Re: Re: Dave Faulkner, how about a festival this weekend?

Rockford IL

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You ate at texas roadhouse? We have one by us. And the food is ok but we just can't take the music. Thank God. Ours quit making them stop every 10 minutes to do the dance. It was so embarrassing (and you felt so embarrassed for them while you were trying to eat.) they couldn't get help. Between that and the music. They're still looking. Even with the good tips. Some businesses (i wont say who.) Stayed open during the worst of the pandemic. A lot of Republicans died just because of it. And places like it. We know because were a medical family. But they just kept comming. It was easy to tell most of them from the dems. Because the way they and their relatives talked. Politics and how they didn't want treatment for the covid they had because they were afraid we would give them covid or use the opportunity to chip them. Or some other dumb thing. Some of them were still saying it was just a cold before they choked to death. They're still comming. Our hospitals are full of them. They still get arrested at the hospitals, clinics and some businesses for not wanting to wear a mask. They're still dying like flies around here. COVID-19 Statistics ; Total Cases. 3,407,189 ; Weekly Case Rate. 213 per 100k ; Deaths. 34,076 ; Probable Deaths. 4,434. Since May 2021, people living in counties that voted heavily for Donald Trump during the last presidential election have been nearly three times as likely to die from COVID-19 as those who live in areas that went for now-President Biden. That's according to a new analysis by NPR that examines how political polarization and misinformation are driving a significant share of the deaths in the pandemic. NPR looked at deaths per 100,000 people in roughly 3,000 counties across the U.S. from May 2021, the point at which vaccinations widely became available. People living in counties that went 60% or higher for Trump in November 2020 had 2.73 times the death rates of those that went for Biden. Counties with an even higher share of the vote for Trump saw higher COVID-19 mortality rates. In October, the reddest tenth of the country saw death rates that were six times higher than the bluest tenth, according to Charles Gaba, an independent health care analyst who's been tracking partisanship trends during the pandemic and helped to review NPR's methodology. Those numbers have dropped slightly in recent weeks, Gaba says: "It's back down to around 5.5 times higher." It kind of goes without saying. That any business that has high numbers of republican patrons should be avoided.