Rep. Guy Reschenthaler is a Republican out of Pennsylvania’s 14th Congressional District. Guy is one of the many white guys who voted to overturn our democratically decided 2020 election. Rep. Reschenthaler is also the GOP big-brain that looked at the murder of George Floyd by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin and said “the murder of George Floyd means we should invest more in police departments.” Prior to that, while running for Congress, Reschenthaler is the fellow that wrote a forward for the racist, homophobic, Islamophobic tome written by disgraced former Navy SEAL Carl Higbie.

Guy isn’t a particularly good guy and he doesn’t seem to have very good ideas in general. What is Reschenthaler’s new big idea? It’s that masks are killing kids. It’s not COVID-19, and it’s not being kept out of school when COVID-19 spreads throughout a classroom and forces everyone to stay at home: It’s the masks. That’s the problem. Democratic officials have made some bad decisions, taking mask-free photos in places where they are promoting wearing masks. This is just the discussion- and thought-free hook dunderheads like Reschenthaler have needed to promote their save the children by exposing them more nakedly to COVID-19 stance. It’s a strange play until you consider that their cynical idea for grabbing power is simply fostering chaos with no solutions other than “vote for me.”

But guys like Guy want you to know that they have science on their side. 

According to the CDC, there have been 287 deaths related to COVID-19 of Americans between the ages of 0-4. There have been 623 deaths of children ages 5-18. To put this into perspective: The CDC reported that there have been 325 regular flu deaths reported in Americans under the age of 18 since the 2018-2019 flu season. You see the difference in the numbers, right?

Anyway, Guy Reschenthaler has an answer for this—these kids were maybe gonna die anyway? During a speech on the House floor, Reschenthaler explained himself like this: “Many of these children had pre-existing, I’m sorry I mean, underlying conditions, making them more vulnerable to severe COVID-19 than the average child. Meaning that many of these children died with COVID not of COVID. But then again, that’s real science, not political science.”

Sooooooo. The real science flaw in this guy’s poor math is that the pediatric deaths caused by flu, historically, also disproportionately affect children with “underlying conditions.” Like all illnesses, the severity of how it is experienced is almost always predicated on how many and what kind of underlying conditions we have. The fact of the matter is that there have been almost three times as many deaths with COVID than with the flu.

You get that? Listen, you gotta break some eggs if you’re going to run on a no-policy, anti-labor, lower-taxes-for-billionaires program, baby! I don’t know if Dante’s idea of hell would allow it, but people like Reschenthaler fill out the criteria for residency in a handful of the rings of hell. Maybe he’ll just be smeared across them all? Hopefully that won’t conflict with his underlying condition of being a fucking dirtbag.

If you want to read more about how terrible Guy is, head on over to republicinsanity’s updated profile of him here.