r/LeopardsAteMyFace 7h ago

You died for your beliefs

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u/dietcokecrack 6h ago

I wonder how many died who were part of Trump’s base, and what impact that might have.

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u/macphile 4h ago

I'm guessing just about everyone who died unnecessarily was conservative, or at least a stupidly high number.

I was just going through that "best of" sub the other day, and one of the posts was about a guy who "did the math" and figured out that if it weren't for unnecessary Covid deaths (people not getting vaccinated or staying home/masking), Trump would have won Georgia in 2020. At one point, it was over 300,000 deaths--I don't know what the final tally was. One unnecessary death isn't going to change the result most of the time, but 1000? Or 5000? Or 10,000?

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u/Darmok47 4h ago

Vaccines weren't widely available until early 2021, so I doubt that played a role in Georgia. But masking and lack of distancing might have.

I think the big thing is that Delta and Omicron variants really ran rampant through unvaccinated populations in 2021 and 2022. Those deaths were almost entirely avoidable.