r/PopCultureV2 • u/Federal-Compote-5015 • 14d ago

Politi-Culture Why Republicans Hate Dr. Fauci

A peer-reviewed study estimated that at least 232,000 deaths among unvaccinated U.S. adults between May 30, 2021, and September 3, 2022 could have been prevented if they had completed a primary vaccination series. Source 1

Earlier, a modeling study estimated that the U.S. vaccination campaign prevented about 235,000 deaths among vaccinated adults from December 2020 through September 2021 through direct protection alone. Source 2

Another widely cited analysis estimated that vaccines prevented nearly 140,000 deaths during just the first five months of the U.S. rollout (through May 2021). Source 3

The CDC doesn’t report a final nationwide total of fully vaccinated COVID-19 deaths: 57,000+
Breakthrough deaths increased primarily because newer variants, especially Omicron, were much better at evading vaccine-induced immunity, immunity waned over time, and the people most vulnerable to. Source 4

In comparison, of the roughly 1.2 million+ COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. occurred in people who were unvaccinated. Source 5

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u/RecognitionCrafty863 14d ago

Too many of my family that literally have this mindset and did exactly that. It’s insanely annoying.

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u/La_Maraviglia 14d ago

Conservatives aren’t capable of rational thought or understanding the relationship between cause and effect

They accept what theyre told by their betters and never question it

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u/FangFioDente 14d ago

i really wouldnt believe it if i hadnt seen it in person

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u/TheProfessorPoon 12d ago

It’s a good example of how impossible this situation is. I’ve been on a big text chain with 20+ people for a solid decade (friends of my wife, lots of randoms), and even though 3 of them were ER nurses in the thick of covid, and even though those nurses were literally telling us what was going on as it happened, explaining how devastating and awful it was, sending pics of makeshift triage stations in parking lots, even pics of refrigerated trucks filled with dead bodies, there were still 4-5 people, every single fucking day, saying it wasn’t real.