Jennifer Rubin: More Republicans Than Democrats Will Die Because RW Media is Downplaying Coronavirus

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  1. SkullKrusher

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    Sorry, but Republicans are used to being confined voluntarily and socially distancing themselves from kooky Democrats well before any virus threat so it’s more likely that the left wing collectivists will not be able to endure solitude for more than a couple of days at best
     
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    Sorry, but it's flat out wrong to insinuate that education = intelligence. It's been shown time and time again just how stupid college students can be. Willingly taking out massive loans to get worthless degrees that don't lead to jobs that can pay back these loans is a sign of extreme stupidity, not intelligence.

    Bottom line is everything I said is true and verifiable. What you said is a talking point.
     
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    I didn't insinuate education = intelligence. I claimed Republicans are not as educated as Democrats. They're not. They're more disdainful of experts. They are. Trump was downplaying this just last week. His supporters were downplaying this. People who don't take an epidemic seriously are more at risk of dying from it because they engage in risky behavior.

    None of the above is any way remotely controversial.
     
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    If you weren't insinuating it then there was no point in mentioning it.

    Also, when you lefties say 'educated ', what do you think that means and what do you mean when you say it?

    I would say being educated is only situational. Everyone is educated in some things but not others. So why do lefties keep bringing this up as if it means something?
     
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    Maybe not, but your statement is. I would argue that none of the above is in any way remotely controversial.
    BTW I’m a Republican.
     
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    Pretty stupid because the majority of democrats live close together in cities. They have exactly backward.
     
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    Wash freaking hands and face, like every time you touch something, stay away from groups...and if Trumpets listen to a guy that thinks science is "a set of falsifiable theories" and the greenhouse effect doesn't exist...they deserve the Darwin Award.

    Considering I just voted for Trump again in the primary in Florida, thank you for trying to save the long neck Trumpets from Cabbagetown, we need every vote we can get to defeat the Democrats.
     
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    Yes, I would test Autopsy samples from people that died of respiratory reasons all the way back to October

    as we are now seeing, as people that died in February are now being tested, some did have it earlier then we thought

    this is not about raising the death count to make Trump look bad, this is to know the actual facts to improve the modeling, had we known this back then, the models could have been better, Trump and his supporters did not want to know these facts back then as they thought it would make Trump look bad

    "Autopsies find first U.S. coronavirus death occurred in early February, weeks earlier than previously thought"

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/04/22/death-coronavirus-first-california/

    I think many in the USA had Covid as Early as December, maybe even Earlier, time will tell if we do the back testing
     
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    Now seems like an opportune moment to review the original claim that inspired this thread:

    About half the country's deaths are in NY (D+12) and NJ (D+7)

    Rounding out the top 10 of most deaths by state are:

    Michigan (D+1)
    Massachusetts (D+12)
    Pennsylvania (EVEN)
    Illinois (D+7)
    Connecticut (D+6)
    California (D+12)
    Louisiana (R+11)
    Florida (R+2)

    Does anyone think Rubin was correct?

    ETA: source for coronavirus deaths and partisan voting index
     
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    So serious that the hysterical wave never arrived.
     
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    Name a time any Leftist reporter has apologized for insane claims designed to hurt people they don’t like? It’s because they’re not journalists and have no integrity to squander. They’re all paid activists working for the Democrat platform. They don’t report. They editorialize what they consider news. Just a propaganda arm.
     
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    It will infect more people who are not taking precautions. If those people are republicans, then yes, they will be infected. More so than people who DO take precautions. 1+1 = 2
     
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    Jenn sure hopes this will be the case, because she still suffers from not having been able to subvert Jeb in her quest to make him president. She is truly evil.
     
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    I finally clicked on this thread just to see who Jennifer Rubin might be, whether she was from SDS in the 60's or something.
     
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    That's a really weird thought process.

    You really have been convinced that fox is the wizard behind the curtain, the grandmaster moving around the pawns, or whatever fun analogy you can think of.

    Have you ever stopped to consider the tiny percentage of people that actually watch Fox?

    Hell the nfl draft had multiple times the viewers that fox gets.

    I think the death in NYC, detroit, chicago, minorities in general might be skewing the stats in the opposite way honestly unless the #walkaway movement is much stronger than we think.
     
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    For residents, right?
     
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    What do you mean those blue states "didn't take Trump seriously when he banned travel from china?"
     
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    Thus far, New York's body count is leaps and bounds ahead of the rest of the country. Do you think they are just particularly bad at taking precautions in New York? Or do you think there might, just maybe, be additional factors you're not considering?
     
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    60,000 dead in five weeks.
     
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    There may be other factors. But I am taking my guidance from the scientific and healthcare community.

    As for NY, population density has played the largest role in my view. And a slowness to react.
     
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    Yes, I still think Rubin will be proven correct. For some proof regarding the impact of this virus based on the media messaging favored by the victims, see:
    Viewers of Sean Hannity more likely to die from COVID-19 than those of Tucker Carlson: study

    Two points further:

    1) Using the State alignment as proof for the voting ideologies of the deceased is flawed. There are two times as many Republicans in New York as there are in Alabama.

    2) Her Prediction is based on the entire length of this pandemic. The outbreak is shifting and while this virus started in metropolitan areas, it will reach rural areas and hit them hard.
     
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    That study is totally non-credible! It's a JOKE! :roflol:
     
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    #Logic
     
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    This thing is far from over and folks in those Red states are NOT taking it serious enough.

    They may well pay for that

    Georgia is the petri dish. We'll see
     
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    Not a lot of Republicans in NYC, which was devastated by the virus in part due to incompetent blue state management.
     

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