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Pluvious

(4,869 posts)
Thu Oct 6, 2022, 10:46 PM Oct 2022

Crucial poll - Is "NBC Politcs" trolling us ?

I’m really puzzled, I first thought it was sarcasm





3 votes, 1 pass | Time left: Time expired
They are genuinely flummoxed
0 (0%)
This is tongue and cheek
0 (0%)
They hoped this spin would help their piece go viral
1 (33%)
Don't know what's real anymore
2 (67%)
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Crucial poll - Is "NBC Politcs" trolling us ? (Original Post) Pluvious Oct 2022 OP
VOTE .....None of the above KS Toronado Oct 2022 #1
This really is the case. Watched a virologist from Berkeley, post all the stats to TikTok PortTack Oct 2022 #2
Exactly. They didn't mask, get vaxxed or social distance... brush Oct 2022 #7
Ha!! Made me smile despite my sleeplessness! PortTack Oct 2022 #9
This study is real LetMyPeopleVote Oct 2022 #3
trolling ZonkerHarris Oct 2022 #4
IF they're still puzzling, then they're NOT experts... dchill Oct 2022 #5
Message auto-removed Name removed Oct 2022 #6
Covid mortality: "Excess death rates for Republicans and Democrats during the COVID-19 pandemic" LetMyPeopleVote Oct 2022 #8
Science is a librul plot! Hermit-The-Prog Oct 2022 #11
Natural selection at work Deminpenn Oct 2022 #10
Like: Gee, why did white people vote for Trump even though so many say they don't like him? betsuni Oct 2022 #12
In MI, 52% of COVID deaths occurred in counties Biden won. Kaleva Oct 2022 #13
Most certainly they are AntivaxHunters Oct 2022 #14

KS Toronado

(20,735 posts)
1. VOTE .....None of the above
Thu Oct 6, 2022, 10:59 PM
Oct 2022

NBC isn't trolling DU, almost all MSM has articles like this. FQX & kin will not report on this.

PortTack

(35,247 posts)
2. This really is the case. Watched a virologist from Berkeley, post all the stats to TikTok
Thu Oct 6, 2022, 11:02 PM
Oct 2022

If I can go back and find that exact clip, I will post it

She was bemoaning the fact that ppl didn’t want to follow the science and there many unnecessary deaths in rural red areas. They didn’t want the jab, social distance or wear masks. Fux and friends knew best, that’s who they listened to, and this is the result.

brush

(58,776 posts)
7. Exactly. They didn't mask, get vaxxed or social distance...
Fri Oct 7, 2022, 12:31 AM
Oct 2022

so more of them got covid.

Not rocket science to anyone but them.

LetMyPeopleVote

(158,185 posts)
3. This study is real
Thu Oct 6, 2022, 11:17 PM
Oct 2022


https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w30512/w30512.pdf

Political affiliation has emerged as a potential risk factor for COVID-19, amid evidence that Republican-leaning counties have had higher COVID-19 death rates than Democrat- leaning counties and evidence of a link between political party affiliation and vaccination views. This study constructs an individual-level dataset with political affiliation and excess death rates during the COVID-19 pandemic via a linkage of 2017 voter registration in Ohio and Florida to mortality data from 2018 to 2021. We estimate substantially higher excess death rates for registered Republicans when compared to registered Democrats, with almost all of the difference concentrated in the period after vaccines were widely available in our study states. Overall, the excess death rate for Republicans was 5.4 percentage points (pp), or 76%, higher than the excess death rate for Democrats. Post- vaccines, the excess death rate gap between Republicans and
Democrats widened from 1.6 pp (22% of the Democrat excess death rate) to 10.4 pp (153% of the Democrat excess death rate). The gap in excess death rates between Republicans and Democrats is concentrated in counties with low vaccination rates and only materializes after vaccines became widely available.



dchill

(41,299 posts)
5. IF they're still puzzling, then they're NOT experts...
Thu Oct 6, 2022, 11:27 PM
Oct 2022

Not at anything important, anyway.

Response to Pluvious (Original post)

betsuni

(27,451 posts)
12. Like: Gee, why did white people vote for Trump even though so many say they don't like him?
Fri Oct 7, 2022, 03:25 AM
Oct 2022

Why do elected Republicans bow to Trump even though they say they don't like him? Why do white people vote for Republicans even though they're bad for the economy and want to destroy the social safety net? Why is the Republican Party overwhelmingly the party of white people? Is a puzzlement!

Kaleva

(38,901 posts)
13. In MI, 52% of COVID deaths occurred in counties Biden won.
Fri Oct 7, 2022, 06:11 AM
Oct 2022

20,182 deaths out of a total of 38,624 deaths total statewide.

 

AntivaxHunters

(3,234 posts)
14. Most certainly they are
Fri Oct 7, 2022, 06:15 AM
Oct 2022

The answer why is something Captain Obvious should be speaking about.
We can start with "fuck around & find out".

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