Easy Sunday: Stay alive
We can stay on top of our booster shots.
https://www.nber.org/papers/w30512
From the abstract:
Political affiliation has emerged as a potential risk factor for COVID-19. . . . The excess death rate gap between Republicans and Democrats widened from 1.6 pp (22% of the Democrat excess death rate) to 10.4 pp (153% of the Democrat excess death rate). The gap in excess death rates between Republicans and Democrats is concentrated in counties with low vaccination rates and only materializes after vaccines became widely available.
There was a huge opportunity for Trump and the GOP. They could have touted the fast-tracked vaccines as a triumph of American can-do entrepreneurial science combined with common-sense government de-regulation. It could have been the Trump Vaccine, Trump's proudest achievement. It would bring back memories of families lined up to get the polio vaccine, America great again. It would have positioned American vaccine science versus inferior Chinese science.
Leftist anti-vaccination, all-natural-home-remedy enclaves could have been the hotspots of excess deaths, populated by refuse-niks, who would rather die than trust the Trump vaccine.
The GOP went the other way. It was a missed opportunity.