By David Leonard
...This pattern made me wonder (click here) whether many progressive-led governments were spending so much effort designing fair-seeming processes that they were failing at the most basic goal of a mass vaccination program: getting shots into arms. That error has held down vaccination rates across much of continental Europe. And it appeared to be an early problem in California and New York.
But it has not turned out to be much of an issue in the U.S. Instead, the states with the highest vaccination rates are now mostly Democratic-leaning, and the states with the lowest rates are deeply conservative....
The very science of the vaccines is rejected by most of the south and it is no surprise that Mississippi leads the way in failed relationships with the vaccine and American citizens. They believe in religion and not science. They elect people out of habit, not competency.
Now, the problem today is not necessarily race so much as the church. We saw religious leaders intentionally expose their congregations to danger because they of the demand of proving god is all-powerful.
Internationally the same paradigm is true. There was a Korean group that believed being given some sort of solution on the tongue was protection from the virus so long as their religious leader supplied the liquid. That congregation saw illness and death with no protection from the virus.
In the UK, the power of disbelief and mistrust was carried as a mantle by Prime Minister Boris Johnson until he became deathly ill and nearly didn't survive the virus. Only then did he begin to shut down areas of the UK and administer shots.
The SARS-CoV-2 virus lives on a year later because of the failure of faith leaders leading the way to take a vaccine or giving voice to the dangers and precautions. The one church that was most vocal and protective was the Roman Catholic Church. They were the last churches to open to a congregation again. And why? Because the Roman Catholic Church believes in science and has it's own scientific branch to bring its insight to the Pope.
There is a problem in the world and in the USA with religion interfering in applications of sound science in relation to disease. We saw the same paradigm with HIV in Africa when it came to using condoms to stop the spread. This paradigm is not new but, we know now it is more deadly than ever.
The Republicans are a public nuisance. They don't believe in government or science.
Currently, the legislative Republicans are complaining more than being concerned about the people of this country. That is narcissism and they are diagnosable. Why? Because they are unethical and dangerous to the public. They want chaos and refuse to be a part of sincere governance. The patterns of disbelief and mistrust work for their political goals because it is ensconced in the party.
April 15, 2021
By Martin Matishak and Connor O'Brien
Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee (click here) used the panel’s first public hearing in five years on the United States' most dire global threats to air a range of domestic grievances to intelligence and law enforcement leaders Thursday — from the prosecution of former Trump administration official Michael Flynn to the Steele dossier to antifa....
Republicans have not governed for some time now, they practice politics every minute of every day. They don't love this country for the success it brings in the way of support to a global economy, they loath it for the taxes they have to pay. If it weren't for taxes the USA would not be a global economic leader or opportunity.
April 15, 2021
By Julian E. Barnes
Washington - House Republicans (click here) sharply questioned intelligence officials on Thursday about their work on domestic violent extremism, expressing concerns about the fact that the agencies could be asked to spy on Americans.
In a contentious hearing of the House Intelligence Committee, Republican lawmakers expressed doubts about intelligence agencies and said they were worried about how they had handled a range of matters, including the suspension of a former senior Trump administration official as the general counsel of the National Security Agency and the F.B.I.’s view of the threat from the loose far-left movement known as antifa.
The most enlightening exchange was between Representative Chris Stewart, Republican of Utah, and Avril D. Haines, the director of national intelligence. Mr. Stewart began by asking whether the intelligence community was spying on Americans by doing work on domestic violent extremism....
They don't care about the country, they care about themselves and the power-holding an office brings.
Look at Georgia. Finally, Georgia has broken free of the tyranny of disbelief and mistrust. It took a herculean effort lead by Stacy Abrams to bring citizens to vote at all and then vote for Democrats. Georgia's future is better today than before they turned the state blue in the US Senate. The people are empowered by the VOTE and what does the state legislature do? Rather than rewarding the people for taking charge of the future of the state, they pass voting laws deliberately to oppress the very people that voted in 2020.
The map above shows clearly the states where Republicans have oppressed the people when it comes to freedom. Those states trust their faith leaders more than they trust the government.
There is a DIRECT LINK between Republicans, poverty, and insurrection. It should not be a surprise that faith leaders are a danger to the public when it comes to their willingness to be political leaders as well. That isn't supposed to happen in the USA, but, is anyone taking away non-profit status from churches mired in political activism from the pulpit?
Republicans CHRONICALLY turn the truth into lies and it manifested to a pinnacle with Trump. The Republicans are again trying to turn the truth into lies through right-wing media that profits from being the propagandists. That is the trouble with fighting SARS-CoV-2 and its variants in the USA. People will die of the disease before they will get vaccinated. It is a problem that has faced the country for decades.
The difference today is that Trump was and remains incompetent because it serves his purposes. Narcissism.
George W. Bush when faced with SARS from China lead the world to end the virus before it killed any Americans or other citizens of other countries. George W. Bush was competent enough to realize what SARS would do to the American economy and the global economy he and his father helped to build.
In states overwhelmed by the virus and it's variants probably need health care workers to invoke a massive strike in those states where people refuse the vaccine. They are the front line in this particular struggle and it is they that also die when hospitals are overwhelmed and lack sufficient PPE to protect them. If health care workers would take a stand in the states where the fewest are vaccinated and refuse to provide care, it might work. If nothing else it would protect the hospitals and their workers to practice their craft with people in sincere need of medical treatment and not simply savage lives that could have been protected with a vaccine.
The hospitals in the states with the fewest citizens vaccinated are used to recover "the Trump herd." They survive if they are lucky enough and have some degree of immunity.
Poverty is a catalyst to Republican rhetoric and votes. Religion enforces poverty as a burden that when lived correctly finds it's greatest rewards in heaven. It is notable that Republicans enforce the poverty paradigm and do not fight it. Decades of poverty. Decades. Is it profoundly racism or simply power politics?
