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The upside of coronavirus

July 18, 2021

 
With over 600,000 coronavirus deaths in the U.S., resistance to the vaccine is hard to understand unless you accept the fact that a large part of the population is really stupid. In the recent resurgence of the disease, over 99% of deaths are among the unvaccinated. Those of us that got the shots as soon as we could can take comfort in the knowledge that the current deaths are freeing us from a part of the population that was dragging us down. Their decision to not get vaccinated is not likely the only bad choice they would have made had they lived out their lives, and many of those choices would have impacted the rest of us.

Too bad death statistics don't include political affiliation. I would really like to know what percentage of new coronavirus deaths are Republicans, specifically Trump Republicans. We know that 74,216,154 of our fellow citizens voted for Trump in the 2020 election. That is 46.9% of voters, compared to the 51.3% who voted for Biden. They voted for the guy who is so dumb he thinks that just because he was in the lead at one point on election day, he should have won - never mind that millions of votes remained to be counted. He's also the guy that didn't take coronavirus seriously.

Pro-Trump counties now have far higher COVID death rates - NPR, 12/5/2021

We are witnessing natural selection in real time. It is not often that one life-or-death

Charles Darwin

decision gets forced upon such a large portion of the population in such a short period of time. Without coronavirus, people not smart enough to get vaccinated would have lived long enough to find mates and reproduce. Their deaths will substantially increase the average IQ of the U.S. population.

 

After vaccines became available, a partisan gap in deaths emerged - Washington Post, 10/3/2022

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