm not sure why anyone gives two shhts about anything lfthndcuck has to say when he still posts about Biden stealing the election.
There are some people who it's absolutely pointless to converse with.
Someone who still believes the big lie falls into that category.
#28 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-03-14 01:36 PM | Reply
Remember kids, if you get the vaxx, you wont: #21 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTURDS
Fact: Lfthndturds took ivermectin.
It's either because he's stupid enough to believe it can prevent Covid. Or it's because he has intestinal parasites from eating too much horse shht.
Is he a moron, or a fecophiliac?
I report, you decide.
#29 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-03-14 01:42 PM | Reply
Estimates suggest the total number of global deaths attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 is at least 3 million.
Wow. How stupid can you be to literally die from a "voter fraud hoax"?
Better yet. How stupid can you be to think that 3 million people literally died from a "voter fraud hoax"?
#30 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-03-14 02:44 PM | Reply
Personal Covid anecdote:
I avoided Covid for years. But when everyone let their guards down (including me) it finally caught up with me.
Fortunately I has gotten my shots and three boosters. So while it was very bad (worse than any flu I have ever had) and my fever got to 105 which is very dangerous at my age I believe to this day I survived it because my immune system was ready for it and was able to handle it without my systems being completely overwhelmed. And I am a high risk person. So it still took weeks to fully recover. But thankfully I did. Because then my entire family got it and I had to take care of them until they recovered too.
And now unfortunately I am very leery of restaurants and crowds again.
Some People just don't seem to care if they spread it now which is very dangerous to us elders.
#31 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-03-14 03:03 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2
Fortunately I has gotten my shots and three boosters. So while it was very bad (worse than any flu I have ever had) and my fever got to 105 which is very dangerous at my age
#31 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-03-14 03:03 PM | Reply | Flag:
I know how you feel... A few years ago I was very grateful for my small pox vaxx when I came down with that semi-mild case. I could have died, ya know.
#32 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-03-14 03:54 PM | Reply
#27 | Posted by jpw at 2024-03-14 01:33 PM | Reply | Flag:
So did I, and its bullschitt. They made up after they lied to us, or didn't even know what they were talking about when they spewed that nonsense.. Incidentally, you were the one who told us you were working as a short order cook during the pandemic. So just STFU and stick to what you know, because no one worth their salt as a virologist would be flipping burgers during an actual pandemic. You were also the one posting citations that were redacted publications on the virus - so you didn't even read them yourself, or you have trouble with comprehension.
I hope Sniper is reading this, It should encourage him to know he wasn't the dumbest poster here.
#33 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-03-14 04:03 PM | Reply
DONNERBOY
Glad you made a full recovery.
My wife and I also got COVID but didn't end up in a hospital or morgue from it.
Thankfully, we were also fully vaxxed. My wife got it twice, once for me. The second time she caught it (both times at a hospital following shoulder surgery), she had some breathing difficulties. Fortunately, our doc phoned in the COVID antiviral Lagevrio (also known as molnupiravir) both times. We could almost tell the minute it kicked in to stop the virus replicating and our immune systems kicked into high gear. From that turning point we recovered quickly.
#34 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2024-03-14 04:21 PM | Reply
The rancid orange jizzfart gave himself a 10 out of 10 for killing 1.2 million Americans.
thehill.com
#35 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-03-14 04:53 PM | Reply
We were wiping our asses with coffee filters #2 | Posted by Nixon
the best part is they can be used more than once.
#36 | Posted by libs_of_dr at 2024-03-14 05:06 PM | Reply | Funny: 1
huge partisan gap
#37 | Posted by libs_of_dr at 2024-03-14 05:08 PM | Reply
www.npr.org ^^^^^^^^^^^ Putin's butt ----- greatest Covid achievement.
#38 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-03-14 05:11 PM | Reply
You were also the one posting citations that were redacted publications on the virus
Lol no, I didn't.
And you didn't read ----. You couldn't understand it if you tried.
Which is why you continue to sound off on the topic and sound like a complete moron.
#39 | Posted by jpw at 2024-03-14 05:56 PM | Reply
Also, keep showing how little you know about how since works and trying to tell me what being a line cook means.
You're as wrong on that as you are on everything else you try to yap about.
#40 | Posted by jpw at 2024-03-14 05:58 PM | Reply
They either lied or they didn't have a fkking clue what they were talking about. Either way, happy anniversary. #21 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTURDS AT 2024-03-14 11:49 AM
Well, "they" never said any of those things, but please, go ahead and set your deflectors to "full." I'll call Scotty in to see if we can raise more power.
#41 | Posted by e1g1 at 2024-03-14 06:04 PM | Reply | Funny: 1
'Unbelievable narcissism': Trump botched Covid pandemic response for political points
#42 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2024-03-14 06:13 PM | Reply | Funny: 1
Turd-fuq is auditioning for RFK jr.'s VP
#43 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-03-14 09:49 PM | Reply
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