“Over 70 percent of the people who died of Covid died on Medicare and some people want MedicareForAll.”
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and MIT graduate
Intelligent folks realize that cause and correlation are two separate things. But morons like this believe they are the same thing.
I think I have to move out of this state. Too many embarrassments here.
It's not going to get much better anywhere else so stay and laugh at them.
@rainmanjr OK, if you insist. Besides, we have the best (some would say ONLY) bourbon, and that helps with the laughing.
Rep. Thomas Massie Mocked For Truly Dumb Tweet About 'Medicare For All' [yahoo.com]
From the link
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) has engineering degrees from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but that didn’t stop him from being schooled by Twitter users on Wednesday.
It happened after the conservative Kentucky congressman attempted to criticize “Medicare for All” by using a really, really dubious analogy.
“Over 70% of Americans who died with COVID, died on Medicare, and some people want #MedicareForAll?” he asked rhetorically.
Although even most first-year philosophy students might see problems with the post, Massie didn’t, leaving the denizens of Twitter to point out the flaws.
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Over 90% of Americans who died with COVID drank a glass of tap water and some people still want clean drinking water?
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Over 70% of Americans who died with COVID died in hospitals, and some people want more hospitals?
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Over 70 percent of Americans who died of heart attacks own a washing machine. We must ban washing machines.
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Dumb Tweet of the Day. It's like saying: "100% of Americans who breathe air eventually die -- and some people actually want air?"
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Probably 95% of Americans who died of Covid were pensioners. And some people want Social Security?
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do you know how many people die while in a BED??? ban beds imo
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Death rate at hospices is also horrifying. Abolish hospices.
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Nearly 100% of Americans who die over age 65, die on Medicare.
(The author has undergrad and grad degrees from MIT.)
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The fact that many of those killed by a disease are older is not a good argument against providing everyone access to health care, actually.