The Science of Stupidity

Almost 100 percent of hospitalised deaths due to the pandemic consists of people who are not vaccinated despite the government making it free and easy for everyone. People are actually risking death to show disbelief in medical science and clinging to policies of the Donald Trump administration

- Kenneth Tiven

THE politics of death is playing out in many nations and the partisan divide in the United States (US) is politically and statistically too obvious to ignore. On the one side, President Joe Biden has completed six months in office with significant success in vaccinating nearly 70 percent of all Ameri cans against Covid-19, while on the other, Summertime in many parts of the nation is in full swing with people flouting social distancing norms.

However, the misinformation campaigns on social media and cable news from Republican scaremongers is now perceived as a form of bioterrorism by the administration. People are risking death to demonstrate a disbelief in medical science, clinging to statements and policies of the previous Donald Trump administration. Almost 100 percent of hospitalised deaths from Covid-19 in the US comprises people who are not vaccinated despite the government making it free and easy for everyone in the country, regardless of citizenship.

The surge in cases, and especially deaths, has occurred amongst people who have failed or refused to get vaccinated. No surprise that it is concentrated in states where people believe Trump’s claim that he had actually won the 2020 US presidential election.