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and the obsessively, picayunish mendacity of multiple Republican efforts to deprive people of health insurance AND CARE.... in ways that have only ADDED to the illness, suffering, and deaths of loved ones...

when one takes into account how their actions have affected the lives and health of REAL PEOPLE,

the sheer EVILNESS of their actions, in terms of the impacts on people's lives, becomes almost incomprehensible.

Take for instance, a story that ran in Wonkette today about how the state of Louisiana, currently holding the highest rate of infection from the flu, willfully, deliberately (albeit quietly) set out to sabotage the healthcare of that states' citizenry.

The state, mind you, where their governor deigned that the Ten Commandments must be posted in every classroom.

Whoops... wait a minute. There it is right there. No. 6 "Thou Shall Not Kill."

Louisiana's Ban On Promoting Flu Shot Going Very Well ... For The Flu - Wonkette

Earlier this month, several employees of the Louisiana Department of Health reached out to NPR and other news organizations to report that, back in September and October, they had been given orders to not do anything to promote flu vaccinations this year — including so much as letting people know that flu and COVID shots are available if people want them.