The party of Trump       has a big problem, they have found themselves on a sticky wicket: They have radicalized their base to believe that public health measures are “Democrat overreach.”

In order to get the base excited, they have to rail against certain things, many of them public health-related (vaccine passports, masks, lockdowns, social distancing). But      railing against public health means endangering the health of their base   .

For a little while, this delicate balance seemed like it might hold, as Republican governors spent months      sowing doubts about vaccines       and complaining about masking and other supposedly freedom-harming public health basics. The right-wing press took a premature victory lap, with the      National Review   ’s Rich Lowry      asking   , “Where Does Ron DeSantis Go To Get His Apology?”

Florida’s Death Toll Now Exceeds DeSantis’ Margin of Victory

And, dontcha know, COVID cases in Texas are up      125 percent over the last two weeks   . In Florida,      they’re up 162 percent   . On Monday, as Gov. Greg Abbott      asked hospitals in his state to cancel elective surgeries   , Sen. Ted Cruz went on Sean Hannity and pronounced “   No mask mandates. No vaccine mandates. No vaccine passports. No COVID mandates!   ” Indeed, Texas and Florida have similar laws prohibiting localities from making their own public health rules, although both      Dallis and Austin are suing       to allow masking.

It took at a lot of stupid to get Florida and Texas to this dark place, which is why the MAGA propagandists are trying to suggest, without much evidence, that this is about an unvaccinated wave at the border—when it appears to be about unvaccinated Americans, in a country with enough vaccine doses to go around, harming their own health and spreading the virus and helping it continue to mutate in the process.

The party of Trump       has a big problem, they have found themselves on a sticky wicket: They have radicalized their base to believe that public health measures are “Democrat overreach.”

In order to get the base excited, they have to rail against certain things, many of them public health-related (vaccine passports, masks, lockdowns, social distancing). But      railing against public health means endangering the health of their base   .

For a little while, this delicate balance seemed like it might hold, as Republican governors spent months      sowing doubts about vaccines       and complaining about masking and other supposedly freedom-harming public health basics. The right-wing press took a premature victory lap, with the      National Review   ’s Rich Lowry      asking   , “Where Does Ron DeSantis Go To Get His Apology?”

Florida’s Death Toll Now Exceeds DeSantis’ Margin of Victory

And, dontcha know, COVID cases in Texas are up      125 percent over the last two weeks   . In Florida,      they’re up 162 percent   . On Monday, as Gov. Greg Abbott      asked hospitals in his state to cancel elective surgeries   , Sen. Ted Cruz went on Sean Hannity and pronounced “   No mask mandates. No vaccine mandates. No vaccine passports. No COVID mandates!   ” Indeed, Texas and Florida have similar laws prohibiting localities from making their own public health rules, although both      Dallis and Austin are suing       to allow masking.

It took at a lot of stupid to get Florida and Texas to this dark place, which is why the MAGA propagandists are trying to suggest, without much evidence, that this is about an unvaccinated wave at the border—when it appears to be about unvaccinated Americans, in a country with enough vaccine doses to go around, harming their own health and spreading the virus and helping it continue to mutate in the process.

All kinds of visual evidence that unvaccinated and untested migrants continue to stream across the southern border. Biden's policies are killing people and spreading Covid all across the US.

That's a lie.  I realize that's all you have to offer.  

The gop's ignorance and mis-dis-information is killing people.  It's killing children.  

This is all Biden's fault, period. He did nothing to stop the Delta variant from entering this country. In fact he has openly encouraged it by allowing the massive amount of illegals into this country across our southern border that have a 14% positive test rate for covid- that is just among those they catch and the few they test.

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Coronavirus cases are surging in crowded government detention centers, as the number of illegal immigrants being held in the facilities has nearly doubled in the past months, according to a report on Tuesday. 

More than 7,500 new coronavirus cases have been reported in the centers between April and last week, the New York Times reported , citing an analysis of Immigration and Customs Enforcement data.

In that same period, the number of people being held in detention rose to more than 26,000 from 14,000. 

The rise in COVID-19 cases accounts for more than 40 percent of all cases reported in ICE facilities since the pandemic began, the Times said. 

Public health officials told the newspaper that few migrants are vaccinated, making the jammed detention centers ripe for outbreaks of the deadly disease. 

Just 20 percent of detainees coming through the facilities have gotten at least one dose of the vaccine while in custody. 

The Biden administration rolled back the bulk of former President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, setting off the illegal immigration rush that has overwhelmed government facilities — causing some governors to send National Guard troops to the border to assist the feds.

Dr. Carlos Franco-Paredes, an associate professor at the Colorado University School of Medicine, said there are a number of reasons for the rise in cases, including lax safety precautions, a lack of testing and the transporting of migrants between facilities. 

During an inspection at a center in Aurora, Colo., Franco-Paredes said he saw staffers not wearing masks properly. 

“There is minimal to no accountability regarding their protocols​,” he said. ​

ICE spokeswoman Paige Hughes said detainees are tested for the coronavirus and placed in quarantine for 14 days when they arrive.

“On-site medical professionals are credited with reducing the risk of further spreading the disease by immediately testing, identifying and isolating the exposed detainees to mitigate the spread of infection,” she said.

B​ut public health officials note that detainees are transported to the facilities by​ bus before they are tested, raising the likelihood that they expose others during the trip. 

According to the report, ICE officials said the agency left the decision to vaccinate the migrants up to state and local officials. ​

Some of the largest infections have been recorded in states with low vaccination rates, including one in the Adams County Correctional Center in Natchez, Miss. 

With the spread of the variants like delta that are more transmissible, Sharon Dolovich, director of the Covid Behind Bars Data Project at UCLA, said vaccinations have to become a priority or the infections will increase.

“You have people coming in and out of the facility, into communities where incomplete vaccination allows these variants to flourish, and then you bring them inside the facilities, and that variant will spread,” Dolovich said.

“What you’re describing is the combination of insufficient vaccination plus the evolution of the virus, and that is really scary,” she said.

It took at a lot of stupid to get Florida and Texas to this dark place, which is why the MAGA propagandists are trying to suggest, without much evidence, that this is about an unvaccinated wave at the border—when it appears to be about unvaccinated Americans, in a country with enough vaccine doses to go around, harming their own health and spreading the virus and helping it continue to mutate in the process.

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[( Both sides do it everyday, maybe our readers can demand a rule change to stop it, but your approach was wrong )]

No, it's not.

The border, the border, OMG the border....

A broken fucking record.

Republican leaders have painted themselves into a corner and dragged their base into it with them.