Perhaps the strangest exchange I have seen as of late by various Ops was this of Matt Shapiro, Political Math, over a COVID case study.
Matt, who puts out frequent COVID disinformation, and is a relatively prominent disinformation mule in that regards, was respectful at all times in this thread, contrasting with his blatant attacks on Rebekah Jones, making him far more effective than the Portnoy’s or McGimpsey’s of the Institute-aligned networked world. Here is how the thread began.
I found this funny. Shapiro is arguing age and affluence, when vaccination status closely aligned with political affiliation was being looked at, were the predominant factor. That old and poor argument would mean all sorts of stuff, like less healthcare, poor diet, etc. would come in play, if what Matt said could be proven with verifiable facts. The author of the study replied to Shapiro, without a response given back to him because Matt was simply wrong, despite making reasonable points based on generalizations he made regarding Republican demographics.
That is the key issue, the death-gap widened significantly between political affiliation after DeSantis, Trump and Fox weaponized COVID Mal-Information for political purposes, after being flat prior to it. That widening gap proves a central point of DeSantis and Trump being complicit in Passive Genocide, or causing mass death via means other than war or murder.
Here is the author’s reporting on the study prior to his interaction with Shapiro.
A white guy is his 70s or 80s living in either Florida or Ohio was more likely to die, if they were a registered Republican than if they were a registered Democrat after vaccines had been made available.
This next screenshot, starting with an account bearing an antisemitic, 8Chan Pepe the Frog avatar, confounds us with variables.
@Clairlemon, did NOT block Shapiro, despite someone telling him she did, simply removing herself from the thread as noted above where her name is no longer in blue. Matt threw up a chart, to which the first tweet I gave was given in response before Matt admitted he was the source of his stated misinformation.
Matt’s incorrect conclusions cannot be supported based on his clearly faulty and misleading chart anymore than a Sharpie can divert a hurricane path to “hit” Alabama did. Here are the three main takeaways from all of this.
Get vaccinated, and boosted if already vaccinated folks.
Don’t vote for Republicans.
Use reliable sources, not Matt Shapiro.