Well…gee who’d have thought that minimizing the effectiveness of the covid vaccines, demonizing them, and getting rid of mask mandates would have an effect? Yeah, that was sarcasm…the latest study shows that the rate of covid deaths in Florida and Texas are 43% higher than any blue state…that means that for 100 people who die in a blue state, 43 more die in a red state…and it can be traced back to the assholes running Florida and Texas who were at the forefront of covid denialism and relentlessly pushed conspiracy theories about the virus that it is just “the flu” and you’d get over it quickly…tell that to the 20 million people in this country who suffer from long covid and will never be the same…yeah, the flu doesn’t do that….these ghouls really don’t care about anything but retaining power and in their red states they have a willing populace who buys into that bullshit…and they are dying because of it…geez…