Enhancing the Plague, Evangelically

 ALTHOUGH THERE ARE are an estimated forty one million evangelical Christians in America, it often seems like the actual number is in the billions. Predictably, a high percentage of them, maybe half, indicate that they no intention of getting vaccinated. Radio talk shows are being devoted to asking why, but they needn't be. the reason is simple; evangelicals believe that whether there is a pandemic, and whether somebody gets Covid 19 is determined entirely by God, and vaccines are needless and irrelevant. somehow, you have to respect that, whether you agree with it. Perhaps they have not heard the old joke about a man sitting on his rooftop waiting to be rescued from a flood, and declining offers from passing boats, telling them that he is waiting for God to save him, confident that HE will. The pattern is clear and well documented. the people who are refusing vaccination are the same people who refuse to wear masks, and who vehemently protest the closing of the economy and stay at home orders; right wingers,, notably Republicans, Trump supporters, and yes, evangelical Christians, all of whom tend to be the same people. The same people who have driven the domestic epidemic all along, who are disproportionately responsible for the nearly six hundred thousands dead by Covid Americans, the same people who elected Trump in the first place, and supported his policy of ignoring the epidemic from the beginning, thus precipitating it and causing its disastrous spread. The pandemic,  the American version thereof, is directly traceable to Trump and his supporters, and this is fact,not partisan slander.  Liberals tend to believe in science. the farther to the right one is, the less the tendency to accept modern science, the greater the tendency to replace it with religious superstition. The category can be generally described a "conservative Christian republican Trump supporters." perhaps you recall Trump's prescription of hydroxychloroquine, Lysol and bleach, ingested liberally, as the cure all for Covid. Perhaps you recall Trump proclaiming that the plague would be behind us by Easter, of 2020. Then too was the prevaricating president's famous proclamation that the virus would be on its way out with the advent of warm weather, in 2020. The fact that all along millions of right wing evangelical Trump supporters bought these crazy lies, hook,line and sinker, and probably still do is hardly surprising;  they believed, and still do, every single one of Trump's approximately thirty thousand lies as president, because, after all, he was God's president.