'Marco Rubio admits it: It's just the Olds, so it's not so bad. Reaps what he sows on Twitter'

[appalachiablue]

Daily Kos, Aug. 9, 2020. If you root around in right wing social media, you will find two themes:

1. It’s just the elderly, so no big deal.

2. Andrew Cuomo is the greatest monster in human history.

Your right wing brother-in-law will endlessly cite statistics showing the average age, or the deaths in nursing, but will never answer these questions:

1. Why does it matter that a large percentage of deaths are elderly and/or in nursing?

2. Trump said again, “kids are immune.” That’s a dangerous lie. Can you defend that?

3. True or false: There is evidence kids, teens and ‘20s-‘30s develop chronic conditions from Covid

And Marco (unintended ironic Bible quote) Rubio is going hard on number one.

82% of #COVID19 deaths in #Florida were people over 65,about half of who were residents or staff of nursing & long-term care facilities.

So then why don’t we make it our singular priority to protect people over 65, especially those in nursing & longterm care facilities?
10:15 PM · Aug 8, 2020

Twitter responds with facts. Like your right wing BIL ...

More, https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/9/1961325/-Rubio-admits-it-It-s-just-the-Olds-so-it-s-not-so-bad-Reaps-what-he-sows-on-Twitter

[Karadeniz]

1. It's just unbelievable that so many really bad people are in control.

[appalachiablue]

2. They are prominent, tons of them; like the norm but horrible

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. Little Marco should probably stay off of Twitter

2nd time in the past week or so he's been owned on that medium.

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100213911321

[appalachiablue]

4. Needs another line of work, promoting bottled water

[marie999]

5. He probably feels that if enough elderly people die,

Congress won't have to do anything about Social Security or Medicare.

[appalachiablue]

6. The hope of many extremists, sorry to say

[lagomorph777]

7. Dems need to use the words "We will protect you" in many ads.

It's an important theme. Yes, good to show Biden being good and kind, but we also need to explicitly use the words:

"We will protect you from COVID."
"We will protect you from economic disaster."
"We will protect you from loonies with guns."