I see the American cold civil war casualty rate is between a thousand and two thousand a day, with the confederates taking a pounding in the daily battles, along with some of the innocent. Cold civil war 2 has probably taken as many victims as civil war 1, the cause is the same, human rights for brown folks, the struggle of patriots against those who would destroy the country and themselves, to prevent liberal democracy from flourishing in America. Liberal democracy means equal rights and social participation of all people under the protection of the government and courts. The people who are waging this war against minorities, their country and the constitution are fascists, motivated by racism and nothing else, that is the correct label to apply to them as a group.
Many of them are like suicide bombers now, willing to die while spreading a deadly disease to others, they are delusional and disconnected further from reality. Existing increasingly inside their own media pseudo cultural bubble and safe space, that supplies them with "alternate facts", manipulative opinion and reifies the disinformation that is killing them in large numbers. This bubble includes themselves, as the internet allows them to form tribes over a wide geographic area to give each other social and emotional support, as well as reinforcing disinformation and group discipline among themselves. If they got vaccinated, they would in most cases be ejected from the tribe and lose many of their pseudo friends in the process, the same goes for masks. In some places where racism is endemic among the white people in America, the vaccination rate is low and there is open public hostility to those who wear masks. Doctors, nurses and public health officials have been attacked, received many death threats and vaccination sites are attacked in these places too. In these places the stakes are higher, people will lose friends and family in the real world and experience the pain of social rejection acutely.
In Canada we don't have the political component to the pandemic response they have in America. In Canada, it is primarily a problem with young people, those between 18 and 39, the immortals, who assume they are strong enough to survive covid and the large scale maiming that results. They feed on the American disinformation system and they too have formed tribes online for social, emotional support and to reify disinformation among themselves. They too exist in a pseudo cultural information bubble, eschewing accurate and truthful information and attributing conditions and causes to a vast global conspiracy(s). We should not conflate them with the American anti vaxxer crowd, the causes and conditions are different here, the victims are young, so compassion shouldn't be too hard a lift.