Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2021 19:20:31 GMT
The Plague Invasion at the Border Is Just GOP Propaganda
For as long as there have been immigrants and refugees coming to the United States, there have been those who tried to keep them out by labeling them as diseased, infected or ailing.
Today, Republicans—including those concerned that the white population of the U.S. is declining, while the Latino population continues to grow—are using fear of COVID-19 and the Delta variant as an excuse to keep out refugees from Central America and to shift blame for the rapidly rising infection and hospitalization rates in red states where Republican leaders have resisted basic public-health measures.
It’s ghoulish work, but Republicans with an eye on the mid-term elections next year are up to the task.
Sen. Ted Cruz recently told Fox News that President Biden was “trying to play politics with the pandemic” by issuing COVID mandates “while he releases COVID-positive immigrants by the thousands into the state of Texas.” Last month, Gov. Greg Abbott also went on the GOP’s favorite propaganda channel to accuse the Biden administration of “allowing (a) free pass into the United States of people with a high probability of COVID, and then spreading that COVID in our communities.”
Now here are the facts.
The actual numbers are tiny. According to CBS News, officials in McAllen, Texas say that, since February, more than 7,000 migrants who tested positive for COVID-19 have been processed in the border city. Those same officials claim that every day they see more than 1,800 migrants coming into their community. That’s at least 54,000 per month.So, in the six months since February, about 324,000 migrants have passed through the city. Of that figure, only 7,000 tested positive for COVID-19—or 2 percent.
Public health officials say that migrants and refugees are no more likely to have contracted coronavirus than any other travelers crossing the border or any American living in COVID-19 hot spots in the United States. In fact, the cities in the U.S. with the highest positivity rates for the virus are nowhere near the border. But those cities tend to be in red states—where vaccination rates are lower and Republican governors have opposed mask mandates.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-plague-invasion-at-the-border-is-just-gop-propaganda/ar-AANiVPQ?ocid=msedgntp
Now if I call this obvious racism what it is, the usual suspects will whine about somebody making everything about race-a common gaslighting technique. But the facts speak for themselves and this is another republican lie they hope to say over and over hoping to fool enough people into giving them control of both houses next year. The truth is that COVID is surging because people in red states and republicans in general refuse to take the steps necessary to reduce the spread of the virus.
For as long as there have been immigrants and refugees coming to the United States, there have been those who tried to keep them out by labeling them as diseased, infected or ailing.
Today, Republicans—including those concerned that the white population of the U.S. is declining, while the Latino population continues to grow—are using fear of COVID-19 and the Delta variant as an excuse to keep out refugees from Central America and to shift blame for the rapidly rising infection and hospitalization rates in red states where Republican leaders have resisted basic public-health measures.
It’s ghoulish work, but Republicans with an eye on the mid-term elections next year are up to the task.
Sen. Ted Cruz recently told Fox News that President Biden was “trying to play politics with the pandemic” by issuing COVID mandates “while he releases COVID-positive immigrants by the thousands into the state of Texas.” Last month, Gov. Greg Abbott also went on the GOP’s favorite propaganda channel to accuse the Biden administration of “allowing (a) free pass into the United States of people with a high probability of COVID, and then spreading that COVID in our communities.”
Now here are the facts.
The actual numbers are tiny. According to CBS News, officials in McAllen, Texas say that, since February, more than 7,000 migrants who tested positive for COVID-19 have been processed in the border city. Those same officials claim that every day they see more than 1,800 migrants coming into their community. That’s at least 54,000 per month.So, in the six months since February, about 324,000 migrants have passed through the city. Of that figure, only 7,000 tested positive for COVID-19—or 2 percent.
Public health officials say that migrants and refugees are no more likely to have contracted coronavirus than any other travelers crossing the border or any American living in COVID-19 hot spots in the United States. In fact, the cities in the U.S. with the highest positivity rates for the virus are nowhere near the border. But those cities tend to be in red states—where vaccination rates are lower and Republican governors have opposed mask mandates.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-plague-invasion-at-the-border-is-just-gop-propaganda/ar-AANiVPQ?ocid=msedgntp
Now if I call this obvious racism what it is, the usual suspects will whine about somebody making everything about race-a common gaslighting technique. But the facts speak for themselves and this is another republican lie they hope to say over and over hoping to fool enough people into giving them control of both houses next year. The truth is that COVID is surging because people in red states and republicans in general refuse to take the steps necessary to reduce the spread of the virus.
