Because here's Lyin' Ted:
Cruz, along with 99.9% of his Republican pals, have been effectively spewing anti-vaxx and anti-epidemologic-precaution nonsense for the two damn years, and this is just one more example.
"Oh, if you're young and healthy there's no danger! It's just a flu! Your mask is cowardice! Open the nation! The 'rona only kills the old, weak, and sick! Freedooooommmmm!"
Now...I'll be the first to say; the CDC director was a fool to say this, because they should know that these gomers will pick up on it and loudly bray all the above and demand we surrender (even more than we have already...).
But what the CDC is saying here was - and note that this quote is deceptive, because the CDC director was speaking of deaths among the fully vaccinated - in effect, that "if you wear your seatbelt properly when you're involved in an accident you would have to be smashed by a fully-loaded heavy haul truck that forces your vehicle off the road, down a 100-foot-high vertical cliff into a flaming nuclear waste repository to be killed in that crash."
That's good news! It means that the vaccines are doing what they're supposed to do. That means we SHOULD be vaccinating everyone and anyone and their cat to make sure we slam the door closed on this virus like we did with the Salk and Sabin vaccines against polio.
Now...I understand that people with all those health problems are not happy about this, the CDC saying, in effect, that they're a lost cause.
But public health is about the public in general. It isn't ever going to be about keeping every swinging richard alive and well. It's reducing the hazard to 99.X% of the public.
Cruz, and every other Republican - including Chief Justice Roberts and the Furious Five, unfortunately - don't care about this. They're effectively on the "side" of the virus, and so long as they are we will continue in the damn Plague Year.
GOP delenda est.
It's really that simple...and that impossibly difficult.
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The comorbidities remark by Dr Walensky that the whack-jobs are now screaming about was a reference to 27 dead people. She was speaking about a million plus fully vaccinated people out of which 36 died. And it was found that 27 of the 36 had complicating diseases of the lungs or heart or had diabetes or cancer. And so what? It was still covid that killed them. Would you not count a fatality of a hurricane because he had arteriosclerosis? Would you let a murderer go free that shot a victim who had viral pneumonia?
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