Stupidity can be fatal

Rob Rogers

Covid-19 is becoming a Republican virus. 

From Salon: Ignorance/stupidity is a bad survival strategy in the Darwinian struggle we're all part of.

....it is indisputable that after months of watching the virus seemingly fade from the landscape, cases are starting to creep back up again....The real problem is that the highly contagious Delta variant of the virus is tearing through parts of the country where people clearly would rather die than get an inoculation they associate with a Democratic president.

....if we pull back and look at the bigger picture, it's clear that the main driver of vaccine rejection by far is plain old right-wing trolling. Trump supporters are so angry and bitter at Biden that they have weaponized their own bodies to sabotage his efforts to end the pandemic. 

Maybe it feels to them as if refusing vaccination is a good way to stick it to the liberals, but the main result is that the pandemic is raging out of control in "red" areas of the country, while blue states and regions are getting back to normal.

Some sobering statistics: A new Washington Post/ABC poll shows that while 86% of Democrats have gotten at least one shot, only 45% of Republicans have done the same....

To put it even more bluntly, Republicanism is killing people. On the Democratic side of the aisle, polarization is not a problem. If anything, it probably saved lives, because many Democratic voters made it a point of pride to get vaccinated as soon as possible. All 18 of the states that have surpassed Biden's 70% goal voted for him in the 2020 election....

See also Risks rise as vaccination gap with Trump counties grows wider.