Nationally, a study by Yale researchers determined that “the excess [COVID] death rate among Republican voters was 43% higher than the excess death rate among Democratic voters.”

They are literally being deceived to death.

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    People who choose not to accept science as real should pledge to give up everything developed using science. They should not use cell phones, internet or medicine to start. They shouldn’t be able to pick and choose. Cowards lack the courage of their convictions

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      It’s literally an issue of them not understanding it. Most progressive policies when explained to them they agree with, they’ve just been taught to hate names. It’s just so hard to teach people.

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        This is pretty much it. The difference between a lot of younger people, and a lot of older people, is that while I will hear a term I don’t understand, and pause for a minute to research what it is, someone like my dad would go “I don’t understand any of this dogshit, get off my porch”