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newmedman

09/27/24 10:58 PM

#494650 RE: OMOLIVES #494646

Fuck you and your charts. Did it ever dawn on you that intervention is the first part of the process? Do you bother to know that Kushner and his little gaggle of 20 year olds were selling equipment for profit while letting people suffer? All the while pushing a narrative that they hoped people who lived in certain states just die to help his vote count? Eat shit you waste of space.

It's sad because I know you're not a moron like the rest of the crew but people like you are the largest problem we have. You could act and actually help to change the way that government works but instead you just blame everyone across the board without even bothering to open the hood and see where the problem is.

You like to post charts that fit your narrative and that's fine but just know that you are dead wrong. Of course a lot of people were still dying after Biden took office but what is the underlying reason? Did it have to do with the people who would rather ingest a livestock dewormer than get a vaccine? Who was telling them to do that? Did you even stop to realize that deaths from assholes ingesting bleach skyrocketed in that same time period too?

nope, you're just willing to spread blame on to any agency you can because your little google machine has all the answers you need. Why bother with checking out anything in reality when your extremely big brain has all the answers already? You can post a chart with raw data and that's enough for you to come to your own feeble minded conclusion

The Trump Administration and the COVID-19 crisis: Exploring the warning-response problems and missed opportunities of a public health emergency

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9115435/
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blackhawks

09/27/24 11:52 PM

#494652 RE: OMOLIVES #494646

What your posting of the diagram amply exposes is your inability to apply critical thinking to the diagram

And the consistent failure of applying simple logic is astounding....as above diagram amply exposes.

Like the following. If your time is short, it wasn't Biden who killed all those Republicans it was junk science and willful ignorance.

Once COVID Vaccines Were Introduced, More Republicans Died Than Democrats

https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/once-covid-vaccines-were-introduced-more-republicans-died-than-democrats

A new Yale study looks at excess deaths by partisan affiliation in two states during the pandemic. Once vaccines were introduced in the spring of 2021, Yale SOM’s Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham and his co-authors found, the rate of deaths among Republicans and Democrats began to diverge.




Sean David Williams

Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
Assistant Professor of Finance
Written by Susie Allen
November 15, 2022

Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, public health officials have warned that some of us are at higher risk of severe outcomes from the virus, due to factors such as age or preexisting medical conditions.

New research from Yale SOM points to another factor that puts people at greater risk of dying from COVID-19: party affiliation. The study finds that excess deaths during the pandemic were 76% higher among Republicans than Democrats in two states, Ohio and Florida. What’s more, the partisan gap in death rates increased significantly after vaccines were introduced.

The research was conducted by Yale SOM’s Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham and Jacob Wallace and Jason L. Schwartz of the Yale School of Public Health.

To Goldsmith-Pinkham, the sharp divergence in excess death rates that emerged in the post-vaccine period “is pretty striking…and the magnitudes are quite large.” While the research doesn’t definitively prove that low vaccine uptake among Republicans explains the mortality gap, “it points to this as a potential mechanism.”

Read the study: “Excess Death Rates for Republicans and Democrats During the COVID-19 Pandemic”
https://www.nber.org/papers/w30512

The question of whether and how much party affiliation affects COVID-19 outcomes has been widely debated among public health scholars and isn’t easy to answer. Some research has found that the death toll from COVID-19 has been higher in red counties than blue ones, but analyzing data at the county level makes it hard to be sure that party alone explains the differences. It’s theoretically possible that other factors about those counties, such as weather or average household size or availability of health care, could be more significant contributors to the death rate than how they voted.

Goldsmith-Pinkham and his co-authors decided to take a different approach that would avoid these pitfalls. They gathered nearly 600,000 Ohio and Florida death records from 2018 to 2021 and matched those records to voter registration data from 2017. This allowed them to determine the party affiliation of each person who died.

Then, they used data from 2019 as a benchmark to determine expected death rates based on age, time of year, location, and party affiliation. In other words, they calculated how many Republicans and Democrats in a given age bracket and a given county would normally die in a given season. Anything above or below that 2019 “normal” was considered an “excess death.”

The excess death framework had two important strengths: It allowed the researchers to study the effects of political party at an individual rather than geographic level, and it provided a built-in means of accounting for differences of age and location.

When the researchers looked at excess deaths before and after the pandemic, the results were sobering. Tragically, but not surprisingly, both Republicans and Democrats experienced a sudden uptick in mortality in during the first year of the pandemic. While excess death rates were slightly higher among Republicans than Democrats, “both are dying at really high rates over this period,” Goldsmith-Pinkham says.

The fates of Republicans and Democrats began to diverge markedly after the introduction of vaccines in April of 2021. Between March 2020 and March 2021, excess death rates for Republicans were 1.6 percentage points higher than for Democrats. After April 2021, the gap widened to 10.6 percentage points.

Does this mean that differing vaccine uptake levels between Republicans and Democrats caused the mortality gap? Goldsmith-Pinkham says this study alone doesn’t prove that’s the case. However, he believes it does offer “pretty good evidence” that vaccines are at least an important part of the story.

And if indeed that’s the case, it suggests that policy makers should be looking at vaccine-promoting interventions specifically targeted at Republicans, Goldsmith-Pinkham says: “It gives you a sense of where you should be looking and who you should be targeting if you want to solve some of these problems.”
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Zorax

09/27/24 11:53 PM

#494653 RE: OMOLIVES #494646

It's simple, stop reading and fucking posting to the thread.
Why is that so hard to grasp? I can't be the only that has you on ignore.
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SoxFan

09/28/24 3:40 PM

#494681 RE: OMOLIVES #494646

So you think that Trump has no responsibility going forward. Sounds like fuzzy and muddled thinking.
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fuagf

09/28/24 4:27 PM

#494688 RE: OMOLIVES #494646

Seems the thing you still can't accept is that some governments perform better than others.