It seems like conservatism / republicanism / grift-based politics or whatever this “mode of being” is called is the deadliest disease of all.
The Republican pandemic response is breaking my brain
Sure enough, deworming paste is flying off the shelves, some doctor in Arkansas is giving it to prisoners, and calls to poison control centers are skyrocketing across the South. Facebook groups are full of stories of poisoned people suffering severe diarrhea and expelling “rope worms,” which turn out to be almost certainly shreds of intestinal lining.