Vance, note the response from snakestretcher where he includes 3 links. All with serious and damning headlines against conservatives or those who don't want to put an experimental drug into their bodies made by Big Pharm who was given complete immunity by our leaders. I have told that poster as well as scores of others that I don't do links without an excerpt(s) of the salient parts from the link that the poster feels confirms his post premise. It is a slow day here so far and I woke up early at 4:30, so I thought I would check one of his links. The very first one has an impressive-sounding title; Scientificamerican. Unless you are really in the know you would not know that this site has a left-wing bias and champions the discredited CRT teachings. Like the NY Times and other legacy news, they used to be respected but now have made a very sharp left turn just as many corporations have.
So, the headline from them reads
People in Republican Counties Have Higher Death Rates Than Those in Democratic Counties
and was written in not so long ago in July of 2022 and anyone who looks at just the sub-headline: "A growing mortality gap between Republican and Democratic areas may largely stem from policy choices"
Would think the article is primarily about those bad conservatives not getting vaccinated. BUT.........when you actually READ the article, you will see the chart stops in 2019, well before Copvid!@!!!! Not only that, the reason(s) the writer gives for the difference in mortality rates between Democrats and Republicans are stated as smoking and guns, food, and lifestyles!!!@! ScientificAmerican are extremely anti-gun and they include those as a prime cause. IOW, they are not just left, but very far left and hate conservatives and guns.
The article makes no case whatsoever for not being vaccinated or wearing masks as being a cause of higher death rates. It just makes a claim that blue states fared better and I don't see any evidence that they did or how they came up with their numbers. The article is primarily for the time BEFORE Covid-19!!!!
The same poster I refer to here refuses excerpts and gets incensed when I insist on them. Now, confirming the falsity of his post in the first link took me almost an hour with this typing and review. This is what posters that don't include excerpts want the readers to do. They know that most posters won't go to the link and the posters themselves haven't read their own links.