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I was with a co-worker and he said God must really be mad at us, I have to think this country Elected the most Un Godly man in Trump and They tore up their one Capitol to keep this devil in power. The Republicans made Trump their God and The Democrats made money theirs, So is covid 19 a plague from God or The fires and us destroying our only planet for money. God gave us everything we needed to survive and what have we done with that chased the dollar so hard made Idols out of rich men and God owns everything it is on loan to us until we are sucked into the sun because everything dies even our universes and a new one begins.
2 Timothy 3:1-5
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. This sounds like Trump and the republican party hates all black people if you believe in God he was black. The original women and man was black period.
Matthew 24:42-44
Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect. So here we are Money and Trump is our political powers, God. All things are owned by God it is on loan to all People period.
James 3:1
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. This says it all Trump said he was the only one that could fix our country and he broke it completely and the only thing that happened was rich people got richer and they did not want poor people and black people to have anything After 400 years of slavery and building this country up. They look Black People in the face and so they don’t give a damn and the white people that did care about black people’s rights said it was okay to kill white people if they stand up for black people. Kyle Riddenhouse proved that and was so saddened The judge would not let this fool be charged with manslaughter or could not call the people he killed victims he was a killer, not a victim. NRA is a God also this country loves guns. We have no real teachers because this Government kills them Martin Luther King, Fred Hampton, and Malcolm X.
1 John 2:18
Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour. We have been trying to pick the time of coming of Christ and that will not happen, we need to try to treat all men as our brothers and the only way that will happen is we are attacked by Aliens.
1 Thessalonians 5:2-3
For you, yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. When you go to the basement to run from the tornado
Matthew 24:1-51
Jesus left the temple and was going away when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the close of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. Many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. … Trump followers were told that Covid would just go away and they are still dying 3 times more in the states he won. That sounds like the devil to me. All the Trump states are having problems with natural disasters, Democrat states are treating black like trash and saying we have to deal with it really? They gave us holidays not Reparations for 400 years of slavery and held us back. They need some to look down on and that is black and brown people so poor white people will feel good.
Revelation 13:1-18
And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads. And the beast that I saw was like a leopard; its feet were like a bear’s, and its mouth was like a lion’s mouth. And to it, the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority. One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast. And they worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?” And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months. … And this is what power we gave to Trump and he is not the beast but he worships the beast is money and power. So our government has taken on an all-out war against black messiah like in the bible the tried to kill the king. We need healing in our country and love and it is a long way away. God help us all of this started my co-worker said God is mad at us and I have to say I think he or she is for sure.
Luke 21:1-38
Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box, and he saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. And he said, “Truly, I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them. For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.” And while some were speaking of the temple, how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings, he said, … This is the story of a black man and the brown man in this country we give all that we have body and soul and we get nothing in return.
Since May 2021, people living in counties that voted heavily for Donald Trump during the last presidential election have been nearly three times as likely to die from COVID-19 as those who live in areas that went for now-President Biden. That’s according to a new analysis by NPR that examines how political polarization and misinformation are driving a significant share of the deaths in the pandemic.
NPR looked at deaths per 100,000 people in roughly 3,000 counties across the U.S. from May 2021, the point at which vaccinations widely became available. People living in counties that went 60% or higher for Trump in November 2020 had 2.73 times the death rates of those that went for Biden. Counties with an even higher share of the vote for Trump saw higher COVID-19 mortality rates.
In October, the reddest tenth of the country saw death rates that were six times higher than the bluest tenth, according to Charles Gaba, an independent health care analyst who’s been tracking partisanship trends during the pandemic and helped to review NPR’s methodology. Those numbers have dropped slightly in recent weeks, Gaba says: “It’s back down to around 5.5 times higher.”
The trend was robust, even when controlling for age, which is the primary demographic risk of COVID-19 mortality. The data also reveal a major contributing factor to the death rate difference: The higher the vote share for Trump, the lower the vaccination rate.
The analysis only looked at the geographic location of COVID-19 deaths. The exact political views of each person taken by the disease remains unknowable. But the strength of the association, combined with polling information about vaccination, strongly suggests that Republicans are being disproportionately affected.
The U.S. Surgeon General Is Calling COVID-19 Misinformation An ‘Urgent Threat’
Recent polling shows that partisanship is now this single strongest identifying predictor of whether someone is vaccinated. Polling also shows that mistrust in official sources of information and exposure to misinformation, about both COVID-19 and the vaccines, run high among Republicans.
“An unvaccinated person is three times as likely to lean Republican as they are to lean Democrat,” says Liz Hamel, vice president of public opinion and survey research at the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health policy think tank that tracks attitudes toward vaccination. Political affiliation is now the strongest indicator of whether someone is vaccinated, she says: “If I wanted to guess if somebody was vaccinated or not and I could only know one thing about them, I would probably ask what their party affiliation is.”
It was not always this way. Earlier in the pandemic, many different groups expressed hesitancy toward getting vaccinated. African Americans, younger Americans and rural Americans all had significant portions of their demographic that resisted vaccination. But over time, the vaccination rates in those demographics have risen, while the rate of Republican vaccination against COVID-19 has flatlined at just 59%, according to the latest numbers from Kaiser. By comparison, 91% of Democrats are vaccinated.
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Being unvaccinated increases the risk of death from COVID-19 dramatically, according to the CDC. The vast majority of deaths since May, around 150,000, have occurred among the unvaccinated, says Peter Hotez, dean for the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.
While vaccine hesitancy exists in many different groups, Hotez suspects that the deaths are “overwhelmingly” concentrated in more politically conservative communities. “How does this make sense at any level?” he asks.
More than 90% of Republicans surveyed believe or are unsure about at least one false statement about COVID-19
The consequences for individuals are real. Mark Valentine still remembers when his brother called him to tell him he had contracted coronavirus. Valentine is a trial consultant in North Carolina. His brother Phil, 61, was a well-known conservative talk show host in Nashville, Tenn., who often expressed skepticism about vaccination.
Conservative talk radio host Phil Valentine (right), pictured with his brother, Mark (second from left). Phil had been skeptical about COVID and the COVID vaccines, sometimes mocking them on his talk show. Earlier this year, he contracted the virus and died.Courtesy of Mark Valentine
Neither brother was vaccinated, and neither one was particularly worried about Phil’s positive result. His brother said he was trying several alternative therapies commonly promoted in conservative circles. “He said, ‘I’ve got the ivermectin, I started it this morning, and I don’t think it’s going to be a big deal,’ ” Mark Valentine recalls. “And frankly I didn’t think about it anymore.”
But a week later, Mark said he got a call from his brother’s wife saying that the two were going to the hospital. “Before I knew it, he was in there and I couldn’t get to him, couldn’t talk to him,” Valentine recalls. “His situation took a nosedive like you can’t believe.”
Phil Valentine died in August about five weeks after he announced he had tested positive for COVID-19.
Misinformation appears to be a major factor in the lagging vaccination rates. The Kaiser Family Foundation’s polling shows Republicans are far more likely to believe false statements about COVID-19 and vaccines. A full 94% of Republicans think one or more false statements about COVID-19 and vaccines might be true, and 46% believe four or more statements might be true. By contrast, only 14% of Democrats believe four or more false statements about the disease.
Belief in multiple false statements highly correlates with vaccination status, Hamel says. “If you believe that the vaccines can damage your fertility, that they contain a microchip and that the government is inflating the number of COVID-19 deaths, you’re going to think really differently about whether to get vaccinated.”
The most widely believed false statement was that ‘the government is exaggerating’ the number of COVID-19 deaths
Perhaps the most pernicious pieces of misinformation have to do with the perceived severity of COVID-19 itself. The most widely believed false statement was: “The government is exaggerating the number of COVID-19 deaths.”
Hamel says that underestimating the severity of COVID-19 appears to be a major reason why Republicans in particular have fallen behind in vaccination: “We’ve seen lower levels of personal worry among Republicans who remain unvaccinated,” she says. “That’s a real contrast with what we saw in communities of color, where there was a high level of worry about getting sick.”
Complacency around the risks of contracting COVID-19 certainly seemed to be a major reason why the Valentine brothers avoided vaccination. While not conspiracy theorists, they were staunch Trump supporters. The arrival of coronavirus just ahead of the presidential election of 2020 seemed like “the most fortuitous pandemic in the history of the world” for the Democratic Party, recalls Mark.
Despite the media coverage, Phil Valentine didn’t believe COVID-19 was serious as long as you were healthy: “He said, ‘The likelihood of me getting it is low. In the unlikely event that I do get it, the likelihood that I will survive it is 99-plus %,’ ” Mark Valentine recalls.
Vaccine researcher Peter Hotez is deeply troubled by the current state of affairs. A winter surge in COVID-19 cases is brewing, and the newly discovered omicron variant has the potential to make things far worse.
The Life Cycle Of A COVID-19 Vaccine Lie
He thinks the elements of the Republican Party that are endorsing anti-vaccine ideas need to take a big step back. “I’m not trying to change Republican thinking or far-right thinking,” he says. “I’m trying to say: ‘The anti-science doesn’t belong; it doesn’t fit. … Just stop it and save lives.’ ”
Before his illness, Phil Valentine had sometimes promoted unproven alternative therapies and taken a mocking tone toward vaccination. As his situation deteriorated, Mark says the talk show host realized he needed to encourage his listeners to get vaccinated. Phil told his brother, “‘My fear is that because I didn’t get it, other folks may not get it,” Mark Valentine recalls. The family put out a statement in support of vaccination, and Mark went on to his brother’s talk show to encourage listeners to take the shot.
He also headed to his local Walmart to get vaccinated. “The guy comes out; he said, ‘Do you have any questions or concerns?’ ” Mark Valentine recalls. “I said, ‘Hell yeah, I’ve got both, but do it anyway.’ “
Methodology
Vaccination rate data are the rate of vaccination among all people 18 years of age or older, as of Nov. 30. They are from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 residents are calculated by dividing the deaths from COVID-19 in a county since May 1 by the county’s population. County population data come from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 decennial census. May 1 was chosen as the start date of our analysis because that is roughly the time when vaccines became universally available to adults ages 18 and older. COVID-19 death data is collected by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University and is current as of Nov. 30. COVID-19 death data for Florida and Utah are from the May 2 and December 1 editions of the COVID-19 Community Profile Report, produced by the White House COVID-19 Team.
2020 election result data are from MIT Election Data and Science Lab.
Alaska does not report election results by county-equivalent area, so it is excluded from the analysis. Nebraska is excluded from the analysis because it does not report county-level COVID-19 statistics. Hawaii is excluded because it does not report county-level vaccine data. Some counties that have reported no COVID-19 deaths since May 1 may have stopped reporting. These counties generally have very small populations and have a negligible impact on the weighted averages. Erring on the side of caution, we include all data unless it is known that they are in error.
All averages are weighted by county population. The overall average represents the average of the 3,011 counties included in the analysis.
Thanks to Emily Gurley, Professor of the Practice and Emily Pond, Research Data Analyst, both of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health for discussions about our methodology.
