Why Are Democrats Spreading So Much Covid? Why Do They Hate Grandma?

At The Federalist, questions about whither the left's zeal for Covid-Shaming.

Of the top 10 states (including Washington, D.C.) with the highest COVID-19 infection rate at the moment, seven of them are governed by Democrats.

Unfortunately for CNN and MSNBC, that fact can't be directly traced to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis so they've chosen not to really talk about it, but if they did, they might ask what Democrats are doing so wrong in D.C. (averaging 1,313 new cases each day), New York (32,566), New Jersey (14,028 ), Rhode Island (1,382), Delaware (1,029), Illinois (12,426), and Hawaii (1,361).

What's going on? Why aren't they Following The Science? Are Democrats trying to kill people?

The national media's beloved New York, the place Saint Anthony Fauci once said was doing everything "correctly," has seen a 55 percent increase in hospitalizations as of Monday. D.C. has seen a 94 percent increase.

The Federalist wonders what it will take for the media to notice that blue states, not red, are seeing the biggest surge in covid infections -- perhaps a visit from Ron DeSantis to each blue state will do the job, they suggest.

Recently Karol Markowitz noted that 30% of the entire nation's new covid cases came from a single city -- New York City, media capital of the world.

And yet the media did not seem to notice at all! And certainly did not draw any Moral Lessons from New Yorkers' covid sinfulness.

And just to prove her prophecy correct, the AP skipped reporting on NYC being the source of 30% of the nation's covid cases to focus on what really matters: that Florida, along with nearly every other state, had broken a record for new covid cases.

And I do mean "nearly every other state:" Biden has turned America red, baby.

Matt Welch notes that now that the Blue Tribe is getting covid at rates higher than the Red Tribe, it's time to treat those with covid with compassion instead of contempt.

After recapitulating the Democrats' and media's (but I do repeat myself) constant attacks on "the unvaccinated" as the reason for covid, and the constant suggestions they deserve to die, Welch notes the Democrats and media suddenly softening in tone about those with covid, now that covid is ravaging their own offices.

The pandemic of the unvaccinated framing actively encouraged one of the uglier and least productive societal reactions to COVID-19: Making the mere fact of contracting the virus a morality play falling largely along partisan lines. The whole notion that by "doing everything right," and "following all the rules," you will be righteously spared, unlike those anti-science people this summer down south.

That self-flattering narrative is collapsing, now that (as predicted) a stubbornly seasonal/regional virus has hit media/Democratic centers for a third consecutive winter. "Thousands who 'followed the rules' are about to get covid," ran the headline on a Washington Post "Wellness" column last week. "They shouldn't be ashamed." Lovely sentiment, that.

Oh, isn't that nice. Isn't that so nice.

Now we're to have compassion for the sick.

When the Government-Media Complex tells us to.

And not a moment before.

posted by Ace at 01:05 PM

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