Breitbart headline: 15 border agents died “in the line-of-duty” in 2021
What they don’t tell you until halfway through the piece: 13 died from covid. Because they were unvaxxed mouth-breathers.
Link: https://www.breitbart.com/border/2022/01/01/2021-border-patrol-agents-faced-historic-level-of-line-of-duty-deaths/
in Afghanistan due to Joe’s incompetence?
you say the 13 died not in the line of duty. yet you say nothing about how they got it. Maybe the got covid from the immigrants. we will never know because you or the right didn't say..
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was available (first 4 months of the year). Those people MUST be mouth breathers, right?
(Just to be clear, Chris himself was a mouth breather until April or so of 2021 per his own definition since he was unvaccinated).
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Didn't he promise swift punishment? Well, after an impartial review, of course.
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We have records of "died with covid". Said it so many times. If somebody died from a car accident and they detected a fragment of covid DNA from his body, this person will be classified as covid death, i e. die with covid.
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…..why isn’t it considered dying in the line of duty if they get the infection from an illegal who is not vaccinated?
You certainly have considered health care workers who die from COVID that they acquired at work to be “in the line of duty”.
For you to mock these people when they stick their necks out everyday when you have no real idea about their vax status is pathetic. That you also forgot in your stupidity to realize that for at least the first 1/3 of the year, there was no vaccine available (thanks Brandon) is an embarrassment as well.
...because by every metric you personally have been using for the past 1 1/2 years, and in the same spirit as COVID hospital deaths were counted in Dem controlled states, these would be considered "line of duty deaths".
You might want to think a bit about how you would know that the agents who died were unvaccinated also. If you have a source, you may want to consider their ability to know private health information like that (unless you have articles showing that the family willingly divulged it of course).
I'll wait for your reply, and look forward to your supporting evidence. A nonreply will strongly suggest that you are blowing smoke up our asses.
Frankly, it's kind of crazy to hear you make this kind of claim and yet at the same time run interference when complaints are made from the Right that your COVID hysteria goes on pause when it comes to illegals (and BLM protest events).
and you bought into it, as usual.
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picking their children up from school, eating out at restaurants, shooting pool with their buddies on a Saturday night in town. You get the picture.
They could have contracted the virus anywhere even from their spouses and clergy.
The fact that they are CBP is incidental. What isn’t incidental is, they didn’t follow recommended protocol for staying healthy by being vaccinated and so on.
BB lied about their deaths by misleading the reader.
…..but in both cases, the highest risk is at work.
Am I going at a slow enough pace for you, Jim? I should have realized thus wasnt obvious to you as it is for most others.
bank managers, super's of buildings, elevator operators, restaurant workers, museum guards, cinema ushers, firemen, taxi drivers, and on and on. We all interact
and that's how it spreads.
They are not any more at risk than the average person. Healthcare and medical field who see patients are the most at risk. Not CBP agents.
I guess the rest of us are going a little too quick for you.
But then you managed to stray from the point - once again. The issue is Breitbart journalism. And of course, you.
You managed to talk about daily risk for contracting the virus calling the CBP agents the most at risk.
But we know better, don’t we Baron?
……it could also be that the deaths were mostly or even exclusively from the prevaccine time frame, and that the number would have been 3x higher if the vaccine were unavailable for the last 8 months of the year.
I suspect almost every single border agent got a vaccination as soon as they could because thanks to the stupid fucking policies that you support, they are forced to be exposed far more often very single day.
Border guards are likely to lean right, and those leaning right are less likely to be vaccinated. But I don’t know their numbers; 13 might not be higher than other professions, percentage-wise.
But the point was that Breitbart was trying to paint a picture of chaos and danger at the border, so it sounds the stats.
….and I’ll review why:
1) Biden had a mandate for fed workers that was in effect for several months so regardless of their personal beliefs, those agents working in the field had to be vaccinated - the high court rulings came later.
2) most people on the right do get vaccinated regardless of your prejudices. There are more conservative white people unvaccinated than liberal whites because Biden is in office, but there are also more minorities unvaccinated who are over 90% Democrat. Regardless, this is all supposition…not “science” as you claim to follow. Further, these agents are being asked to be in close contact with large numbers unvaccinated sneaking across our borders, and they know more than anyone that they are at high risk. They are likely to be among the first to want vaccination for protection.
3) If you trust in the vaccine and you consider Biden’s mandate, then you would realize that most of not all of these 13 deaths happened before the vaccine was available to the agents, and had it been unavailable for the entire year, the number would have been a lot higher. It is a shame that the vaccine took so long to be distributed.
I am not making Brietbart’s argument, I am contesting your assumptions about these agents.
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