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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and a broadcasting

from Providence, Rhode Island. Those on the right who do not deny COVID's existence

tend to subscribe to a certain pandemic fatalism. Nature and or God deals out death when the time comes

and it's simply futile to struggle against what's

been faded by forces beyond our control. Or there's the right-wing social Darwinist take

that those who die had it coming thanks to pre-existing medical conditions. Meanwhile,

for some centrist and liberals, that pre-existing condition is ideological. COVID deaths are imagined as just retribution for those made

too ignorant by reactionary politics to get vaccinated, even though, as we will discuss today,

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