{"id":51436,"date":"2021-12-06T13:21:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T21:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51436"},"modified":"2021-12-06T23:31:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T07:31:59","slug":"pro-trump-counties-have-much-higher-covid-death-rates-and-fox-news-isnt-telling-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51436","title":{"rendered":"Pro Trump Counties Have Much Higher COVID Death Rates and Fox News Isn’t Telling Them"},"content":{"rendered":"

The recent surge in COVID infections is being distributed in an alarmingly discriminating fashion. Data shows that it is predominantly spreading in the parts of the country that voted for Donald Trump<\/a><\/strong>. This should not come as a surprise to anyone who has noticed how Trump and his right-wing propaganda machine have downplayed the risks and discouraged responsible behavior such as getting vaccinated and wearing masks. Even worse, they have actually been celebrating<\/a><\/strong> the suffering and loss of life.<\/p>\n

\"Donald<\/p>\n

A new study by NPR<\/a><\/strong> confirms that “Counties that went heavily for Donald Trump have seen much lower vaccination rates and much higher death rates from COVID.”<\/em> However, this isn’t the first time that the pandemic has been observed stalking Trump’s cult disciples. As far back as July there were reports of this grisly statistic that pointed to the reality that we are in the midst of a “Pandemic of Fox News<\/a><\/strong>.”<\/em><\/p>\n

What makes this all the more disturbing is that, despite its unambiguous culpability, Fox News has failed to alert its audience to the deadly path that the network has put them on. Fox News has not reported the facts revealed in the NPR study. To the contrary, Fox continues to disinform their dimwitted viewers. And the fruits of that disinformation are evident in studies that show that those who trust Fox News<\/a><\/strong> and its ilk are most likely to believe the most certifiably false COVID myths.<\/p>\n

Many of those myths are actually invented by Fox News. For instance, Tucker Carlson recently warned his viewers that vaccines don\u2019t work and \u201cthey\u201d<\/em> aren\u2019t telling you<\/a><\/strong>. And Trump (who now claims to have developed the vaccine<\/a><\/strong>) is deliberately doctoring COVID death data<\/a><\/strong> to cast undeserved blame Biden.<\/p>\n

These studies that reveal the truth about the course that COVID is taking are essential to understanding the scope of the problem and arriving at solutions. However, the people that need most to see this data are not going to see it because the only news media they patronize (Fox News, Newsmax, OAN, etc.) are not reporting it. So the press that they rely on is working purposefully to keep them ignorant and at risk of deadly consequences. That’s a bizarre business model.<\/p>\n

If the Trump cultists won’t heed the warnings from reputable scientists, academics and journalists, perhaps they will listen to their spiritual guides. The 16th Century Christian theologian Martin Luther wrote about a pandemic in his era and how people should behave under such dire circumstances. It’s a lesson that American evangelicals need to take to heart. Luther chastised the “resisters”<\/em><\/a><\/strong> in his day saying (with added emphasis) that…<\/p>\n

“They are much too rash and reckless, tempting God and disregarding everything which might counteract death and the plague. They distain the use of medicines<\/strong>; they do not avoid places and persons infected by the plague, but lightheartedly make sport of it and wish to prove how independent they are<\/strong>. They say that it is God\u2019s punishment; if he wants to protect them he can do so without medicines or our carefulness. This is not trusting God but tempting him. God has created medicines and provided us with intelligence to guard and take good care of the body so that we can live in good health.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Luther went on to warn that those who “make no use of intelligence or medicine…become a suicide in God\u2019s eyes.”<\/em> Then he leveled the most serious charge against the “rash and reckless”<\/em> trying to “prove how independent they are,”<\/em> saying that…<\/p>\n

“It is even more shameful for a person to pay no heed to his own body and to fail to protect it against the plague the best he is able, and then to infect and poison others who might have remained alive<\/strong> if he had taken care of his body as he should have. He is thus responsible before God for his neighbor\u2019s death and is a murderer many times over<\/strong>.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

‘Nuff said! Too bad that Trump and the true believes at Fox News will never say it, even though it is a sermon straight from their own divine doctrine.<\/p>\n

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How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:
\nFox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a>
\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The recent surge in COVID infections is being distributed in an alarmingly discriminating fashion. Data shows that it is predominantly spreading in the parts of the country that voted for Donald Trump. 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