This is what denial, distrust, and disobedience result in

 

Not unexpected, but unfortunate.  You'd think that Republicans would learn not to lie to their constituents.

They haven't yet.

Note that the source of this story is the conservative rag, er, newspaper, the Washington Examiner.

Republicans had higher death rate than Democrats during pandemic: Study

"For much of the early phase of the pandemic, voters from the two parties endured a somewhat comparable excess death rate, with Republicans sustaining about 22% higher excess deaths. However, when the pandemic shifted into the vaccine phase, a much more drastic dichotomy between the two parties emerged, with Republicans sustaining 76% more excess deaths than Democrats, the study found.

"Overall, the excess death rate for Republicans was 5.4 percentage points (pp), or 76%, higher than the excess death rate for Democrats," the study said. "The gap in excess death rates between Republicans and Democrats is concentrated in counties with low vaccination rates and only materializes after vaccines became widely available."

Based on this, I wouldn't wish death on anyone.  But there are a few in my circle of acquaintances that I wish had felt its brush.