This is a blue state bug (for now at least)

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note how all of the sudden, Fox News and GOP politicians including McConnell, are urging people to wear masks.

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I guess finally they realize they are still the human species.

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Anonymous wrote:note how all of the sudden, Fox News and GOP politicians including McConnell, are urging people to wear masks.

I actually see this as a sign that the Republicans are breaking with Trump. Perhaps they feel more confident than I do that Trump is going to lose in November.

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Many pages ago, I said that the flu makes it to rural america, every year.

The delay in the progression of this epidemic from the most to least dense areas was predictable, but also inevitable. Trump has been practicing Hope-based medicine, and one of those many hopes is that small town America would not be hit. File that under summer-will-kill-it/chloroquine-cant-hurt/it-will-fadeaway/vaccine-ready-by-fall/

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing fishy about this

Problem solved!

Rs love ignorance it seems.

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Anonymous wrote:If you look around the US, where are the deaths?

Let's look at the top 20 states in terms of deaths per 100k people.

LA, MI, PA. IN, GA, and MS.

Infection rates?

LA, MI, PA, SD, GA, IN, and MS.

Now maybe the governors of TN/SC/GA/FL opening too soon might lead to more outbreaks like the one around Albany NY or Rapid City SD, but as of now? It's the red states doing better on average.

TX is barely getting hit, with an infection rate 1/4 that of the national average and a death rate 1/10th the national average.

FL? Infection rate about half and a death rate about a third.

GA? Infection rate about two-thirds and a death rate about half.

What will the rejoinder be if TN, FL, GA, and SC re-open without massive amounts of illness and death by the end of May?

I mean I'm smart enough to realize it's the 2nd or 3rd inning of a 9 inning game, but come on, facts are facts right now. The red states are just doing better now.

I'm tired of hearing what a great job Governor Cuomo is doing. From where I can see it, he's presiding over infection rates TWICE that of Lombardy, and death rates that are approaching Lombardy. THAT's the model of our response right now?

I'd rather hear from Inslee, Newsome, or Brown (Oregon Gov). They seem to, well, actually be succeeding. The Northeast - and I include Maryland in this - needs to just stop telling red states what to do. They've failed to stop the virus, and to stop the deaths. Maybe the governors of MN or NM, too, they seem to be leading a decent blue state response to this virus.

This virus isn't some liberal avenger, punishing the dumb Trumpies for their dumb choices.

Either from density or from dumb luck, the blue states are getting slammed and the red states getting spared.

If it's density, maybe density isn't the solution to all our problems.

This P is an idiot, and is out of touch with reality. COVID started in a city in China, found its way to Italy and then NY, and separately found its way to the West Coast, then found it way to random senior homes, then found its way to meat processing plants in small rural towns. The likelihood that it would not find its way to other rural parts of this country is nill. Rural America should thank NY and WA for locking down. Otherwise, COVID would have hit sooner and harder to the rest of the country. Similarly, the dramatic decrease in domestic and international travel slowed up COVID. This P has little sympathy for those states who failed to take it seriously. NY no doubt made some mistakes, but it took COVID seriously and took affirmative steps to slow its spread. Little Man did nothing!

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Anonymous wrote:note how all of the sudden, Fox News and GOP politicians including McConnell, are urging people to wear masks.

Pretty amazing. Some us we social distancing in February. Clueless.

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It's too little too late with the mask wearing.
Trump and minions have been teaching the red staters it's bad and "Dem" to wear masks for months and their supporters aren't people who change easily.

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Anonymous wrote:Houston is at capacity according to Houston. That is the 4th largest metro area in the United States. it doesn't matter if there are open beds in Midland or Waco.

That is not true.
An article from yesterday......

Healthcare CEOs of the Texas Medical Center said Thursday that a letter that was sent out to the community Wednesday regarding the hospital system's "increasingly stretched" ICU capacity level was "misinterpreted" and stressed the pandemic is not eclipsing hospital capabilities to care for COVID-19 positive patients as well as other patients.
Following reports that TMC had reached 97 percent capacity, Dr. Marc Boom, Houston Methodist president and CEO, said ICU capacity percentages in the 80s or 90s is "completely normal."

"We have the ability to go far higher than that in terms of the ICU beds we can utilize for COVID-19 patients," Boom said during a press conference. "...We have PPE (personal protection equipment) we have the capability, (and) we have learned enormous amounts about caring for people with COVID-19."
Dr. Doug Lawson, St. Luke’s Health CEO, said hospitals are actively planning for anticipated increases over the coming months, which includes bringing in contract nurses and clinicians from other parts of the country to help with surges and doubling critical care capacity.

"The reality is all of us have the ability to significantly expand capacity on a day to day, week to week, month to month basis," Lawson said.
Boom said overall, hospitals are seeing younger COVID-19 patients, who stay for a shorter period of time, and fewer deaths. Thanks to active surveillance programs and quick turnaround testing times, Boom and Mark Wallace, Texas Children’s Hospital president and CEO, said a "relatively low number" of hospital employees have tested positive for the virus. Texas Children's started accepting adult COVID-19 positive patients this week and is currently operating at a 74 percent ICU occupancy, Wallace said.

https://www.chron.com/houston/article/TMC-leaders-Despite-rising-COVID-19-cases-15366132.php

As you were saying?

Thanks Houston protesters!

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Anonymous wrote:Fox News website barely even mentions Covid- only to discuss hypocrisy of blue states and restrictions on religious services. We live in a broken country.

Breitbart has a dedicated tab and has since the virus got hot in China. You were saying?

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Anonymous wrote:Coronavirus first spread in the United States as a mostly coastal and big-city scourge, sparing many rural areas, small towns and even small cities. Translated into U.S. political geography: The virus hit Democratic areas first.

No more. An Associated Press analysis of coronavirus case data shows the virus has moved — and is spreading quickly — into Republican areas, a new path with broad potential political ramifications.

States that President Donald Trump won in the 2016 election account for about 75% of the new cases, a trend that has accelerated since the end of May. Counties that voted for Trump in 2016 have seen cases and deaths rising — now seeing an impact nearly even with counties that voted for Democrat Hillary Clinton.
https://apnews.com/7aa2fcf7955333834e01a7f9217c77d2

Interesting article. WOnder if the press has an agenda here?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Coronavirus first spread in the United States as a mostly coastal and big-city scourge, sparing many rural areas, small towns and even small cities. Translated into U.S. political geography: The virus hit Democratic areas first.

No more. An Associated Press analysis of coronavirus case data shows the virus has moved — and is spreading quickly — into Republican areas, a new path with broad potential political ramifications.

States that President Donald Trump won in the 2016 election account for about 75% of the new cases, a trend that has accelerated since the end of May. Counties that voted for Trump in 2016 have seen cases and deaths rising — now seeing an impact nearly even with counties that voted for Democrat Hillary Clinton.
https://apnews.com/7aa2fcf7955333834e01a7f9217c77d2

Interesting article. WOnder if the press has an agenda here?

It's called reporting the news.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Coronavirus first spread in the United States as a mostly coastal and big-city scourge, sparing many rural areas, small towns and even small cities. Translated into U.S. political geography: The virus hit Democratic areas first.

No more. An Associated Press analysis of coronavirus case data shows the virus has moved — and is spreading quickly — into Republican areas, a new path with broad potential political ramifications.

States that President Donald Trump won in the 2016 election account for about 75% of the new cases, a trend that has accelerated since the end of May. Counties that voted for Trump in 2016 have seen cases and deaths rising — now seeing an impact nearly even with counties that voted for Democrat Hillary Clinton.
https://apnews.com/7aa2fcf7955333834e01a7f9217c77d2

Interesting article. WOnder if the press has an agenda here?

Government responses to epidemics tend to be political. This one is no exception. It happens all over the world to one degree or another.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Houston is at capacity according to Houston. That is the 4th largest metro area in the United States. it doesn't matter if there are open beds in Midland or Waco.

That is not true.
An article from yesterday......

Healthcare CEOs of the Texas Medical Center said Thursday that a letter that was sent out to the community Wednesday regarding the hospital system's "increasingly stretched" ICU capacity level was "misinterpreted" and stressed the pandemic is not eclipsing hospital capabilities to care for COVID-19 positive patients as well as other patients.
Following reports that TMC had reached 97 percent capacity, Dr. Marc Boom, Houston Methodist president and CEO, said ICU capacity percentages in the 80s or 90s is "completely normal."

"We have the ability to go far higher than that in terms of the ICU beds we can utilize for COVID-19 patients," Boom said during a press conference. "...We have PPE (personal protection equipment) we have the capability, (and) we have learned enormous amounts about caring for people with COVID-19."
Dr. Doug Lawson, St. Luke’s Health CEO, said hospitals are actively planning for anticipated increases over the coming months, which includes bringing in contract nurses and clinicians from other parts of the country to help with surges and doubling critical care capacity.

"The reality is all of us have the ability to significantly expand capacity on a day to day, week to week, month to month basis," Lawson said.
Boom said overall, hospitals are seeing younger COVID-19 patients, who stay for a shorter period of time, and fewer deaths. Thanks to active surveillance programs and quick turnaround testing times, Boom and Mark Wallace, Texas Children’s Hospital president and CEO, said a "relatively low number" of hospital employees have tested positive for the virus. Texas Children's started accepting adult COVID-19 positive patients this week and is currently operating at a 74 percent ICU occupancy, Wallace said.

https://www.chron.com/houston/article/TMC-leaders-Despite-rising-COVID-19-cases-15366132.php

As you were saying?

Thanks Houston protesters!

There’s been no spike from protests. If there had been we would have seen one in New York, and we haven’t.

“For more than two months, the authorities had been urging New Yorkers to stay indoors and keep their distance from others. But after the police killed George Floyd in Minneapolis, tens of thousands of New Yorkers poured into the streets, day and night, to protest police brutality and racism.

Epidemiologists braced for a surge of new coronavirus cases. But it has not come yet.

On May 27, the day before the protests began in New York City, some 754 Covid-19 cases were diagnosed, according to the city’s Department of Health. That was the last time the city recorded more than 700 cases on a single day.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/nyregion/nyc-coronavirus-protests.html?smid=fb-share

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