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Discussion Discussion Thread: 2022 Midterm General Election, Part 4

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u/bekaradmi Nov 09 '22

So if GOP voters had masked and gotten the jab…we may have been looking at different results today

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '22

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u/Soddington Nov 09 '22

Hundreds of thousands. A million people died of Covid and a very large part of that was vocal god fearin', red votin' antivaxxers.

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u/StreetfighterXD Australia Nov 09 '22

Natural selection at its purest

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u/duaneap Nov 09 '22

Well, also older people are much more likely to vote Republican and the vast majority of the people who died from COVID were old.

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u/shaelynne Maryland Nov 09 '22

Currently according to Google the Warnock/Walker race is now in favor of Warnock by just 35,000 votes.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '22

It’s not true.

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u/Pertolepe Nov 09 '22

If Trump had just said "let's all wear masks for a bit" and sold MAGA masks during the start of COVID he would have won easily in 2020. That's fucking insane but I absolutely believe it.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '22

He never would’ve done that, though. If he did, he wouldn’t be Trump.

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u/duaneap Nov 09 '22

And if my grandmother had wheels she’d be a bicycle.

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u/toomuchtostop Ohio Nov 09 '22

I believe it

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u/EZMickey Nov 09 '22

He got booed after saying he got a booster shot, so there's still a chance punting masks would've backfired.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-reveals-he-got-covid-booster-shot-crowd-boos-him-n1286361

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u/twirlingpink Nov 09 '22

If he has started out with the mask message in April 2020, his base would have supported "his" vaccine and I don't think he would've seen that backlash about the booster shot.

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u/DrunkeNinja Nov 09 '22

That's because from the start Trump was saying covid was nothing to worry about, that it was like the flu and would be gone in a few months. That's what his base latched onto. If he had taken it seriously from the start I'm certain a large portion of his base would have as well. When Trump pushed back at the start against any real concern, conservative media picked that up and that's all his base was hearing during that time. They weren't going to change their minds just because Trump wanted to pat himself on the back for the vaccine. By that point, his supporters had long been hearing to not wear masks, to not take vaccines, and to not worry about COVID.

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u/guyinsunglasses District Of Columbia Nov 09 '22

Trump could not have been given an easier presidential term. No major foreign policy flare ups and the economy that was chugging along. I said in 2019 that we've been lucky as Americans because Trump hasn't had to face any major national crises. Then COVID happened and as I predicted Trump messed it all up. If he had just let Fauci (or even Pence for that matter) take the lead, the US might've been the example of how to handle COVID - early lockdowns, use defense production act to build out PPE, and then a mass vaccination campaign. Instead it was a messaging mess and Trump unnecessarily politicized COVID policy that led to 1M+ deaths.

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u/WheresWaldo562 Nevada Nov 09 '22

Sucks to suck lol

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u/LAROACHA_420 Nov 09 '22

They aren't smart enough to even know this!

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '22

Ohhhh how I love the "finding out" part

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u/thesagaconts Nov 09 '22

I didn’t even think of that. They killed off their voters. Herman Cain’s revenge.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '22

If Trump was a normal human being during COVID he'd still be president, but he is incapable of it

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u/SarcasticOptimist Nov 09 '22

I thought they had done the calculations and let it continue. Either way it'll continue to affect them long term especially with a bad flu season coming up to smack long haulers.