The governor of Mississippi apparently tweeted a message to the effect that it was unnecessary to take extraordinary precautions against the virus in his state because the people of Mississippi were Christians and believed in an afterlife. Hence, the high rates of infection in his state.
As a statement of reactionary thought, this one is hard to beat. It incorporates the two principal threads of contemporary reactionary doctrine: fundamentalist Christian concepts and faux libertarianism. Unfortunately, neither Jesus nor rugged individualism is a viable solution to the virus; only collective action organized by the government will suffice. And so, virus deaths in Mississippi will remain unnecessarily high. One has to hope for them that they’re right about the afterlife.