Once again, these two graphs side by side pretty much say it all. Both measure COVID death rates since May 1, 2021 (when all U.S. adults could get vaccinated). One breaks this out by vaccination rate; the other, by 2020 Trump vote.
Yes, they're basically mirror images.
Left: County-level case rates by vaccination rates since 5/1/21.
Right: County-level *death* rates by vaccination rates since 5/1/21. #GetVaxxed#GetBoosted
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Many people have asked me why the Biden Admin didn’t move on this LAST year. There’s two reasons I can think of: First, the process is a long & convoluted one; it might simply have taken a full year to get to this point. 1/
The other is more pragmatic: They were hoping to have #BuildBackBetter passed and signed into law by now. The CBO score *without* the family glitch will likely be billions of dollars higher than with it still in place. They might’ve been hoping to lock in ARP legislatively first.
With the #FamilyGlitch fixed, up to 5.1 million more Americans would become eligible for #ACA subsidies. Assuming half of them took this up, that’d increase enrollment by another ~18% or so. CBO scored permanent ARP subsidies at ~$220B over a decade, so that’d go up ~$40B or so.
📣 On anniversary of the #ARP, Biden-Harris Admin highlights health insurance subsidies that promoted critical increases in enrollment & savings: acasignups.net/22/03/11/durin…
📣 REMINDER: Thanks to the enhanced financial subsidies, increased outreach, expanded assister resources and the elimination of the dreaded #SubsidyCliff, a record-breaking *15.5 MILLION* Americans enrolled in TRULY affordable #ACA coverage for 2022.
📣 #ACA enrollment increased by 21% y/y nationally. It's up across 47 states, with 16 states seeing enrollment increase by 25% or more, and some going up by as much as a whopping 42%!
Millions of #ACA enrollees are saving an average of $800 apiece this year thanks to the #ARP.
~15K miles x ~331M people = ~5 trillion miles/yr driven nationally.
My Kia Niro EV, which is pretty typical of 2022 EVs I believe, gets ~250 miles/charge on a 64 kWH battery.
5T miles / 250 = ~20 billion full charges.
20B x 64 kWH = ~1.3 trillion kWH, or ~1.3B MWh per year. 2/
via the U.S. EIA, the *smallest* nuclear power plant in the U.S. produced 4,727,764 MWh in 2021.
It would take around 275 *small* nuclear power plants to produce enough electricity to power every EV assuming all 331M Americans used them. 3/ eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq…
For those claiming hypocrisy since she *is* calling for the *federal* gas tax to be suspended, the difference is that states aren't allowed to run deficits. Still shouldn't suspend the federal gas tax either, though.
(and yes, I just bought an electric car, but that also means my annual registration fee is an extra $140 per year to make up for the gas tax I won't be paying)
Honestly, that seems awfully steep. MI's gas tax is $0.272/gallon. $140 would be the equivalent of using 515 gallons of gas per year. At 25 mpg, that'd mean driving 13,000 miles/year even though I only drive about *half* that.