This might sound like a twisted argument but not if you follow the pattern of behavior of Republicans over their history of protecting big pharma and passing the legislation necessary to help their financial patrons and corporate America, which end-up costing the U.S. Government and the taxpayers as much money as they can get away with. I believe that one reason Republicans ignore COVID-19 is because it adds to the fortunes of hospitals and the healthcare industry when tens of thousands of Americans recover from the disease only to find medical bills worth billions of dollars waiting for them. The more COVID patients, the happier some of the Republicans are because they all financially benefit from the miseries of others.
Like hotels, hospital occupancy has a direct impact on revenues the healthcare industry generates. The more patients occupy hospital beds, the better the results are at the end of the quarter. Vaccinations and masks are Hospitals’ number one enemy because they keep hospital beds empty or operating at normal levels. This is why Republicans, I believe, question vaccinations because their healthcare stocks will rise with the misfortunes of others.
If it’s possible to analyze the portfolios of all Republicans in Congress, there is a good probability they all have purchased various healthcare stocks on the basis of the devastating effects of COVID. How to make sure these shares keep rising in value is to make sure more Americans are hospitalized.
This is a matter that needs looking into it by smart investigative journalists.
WAVE OF NEW COVID BANKRUPTCIES DUE TO HEALTHCARE COSTS
The average cost of hospital care for COVID is between $51,000 and $78,000. For lots of Americans, these amounts represent their life savings. Many would not be able to pay these high costs bills, and will resort to bankruptcy.
As such, coming our way next year is possibly a new and unmanageable wave of bankruptcies that will have a permanent impact on Americans and the economy. But bankruptcies, one might argue, would not benefit healthcare stocks. Mind you, by the time these bankruptcies start rising, the predators in the Republican Party would all have exited their healthcare stocks having made their money on the back of those who can ill-afford COVID.
Only then, I would imagine, they would start advocating for vaccinations. It’s really an inverse relationship. The more healthcare stocks they own, the less they would advocate for vaccinations, and the opposite is true.
This is a matter that needs looking into it by smart investigative journalists. Whether the buy and sell data by members of the GOP in Congress is available, someone should examine the probable direct relationships between stock ownership and vaccine advocacy.
How can one not argue that the same cruelty could not take place when it comes to profiting from COVID patients by advocating for mask-less and unvaccinated rhetoric?
WATER IN GEORGIA
For those who are skeptical of this argument, it is not hard to imagine the despicable malice behind some Republicans benefiting from the miseries of others when one observes the voter suppression laws the GOP just passed in Georgia. Tucked inside those laws is one that forbids people from passing out water to Georgians waiting in long lines to vote and who also happen to be blacks because the same legislators cut down the number of voting stations in their communities.
How can one not argue that the same cruelty could not take place when it comes to profiting from COVID patients by advocating for mask-less and unvaccinated rhetoric?
Evil is evil, and the privileged white people in this country have demonstrated amply, throughout their history, that they are capable of enslaving and killing other people for their own financial gains.
Having said that, only a factual investigation of this matter will yield the truth. Mine is just a hypothesis, which is solely based on the history of this country.
Not that I want to be right, but deep down and without any evidence to the contrary, my instincts tell me I am right. The reason why some Republicans refuse to encourage the wearing of the masks and the vaccines is because they are financially profiting from more people landing in hospital beds, which also includes the possibility of dying from that experience.
If the Previous one could care less about more than 500,000 Americans dying from COVID, why should people of the same ilk feel any empathy for causing more Americans to die?