Fox News, conservatives, and Darwin

Letter to the editor in today's NY Times:

To the Editor:

Re “Rationing Care for a Last-Resort Covid Therapy” (July 12) and “Anti-Vaccination Rhetoric Creeps From Fringe to Fox Prime Time”:

The two front-page articles — on physicians struggling to decide which dying Covid patients will receive treatment with scarce lifesaving machines and on Fox’s escalating opposition to President Biden’s vaccination outreach efforts — suggest a common solution: Give vaccinated patients priority for these critical resources.

Carried a step further, why don’t insurers charge higher premiums for vaccine refusers (as they do for smokers), or even refuse to cover their Covid-related expenses?

Steven Leiner

San Francisco

Rob's comment:

Many conservatives don't respect science. They apparently don't understand that we and all species are involved in an evolutionary process as explained by Charles Darwin in days of yore. 

That some conservatives are in effect deliberately selecting themselves and their families out of the evolutionary process is an ineffective way "to own the libs," since that will only reduce their political base in future elections.

See also Stupidity can be fatal.