Has there been any analysis crunching covid deaths against political outcomes? Thinking about all the purple areas - neck and neck splits. How many have died there, how many of those deaths were red vs blue voters, and how close do local elections usually pan out?
I’m guessing covid has caused a direct measurable blue shift at this point; unsure if it’s to an extent that will impact vote outcomes.
This is all pretty wild from a societal development angle: we are literally seeing an entire-humanity scale Darwinism event unfold – and we’re late enough into it that we can really start to make sense of the impact it’s having / will have on our species. Not so much in the sense of offspring passing down DNA (I mean, that too…); but in the path we collectively choose to put ourselves on in the form of policy.