President Biden’s Democratic administration and Democratic governors got hundreds of millions of shots in arms, and distributed effective therapeutics, to fight Covid-19.
The MAGA Republican president and MAGA governors did everything they could to ensure that more citizens died or were terribly sickened by Covid-19. This ultimately killed a higher percentage of those exposed in red states than in blue states. Their rhetoric also reinforced and expanded anti-science and anti-vaccine sentiment in our country, so more children will be sickened by other preventable diseases as well. The party that accused Democrats of having death panels are themselves indubitably a death panel party.
Digby’s blog mentions a new study that finds shorter life spans in red states — not only because of COVID.
https://digbysblog.net/2022/10/27/it-isnt-just-covid-thats-killing-them/
Interestingly, conservative policies wrt marijuana correlate with longer life spans, running against the general trend.