02-22-2022, 12:24 PM
Now for the political effects:
COVID-19 deaths hurt Democrats in the 2020 election. They won the Presidency, kept the House, and made two gains in the Senate despite COVID-19. The plague hit urban areas early and hard. After that, subsequent elections will be done with a heavier shadow in Trump-supporting areas than elsewhere.
Dead people either do not vote, or their ballots are set aside should someone vote early and subsequently die before Election Day.
COVID-19 deaths hurt Democrats in the 2020 election. They won the Presidency, kept the House, and made two gains in the Senate despite COVID-19. The plague hit urban areas early and hard. After that, subsequent elections will be done with a heavier shadow in Trump-supporting areas than elsewhere.
Dead people either do not vote, or their ballots are set aside should someone vote early and subsequently die before Election Day.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.