North Carolina: 3.38
(Deaths: 254. 2019 Pop: 10.5 mil)
Michigan: 1.67
(Deaths: 167. 2019 Pop: 10.0 mil)
Could it be weather related? Let’s examine that. On the one hand, if you rank COVID deaths per 100,000 population over the last week, you do see some hot states (FL, MS, LA, AR, SC, TX, NV, OK, GA and AL have the ten highest).
BUT … look at Florida compared to its neighbors.
COVID Deaths per 100,000 population, 8/26/21-9/2/21:
Florida: 10.60
Alabama: 4.63
Georgia: 4.67
Alabama and Georgia are plenty hot. But Florida’s deaths per 100k population is more than twice of these neighboring states over the last week.
And, again, the overwhelming percentage of the people who are being hospitalized and who are dying from COVID are people who are not vaccinated. Percentage-wise, almost everybody who is dying is unvaccinated.
What do you get when you take the highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19, add a lot of unvaccinated people and heavily discourage or disincentivize the wearing of masks?
It seems like you get funerals.
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Even before the pandemic, job growth under Trump was historically average when compared to every other President over the previous five decades. Exactly average.
@Franklin_Graham@POTUS45 Your statement that we had “more people working” is misleading. We have more people living. But we have a much smaller percentage of living people working. This has been a trend for many years and it didn’t really improve under Trump.
The Pfizer Vaccine was authorized by the FDA for emergency use on 12/11/2020. The Moderna Vaccine was authorized by the FDA for emergency use on 12/18/2020.
So we started out 2021 with two vaccines that keep almost everyone who takes them from being hospitalized or dying.
On 2/27/21, the FDA authorized a third vaccine, this one from Johnson and Johnson.
By March 3rd, we had reached an average of 2 million vaccine shots being administered every day, suggesting wide availability.
Not many people had to die from COViD in 2021. But many did.
But there’s a big variance between the states regarding COVID deaths in 2021.
Some states had a LOT larger share of its population die from COVID in 2021 than other states.
And, tragically, these states lie largely along partisan lines.
As those of you who follow me know, I like to look at two groups that are almost the same except for one variable and see what the differences are between them in terms of what they think on a topic.
It can be fascinating to look at it this way.
There’s a huge difference between how white men with and without college degrees view Biden’s performance in this poll.
For white men without degrees it was 23% favorable to 74% unfavorable. Net -51.
For white guys with degrees it was 44%-50%. Net -6.
Suppose you’re in a building and you have to sit in one of two rooms, Room “A” or Room “B.”
Both rooms have the same number of people in them. And some people in each room will end up going to the hospital. And some people in each room will die.
If you take no action or make no decision, you get assigned to Room “A.”
Just as expected, a bunch of people from the building go to the hospital. And some die.
As it turns out, of the people who had to be hospitalized, 95 of them had been in Room “A.” And 5 of them had been in Room “B.”
Of the people who died, 97 of them had been in Room “A” and 3 of them had been in Room “B.”
In 2018, 55,140 CDC-reported abortions occurred in Texas. An average of 151 humans aborted per day.
In the three days since the Texas Heartbeat Bill went into effect, an average of 317 humans a day in the state have died from COVID.
It’s fantastic to care that humans are not killed in the womb.
But if you’re totally indifferent to the deaths of humans who die outside of the womb to a completely preventable virus and are attacking the mechanisms to mitigate their deaths, is that really pro-life?
One of the differences between Biden’s term in office and Trump’s term at this point in 2017 is that most (but not all) of Biden’s crises are not of his own making.
Afghanistan? Yes. Biden definitely deserves some blame for that. But Trump shares in the blame for that too.
At this point four years ago, Trump was facing:
- Calls for investigation because the Russian government interfered in the 2016 election, working to help him and hurt his opponent. This fact was confirmed by the then GOP-led Senate Intelligence Committee last year.
- Calls for impeachment because he fired the FBI Director two months after he announced publicly that the FBI was investigating the Trump Campaign over the election.
- Not forcefully denouncing and partially excusing participants in a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville.