I'm sorry but it's never fault of the conservatives or their leaders. Despite telling everybody else to take responsibility for their own lives and decisions conservatives have mastered the art of conspiracy so that they always have someone else to blame. In this case it's those evil liberals in the "organized left" using reverse psychology.

https://www.yahoo.com/video/breitbart-writer-claims-organized-left-124015633.html

If only the census was happening this year and not 2020.

Reddit used to have a whole separate called /r/HermanCainawards that posted COVID Darwin award winners.

It was brutal but honestly the recipients all earned it.

I’ll bet their higher religiosity and tendency to congregate in church weekly couldn’t have helped either.

It's not just that. They distrust science and medicine in all things. These are fat, gullible people, in overall poor mental and physical health; exceptions have only skated by on dumb luck. If they didn't believe the docs on virus prevention, they don't believe them on obesity and lung disease prevention either. If they didn't wear masks for COVID, they don't wear them for spraying paint remover at their jobs.

It's industrial hygiene and physical and mental hygiene to which they are ignorant, personal hygiene, too. If they didn't social distance to stop the spread, they dont wash their hands after taking a huge messy shit.

But that’s the thing about excess mortality during COVID, it was mostly due actual COVID

Weak compared to what?

In my experience litigating medicolegal causation, this is the nature of epidemiology.

Like, the standard isn't "beyond a reasonable doubt," in my view, it's "preponderance of the evidence," aka "more likely than not."

More likely than not, the excess deaths were COVID. It's like when the weather forecasts a 20% chance of rain. Weak, right? No. It's a 100% chance of rain in 20% of the forecast area.

I’m quite confident that these researchers are capable of controlling for other demographic factors, since that’s like data analysis 101. Considering they state the results are stratified by age, why would you think age is a confounding variable? That comment doesn’t make sense to me.

Dying from COVID to own the libs is it’s own special award

I'm crying salty liberal tears over their graves.

Yes, there have been a few previous studies about this.

I’d imagine it’s representative. Both states are slightly redder than average ig

A peer reviewed study (especially when the results are reproduced by another group performing the same experiments and receiving those same results) is the difference between science and anecdote.

The irony is not lost on me that the study itself is of those that rejected completely separate scientific studies, and paid with their lives in doing so.

Sometimes the obvious answer is wrong, but there are plenty of other reasons to run this study. Advocacy is better with real numbers backing it up, there are probably similar circumstances that are less obvious that now warrant a closer look…

THAT CAN'T POSSIBLY BE TRUE!