Of course the GOP is spreading COVID-19 for political gain -- it's been their playbook for decades

[Nevilledog]

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Amanda Marcotte
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COVID-19 cases are up and the reason is quite simple: It was a deliberate GOP campaign. It’s no surprise they’d stoop this low. They’ve done it on sexual health issues for decades.

Of course the GOP is spreading COVID-19 for political gain — it's been their playbook for decades
Before deliberately spreading COVID-19, Republicans boosted sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancy
salon.com
10:29 AM · Jul 15, 2021

https://www.salon.com/2021/07/15/of-course-the-gop-is-spreading-covid-19-for-political-gain--its-been-their-playbook-for-decades/

After months of sliding downwards, COVID-19 transmission rates are now beginning to creep back up. The reasons for the backslide given in the media are often biological — lots of talk about how the delta variant is more contagious, for instance — but this surge was much more political. From the moment that President Joe Biden stepped into the White House, Republican leaders have understood that he will be blamed if the pandemic isn't brought under control. And so they've set out to sabotage his efforts by encouraging their followers to risk their own health and reject getting vaccines in an effort to get the COVID-19 numbers up.

The GOP's pro-virus campaign has been wildly successful.

While 86% of Democrats have been vaccinated, only 45% of Republicans have gotten a shot. Nearly all of the currently unvaccinated Republicans flat-out refuse to do it ever. So COVID-19 is quickly becoming a regional disease, with hotspots concentrated in deeply Republican areas of the country. And while the delta variant is more contagious, the main reason it's spreading is because of low vaccination rates, as 99.7% of new cases have been among the unvaccinated.

I've been writing about this Republican scheming to use the bodies of their own people as disease vectors for months, but only in recent days has the mainstream media started to wake up to this grim reality.

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[wryter2000]

1. Um

They're killing their own voters. Maybe they're not killing enough of them to make a difference. But I would think this would also anger the relatives of the dead people.

[lagomorph777]

4. COVID is the reason we were able to get rid of Trump.

And they are killing their own voters, almost exclusively now.

There's no way this is a smart strategy.

[Lovie777]

2. People are dying. ...

people are suffering and many survivors have pre-existing conditions because of it. ...

Fuck them.

[patphil]

3. Over 35,000 new cases yesterday, Florida led with over 6.400.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

[lagomorph777]

5. DeSatan for the WIN!

[GoCubsGo]

6. The GOP is a death cult.

It has been for decades. There's just no hiding it now.

[C_U_L8R]

7. Killing off their own constituents, GENIUS !

[RockRaven]

8. You know there's a GOP operative out there who is arguing that the 'Pukes need to get more

people killed by COVID during Biden's term than died during the preceding year so they can make attack ads saying Dump did a better job than Biden. Never mind that it is 1 year vs 4. Never mind the vaccine is widely available and it's mostly unvaxxed who are dying now. Just get so many hundreds of thousands killed so we can say the Dear Leader did a better job.

[unblock]

9. Yup. They're already trying to blame Biden for the less than ideal vaccination rate

Republicans are masters at blaming democrats for republicans sabotage. And the media eats it up.

[Wounded Bear]

10. Repubs don't do "solutions" to problems. They exploit problems for power and money...

so, no surprise here.