Democrats and Republicans can agree on one thing coming out of their respective conventions: Almost no one cares about Covid anymore.

Infections are running rampant after the Democratic confab in Chicago, with staffers on Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign, reporters and other convention-goers all stricken — and in at least one case claiming the positive test was “worth it.” Cases also cropped up after the Republican National Convention in July.

“Voters do not like it being brought up at all,” said Celinda Lake, a Democratic strategist and pollster for Biden’s 2020 campaign, who marveled at the near-total absence of masks at a Democratic convention where roughly 20,000 people crammed into Chicago’s United Center for a week. “They want to get over it.”

But “if it continues to worsen,” Bartlett said, “both parties will be forced to address it.”

The rhetorical vacuum around Covid comes even as cases have surged over the summer, hospitalizing thousands and killing nearly 700 people in one week in late July.

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    22 days ago

    But all your friends being vaccinated is not enough, you need a general populous around 90% to be vaccinated.

    There was no percentage that would have quashed COVID, because the vaccine doesn’t stop transmission. A vaccine-only approach to COVID means an ever-circulating and ever-mutating disease, like the flu, but with a much higher chance for long term issues.

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      21 days ago

      That is false, vaccines also prevent the decease from spreading. As it cannot multiply in a vaccinated body.

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        21 days ago

        Lol what? That’s not remotely true. If it was vaccinated people wouldn’t even get sick. Where do you get this nonsense?