Did Neil DeGrasse Tyson Tweet This About Unvaccinated Republicans?
The famous astrophysicist deleted the tweet, saying it was causing unintended "Twitter fights."
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Astrophysicist, director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York, “Startalk” podcast host and occasional Twitter “intergalactic troll” Neil deGrasse Tyson on Aug. 31, 2021, penned a tweet he later deleted because he said it was “causing too many unintended Twitter fights.”
The deleted tweet compared the rate of COVID-19 deaths among “(unvaccinated) Republican voters” to Democrats.
“Right now in the USA, every ten days, more than 8,000 (unvaccinated) Republican voters are dying of COVID-19. That’s 5X the rate for Democrats,” the tweet read. The post also contained a drawing of a book titled, “How to Die Like a Medieval Peasant In Spite of Modern Medicine.”
Here is an image of the now-deleted tweet, which was archived by the Internet Archive (the same post is still on Tyson’s Facebook page):
Tyson either didn’t provide a source for that information, or if he did, it was lost when he deleted the tweet. There was no source provided in the corresponding Facebook post.
The Brookings Institute, citing Kaiser Family Foundation polling data, has reported that anti-vaccine, anti-mask, and anti-social-distancing campaigns taken up by right-leaning political figures and media have had an effect on a segment of Republican voters, to the extent that Republicans are among the groups most likely to state they will “definitely” not get vaccinated.
Sources:
Alba, Davey. “Virus Misinformation Spikes as Delta Cases Surge.” The New York Times, 10 Aug. 2021. NYTimes.com, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/10/technology/covid-delta-misinformation-surge.html.
Kamarck, Elaine. “COVID-19 Is Crushing Red States. Why Isn’t Trump Turning His Rallies into Mass Vaccination Sites?” Brookings, 29 July 2021, https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2021/07/29/covid-19-is-crushing-red-states-why-isnt-trump-turning-his-rallies-into-mass-vaccination-sites/.
“COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor Dashboard.” Kaiser Family Foundation, 24 Aug. 2021, https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/dashboard/kff-covid-19-vaccine-monitor-dashboard/.
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Follow only the FLCCC protocols. Take human Ivermectin, Two scientists received Nobel Prize in 2015 for discovering Ivermectin, But you only hear the axxhole media claiming it is horse medicine, how effn blind can otherwise intelligent people be?
Bet your NYT and CNN did not tell you that. One a Japanese scientist,,other, ?
In a decade or less, you will hear attorneys asking you to call if you received the Moderna, or pfzer or JNJ vaccines in 2000-2001. Call, you may have zechut to receive recompense. and to Anonymous, wait for the ADE or Pathological priming to kick in. I do not wish this, since I have friends and two progeny who got the jab.
I likely will not be around in a decade, but perhaps I shall.
We see it hafuch. the Demons, will all but disappear. Good riddance. Otherwise intelligent people can get taken in by non-science. Sadly. NOW, DO A TYPICAL DEMon attack, go for the jugular with ad hominems or whatever. I do not want to tell you, in far less than 10 years, perhaps one or two, that you were so so wrong, I pray not . but you are uninformed scientifically and medically.
Shana Tova. and G'mar Chatima Tova to all of my fellow yidden, even the BLIND DEMONS.
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