Anti-vax economic backfiring
As the Koch Network expands we ask whose economy they're fighting for
A November JAMA piece on New York City’s return on investment of their Covid vaccine campaign highlighted a reduction in the pandemic’s economic impact.
The Commonwealth Fund’s 2-year vaccine impact report highlighted the avoidance of economic impact nationwide.
Mitigating Covid is a public health and economic issue. Thanks to the social determinants of health, economic issues are also public health issues. Public health and the economy effect all of us. Just like Covid.
But “reporting” out of places like the Brownstone Institute, Jeffrey Tucker’s Koch-tied pro-economy science mag rag, don’t cover this backfiring. The Koch Network’s anti-public health lobbying efforts have been prioritized over data by the Republican Party throughout the pandemic with economic side effects.
What started in Trump’s White House continues in Ron DeSantis’s Florida which controls the Covid narrative of the rogue GOP. As the Koch Network buds new organizations like “The Norfolk Group” it’s important to note the same shared, twisted root.
And given the data one must ask: who is pro-economy here? A February 2022 article in Foreign Policy specifically calls out economists for “fueling the war against public health”.
A 2020 article in Foreign Affairs specifically calls out American capitalism’s devaluation of workers. The pandemic widened the inequity gap and benefited those at the top.
The Koch Network responsible for this mess has fairly successfully convinced individuals in their target areas that Biden is to blame for the ill-effects of their involvement with his predecessor and their new guy. This is propaganda to avoid accountability and reclaim power.
This isn’t about the economy for all, but about the economy for them.