Why are right wing politicians and their media trying to..

[Botany]

... spread C-19? Because that is exactly what they
are trying to do. I have no idea who the hate talker is but he is filling in for some mid day hate talkers. .... Buck and somebody .... and he just said "well, when you include the relatively low impact of the virus." .... Good God in Butter 14 million (real #s world wide) have died from it and 200 to 500 Americans are dying everyday from it right now.

[Wounded Bear]

1. Tempted to say "let 'em run with it" since it's killing more of them than us, but...

more spread raises the likelihood of another strain that might be vaccine resistant, not to mention all the innocents that will suffer.

Damned if we do, damned if we don't.

[FalloutShelter]

2. Just sayin....

NOT over

"Markedly reduced" protection against rising BQ.1, BQ1.1, XBB, & XBB.1 COVID subvariants
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/27/2144119/--Markedly-reduced-protection-against-rising-BQ-1-BQ1-1-XBB-amp-XBB-1-COVID-subvariants

[underpants]

3. Loyalty to Trump.

You watched as Trump denied deflected and politicized COVID. He made it science and common sense vs. him. Hundreds of thousands in the US died because of it.

[Botany]

4. When I was home for the summer I took an independent

Study course @ Ohio State and I mounted pieces of fungi on little stages and took them off to have pictures taken of them with an electron microscope and under high magnification you could see little grey things and they were viruses. What part of science being real don't they get? We don't get lock jaw because we have had tetanus shots, same with polio, and small pox too.

[underpants]

5. Not just opposing but lack of loyalty can't be allowed.

I was watching when Dr. Fauci laughed (sort of facepalmed) on live TV when Trump mentioned “the deep state”. I knew there was a mounting attack on Fauci but when that moment happened I looked at my wife and said, “ Oh the knives are coming out towards him”. That couldn’t be allowed and I knew they’d try to make an example out of his disobedience.

“Better safe than sorry” that was the root of the COVID prevention measures pre-vaccine. Trumps cult attack THAT saying. One that in some way factors in almost everything we do on a daily basis. They attacked that because it’s seen as disloyalty.

[GoCubsGo]

6. They don't care, and they believe their own conspiracies.

It's not so much that they're trying to spread it. They have been pushing the "COVID is a hoax" nonsense for so long, most of them actually believe it at this point in time. The politicians among them don't give a shit about their constituents, and couldn't care less if some of them dropped dead or were physically damaged. They'll do nothing about it as long as there's no way of lining their pockets from it.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

9. And if they survive

And thier constituents become disabled by covid cruel stingy self serving republicans will make sure they cant go on disability to survive.

[Mister Ed]

7. To sow suffering during Biden's administration...

...in order to improve GOP prospects
in the next election. They're that sick and cynical. They don't care who suffers and dies, as long as it increases their own power and wealth.

[Botany]

10. I agree both DeSantis and Abbott are very Machiavellian and smart too and we have a very extensive

... right wing media and social media network structure more than ready to spread the lies and spin.

[usonian]

8. It's a cult. THERE, I said it again.

Their leader (and therefore, God) says it's a hoax.
It builds another mental wall against "the libs"
It gets votes.
It makes libs sick (though they don't exactly know that it does, since it's a hoax) AND
Jesus protects them from it.
--- Anyone he doesn't protect from it must have been a closet lib. (HOW CLEVER!)

And the Kool Aid is fun.