Breakthrough antibody kills all known variants of SARS-CoV-2

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30. Exactly. Few enough were dying that the GOP could spin fear to their advantage and plunder at will.

The Spanish Flu had a crude mortality rate (ie percent of the world population that died) of 2.7%. COVID up to now has been one ninth of that, at 0.3%. While that represents millions of needless deaths and tragically ruined lives, it was still small enough that Republicans (and conservatives elsewhere) could use it for manipulation. Too many people dying and Republican voters / Fox News viewers would eventually catch on that for instance, everyone in church (ie, members of their local in-group) was dying. But at 0.3% crude mortality rate, only a large handful died; enough to be dismissed through cognitive dissonance &/or manipulation via media and authority. God moves in mysterious ways, to continue and close that one narrow example.

They knew what they had, and took full advantage of it. Not just to gain control over half the country but also to enable massive amounts of grift not only for themselves, but also for their favorite large scale investors, oligarchs, and so on.