D&D and the rising pandemic

[Zardnaar]

Yeah, my point about elections was twofold:

1) losses due to people reactions negatively to the way the GOP handled C19 (and other issues)

2) a possible long term consequence of states losing of seats in congress due to actual population loss.

The second is dependent on factors like proximity of a state to the upper or lower bounds of how seats are calculated, how many people they lose to deaths, how long the pandemic ravages those less-protected regions, as well as consequences of population migration.

That’s a LOT of variables.

Article over here was saying it's deliberate.

Trash the economy and in 2022......

It's not going to kill enough voters in the "right" places being morbid. No not advocating just saying.

And in other countries they won't be going to the polls anytime soon eg Australia and UK.

Tldr think you can argue it either way. The Covid election thing caused a landslide here last year but it's going to vary by country and when the punters go to the polls.

 

[Eltab]

Huh. I hadn't thought of that. Some of the states at risk are rural, with low populations, such that loss of a statistically relevant number of voters is a possibility.

Depends on where the cases actually are. We saw in Los Angeles, the Sheriff announced he was not going to persecute the restaurants any more - the next weekend his officers busted a block party with almost 1/3 of the partygoers COVID-positive.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

BTW, I wasn’t exaggerating:

 

[Zardnaar]

Didn't think you were.

 

[Zardnaar]

Anti lockdown protests in Australia.

Australia Covid: Arrests at anti-lockdown protests

Thousands take to the streets in Sydney, with further protests in Melbourne and Brisbane.

www.bbc.com

About half the country is locked down. Sydney has spent 4 weeks in lockdown and cases are still rising.
Sydney population around 5 million iirc.

 

[MoonSong]

AFAIK, no.

But they could bump the premiums?

 

[Maxperson]

Depends on where the cases actually are. We saw in Los Angeles, the Sheriff announced he was not going to persecute the restaurants any more - the next weekend his officers busted a block party with almost 1/3 of the partygoers COVID-positive.

I live in Los Angeles as well. That was more posturing than anything else. It's the City/County that sends inspectors to see if people are violating and issue fines, not the Sheriff.

 

[Umbran]

But they could bump the premiums?

That's probably not a good precedent to set. Health insurance in the US is already not friendly to the consumers.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

That's probably not a good precedent to set. Health insurance in the US is already not friendly to the consumers.

And there'd be the problem of having to differentiate between people who don't want to get vaccinated, and the ones that can't get vaccinated due to health issues.

 

[Ryujin]

And there'd be the problem of having to differentiate between people who don't want to get vaccinated, and the ones that can't get vaccinated due to health issues.

And the insurance companies already don't like those people with other health problems, so likely wouldn't care to differentiate.