Conservatives may not believe in science, but natural selection works. In the present case the virus is wiping out the ignorant and removing them from the gene pool. Works for me. It's a bit irritating that the stubborn holdouts need to be bribed to do the right thing, what everyone else did out of a sense of responsibility.

Maybe this might even make a footnote in a future science text. The five year period when the virus wiped out half the Republican Party due to their own stupidity. Natural selection in action.