And being poorly educated means that one is much more susceptible to the ranting false narratives of a skilled charismatic demagogue.
Not really. MAGA rejected the COVID vax fairly quickly. The better educated were injecting themselves with a potentially dangerous technology. Worse, you injected very young people who were at little risk. You rejected alternative treatments that worked.
In your fantasy world. Dr Peter McCullough estimates the US death toll from the vax as being ~570,000
MAGA rejected the Covid vax fairly quickly and the data indicated that unvaxxed were much more likely to die from Covid than those who were vaxxed. Even though the current variants of Covid are much less lethal than the original and early variants of the virus more recent data still indicate that the unvaxxed are more likely to be hospitalized from Covid than those who are vaxxed. By the way what alternative treatments worked? Just asking. Although a small number of very limited studies conducted in countries in which parasites are endemic did indicate a benefit from Ivermectin among Covid patients that wasn't true where parasitic infestation isn't common.
That's not my number. I think it is lower but the real number is hard to discern. VAERS reports 19,000 deaths. Some say VAERS underestimates real deaths by 10X (McCullough says 30X). I agree with this for sure:
The Board of Internal Medicine recommended in 2022 that his board certification be revoked for misinformation related to his statements on the vaccine. Yet here you are using him as a source when there are several legitimate public sources of information about the safety of the vaccine.
Using VAERS to report vaccine deaths is a gross misuse of the system. VAERS is a self reporting mechanism reporting any instance of an adverse effect after vaccination, regardless if it was vaccine caused or not. The majority of what's reported on VAERS is actually unrelated to any vaccine. The effect of MAGA rejecting the vaccine actually saw an increase in Republican voters dying from COVID as compared to Democrats. That's because there was a higher vaccination rates among Democrats.
That's how the authoritarian left behaves. They attack free speech and try to take away your license for simply stating what you think. My recollection is that McVullough was/is the most voted cardiologist in the world. I've caught him making math errors however
I was vaxxed multiple times. I got my first case of Covid in January 2023. For the first three days I was really miserable. Symptoms were completely gone within a week. I contracted Covid again in September 2024. The symptoms were milder (comparable to a common cold) and didn't last as long. The first time I received a prescription anti-viral (not Paxlovid). The second time the only med I took was a generic form of Tylenol.
Urgent care prescribed Paxlovid but my primary care doctor told me to not take it. I basically took a couple of Motrins a day for 2 days and was fine
And this is the tactic of extremists and conspiracy theorists. When fact checked, claim the media, scientific and medical communities are biased, and claim victimhood, because there is no factual basis to refute the facts. McCullough also touted hydroxychloroquine, which was demonstrated in clinical trials to have no efficacy against Covid and people exposed themselves needlessly to risk.
HCQ studies were designed to fail. HCQ needs to be used with zinc, for example. Start treatment early. Ivermectin stidies were also rigged. Toxicity of HCQ and IVM very low. Now read this which came out recently:
A lot of people died because of the attacks on HCQ and IVM. You put too much faith in what corrupted institutions say.. "Mayo clinic"
Here's an example of how your mind was controlled. Medical journals, professors, the FDA, medical researchers and so on have all been corrupted
